The National Register.
London, England, 1821-08-06 00:00:00

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No. 1,314.—V0L. XIV.]

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JULY 30.—Wc have received letters from
Salonica of the ;Nith of June. The neighbouring
villages were for the most part in a state of com-
plete insurrection, in consequence of the cruelties
committed by the Paella. The wealthy Greeks
were either massacred or imprisoned in the citadel
as hostages. A Greek flotilla was blockading the
harbour, which has caused an interruption of the

commerce, anti made provisions very dear.
It is said in a German paper that Prince Alex.
Ypsilanti is a prisoner in the Austrian fortress of
Carlsburg, but here we have no account whatever
of this chief:
Accounts from Petersburgh, which we have re-
ceived by express that the Emperor Alexander has
given a categorical answer to the complaints of the
Ottoman Porte against Baron Strogonoff, We arc
ignorant of the entire contents; but are assured the
Emperor requires complete satisfaction for the in-
sults committed against his ambassador, and that in
the space of eight days• If it not be given, the
ambassador has received orders to leave Constantino-
ple, and the Russian troops assembled on the Pruitt
will enter Mold•wia. All the Generals, it is said,
have received sealed orders, which they are not to
open till a certain day. It is doubtful whether the
Grand Scignor, Mahnud, has sufficient power over
the people and the fanatical januissaries to give the
satisfaction, and a war appears to be the inevitable
consequence. But the situation of M. de Stroganoff
' would become very critical. The first letters from
Odessa will afford us more information.

Intelligence from Walachia announces that the
chief of the insurgents, Fordaki, has succeeded in
- rallying 5,000 of the dispersed Greeks; that he had
surprised a struggling party of the Turks who were
traversing and pillaging the country, and killed a
great many of them. The Greeks fought with the
greatest courage, to avenge their brethren. The
Turks retreated on Bucharest.
We have a detailed account of the defeat aatl de-
struction of the Sacred Legion, which merits a place
in history. When the Turks advanced in great
force against the legion, a nephew of the assassinated
Patriarch (Gregory), who had joined them from a
German university, advanced before the ranks, raid
exhorted his companions to prove they were sot
Neapolitans, that they fought for a sacred cause,
that they were intrusted with the honour of Greece,
and full of the glorious recollection of their ances-
tors. The young men answered with shouts of joy,
and threw themselves into the ranks of the enemy,
where every one of them, without exception, met
his fate. Those who did not fall by the hands of
She enemy put themselves to death, to escape the
torments which awaited them in the dpngeons of
the Turks.
Benetw, JULY 21.—The official Gazelle contains
the following article, under the head of Odessa,
July 3.—" In the morning of the day before yester-
day the Greeks who took refuge here from Constan-
tinople, and who were so kindly received, committed
the greatest excesses. Those men, who at COnstan-
tinople, allowed themselves to be sacrificed like
lambs, had here displayed their bravery by ill treat-
ing in the most cruel and most unworthy manner
some peaceful Jews in the streets, iu their houses,
and even in the synagogue. The bankers had their
desks forced, their money curried of 1; and their houses
pillaged, and those who otiered any resistance were
most cruelly ill-treated. All the windows of the
EYnnog,uo have been broken, the books torn to
pieces, and the poor box robbed. Four Jews have
died of the ill.treatment they underwent, and a still
greater number have been mortally injured. Ihe
women and children have not been spared: the eyes
et one child have been forced out, and an aged Jew
had his beard forcibly torn lls the roots. After much
exertion the police has at length succeeded in restor-
ing orders, and several Greeks have been arrested.
" The Turkish government continues to purchase
all the cargoes of grain that arrive at Constantinople,
ter which it pays an exceeding good price."
.Coal/V, JUNE .16.—During the night of the 12th
et May the Turks took by assault the fortress of
which Ali Padre, of Janina, was in possession, facing
the isle, and put the whole garrison to the sword.
By an order, dated the 2tl of June, Ali Bey, who
commands the Turkish squadron in the passages of