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      which was then melting fast , but were past these inconveniences and pursuing their voyage of discovery up the inlet at the north of the Bay . The officers and men were all in the highest health and spirits ; well and most amply found in erery kind of provisions . and comforts , and delighted with the security and excellence of their ships ; which , though so deeply laden , had proved themselves most lively and obedient seaboats .

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      FOREIGN . ITALY . On Sept . the 10 th , the Pope issued a Bull against the sect of the Carbonari , as an association whose object is the subversion of the Catholic Religion , of Christian

      morals , and of all sacred and legitimate authority . His Holiness interdicts any person , under pain of excommunication , from becoming a member of the society , affording any of them an asylum , or countenancing them in any way whatever .

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      . GREECE . TfftE Greeks still make head against their oppressors , but with various and doubtful success . A strong feeling itl their favour is rising on the continen t of Europe , notwithstanding the jealousy of the old governments with regard to all insurrectionary movements . Subscri ptions are in some places opened for the Greek insurgents ; and companies of military men ( one it is said from Ireland ) are gone or going to their assistance .

      England does not appear to have interfered on behalf of the Greeks , but it is something that her government feels , a little anxiety for the monuments of antiquity at Athens . Lord Strangford , ambassador &t the Porte , learning that the Ottoman troops were on their march to that city to retake it from the insurgent

      patriots , presented an official note , signifying " that it would be highly agreeable to His Majesty the King of Great Britain , if orders were given for the protection and preservation of all the ancient edifices and temples , and other ornaments of

      antiquity , which are in the city and the environs of Athens , and which have always been so highly interesting to the learned of Europe . " The Grand Vizier has accordingly given directions to this effect to the Governor General of the

      Morea , grounded on the statement that " his Britannic Majesty is full of friendship towards the Sublime Porte , " and that " the cordial attachment and confidence between the two Governments daily increase . " The war assumes a religious character . It is said that the Jews , whose condition in Turkey is more degraded than that of the rest of their nation in other

      countries , have taken part with the Mussulmans , and that consequently they are the objects of the vengeance of the Greeks . These insurgents march under the banner of the Cross and the benedictions of their priests .

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      ( i V * ^ 696 Intelligence , —Foreign . —Italy . Greece * South America .

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      J . Coates , Esq . a native of Newcastleupon-Tyne , has lately presented the Literary and Philosophical Society there , with an Egyptian mummy , in the highest state of preservation . He procured the rarity , as he returned through Egypt recently , on his way to England from India .

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      The late Rev , Francis Gxsborne bequeathed the residue of his property , to the public hospitals of Sheffield , Derby and Nottingham ; the amount is

      estimate d at 5 , 000 / , each . It is now discovered that Mr . Gisborne was the anonymous donor of three sums of 10 , 000 / , 3-per cent Consols , to each of the above institutions , about 15 years ago .

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      SOUTH AMERICA . The struggle for liberty in this vast continent is apparently about to terminate , and in a way that the friends of humanity have always contemplated witty hope . Lima , the great capital of the rich state of Chili , has fallen before the

      Independent army under the coianjniarid of San Martin . —Carthagena lias also been captured by the Independents of Columbia . Spain now retails her hojd of South America by £ thread , which ( says a respectable Journal ) in a few * weeks must be . snapped asunder , andthor wJl ° l ** " paratecj from , tier Vfctor jeyer . .

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      The celebrated sculptor Cahova , is now at Passagnoy his native place , superintending the building of a beautiful church ( erecting at his own expense ) in honour of the Holy Trinity . It is said that it will in form resemble the Pantheon of Rome , and that , like the Parthenon of Athens , it will be ornamented with a portico , the pillars of which will be of the same dimensions as those of the Pantheon .

      The interior will be decorated with sacred sculptures of this great artist ' s , and will also contain a picture of his composition , representing a dead Christ . Passagno at this moment is a place of rendezvous for all foreigners . Canova is the father and benefactor of his natire country , which ( thanks to him ) appeal's to have received new life .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 696, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/64/