The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-06-18 00:00:00

LONDON,
MONDAY, JUNE IS, mi.

Paris Papers of ‘Veduesday and Thursday have
arrived at our Office. Welament, very sincerely, to
learn from them that Mit Greeks, not only in Con-
stantinople but in the other principal towns of the
Ottoman empire, have been and still are exposed
to the most harbarous'and revolting outrages on the
part of the Turks. The details of these sangui-
nary and atrocious scenes are degrading to human
nature, and are the more deserving of our deepest
execration, as the crimes proceed not merely from
rabble intoxicated with impunity and blood, nor
fr an undisciplined band of fanatical soldiery,
but are the results of deliberate orders emanating
from the Government, and are coolly justified
upon the imposing pretences of State expediency.
The accounts received at Vienna state that the
GRAND SEIONOR, exasperated at the successes of
the Greeksin the Archipelago, who lord inkier pied
some ships freighted with corn for Constantinople,
and at the rapid progress of the insurrection in the
southern provinces, issued his commands that all the
Christian churches in his capital should be demo-
lished. The barbarous command was executed with
such violence and atrocity as avarice and fanaticism
might inspire, said sixteen churches were plundered
and destroyed. Such an etunt, authorised by the
supreme power in the State, might be supposed to
imply the absolute outlawry of all who had Fre-
quented those places of diviue worship, and in this
light the Malitimetans evidently considered it, for
they indulged in every act of aggression against the
persons and property of the Christians, and as mur-
der was prompted by avarice, the wealthiest of the
Greeks were among the first victims of their bru-
tality. The Turks seem to be animated with the
most diabolical spirit, and act as if nothing would
satisfy their hatred but the utter extirpation of the
Greek name. In Adrianople crimes were perpe-
trated similar to those which disgraced the capital.
The aged Ex-Patriarch CYRILLR, to whom the ve-
nerable GREGORY had succeeded, suffered in Ad-
rianople, which was the scene of his exile, the same
fate that his successor experienced in Constanti-
nople. He was hanged, and with him at the 14Ime
time were executed three more Bishops and forty
of the wealthiest Greek inhabitants of that city.
In reading of such atrocities, it is impossible not
to feel horror and indignation, but from there
crimes of the Turkish Government may probably
arise an avenging spirit in the Greeks, which will
inflict a jest and terrible retribution upon the
tyrants, and perhaps relieve Europe from the stain
which the existence of such a Government throws
upon its character.

The article of intelligence from Vienna, in which
the destructiou of the Christian churches in Con-
stantinople is mentioned, addl., that the Russian
Minister remonstrated firmly, we might say coo-
rageously, against this outrage upon the Christian
mune, end upon the religiuo of which the Em-
peror of lice A boasts himself to be the protector;
but he was told that the " Su t.TAN was u►nster iu
uwu dominion., and th.►t the measure was sug-
gested by reasons of State." The Simi's*, we
presume, reigns in the opinion of the Iligh Allies
by divine right, and is probably entitled to mur-
der any of his subjects, to extirpate their reli-
gion, destroy their churches, sad seiz.e upon their
wealth according to his own imperial caprice bid
certain it is, that if the occurrences which dietrer•t
and agitate any portion of the European cenitucia-