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*Tbe distressing WccoUTts transmitted to the Lerant Company by kr. Bzxker, British Consul at Aleppo, of the effects of the earth- quakes, jehich, in the months of August and Septemlier, 1822, de. Sa.e thecitsie of Aleppo and Antioch, with many other places in J 'vi navw avalenea among the memrbers of that Companv the oat lively feelimgs of sympathy for the wvretched survivors, it wag resolvb , at Gecneral Court of that body,that a sum of 5001. should be fothwlth apphied to allevlate their distresi, and that a public eeting should be onven'ed in London to consider of the moast ad. visab.e mtthod of proceee'in, 1n order te afford still further relief. A meeting was, accordinzly heli at the City cf London Tavetn on the lth ofJanuary,1823, at which the Right Eon. the Lord , iajor of the city of LJondon presided. It was then resolved, that eeply reelng the distressed situation in which these awful vi- sitatIons ha nvolvel great part of the province of Syria, the meet- ing soul commence a subscription for the relief of the distressedi au dving inhabitants generally that an appeal should also be made to the publc, in order to render te rebef extensive and that such s ould be 3dministered withoutdistinction of religious per- In purai nceoftheseresolutions,detals ofthesecalamitbus events vere submitted to the public; and in consequence of a liberal sub- Scription, the Treasurei was enabled to transmit 3,2W9. to the care ofjohn Cartwright, Esq., British tConsul-.GeneralatCornstantinople, With directions to forward the same to ;Mir. Barker, at Aleppo, wbo Was thus furnished, as early as possible, with the means of succour- ing thoe unfortunate obje&s attd immediately prToceeded to take the nlecet ry steps for accomp?ishing the benevolent interndons o the subscribers: This,however, wasnot tobe effectedin Swia without Overcorningpeculiardifficulties and embarrmss7nents. lIn a lettcr addressed to the Treasurer, dated the 12th of Aprll, Iltir. Barker writes thus- I am prepa-ing for the difficult but most pleasing iiid hono;rable duty' of di-stributing the bounty, so as to giv'e in due time, as tar ad the nature of the trust svill at- oW, eveoy treasonable secu-rity to the public, that the whole amnount of their contributions has been _ thf rand pro- ,- t v a wiiiste re th th i3 v ie w I h vere , th from each eacence ltdliedIfsh trmseliios testabijten ut seas o thevoxntrade tadlist ofthe necsitous widowe and e Copnys, and the maimed, the blind, and Otherwise unfortunate plasons directly or inidirectlY ,rictii.s of the earthquakes." The Turkish Government gtv up leciated the belevolent conduct Of the British ofatio adand rd trangford,- Amnbnssador.to the ottor- Y i:Daet' 'any, tt itenh the g ate Govst d erumen assured the Lervnt COi- tr that the 'Cons IulGuject was announced by hin Lordship to the encee and th ur is'h Ministers testified a just sense of the nuviti- Sb5fic,nea firbnanity of the Turkey Company, and of the other Aub istT a grateful wiingness to accept of their bounty." Ale,po .arfeeingwas likewise maanifested by the authorities at ttt1themeantim rbaorvkver, information of the proceedina g of tbc Gr, Comnulth e geLandos , with details of the speech- and vm - no-,esotutiohth n sich pauleed at thenteeingsof that comnittre, leileo,- aondthentinople, hnd a takened tgrjealosny of the Ottoman GOMtment. 'This hoeated a dei ur in the grant of the Ssman -wbic 'had been applied for, and resulted in a decisive refusal, and in a prohibition, to distribute anv monies foa any purposes whatso- ever among the subjects of the porte in Syria. An official communication to this etfect was made to Lord Strang. ford, and his ExceUency thougbt proper to request an exeplanation of corduct go much at variance with the feeling previously expressed on this subject. The Turkish Government stated in Teply, that " the Sultan could not comprehend the double nature of the proceedings termcd subscriptions, which were instituted in England for the purpose of disrirnting money amongst bis subjects; nor could he reconcile the impled contradiction-of one of these subscriptions being instituted with the chariutile and innocent deeiga of relieving a portion of his subjects, while another had for its avowed object the purchase of nrms for the Greek Insurgents." Thus this subhscription has been partially frustrated in its object. An amount, bowever,ef about 800L was applied, before the objection of the Turkishs Government -was known in Syria, to the relief of some hundreds of the most prominent cases of distress, an account of which is detailed by Mr. Barker, and has been submitted to the committee by the.Treasurer. It tow only remained for the geatlemen intrustes with the ma- nagemrent of the fund to direct the unapplied portioln to be returned to Entzland. Instructions to that effLct were accordingly trans. mited to Aleppo and Constantinople, in pursuance of the resolu. nons of the committee at a meeting held the 30th of October last. The sumn so remnitted, together with the small balance which re- muned iR the Treasurer's hands, constitutes the balance of 52,S1. 1. 3d., wh'ick appears in the account current now rendered 2y the Treasurer. RE,POR7 redaflng to t7hecARTHQUAgl in SFRIAn.