In giving this important news we congratulate Greece, being persuaded that every other important question of the day holds, in respect to this, a second place.

It concerned religious sentiments, from which flows the Greek existence, the national personality; and the corruption of these religious sentiments, or even the simple disturbance of them, effected especially in the female race, would overturn from the foundation everything which holds together the strong links of Grecian nationality and liberty.
"Of all the foreign holy apostles, of various religions and various heresies, unhappily for Greece, heaped together from every quarter, no one became more to be feared, and more destructive, than the imposter and deceiver, Jonas King.

A man of much speech, of powerful sophistry, of infinite subtlety, of hypocrisy incarnate, uniting in himself, also, boldness and great pecuniary means, he was able to proceed to such lengths, profiting for many years from the double indifference of the political and ecclesiastical authorities, as to proclaim publicly, that the act of the holy Synod against him of the 5th of August (19th, N.S.), was unjust and false." There can be no doubt that a withdrawal from Greece, just at that time, was the only judicious course to be pursued; and perhaps the proceedings of the government, in view of the uncontrollable excitement of the people, were all that could have been reasonably expected.

For a week after the departure of Dr.King, a guard of ten or twelve soldiers was kept at his house, to protect it from the mob.
Subsequently, the government went into a protracted examination of the case, for which no satisfactory reason has been assigned.

It had the effect to delay the return of Dr.King, and it may have been designed for that end.