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>4: OC W 40, • - 7' • ationat Utoitlrr+ PNI x ' ty-- • z 0,,, terft4 ett 4W7 1 ~.--- afb Our ConOttution, anti RAW'. No. 1,377,-VoL. XV.] FOIIEIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, JULY I.—Our letters from Bayonne, of the .25th June, state, that notwithstanding the or der issued to the Spanish emigrants to retire into the interior of France, those who were assembled on our frontiers entered Navarre on the 23.1 by Lecom berry. Letters from Spain state, that the counter revolution lx;comes every day more impracticable. and that if it had been possible fur the Spaniards to consent to the introduction of some modifications in their social pact, the threats held out to that nation are sufficient to deter them ; they would rather pe rish with arms in their hands, than suffer laws to be enforced upon them, and that by means of a war which would be a war of extermination. ODESSA. JUNI: 6.—According to thilast letters from St. Petersburgh, a report was current that a Declaration would immediately appear, announcing that the Greeks must never reckcn on the support of Russia in their enterprise, and summoning them, in consequence, promptly to accept a Turkish am nesty ; but Europe witnessed a year since, that what is culled a Turkish antnatsty is certain death, after having laid down their epns. SEIILIN, JUNE 13.—Letters from Janina, of the 28th May, furnish freskidetails respecting the man ner in which the Albanians have taken vengeance tar the perfidy of Chourschid Paella towards Ali. It is known that they were promised a share of the treasures of the latter, but Chourschid soon found means to elude that proMise.. New negocialions 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 (;reeks under the orders ut' the Paella, who caused six months' pay to be paid in advance to those combatants . ; but in the very first air they aban doned Chourschid, who was obliged to retreat as far as Janina, after experiencing a check, and consider. able losses near Kordistv. _ _ PETIRSSURGH, JUNI 11.—The Schell of Persia, at the head of a large and formidable army, conti nues his march without interruption against Bagdad. lie has in his suite his three suns, and also Abbas .141irza, who is so well known in Europe, and re sided so long as ambassador from his Court at Lon don, Vienac, and St. Petersburgh. ' A grcat 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 expense of this aqueduct is estimated at 25 millions of roubles. A second plan relates to the establishment of a Mission CoMpany of Insurance fir account of the Government, 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 iu the country. Up to the : 6th of June 26j ships had arrived at Riga, and 142 sailcd. Z:UPENIKAGEN, JUNE 22.—His Majesty has reco vrt,d very rapidly during the last Week, and fre quently goes out as well on horseback us in a carriage. It is said he will go on the 28th to his summer residence, Friedericksberg. lEltO, JUNE 15.—1 n the night of the 10th, a great part of the town of Sulzbach wits destroyed by tire. One hundred and sixty six houses and nume roue other-buildings were laid in ashes. The great heat of the weather has dried every thing to such a degree, that the roofs and louses burnt like straw. 11zatiz, JUNG 20.—The fires in the little towns mul the country are now extremely numerous. On the 3.1 of Jane, 50 houses, &e. were burnt at Lyck, in East Prania, and 12 in the neighbouring Polish town of ltaigard ; and on the following day there was a still greater fire at Augustuwa. At Olitzko (Marggrabowa), on the sth of June, 30 buildings were down, besides several breweries, the stud of the province, the riding-sehool, and the Gravers dorfi FRANKFORT, Jule 18.—On the 15th, towards evening, immense dancige was done at Darmstadt by a tremendous hail-storm. The crops• were all cut to pieces, the largest trees torn up by the roots, ail the witolows in the city that were exposed to the storm were dasikd atid the paia-c pa: lcu t.ittizely laid wustc. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1822. THE LITE MASSACRES AT SCIO. 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- horn. It was on the 11th of April that the Capiten Padre landed several thousand men ; but the Turkish fleet h semeely hove in sight, when the commander in the castle :tn Selnlhartling the tuwn, and from that time till the they rif our departure, it was ape continued scene of murder, conflagration, and plunder, both in country and town. Nor were they even Wished with the ravages fire made upon the houses ; its progress was toe slow far their fury, and the hands of men aided and assisted the raging element. They took to the castle about $OO of the gardeners of the principal families, whom by dint of threats of instant death, and promises of liberty, they forced to confess, as far as they knew, where any property bad been hid. In almost every garden, at 6 or S yards distance, were pits dog for the pnrpose of grasping the supposed concealed treasure. All the women were sent into slavery ; the men and male children (above 12 years of age) were massacred ; the children of the tenderest age, and the most beautiful from among the young women, were sent on board the ships with greet pomp end so lemdity, under a salute of 'gnus : they circumcised the male children, in token of conversion to the Mahometan