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    sors and schoolmasters , " and books in abundance , " " to &ive th £ Rich and tft $ Boor in America an education which embraces a wider scope than is the practice in England . "—See Report for 1821 , p . 73 .

    So it is not enough that the English are compelled to pay tythes for the support of the clergy at home , but they are forced to pay additional taxes to maintain Episcopacy , with all its ceremonies arid trappings , in opposition to the declared opinions of the colonists themselves . This profuse expenditure too , at a time when thousands in the mother

    country are perishing for lack of knowledge , and for want of bread to eat . Surely this is enough to paralyze the industry and the heart ' s-blood of the British nation . By letters from Canada , in the Glasgow Chronicle of 30 th January last , it appears that the great body of the colonists ; aware of the impositions that have been

    practised by interested persons to get money from England " for the aggrandizement of a small party , who allot education and respectability to tliem- ^ selves , and ignorance and degradation to the rest ; have resolved to ascertain the number of persons belonging to the Church of England in each township , cOunty , and district , in those provinces , and communicate the result to the

    British Government , supported by evidence both documentary and personal , of the most unquestionable character , which must shew our enlightened Ministry its true state : and if nothing else be effected , they will at least be put upon their guard against the * incorrect details respecting the flourishing state of the Church of England in the colonies , under the fostering care of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , to which they have been ' accustomed . "

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    we have merely space for a . brief outlme of its principal points ., ...... It commences by stating , as a Wellknown fact , the mutual hatred between Mussulmen and Infidels ; and that the Russians , inost especially actuated by this feeling , ' have , for the last sixty

    years , taken advantage of , and fomented , internal dissensions , and sought , by every means within their power , utterly to subvert the Ottdnian empire . Td effect this object , they incited the Greek rebellion , but the Divine assistance and the protection of the holy Prophet enabled the faithful to defeat their wicked

    projects . The next paragraph reminds us strongly of the vulgar , but pithy saying relative to the pot calling the kettle—something which we do not care to repeat . It describes the progress of the Greek insurrection ; speaks of the " unheard- of excesses" committed against the Mussulmen , —gentle and immaculate-souls 1 —ascribes the discomfiture of the

    Turkish troops to lack of pay , and the * ' ancient disorganization of the arsenal ;" and concludes by asserting , that England and France , - inveigled by the subtlety of Russia , united themselves with her , to encourage and assist the Greeks in their rebellion . As it was evident that the

    different proposals relative to the affairs of the Greeksj under the pretext of a love of liberty , tended to nothing else than to subvert the Ottoman empire in Europe and Asia ; to make the Greeks and the Mussulmen change places ; to turn the mosques into churches , and ( dreadful profanation !) ' * to ring bells in them % " neither reason , law , policy ^ nor religion , would permit the Sublime

    Porte to accede to them . The Porte , however ; though it was evident that the final decision would be left to the ' 8 word , temporized as long as possible , " in order to gain time for warlike prepara- * tions . " Thus , it appears , the politicians of Turkey h&ve out manoeuvred the Infidel professors of diplomacy ; whether her generals will be equally successful , may prove a very different affair .

    The treaty of Ackermann is characterized as a matter of necessity , not inclination , on the part of the Porte j nevertheless , its provision * had been duly observed . Russia , however , not con- tented with this , alarmed : at the military reforms , and fearing that the evils Bhe meditated against 1 giantism might be hurled back upon herself , engaged England and France to co-operate with her in forcibly effecting the liberation of the Greeks . They simultaneously demanded

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    2 $ 4 Intelligence . —Turkish Manifesto *

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    The Turkish Manifesto . It appears that the Sublime Porte has , at length , determined to brave the three * ' infidel" Powers who have leagued against it , and risk all the chances of a war with the ' m . The French papers , of

    { he 21 st instant , contain the manifesto issued by the Ottoman Government , reflecting , in no measured terms , on the conduct of the Allies , and avowing the most dogged determination to carry things to the last extremity , rather than submit to their demands . The document affords a curious e&posi of the Turkish pojicy , bul its length precludes th « possibility of our giving it entire ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/68/