POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The Extraordinary gazette of Corfu, published on the 7th instant, has arrived in London, and brings intelligence of the Cephalonian disturbances to the 6th instant. A proclamation by Mr. Ward, the High Commissioner, gives the authentic narrative.
" Between the 28th and 31st of August, the houses of seven resident proprietors [in Scala] were destroyed ; and murders of the most diabolical character were committed. The Cavalier Metaxa, a man universally respected, was burnt, with four servants, in his own house, while the whole population of Scala looked on." Information of these facts reached the High Commissioner on the 30th August, at eight in the morning; at eleven amt, he wrote to the President, and proclaimed martial law in the disturbed districts; at three p.m. the Ionia sailed with troops, which reached Argostoli early on the 31st, proceeded to Scala at eleven a.m., and, in spite of resistance, landed and occupied Scala by seven in the evening.
The High Commissioner landed at Argostoli on the morning of the 2d in- stant, and found the inhabitants in a panic, crowded on board the ships in the harbour. The mountaineers were said to be coming down on the town. Scouts, however, showed that the insurgents were not more than three hundred, com- manded by Theodore Vlacco and the Papa Gregorio Nodaro, "justly named the assassin,' who has been unceasing in his efforts to poison the minds of the peasantry": this Nodaro had been preparing secret societies for months, &duals- teriiig oaths on the cross.
Driven from Scala, the band fell back on leossimia and Livato ; where they could neither frighten nor persuade the villagers tojoin them: the leaders arrived at Pirgi on Sunday morning, September 2d, with only forty-two followers. Cap- tain Middleton reconnoitered them on foot at midnight, and returning with troops, missed by only half an hour the capture of the whole band. The High Commis- sioner ordered that the village of Trojanata should be searched, and was present daring the operation: there was some resistance, and the Primate was killed while executing Mr. Ward's orders, by a ball fired from a window, and aimed at those who were standing with Mr. Ward near the entrance of the church. Two other men were killed by the soldiers.
It being certain that the gang was in the Black Mountain, a reward of 1,000 dollars was offered for Theodore Vlacco or Gregorio Nodaro, "dead or alive." "Your Archbishop," says the proclamation, "has not hesitated to excommunicate a priest whose garments are steeped in the blood of the Metaxa family ; and, if taken alive, he shall certainly expiate his crime on the spot where the bodies of four of his victims are now buried, as two of his associates will do this day; the clearest evidence of their guilt having been obtained What I say, as her Majesty's representative, I most assuredly mean to perform. There shall be no amnesty until justice has been done upon the men whose crimes have disgraced the community to which they belong." They are now surrounded, the coast is blockaded, "and every boat in the ports of the island has been sent into the har- bour or sunk." "Martial law is in full force at Scala and the adjacent districts," and "their inhabitants will learn if the slightest provocation be given the terrible powers with which officers are now armed." In a brief final paragraph, Mr. Ward states that an engagement took Place on the evening before, with the whole band under Vlacco and Nodaro: Spiro Vlacco and nine others were taken prisoners, "upon whom immediate justice will be done."
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