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London, England, 1824-10-04 00:00:00

GREEK CHIEFS.

Till:01)01LE COLOCOT2ONI.

Theodore Colocotroni is a nstive of Caritena, a its!l
town of Argolis, in the Mores. Hr formerly followed ek,
calling of his father, who was a Cletti, on the mountains
of this pace. The Turks, however, having detertniaei
get rid of C'olocotroni and his followers, marched some trove
against them; and having succeeded in defeating the whole
hand, Colocotreni himself narrowly esesped with his life.
He retired after this with his followers, and ever. his !AT;
were extirpated front the .Alorra. In'the year taln,
Church, an En;disii officer, who is a: pieseut in the Nei.
politan service, had formed a regimen:, consiiqing entire!,
of Greek refugees, who had eseapell to the !fiends to avoid
the rersect:tions of the Turks. And in this rsgitner.t, The.
Wore Cohlzotroni was received in the rar.k ef cert,t3.
Previously to the installation of toe constitatiat of
the loni.in I.1.a:!:!s, this regiment had tiptile very coiirailet,
able progress in Euronean tactics and thseipine; 19..3 la
that event t.tkiag Plane, it was iminceltaiely dishariff.
ancl Caleizotraii retired to ?ante, where he lived in a rite
of considerable poverty. Still, however, he had net ter,
either his courage, or the reputation it had gained for
him ; and on the breaking cut of the present retoiution,
he immediately repaired to the More; and errs one
of the chiefs who assisted at the assault and tahinc
of i'ripolitz.s, and beanne enriched with the booty which
fell to his share on that occasion : for Tripoii:za ha
ing a place of great strength, many Turks of distinction
had removed their treasures there (or safety, front othm.
parts of the Morea. After this, Colocotoni was ar,:vitied
to lay siege to Patras; but he is not considercel to have
conducted that afTair with proper skill and entrgy ; for a
week before the army of Chourehid Paella eniered the
Mores, he raised the siege. and retreated to Tripoli:gra,
without any orders to that cifect from the provinzial
'eminent, and grea:ly against the views of the Elletatift
Front that period, :he conduct of Colocotroni Non to be
looked upon with suspicion ; for it way considered that his
views were personally ambitious, and that he was auslcus
to escape from all control of the pro-incial goner t.
which was then established. As, however, he had amarel
considerable wealth, which gave. him great influence with
a numerous train of followers, these supposed errors in his
views were for a time overlooked; especially as it coed
not be denied that he had very greatly distinguished him.
self for personal bravery, particularly in the great hattlis
which were fought at Argolis, in the beginning of August,
Is-2e; when, being at the head of eight thousand men, he
on one occasion left five thousand of the entir.y dead on
the field.

I:iifortunately, however, the general views of Celoos.
troth were no less selfish than hit ideas were limited ; sal
thong!' had served for snore than live veers in the tin ck
regiment under General Church, he had by no ILC•2:lllitn-
bibed these feelings of absolute subordination to superior
authority, which are so essential to the mainzenaocc of
good order, and the safety of a country.
At the socend meeting of the National Congress, how.
ezetror,ntihergXmesovernwittaZot
rawhairsesoiofatiehrse Icw9erneenictn:l,netho
name
hint Vice-President of the Executive. This, however, by
no means satisfied his ambitious views; big object being
to gain sole mastery over the whole Morea; with the ex-
, oeption of having for his coadjutor, Petro-Msuremieliali,
who was at that time l'Asident of the Executive. And in
order to further as much as possible theee views, he en.
deavoured to get rid of all those persons from the provi.
:ionsl government, who possessed any predominating in-
fluence ever it. Accordingly, his first guVrttl was with
that excellent patriot, Alexander 3laurocordato, then Errt
Minister, and whom be considered to be his niesttlaniireas
opponent. And Li: influence in the lorea at time
was so powerful, that, on his menacing the above-imam,
person, and insloting that he should quit the Mores, be
was, in fact. compelled to do so; and he (M.mrocorus)
retired to Ilythx, and from thence procetolcd to Misso.
lungbi, where he was appointed Governor-Genetal of the
affairs of Western Greece.

At the time of the capture of Napoli di Romania by the
Greeks, Colocotroni was not present; but he arrived there
shortly afterwards; and while in the act of bcituoving the
merited praises on the gallantry of those soldiers who bail
first gaired possession of the place, he had tie: address, u
well as the iiisokoce, to displace them ali, and take possess
don of the town: in his own name. This arbitrary act of
violence and injustice did not fail to excite the indignation
of all parties against him. However, be left hi: son, Pa-
neelolel Colcotroni in command of the gat-risou of Napoli
tie Remania, and himself repaired to Ttipol:ten. But, on
the third meeting of the CO:IgTCSI, George Conturtoti bring
appointed President of the Executive, Nar.oli di Romania
was named as the scat of government; and, aceJrdingly,
orders were sent to the son of Colocotroni, to prepare the
place for the reception of the members. To this public
' decree, however, both father and son refus.d obedience ;
and both were irainaliLtely declared traitors to the nation,
and means were taken to subdue and secure than. But,
very shortly after this evert, finding themselves deserted
by the greater part of their followers, they de mined on
submission ; and, in June last, they surrendered Tripe:hes
and Napoli di Romania into the hands of the gevcren.ert,
and at the same time gave themselves up Escentirdooslly
to the Caine autherities ; who, in consielerativn of the for-
mer services of the father, pardoned than both. deptivitT
them, however, of all power. And Theodore Ceocotrosi
himself now resides at Caritena, his nntive phce, under the
striet scrutiny of the constitutional govLnunt;:t.—.Tha fJ
Literature 41;:d kaihion.