The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-11 00:00:00

THE FREERS.

EETRAET OF A LETTER !ROM EANTE, DATED IIiLT 8.
When M. de Rigny went to visit Ibrahim Pacha at Nisi, that
barbarian chief had just burnt the villages of Philippaki, Dgi.
dgiori, Petalidi, Arthentico, Critelli, Vonnarla, Ballads, twenty-
two Imiskias, and the little town of Calament, an open and unde-
fended place. The Smyrna Journal, called the Spectator, who
had pointed out Gregory, Bishop of Motion to the sword of the
ferocious Paella, has just been satisfied. That Prelate has pe-
rished amidst the greatest torments, in spite of the capitulation of
Navarino, which garanteed him his liberty, as well as to seventeen
other superior officers comprehended in that treaty. It is probable
that these honourable victims have since than perished by the
hands of the executioner.
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The number of women, children, and old men, Christians of the
Peloponnesus, who were murdered or executed
o.y the Egyptians,
iti from the Bth to the 12th ofne, amounted to 6,0. The damage
they have caused in the plain of EaWiliam may be estimated at
I fifteen millions of francs. Every tree is hung with monks, priests,
and old men. A number of the villains were employed in salting
the heads, which were to be sent to Constantinople.
KAM, NEAR LONRARf.
Ibrahim Pacha distributed a number of young girls among the
European officers, who bare disciplined. and who lead his infernal
bands; these renegades have changed their names for Turkish
ones, are habited in the Oriental costume, and evince particular
pleasure in burning down the churches.
..Ivl.lr 10.

The martyr of the Convent dedicated to the Virgin, situated in
Mount Aracynthe, is here a subject of admiration to the faithful.
This old man having been conducted by the Turks before the tri.
bunal of Itoutchid Pacha was asked his name ; he answered
Ambrosius.—Your country ?—The monastery of the most holy
mother of God —Thy dwelling ?—The rocks sine* the monastery
has been destroyed by your soldiers, and soon it will be heaven,
he added, in kissing the cross he earned.—What have vou done
with the sacred vases of your church ?—I have hidden then from
the pollution of your soldiers.—Where are they ?—That is the
secret of my conscience.—Answer ?—Thou mayest burn my limbs,
but my soul belongs to God.
The torture was immediately inflicted on him, and his flesh
was torn from his hones ; but he was only heard to cry out these
words—" Kyrk deism." I. e." Lord have pity on me." Pointed
reeds were driven under his nails; but the martyr glorified his
God, and was empaled in sight of the trenches of blissolonglii, on
the 12th June.
JULY 12.
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We hear that the barbarians have been beaten at I,erna; that
General Roche has revived the courage of the Christians, and is
covering himself with glory by the patience, firmness, and the
wisdom of his counsels; his name will be for ever clear to the
Greeks. There are more than a hundred Austrian. Sardinian, and
Russian transports in the service of the Pacha of Egypt. and the
Ottoman Porte, which convey all necessaries to the enemies of the
Christiana; they are even escorted by vessels of war, which pre-
vents the Greeks capturing them.