Lord GLENELG has taken measures to investigate the complaints of
the Maltese against their Government. The readers of the Spectator are aware that the inhabitants of Malta have not been treated with good faith. They have been cheated out of the constitution promised them by the British Generals who took possession of their island ; the principal persons among them are excluded from participation in the Government ; and their trade has been cut up by ruinous duties. There seems to be scarcely a shadow of freedom in the colony. There is but one printing-press, and that is under the control of the Governor; who has recently excited the indignation of the Maltese, by refusing permis- sion to a bookseller to print a pamphlet by Mr. GEORGE MITROVICH, which had been published in this country, and contained a statement of grievances under which the islanders labour. It is by the exertions of Mr. MITROVICH that Lord GLENELG has been induced to order the in- vestigation above alluded to. The most ample protection is promised to all witnesses; and it is probable that the Baron CAMILLO SCEBERRAE, one of the most wealthy and intelligent of the Maltese nobility, will be called upon to furnish the information which Lord GLENELG desires. A most important step has therefore been made towards an improved state of things in Malta.
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