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London, England, 1824-09-23 00:00:00

THE BRITISH P]

THE GREEKS.

We have received several numbers or the Creek retegrach, pub-
fished at Alimulinighi in the months of June and July, y which
we are mode acquainted wilt some events which, though not very
recent, have not hten lief ore known in England. The war in
GriNee. !;t brit, at previa !t was of old, and as, from the metfre
of the COO nirv, it must ti.:.(' ;-,.e to be till the enemy is thrown en.
tirely neon the defensive). _wird on simultaneously, and oftqn.
with various miecem, in many distinct and distant points. Persona
in this country-who have not made themselves acquainted with this
fact, aril with the mate of the lireek affairs in general, consider the
news front Greece as MM.! contradictory than it really Is. and attri.
bate to the conflicting intelligence the uncertainty which arises
from their own inattention. The more narrowly the contest in 1
Greece la looked into, the more reV4llll there is to admire the energy.{
of the people. The war may be considered as divided into Several
distinct district., where with more or lens interruption It Is careied-
on, the operat.ons in one having little ininiediate influence over
those in the sinters.
In Peloponnewas, which is entirely In the hands of the Greeks,
I with the exception of Colon and Nlodon on the south.ivest, and l'a.
II trait and the Castle of the Morro on the northwest of the Penin-
sula. the war is confined to the blockade of thole places, with.the
exception of the intestine hostilities which, when there is no data.
ger from the Turks, the Capitani occasionally carry on among
thenisclvm.
In Epirus and Ennio, and generally Western Greece, the war is
rendered complicated by the changeable dispoinion of the half. Ma.
I hometan Seypetani of Albania, who are at times willing to fight
for the Turks, at others equally weU inclined to fight against diem;
but always disinclined to fight at all except for present pay or san-
guine hopes of plunder. The Epirute or Albanian Mahommans
are indeed the only troops of 16 hum the Greeks of the Continent
have any derail ; for they are the only ones possessed by the Turks
who arc at all tit for warfare in a mountainous country. " I Os.
manli Asia," says a writer at M jot:oho:gin, " secistumati a vi.
vete al use Orientate, non potranno far it 1111 nl mo danno alb steno
dells Grecia ;" and this expression will not appear exaggerated to
those who have watched the fate of the large and tomultuous armies
which Deems Ali, Khourelnd Pemba, and other Generals. have
directed against the Mores. Al present it seems that great diners.l
*ions reign tinning the Albanians, with a more than usual indifre-
mute to the c • :mends of the Sultan. One Gf the Parhas of Al.
',anis, Omen Paella. has been (Iceland Fernotali (or outlawed) by
the Porte; and under his orders the Turkish Governors have been
refused admittance into Arta and Preresa by Ilechir Aga. who
eonininnded those plates, the moat Important in the south of Alba-
nia. Taking advantage of this diatinion, longs. Stomaris, Range,
and other Greek Capitani of Etolia and Epirus, united their forcos
and marched against Aria at the end of June; but it is not proba-
ble that they can do more than blockade it. Meanwhile there is
no Turkish I'rcC to interfere with the west of Greece south of the
Aspropotaino, though there is Mill a small Turkish garrison in
!repent°, ready to *attendee when they are either bribed of bat.
tered.

In Eastern Greece (klyaseus has still the guard of the passage of
Thermopylae, wi era he has so often done good service by keeping
nut the Turks, as well as in the caw of the host of Urania Ali, by
letting them pass and aftrwards cutting cilf their communications
with Larissa. Odysseus has the military command of the whole
of the ancient Attica and !tomtits. fiouran, one of It's friends and
companions, commends the eitttlel of Athens, and it was by I •
(Comas) that a force under I eerviech Pacha was recently defeated.
111 Eubra also a part of the troops of Odysseus carried an the
war during the last spring, and pressed earysto and Negropont as
vigorously as their means a attack allowed. These places have
been since enpplied tud victualled. and a considerable body of
Turks landed in the Isle. from *hid& we believe Ikrvisch l'aeha's
body was detached into Attica. The Turks, however, are not for.
midable enough to do anything against the Greeks in the mountain.
mu parts of Ealreta, and will be probably soon abut up again in the
fortresses.

CrLie Of Car ea is in needy the same state as Eubms' but no
rery recent aconunts of the war there have been received. The
Turks hold tlr fonrtsses of (.3111:11, Suits, lie() inn. and ('andia ;
and oceasiimally, when they r.ce;ve reinforcements front the Pecha
of Egypt. or from 11,:unstsmintiole. 'centure into :lie open country ;
hut they have never assailed the Greeks In the mountains without
suffering severe loss. Occasloaallythe Candiots have received aid
from the Moretti and an exptllition of four thousand men was
slid to be preparing to be sent there so lung ago as the middle of
June. _ _ _

The events of the naval war, the attack on hisses, and the medi-
tates' expedltios against Samos, arc well known; but the exclusive
interest' in the fate of hisses bait prevented the notice of another
ocnt in one of the islands, highly creditable to the Oreeks. To
the southward of the fluff of Salorlca runs a chain of islands called
I.temotionist, or DeriPs Islands. Previously to the attack on Irian
the Turkish fleet disembarked on one of these islands (Scopclo)
2,600 of the rabble of Constantinople, dignified by the name of
Janissaries. lo this island was Canoes°, a chief, who had pre.
vinosity distinguished himself on the Continent. lie made no op-
position to the lending of the Turks ; but (according to the Greek
Trkgropk of July I) afurieerds, as anon probably as the main
body of tho Turkish Nevi hail removed to a distance. be attacked
mem, killed nearly half od there disorderly troops. drove WON into
the sea, sod obliged the rest to take shelter in their barks.