faith, and then sent oaf the children of both sexes by land for Constauti nople, by the way of Smyrna, udder an escort of Turkish sol. diery. Two regiments of Turks had assembled, and shot up io a place in the country about 700 persons, chiefly peasants, I I whom they meant to divide among themselves as slaves ; but not being able to agree in Cm 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 oaf) , way to avoid die • session was to pat them all to the sword ; and in less than half an hour all these innocent men were put to death. Others of these butchers had in their possession four families of distinc tion ; the wortreu and children they rent to the city, and the men they. bled to death. Sly sit we have been aide to gather, it appears, that from the very moment the Turliee fleet was destined for Scio, the total destruction of the island, and the stimhiletion et its inhabitants, were resolved on, without any examination nt their or innocence. On the nth of Nay the Parita ordered 35 pectable men that he had ou board to be hung up to the which served as a signai to the t;overnor of the Nestle to do the same wilt the 86 hostages, mitering at the Sawa ;sae ;he 800 gardeners, who were still in custody, to he strangled. the 10th May, on which day we left :hi°, there bad been no cessa tion to ruurilerini,v, condagratiun, and enslaving, with all their accompanying ferocity. Do not he surprised if you hear that there have been near 60,000 Turks on the island ; the report of the numerous and tich spoils of those who brat went over, the sight of void, silver. jewels, &c. shipped oil by the captor* to planes of safety, enticed over simile of these barbarians, thirst ing for Christian blood and plunder. The number of slain amounted, on the 10th, to 233,000; of captives, to 30,030 those who have saved themselves by flight are comparatively few ; those who already have reached the continent, and those immediately expected, are the only ones that arc saved— all the others you may reekos among the dead and the captives. Those, even, who hove erecelped from the Turks, must soon fall a prey to famine, as they are lurking about the mummies without food or raimeet. How we have escaped, we hardly know—it seems a dream ; but the divine Providence asstiled as, having so many dangers to encounter, and being so well known to the Turkish inhabitants of Sumo, it• was only changing clothes, and twine accompanied by the Austrian Consul that saved as. Together we traversed the city, or rather bill, for the whale of the why was strewed with dead bodies of men and carcases of &Mina's on each side ; the walls o 1 our beentiful houses, built with black Trojao mumble, alone re mained, and ie them were seen fignres of women and children, pale, wan, and emaciated, in morbid despair, till they should be transported as slaves on board the Turkish vessels. Me thinks their cries, eights, airil lamentations, are still in oar ears, as they implored the Consul, for the love of Leaven, to take compassion on them, not to deliver them into the hand of their foes—not to leave them in the power of those who would force them to embrace the Mahometan faith. Oh! how agonising were our feelings then ! Dot, ales! what could be done to save th0:11? It was thus through scenes harrowing to the soul that we at lust reached the ship that was to convey ns to Sanyrne ; yet, as if our cup ol affliction and danger was not yet fell, we unespeet edly found ou board ibis vessel 31 young women of the best families, on their road to Constantinople, by the way of Smyth*, seal thither by the Paella as a present to time Grand Seighor ; many of them we were personally known to ; the least rti-rn of recogiuti in on their part would have immediately discovered as to their Turkish guard, and our lives would have been for feited. It was with the greatest difficulty that we veiled bur features from observation, keeping all the day below decks, and only for a few hours of the night breathiag the fresh air on dee!, ; at last we reached Smyrna, were immediately conveyed on board this Austrian ship, amid hourly arrived bete. EXTRACT OF A LET fER FRONI Al . ot/ OULLE, DATED SMYRNA, MAY' 15. " NV DEAR BROTH ER,—Vrepate soursel; on reading this letter to minimum to your aid the strene,iii of vGar character ; the blow that struck us is en terrible that all me reason is recurred nil to eureomli under it. his openin,Cnitrtas yon- estimate at once the extent of Mir misfortunes—tee freer to weep Inc our country, the beautiful skin, in the power of our bar ;serous rue wits--We base to dephore t h e :ow. of Our itill.acibUS " Of all oar n,y by miracle, owing to t , ,ereu..eattou or a set.t.tutts neechmaa, *be PRICE 91 has hem restored to toy e.nlattee. How can I speak to you of our father f Alas! this venerable old man now implores the Sups eme Being for his country, and for the unfortunate children who have survived him. The folloning are the dttailv of this dreadful assas•iiimiion :--You know that lie and our tiro bro- tilers, 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, notwithstand ing the promise of the barbarians, they had been all the time confined iu dungeons ; they w ere placed in two lines, and were either hung or pat to death with increased torments. " Our father and his companions witnemeed with tranquillity the preparations fur their execution, and these martyrs to their