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iii • ' I w 110 - c( anal 1) t ;i r PitiCE 90. ~3~ , Our tins, Conatttution, anti galviS. No. 1,377.—V0L. XV.] SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1822. titers, Theodore and Constantine, and your father-in-law, were amongst the hostages shut up in the castle on the Bth inst.; they went out with the Archbishop, and it appears that, note Weiland iug the promise of the barbariaus, they had been all the time confined in dungeons ; they were pieced in two lines, and were either hung or put to death with increased torments. Our father and his compuniutis witnessed with tranquilli►y the preparations ?or their execution, end these mart) rs, to their fidelity did net lose their presence of mind fora single element. Our sister Henri. tta is a slave, and I have trot yet succeded in discovering to what country of Asia the infaiunuit ravishers' have carried her. Nor has c 1 ye► been able to obtain tho least in formation respecting the btu of our dear mother: sad tbrotother sisters; the iteetiny of soar wife and family have also escaped .search. In 'lent, our taiblortums are so great aliat 1 can scarcely credit them. " On the llth inst. 1 quittrd Seib--stived by a miracle fioni the dangers of the most sanguinary oat:tearoom, of which any one cau form ail idea. ' lint I do not feel that joy which mu might experience on being delivered Item the de eadful perils to which. I have been exposed. Hatred and indignathite against our etecutionere ace the wily sentiment,: which can henceforth dwell in my heart. Thanks to the European costume which I have adopted, the captain of an En g tiali vessel agre Ed to take me cm board , but my dreadful situation interested neither Turks nor Englialinien. The captain of the vessel would not allow ale to embark till I had reckoned out to him 300 piastres, and it was toot till after Le had examined them one by one, that I recei.ed from hint perinissioe to set my foot on board the ves set, whatever wa., my danger in remaining (eager on board the cheloupe. I have left the Miami in roles. The Turks, after pillaging the houses, set them all on fire, and joining sword to fire to demolish then more readily, they demolished them to the (sat asboe, in the hope of finding concealed treasure. Throughout the opulent Scio only fifteen houses are stand ing, containing our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters, reduced to the must dreadful slavery. There the monsters pro fame every thing to gratify their rage and their passions; and often the virgins whotu they have sullied by their embraces, receive from themselvea the death which they wish for. All the chateaus whit* rendered uur island the wont agreeable in the Mediterranean, our madettly, the library, the superb edi fices ut Saint Atiaigiroso, Saintk ictor the Apostles, 88 churches, and upwards of 40 villages, have been consumed by the flames. " The ferocious incendiaries then scoured the mountains and the forests, and they are now at the 24th village of Mastic. — These tigers, a thousand times inure ferocious than those of the forests, has e vented that betted upon the dead, which they hear to the living. They operied they tombs, and threw into the streets the bones of our fathers, and the corpses of their own victims were dragged by the feet through the brooks. •• Every day e eove of the first families in the island are ex posed to sale In the puLliemarkcis ; articles of great sole., such as the sacred vases ut the Greek aced Catholic churches, and the habiliments of the priests, are by these wretches sold at a vile price. Through the inters ention of the Chat ge d'Affaires of the French Consulate, I have succeeded in purchasing 33 women, whose names I send you, tad who are now iu safety at the Consulate. " Since my errival here the same scenes have been renewed every day ; there are cake of diamonds, rich pelisses, jewellery, chalices, fine retell's, in short, all kinds of valuable articles, which are ice the streets, sod are given away fur nothing. How should it be otherwise, when all the inhabitants of Asia, from children of 15 to old men of bO, embark every day for Com whence they return laden with our spoils? We can only we can only return our thanks to the Europeans who reside at Smyrna ; they buve done all they could to purchase our women; to purchase all, the treasures which the country of Homer pass• sensed befel: its disasters would scarcely suffice. Amongst the ravishers of them, there are some with souls so all oedema that they will nut listen to ally species of arrang. meet. " One of these otut•sters refused 10,000 piastres for the ran som ot• the wife of Carba, and replied, that he would not restore her for 20,000. I have euntriouted to the ransom of Theodora purchased for 5,000 piastres. M. Petroehochieo, on learning the death of his brother, precipitated himself from a window ; Lis sister threw herself into a ditch ; the other, made a slave, was brought here, where site was immediately pur chased. Our friend Jean d'Andre, was killed in his Mime in ice the presence of his wife, whilst hastening to leave bin two sons, who allured the fart at their father, also iii the 1/IVALIICC of their mother; the latter has twee cuuveyed in slavery to THE LATE• MASSACRES AT SCIO. -41110-- The following is the account given by two Greek gentlemen who providentially escaped from Scio, on board an Austrian vessel, and have arrived at Leg- 't Algiers. My band refuses to trace at greater length the atrocious scenes which I have witnessed, and others *thousand times inure dreadful might be added to those I have cited. In one word the sanguinary catastrophe ofScio has produced the death or misery of lit,fittif individuals, fur to that amount flirty be esti mated the number of our fellow countrymen and Wolliell put to