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reftri&ion on their free agency, other than the obligation 
impofed on each individual, that, having once made his 
choice, he thould declare it to the local government of 
that ifland on which he had refolved to refide. Every 
difpofition was manifefted on the part of the general (now 
lord high commiffioner) to make the fituation of the Par- 
ganotes comfortable. He offered them lands; to build 
them a church, a market-place, a court-houfe, and fuch 
other public buildings as might be necelfary ; to grant the 
lands on one fpot, if they chofe it, on which they might 
ereCl a Parga Nova ; and he endeavoured, by many other 
kind offices, to convince them of the intereft which his ma- 
jefty’s government had invariably felt for their -prefent 
comfort, and their ultimate and permanent advantage. 
The large fums of money, which many of the families had 
received, enabled them to enter on a more extenfive fcale 
of trade than they had hitherto been able to exercife while 
cooped up in Parga : feme fixed themfelves in fmall (hops; 
others had recourfe to the carrying-trade and to (idling; 
and few or no complaints were heard among them till they 
came to know, that fir Charles Monck and Come other Bri- 
tifii fenators had (fated that they were very badly ufed. 
We need hardly obferve, that, however iatisfied people 
in their fituation might be, it would be too much to expedt 
they ffiould remain fo, or continue to think themfelves well 
treated, when they found perfons of diftin&ion in the par¬ 
liament of Great Britain roundly aflerting the contrary, and 
not only deprecating their lot, but wantonly abufing the 
government for its cruelty and injuftice towards them. 
Without affedting the puling cant of humanity, (fo fafh- 
ionable at the prefent day,) we can feel what it is for a 
whole people to abandon a fpot to which they had long 
been rivetted by habit, by affedfion, by the recolledtion 
of pleafures and enjoyments of which they are called up¬ 
on for ever to take leave ; to fly from a country endeared 
by thofe early ties and numerous affociations which 
every hill and rock and rivulet has power to awaken ; 
and to leave behind thofe roofs which have been the feene 
of the (frongeft paffions which agitate the human mind. 
Tliefe, in truth, are no (light evils; but, when imperious 
neceffity demands the facrifice, and when every poffible 
affiflance is given to alleviate the lof's, and to ward off 
the greater calamity, generality as well as jultice fhould 
prevent them from calumniating their benefadiors. In 
juftice to the Parganotes, however, it mult be added that 
they were at leaft refigned to their fate, until they learned 
the clamour that was raifed in their behalf. 
At any rate, the degree of compaffion which has been 
excited for the Parganotes is extravagant. If we com¬ 
pare the full and prompt indemnity procured for them, 
with the flow and fcanty pittance granted to that nu¬ 
merous body of American loyalifts, to whom we were 
pledged by every tie that ancient connection and re¬ 
cent devotion and attachment could enforce, we (hall 
find that the balance, we will not fay of juftice, but 
of liberality, will preponderate confiderably in favour 
of the former. What indemnification was granted, 
we would alk, or what ftipulations were made, in favour 
of the great proprietors ot any of the French Weft-India 
ifland s ceded at the treaty of Amiens ? In what way did 
we interfere to fecure either the perfons or properties of 
the numerous French landholders who adhered to their 
fovereign or his caufe from the tyranny of Bonaparte ? 
But, leaving this, we would gladly learn in what treaty, 
for a ceffion of territory, made by any of the powers of 
Europe, was any other favourable condition ever granted 
to the inhabitants of that territory, except that of “ fet¬ 
tling a term, within which thofe who either belonged to 
it or were attached to the power who ceded it, Ihould 
have a right to difpofe of their property in the beft man¬ 
ner they were able.” Parga alone offers an honourable 
exemption from this rule; and the paying to the inhabi¬ 
tants the abfolute value of the property which.they vo¬ 
luntarily relinquiflied, within the fhort fpace of four 
months, in which all their litigations, conflicting titles, 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1255. 
