New Hampshire Statesman

No member of that body can doubt his talents or his integrity; he has given too many proofs of both, to permit either to be called in question.

The National Gazette contains a letter from a respectable source at Tunis, giving a list of eighty-nine Greeks who were there in a deplorable state of slavery, and enumerating the vessels in which they had been brought—of which two were English, one French, two Austrian, one Sardinian, one Swedish, and but one Tunisian, and she under French colours, and convoyed by a French man of war. It is to the honor of our commerce that no American vessel has engaged in this white slave trade. The Greeks were principally those of the Island of Scios, who escaped death to endure a worse fate, and that through the instrumentality of their brother Christians: The writer states that their release had indeed been demanded, but not effected, by a British squadron: and that this interference had tended to aggravate their suffering; the arrival of the squadron becoming a signal for the slave-owners; who then exercised the most inhuman cruelties upon these unhappy Greeks, both males and females, in order to force them into Mahometanism, and thus prevent their being given up to the British.—N. Y. American.