death or reduced to slavery. Just God, when will the day of vengeance come, and what vengeance can es et inflict upon our odious assassins all the chastisement which they deserve ?" horn. It was on the 11th of April that the Capitan Paella landed several doomed men ; but the Turkish fleet had scarcely hove in sight, when the commander iu the castle began bombarding the town, and from that time till the day of our departure, it was one coutiuued scene of murder, conflagration, and plunder, both in country and town. hear were they even satialied with the ravages lire made upon the huuice ; its progress wee too slow fur their fury, and the hands of men aided and assisted the raging element. They took to the castle about 590 of the gardeners of the principal V• 110111 by dint of threats of instant death, and promises of liberty, they forced to coefess, as far as they knew, where any property had been hid. le ultocet every garden, at 6 or 5 yards distance, were pits dug lee the purpose of grasping the supposed concealed treasuoc. Al! the women were sent ieto slavery ; the men and wale it:tablas as (above 12 years of age) were massacred ; the children 01 the tenderest age, and the most beautiful Item among the young women, were sent on board the ships with great pump uud so b muity, under a salute of guns : they cireumeis...l the male children, in token of conversion to the Mahotnetan faith, and then sent Off the children of both sexes by land for Coustatati nople, by the way of Smyrna, under an escort of Turkish sol diery. Two regiments of Turks had assembled, and shut up in a place in the country about 700 persona, chiefly peasants, whom they meant to divide among themselves as slaves ; but not being able to agree in the partition, began disputing. A priest, more humane than the rest, expostulated with them upon their dissensions, and exhorted them to concord, when one of those savage brutes exclaimed, that the only way to avoid dis • aension was to put them all to the sword ; mud in less than half an hour all these innocent men were put to death. Others of these butchers had in their possession tour families of distinc tion ; the women and children they scut to the city, and the men they bled to death. By all we have been able to gather, it appears, that from the very moment the Turkish fleet was destined fur Scio, the total destruction of the island, and the annihilation of its italtabiluida, were resolved on, without any examinatiou of their culpability or itinoceuce. On the pith of May the Paella ordered 35 rea ',eatable men that lie had on board to be hung up to the masts, which starred as a signal to the Governor of the castle to do the same with the 55 hostages, ordering at the same time dm 590 gardeners, who were still iu custody, to be strangled. Till the 10th May, on which day we left Nebo, there had liceo no cessa tion to mardeiing, conflagration, and enslaving, with all their accompanying ferocity. Do not be surprised if you bear that there have been near 60,000 Turks on the island ; the report uf the immerses's and rich spoils of those who first went user, the sight of gold, silver, jewels, Sc. shipped oil by the captors to places of safety, enticed over a horde uf these barbarians, thirst-- in; for Christian blood and plunder. The number of slain amounted, on the 10th, to 25,000; of captives, to 30,000: — those who hove saved themselves by flight are comparatively few ; those who already have reached the continent, and those immediately expected, are the only ones that are saved— all the others you may reckon among the dead and the captives. Those, even, who have escaped from the Turks, must soou fall a prey to famine, as they are lurking about the mountains without food or raiment. flow we have escaped, we hardly know—it seems a dream ; but the divine Providence assisted us, having so many dangers to encounter, and being so well known to the Turkish inhabitants of Scio, it was only changing clothes, and being accompanied by the Austrian Consul that saved as. Together we traversed the city, oc rather bill, for the whole of the way was strewed with deed bodies of men and carcass a; of animals on each side; the walls of our beautiful Ileums, built with black Trojan marble, alone re initiated, and in them were seen Spares of women and children, pale, wan, end enlaciated, in morbid despair, till they should be transported as slaves on board the 1 sickish vessels. Me thinks their cries, sighs, and lamentations, are still in our ears, as they implored the Consul, for the love of Maven, to take compassion on them, not to deliver them into the hand of their foes—not to leave them iu the power of those who would fur ce them to embrace the Makometan faith. Oh! bow agonising were our feelings then But, alas! what could be dime to save theist It was thus through scenes harrowing to the soul that we at last reached the ship that was to convey us to Smyrna ; yet, as if our cup of adlliction and danger was not yet full, we umaxpeot tdly found on board this vessel 34 young women of the ;mat families, on their road to Constantiueple, by the way of S1411111;4, sent thither by the Priebe as a present to the Glued Skiver ;-- satiety of them we were personally known to ; the least ado' of rem oguition ou their part would Lame immediately discovered us to their Turkish guard, and our lives would have Wen for hard. It was with the greatest difficulty that we veiled oar features from observation, keeping all the day below decks, anal only for a few hours of the night breathing the mesh air on deck ; at last we reached Smyrna, were inan,cliatk ly conveyed on board this Austrian ship, and finally arils eal here. EXTRACT Of A LETTCIt FitoM A VOLIt.O GIE.OK, DATED SMYRNA, MAY 15. My sca rs BROTilEit,—Prepare yourself on reading dais letter to summon to your aid the stren 6 l.ll of your clumacter ; the blow that struck us is so terrible that all my reason is required nokto sec.:with under it. This opening alarms yon— estimate iflece the extent of our misfortunes—we have to weep for our conatry, the beautiful Scio, in rho power of our has barons ene mies—we have to deplore the loss of our numerous family. 