fidelity (lid tint lose their presence of mind for a single ruentensi. Our sister Henri'tta is a slave, and I have not vet succeded in discovering to what country of Asia die infamous ravishers have carried her. Nor have I yet been able to obtain the least in forniation respecting the fate of our dear mother mid three other sisters; the destiny of your wife and family have atm escaped my search. In short; our misfortunes are so great that low scarcely credit them. • " Ou the 11th lust. I quittrd Siiio—saved by a miracle from the dangers of the most sanguinary catastrophe, of which any one can form an idea. But Ido not feel that joy which one might elperience ew being delivered from the drsadful perils to which I have been exposed. Hatred itiid indignation against Our executioners arc the only sentiments which can hence forth dwell iu my heart. The. Its to the European costume which I have adopted, the captain of an EiOisli vessel agreed to take me on board; bat .my dreadful situation interested neiliet Turks nor Englishmen. The captain of the vessel would not allow me to embark till I had reckoned out to him 303 piastres, and it was not till after lie had examined them one by one, that I received from him permission to set my foot on board the vea -1 sel, whatever was my danger iu remaining longer on board the elialoupe. I have left the island in ashes. The Turks, after pillaging the houses, set them all on lire, and joining sword to fire to demolish them more readily, they demolished them to the last stone, 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 most dreadful slavery. There the monsters pro fane every thing to gratify their rage and their passions ; ard oft(Ffilhe •irgius whom they have aulliod by their enibtai.ez, receive from themselves the death which they wish for. All the chateaus "(hied' teudeied Oaf island the most v ( 0.1411110 in the Mediterraiseen, oar academy, the library, the superb edi fices of Smut AnniAiioso, SainstVieleir the Apostles, bet churches, sad upwards of (tit villages, hale been consumed by the Ileum " The ferocious iiieennimits then seo•red the ateustains and the kirests,, sad they are pow at the 24th village of liastie. These siert, w thousand times more ferocions than those of the forests, have vested that hatred upon the dead, which they bear to the living. They opened they tombs, and threw into the streets the bones of our fathers, and the corpses of their auks vietinie were i ragged by the feet through the bruola. " Every day woman of the hest families in the Island are ex posed to sale in the public markt is ; articles of great value, such as the sacred vases of the Greek and Catliclic churches, mid the lite..liments of the priests, are by the se wretches sold at a vile price. Through the intervention of the Charge d'Affaires of the French Consulate, I have succeeded in purehusing 31 women, whose names I send you, and who are now iu safety at the Consulate. _ Since ray arrival here the same scenes have been renewed every day ; there are sales of diamonds, rich pelisses, jewellery, chalices, tine stuffs, in short, all hinds of valuable articles, which are in the streets, and are given awdy for nothing. How should it he otherwise, when all the inhabitants of Asia, from children of t$ to old men of 0, embark every day for Sein„ from whence they return laden with our spoils? We can oily we can only return out thanks to the Europeans who reside at Smyrna; they have done nSI thLy could to purchase lair women; to purchase all, the treasures which the country of Hamer pos• sessed before its disasters would scarcely 'ace. Amongst the ravishers of them, there are some with soils so atrocious that they will not listen to any specit s of wrong tweet. One of thesis mowers refused 10,005 piaetres for the ran. som of the wife of Gatlin, and replied, that he would not testorw her for 20,900. I base contributed to the ransom of Theodora Halle, purchased fur 4,000 itinerra. M. Petrochochico, on learning the death of his brother, precipitated himself from a window ; his sister threw herself lath a ditith ; the other, made a slave, was brought bete, where she was immediately pur chased. Our friend Jean u'Andre, was killed iu his house in in the presence of his wife, whilst hasteuing to save his two son+, who shared the late of their father, also in the presence of their mother; the latter has been conveyed in @harry t. Algi. ea. My hand refuses to trace at greater length the atrocious scenes which I have wiinessed, mid others a thousand times more dreadful might be added to those 1 have cited. In one note the sanguinary catastrophe otScia has produced the death er tuitc.f y .tu,qoo individuals, for to that amount may be e►ri mated the otoniter of our fellow conotryuirn ■nd women pui to death ur reduced to slavery. Just Cod, when will the day of venaeance come, and what vengeance can ever infliat upon oar callous assassins all the claitstiesemeut which they destry et" By the death of Major Whalley, which took place at Reading a few days ago, the collectorship of Cur toms at Jamaica Let mile vacant, which situation the - - Lords of the Treasury have marred on a youth of m ' tiveuty ,rears of kip, named Gordon, a clerk in a, ' imrcant;ie house in the City, to the prejudice of Nit, C.-attain, %1:n has filled the situation of Comptroller of Custuraa at Jrruaics upwards of futty 'ears. , _