and numerous claims of great variety and complexity, 
were adjufted, does no lefs credit to the a&ive and im¬ 
partial interference of the Britifh government, than to 
its difinterefted confideration for thofe who confided in 
its juftice and power. And fir Tho. Maitland, the lord 
high commiffioner, or governor, of the Ionian Ifies, on 
opening the legiflative feffion at Corfu, Apr. 8, 1820, ob- 
ferved, “The ceffion of Parga took place by virtue of 
treaties to which England has ever been faithful; (lie 
had moreover indemnified the Parguinotes, and granted 
them the rights of citizenlhip in the Ionian Ides.” Seve¬ 
ral publications have appeared on the fubjeCt: our ac¬ 
count is taken chiefly from the Quarterly Review, N 0 
XLV. 
PARGAMA'R. See Pergamar. 
PAR'GAS, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland, near 
the coalt of Sweden, with a town.- Lat. 60. 19. N. Ion. 
22. 7. E. 
PAR'GASITE, J. A new mineral recently difeovered 
at the village of Erfby, near Abo, in Finland. It is of 
a green colour, tranflucent and tranfparent. Its cryftals 
are of various fizes, from an inch downward; the form 
an o&ohedron, with a rhomboidal bale. It is harder than 
fluor fpar, fcratches glafs, but is fcratched by quartz. 
Specific gravity, 3'ix. It melts before the blow-pipe 
into a mafs of a pearly white luftre. The following are 
given as the proportions of its conftituents : 
Silex - 4-2'ot 
Magnefia - - i8'27 
Lime and alumina, equal parts 28'36 
Oxyds of iron and manganefe 4'54. 
Oxyd of a metal not inveftigated C33 
Fluoric acid, water, and lofs 5-68 
IOO'OO 
PAR'GET, f [perhaps from paries, Lat. a wall ; hav¬ 
ing been at firft written pariet. See Bp. Hall in To Par¬ 
get.] Plafterlaid upon roofs of rooms.—OfEngliffi talc, 
the coarfer fort is called plafter or parget : the finer fpaad. 
Woodward. 
Gold was the parget ; and the cieling bright 
Did (hine all fcaly with great plates of gold; 
The floor of jafp and emerald was dight. SpenJ'er. 
Paint.— Scorn’d paintings, pargit, and the borrow’d hair. 
Drayton. 
To PAR'GET, v. a. To plafter ; to cover with plafter. 
—If he have beftovved but a little fum in glazing, paving, 
parieting, of God’s ho'ufe, you (hall find it In the church- 
window. Bp. Hall's Char aiders. —A plafter that rather re- 
fembles true (tone than mortar; with which they not 
only parget the outfide of their houfes, and trim it with 
paint after the Morifco manner ; but alfo fpread the floors 
and arches of their room. Sir T. Herbert's Trav. —There 
are not more arts of difguifing our corporal blemiftres 
than our moral; and yet, whillt we thus paint and parget 
our own deformities, we cannot allow any the leaft im- 
perfe&ion of another’s to remain undetected. Gov. of the 
Tongue. 
To PAR'GET, v.11. To lay paint on the face.—She’s 
above fifty too, and pargets ! B. Jonfon's Epiccsne. 
PAR'GETER, f. A plafterer. Barret. 
PAR'GETING, f. in building, is ufed for the plafter- 
ing of walls ; fometimes for the plafter itfelf.—Pargeting 
is of various kinds: as, 1. White liroe-and-hair mortar 
laid on bare walls. 2. On bare laths, as in partitioning, 
and plain cieling. 3. Rendering the infides of walls, or 
doubling partition-walls. 4. Rough-calling' on hearth- 
laths. 5. Plaftering on brick-work, with ftniffiing-mor- 
tar, in imitation of llone-work ; and the like upon hearth- 
laths. Chambers. 
PARGOI'RE (St.), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Herault: fourteen miles fouth-fouth-eall of 
Lodeve. 
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PARGO'W, 