'VI all oar relations my youngest sister ahem escaped , by a miracle, owing to the protection of a generoue Frenchman, she has been restored to sly embrace. How can I speak to you of WIC father t Alas! this venerable old mast now inaplerela the Sepretee Being fur his country, and for lb. unfortunate children who have survived Lino The following are the details of this at,adtal atoramtittation:—You know that be and oat two bra- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, JULY I.—Our letters front Bayonne, of the 25th June, state, that notwithstanding the or der Lsued to the Spanish emigraties to retire into the interior of France, those who were assembled ou our frontiers entered Navarre on the 23d by Lwow. berry. Letters from Spain state, that the cliunter revolution becomes every day more impracticable. and that if it had been possible ter the Spaniards to consent to the introduction of some modifications in their sozial pact, the threats held out to that nation are sufficient to deter them ; they would rather pe rish with arras in their hands, than suffer laws to be entoreed tape.' them, and that by means of a w,r Which would be a War of 4.4.l.4,:ruutialiUU. ODESSA, Artie 6:—According to the last letters from St. Petersburgh, a report was current that a Declaration would immediately appear, announcing that the Greeks must never reckon on the support of Russia in their enterprise, and summoning them, in conseveticc, promptly to accept a Turkish am nesty ; but Europe witnessed a year since, that what is called a Turkish amnesty is certain death, after having laid down their arms. Lamers from Bessarabia state, that the Russian troops in that province are to make more extensive cantonments. (ANTE, MAY 25.—The Mores, which at the pe riotl of the insurrection scarcely contained a popular tion of 300,000 souls, bus now more than a million of inhabitants, composed of Christian fugitives from Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, the Isles of the Archipe lago, and every place whence they could fly to avoi'l the massacre of the Talks whom the Sultan bus u7loquzzled. General Culoctroni is now in the environs of Patras, at the head of 1 4,000 men, per reedy urmed mid equipped, h_lockad_ing Jousuuf Pa ced, who continues to occupy the castle of a town which has ceased to exist. SLMLIN, JUNE 13.—Letters from Japina, of the 28th May, furnish fresh details respecting the man. ncr in which the Albanians have takun vengeance for the perfidy of Chourschid Paella towards Ali. It is known that they were promised a share of the treasures of the latter, but Chourschid seen found means to elude that promise. New negociationa were then set on foot, conducted by English agents. The Albanese appeared to allow themselves to yield ; a great number then engaged to serve against the Greeks under the orders of the l'acha, who caused six months' pay to be paid in advance to those combatants ; but in the very first affair they aban doned Chourschid, who was obliged to retreat as far as Janina, after experiencing a eheel, and consider. able loses near Kordisa. PETERSUUR6II, JUNE I I:41C SCIISh of Persia, at the need of a large and formidable army, coati , - nues his march without interruption against Bagdad.. Ile has in his suite his three suns, and also Abbas Mirsa, who is so well known in Europe, and re sided so long as ambassador from his Court at Lon don, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh. A gnat plan is in contemplation here, to bring the waters of the Neva, by means of an aqueduct to be erected, into every house, and even into the highest story. The expenee of this aqueduct is estimated at 25 millions of roubles. A second plan relates to the establishment of a Russian Company of Insurance fur account of the Guverunient, which would be accompanied with the prohibition of mak ing any insurance in a foreign country, by which it is certain that large sums of money would be kept in the country. Up to the 6th of June 265 ships had. arrived at Riga, and 142 sailed. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 22.—His Majesty has reco vered very rapidly during the last week, and fre quently goes out as well on horseback as in a carriage. It is said he will go on the 28th to his summer residence, Fricdericksbcrg. A great lire has destroyed many buildings at Funsager, near Viborg. Two great arms have also been burnt down in Entrup. AMBERG, JUNE 15.-1 n the night of the 10th, a great part of the town of Sulzbach was destroyed by tire. MC hundred and sixty •six houses and nume rous other buildings were laid in ashes. The gloat heat of the weather has dried every thing to Such a degree, that the roofs and houses burnt like straw. BERLIN, JUNE 20.—The fires in the little towns and the country are now extremely numerous. On the 3d of June, 50 houses, &c. were burnt at Lyik, Li East Prussia, and 12 in the neighbouring Polish town of ltaigard; and on the fo ll owing day there was a still greater tire at Augustowa. At Olitako (MarggraLowa), on the .sth of June, 30 building s ware burnt down, besides several breweries, the stud of the province, the riding-school, and the Gravers d academy. FRANAEORT, JUNE 18.—On the 15th, towards evening, immense damage was done at Darmstadt by u tremendous hail-storm. The crops were all cut to pieces; the Largest trees torn up by the roots, all the windows in the tit.; that were exposed ta the ' WHIM were daduti to pieces, and the palace gardsa Lutacly ,~'': 1 1 . ••• • • • I 1 I 4 • .4. k