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tfLI P.ICIIA OF JANINA, axorna SCLLIOTS:
. [From " The Nero iferotAly Mrogasine")
Much 1111111).4.n recently said anti written con.
evening the Pacha of Janina, fof rarely stalled Ali
Parilia, and his tyrafiffy. As connected with the
fate of Piro, hie tonne has become familiar to 11. e
British public, who will probably he gratified with
the following particulars respooitific hire, which ar,
but little linoWn. snit will not prove unintereating
Ali has all the qualities which characterize the
robber : for some time, ilideed, lie followed that
Oilier circumstance., ■nd is different
education, would, perhaps, have developed in him
the virtues of the hero. !tire personal bravely,
extraiwohiniry boldness, and crest firmness in
his resolutio .s, cannot be denied hint ;_ but lie
is at the same time vain, cruel. avaricious, filer,
faithless. sod revengeful. A mbitioso is his lambent.:
nem vice. slid the main-spring of all his mellitus.
The ewes which he governs, that is to say, which
he oppresses mod desolates, comprehend Epire and
Thettfily. In the commencement of has looser ha of-
ten said, "You than see that Ali Packs, the succes-
sor. ~f Tyros (Py►rhus), will surpass that monarch in
all that lie thinks fit to uudrrtake.'•' lie wits at unit
time brooding over plans of rebellion against the
Porte. knol hod, perhaps, even contrived the posribi-.
lity of carrying Isis arms to Constatitiomple itself. The
events of the French revolution, and the war in
Italy in particular. have a different direction to his
thoughts. When the Imii.on Islands were reduced
by the French, be hoped to dr rive advantage from
their proximity, and to make them ■ point of sup-
port. The French, on the other hind, were sewn-
ble that lie might be of service to them, and kept
up an mineable nralerstaitding with him.
it was now his alto to obtain pr.rt of the prose.-
sions of the former republic of Venice. To these be-
longed, betides the islands, the towns of Butrinto
(theancient Buthrotum). Perga. Pretreat, mid Von-
inns, eituated on the main land. lie is now ittlister
of them all. Pryer's, •Vounihza, and Buteinto fell
into his hands during the campaign of the French
in Egypt, when, after the total destruction of their
fort at Abowitir, the Russian and Turkish aqua-
/Irons came to reduce the lonian islands. most of
which acre not in a state of defence, and to block-
ade Corfu, which was obliged to surrender for want
of provisions. Freersa was the only place the capture
of which cost him any trouble. Six hundred French
defended themselves there without fortifications.
egatinft 3(1,000 Ara:tuts, with a courage which will
never be hor.gotten in that country. They were
not far from Thermopylae, end they were not sur-
passed by the Spartan* who fought tho-re neder
Leonidas. This defence will, *perhaps, trot be no-
ticed in history. but it deserves a place among the
most lorious achievements. I collected the particu.
hors of it upon the spot; they are *related by the
Greeks with transport and sorrow; but they could
net stifficietitly express their admiration when they
sruke iu particular of an Officer named Gabori, a
dative of Nantes. All his soldiers had fallen, and
lie alone was left in one of the public place., sues
refunded by slain. Supported against the tree of
liberty, and assailed by innumerable enettlies. he
killed seven with his own fraud; and when he at
length sunk from exhaustion and fatigue, he still
continued to strike terror into all thr►ae who vert-
lured forward for the purpose of dispatching him.
Three hundred of time French nevertheless sur-
vived the conflict. Snail I refute with what bar-
barity they were treated ? We should not find a
parallel to it even among 'cannibals. Condemned
to the torture of seeing the beads of their comrades
struck off before their faces, flayed, and pickled,
they were compelled to take these horrible trophies
upon their shoulders, and carry them to Constan-
tinople, where they were all made slaves. Among
these anfortuaates were a General amid smother
officer of high mirk, who shared the fate of the
rest. lie who (warred these atrocious executions
was the same tyrant from whom the Pargoiniots fled.
The possessions of Ali Pacha on the main land
have not been increased merely by what formerly
belonged to the Venetian,. Nearly in the centre
of his government there was a tribe which still.
maitotaitied its independence. Throe people were
called Sulloos, from the mountain of Sulli, where
they lived fortified, as it were, by nature spawn all
attacks. The Sulliots prized their liberty above
every ether pometsion. Alm Pacha has contrived to
subdue thetrh but nut till after many fruitless at-
tempts, and by 'his .tivual meting, faithleastiess and
treachery. Nothing can furnish a better critetion
for the character of this robber that the account of
one of those attempts.
Argirocastro, a Mahosnedan town, about twelve
leagues front Ja ~ tt a, had hoisted the banner of in-
surrection, and refused to recognise an agent whom
he had sent thither. Under the pretext of reduc-
ing it to obedience, be wrote to the-Captains Bogie
and Giavella, the two most powerful chiefs of the
Greek ioliabitauts of Mount Sulli. He requested
them to join him with all their men, and to sup-
port him on his expedition. His letter to Bogus
was in modern Greek ; the followiog is a literal
iniuslation of it :
"‘ My dear friends. Captain Bogie and Captalo
Giavella" (the Greeks are accustomed to eaH all
their chide Captains). " I, Ali Pioche. salute you
and kiss your eyes, because I ant thoroughly ea.
quaiiited with your courage ■tad your heroic menu.
menu, I cunaider myself es standing greatly iu
need of your assistance, amid therefore entreat you,
as soon as you shall receive my letter, to stumble
all your heroes. and join me, that I may conquer
my enemies. This is the hour Uod time when I
want you. I expect the proofs of your friendship
and love for toe. Your pay shall be twice as great as
that which I give to the Aroauts, because I know that
your valour surpasses their's. I will not, therefore,
go out to bottle till your arrival, and treat I shall
owe ems soon. This is enough. I saline you."
ou the rrcript of this Colleting letter, the chiefs
held aco molt/tithe Capt. Bogia, and the majority
iof the soldiers, regarded the proposal of the Paeha
as a otratiogens to make himself master of them mod
their mountains. Bogie accordingly returned for
answer, that he bad ►eceived the Paella's letter with
great respect and submission, and for his own part
was reedy to obey his commatels but that lie had
not been able to weevil upon the soldiers to OCCC•111.•
puny huts, and therefore It would be useless fur him
alone to comply with the invitation. Giavells, less
circuinspeet, or, pe►lsmps hoping to share with the
Pacha the booty be might take, acceded to his I.