The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-24 00:00:00

THE GREEKS.

ZANTE, SIEPT. 16.—1 n the battle which took
place at Agraplia between the Turks and the
Greeks, and in which Bozzaris lost his life, this
warrior chose 250 of his best troops, and towards
midnight, when the Turks were buried in the
most profuend sleep, he penetrated into the
middle of their camp, having killed the sentinels
of the advanced posts. When he reached the
tents of Kioja Bey, and and of Ishmael Bascha
Pilaus, two Chiefs, he made them both prison-
ens. Then giving the signal agreed on to the
Greeks, they fell on the Turks on all sides.—
carnage lasted more than two hours, and
was terrible. In the darkness, several corps of
Turks and Albanians engaged one another with-
out being sensible 'of their error. The defeat
was complete, and the loss of the Turks estitstat-
ed at more than sipau men. The Greeks remelt-
ed masters of the enemy's camp, in which they
found all the artillery, the military chest, end
considerable quantities of provisions and am-
munition, of arms, and' wealth, the fruit of pil-
lage antLof Asiatic luxury, 'besides several thou-
sand horses, and 7,000 head of cattle.
Ins or Conts,Auci. 111.—(From a private. later.)!--The
25th May we landed with •sr division in the bay of Kisarnos.
This division was commanded by Emmanuel Tarnbazia, on:
of the principals of Hydra, appointed by the Greek Governmeut
Governor-General of the Isle, under the the tide of Harmost of
Crete. The great extent of Candle., and some private consi-
derations, bad induced the Government to supersede the limit-
ed power of the ft.parks, established in the other islands of
the Archipelago by that of the Harmoites, whole powers ar:
more extensive. The day after our arrival, the Governor land-
ed the troops, ten piecei of cannon, and other arms, and order-
ed this division to sail for the ports where the blockade should
be straitened: Be then proposed to the Turks of Kisamos to
capitulate, to avoid useless waste of blood. The Turks first
accepted the proposition, but on the news spread by some rich
Turkish proprietors, of the arrival of the Turkish fleet, they
broke tke capitulation. Warmly attacked by two batteries
erected immediately after their refusal, they thought themselves
very happy to he allowed to capitulate; and two days after,
were embarked, to the number of 3,000, the sad relict of a pa-
pulation of 7,00, for Canes.

Four Beys only were retained, conformably to the capitula-
tion, to serve as guarantees for tlit: stipulation, under which the
Alussulmans of the last named place were to give up to the
Greeks all the Christian inhabitants who had survived the mas-
sacres which the former had exercised against them. Tar from
satisfying this condition, the commander of Canea got posses•
lion of two of our transports, and said, that as for the four Beys
who had surrendered a place they should have defended, the
Governor might, if he chose, roast them, or eat them raw.

After the surrender of Kitarnos, the Governor marched on
the canton of Selipon. Already repulsed from all the positions
in this canton, the Turk. had shut themselves up in &Upon,
the chief town. Besides its fortifications, this city is surround•
ed by very thick ibrests of olives and planes, which mane it
of very difficult access. The Governor proposed theism, ca•
pitulation he had granted to Kisamos. On their refitted he
erected two batteries, on an eminence which overhangs OlitAlUt,
and attacked the town. Seeing resistance impossible, the Turks
fled towards Canes in the night. Many were overtaken and
perished.

The Governor Tornbesi , then reduced in fourteen days two
fortresses, very important from their position. lie then turned
his attention to the maritime operations, which he directed
against a division of the Turkish fleet, which app eared early is
June on the shores of Candia, and against the Egyptian aqua.
dron, which succeeded the first. The following remarkable
occurrences took place in relation to these operations :
The division of the Turkish fleet surprised in the port of Ca-
nes a Hydriot brig, commanded by the intrepid ISlax?ornure„—
A few days before, this Captain had battered and sunk a fine
galliot, which the Pacha of Canes had sent with "lOU of the
most determined Janizaries, and provisionsand ammunition to
the relief of liisemos. This time surprised at the bottom of a
gulph, this Captain was summoned by the Commander of the
Ottoman division. On his refusal, a corvette and a brig were
sent against him, and placed him between two fires. After an
action of more than an hour, Captain Altacrornure shot away
two of the brig's masts, and thus cleared himself on one side;
he then forced his way through the enemy's division, and med.
himself. Pursued and surprised next morning in a bay, where
he had anchored at night, he landed a part of his artillery, ,at.
tacked the enemy by sea and land, and drove him off.
Another Greek brig, surprised also in Suda, saved itself by
the same expedient. The extreme contempt of the Greek sail.
ors for the 'f arks has been every where justified by events.—
With equal forces the former have always crushed their ene-
mies, while the latter, with a marked superiority, have never
been able to take, or even to injure, the smallest tamed vessel
of the Archipelago. The Seraskier of Candia, Nassau Pach*,
as active and able Albanian, died of the plague. The Peetutof
Ketymen, who has succeeded to the chief corrimand, is very ih-
(trim. to him. The Turkish troops, who were 2b,000 at tip
beginning of the war, are now, in spite of the reinfbrcements
received, reduced to 10,000. Our's, who at the beginnmg of
the revolution were only 7,000, are tripled. ,Acetordinwto the
last reports presented to the Governor from ditterent parrs of
the Isle, the Greeks in arms in ditferent parts of Canditsare
more than 30,000. A great number of Greeks flanti Attie Minor,
and other places, where the excesses of the Turks have been
most felt, come to settle in this tine island, the population of
which they daily augment. The crop of this year is most**.
pitious ; that of olives, the principal article of produce, is so
abundant that the inhabitants cannot gather it all in. The
beauties of this magnificent isle, justly called the Earthly Pant.
dire, are beyond the descriptions you read in travels. This is
one of the reasons why the Turks, who were settled, in Candia,
endeavour to bold it with so marked an obstirmay.—("Conati-
tationnsi.

Tux Barrism Musrum.—The new building
for the reception of the Library presented by hit
Majesty is proceeding with great rapidity ; the
foundations, which are of immense thickness,
are now laid. The edifice will be 300 feet in
length and 70 feet high. There will be only one
story above the basement, and the rooms are to
be 30 feet height. When completed, it part of
the old Museum will be taken down, and as the
new repositories are finished the whole of the old
building will be removed. The one new in pro-
gress is intended to form a wing of the4rew
Museum, and it is rumoured that one or more of
the porticoes will be supported by antique
columns, which are expected to arrive in a short
time in this country. The alterations it is cal.
culated will occupy fifteeu years, when the front
of the new structure will be thrown open to Me
street, with it spacious Court. yard guArda by
an iron palisading.