The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

INSURRECTION IN CANDIA.

THE CHRISTIANS OF CRETE TO THE GOVERN-
MENTS AND NATIONS OF CHRISTIAN AND
CIVILIZED EUROPE.
MONARCHS) BRETHREN
We have received the missives by which the European Con-
suls at Canea replied to our grievances.
The Consul of England hastened to inform us that the Eng-
lish Government, being in a close protecting alliance with the
Sublime Porte, is entirely foreign to the plans, aims, and pro-
jects of those who are opposed to the power and Government
of the Sultan. . .

The Rusr;ian Vice-Consul tells us, " that if the Christian
population have motives to complain of the abuses they have,
perhaps, hitherto suffered, they must first and foremost
down their arms, and return to the submis,ion they owe to
their legitimate Sovereign, in order that they may reekon on
the hind solicitude of the Sultan for the welfare of all his sub.
jects. The ezigercies of an armed people constitute a crime,
the consequences of which will assuredly be fatal to all those
who participate in them." He terms us rebellious Christians.
The French Consul earnestly engages us to submit to the
will of the Sultan, and " to trust in the humanity of his High-
ness the Capitan Pasha," whose cruelty is known throughout
the east. He, moreover, adds, " ttat we shed our blood with-
out glory, by illegally resisting the authority of the Sultan."
The Austrian Consul in Crete goes still further. He says
that his Court, "sincerely attached to the Sublime Porte,
condemns our attempts to obtain liberties which are irrecon-
cileable with the quality of subjects to the Sultan." And he
adds, " that, in lending the Mussulmans all the support in his
power, he, the Consul of his Imperial and Apostolic Majesty,
will be fulfilling an imperious dut)."
The Consul of Greece, in fine, rejects and condemns, in
the name of his august Sovereign, "our mad undertaking,"
and engages, for the last time, the Cretan Greeks to give up
their present sad position, " and to return to their homes,
by falling at the feet of their magnanimous King to implore
his mercy."
These letters, a faithful summary of which we lay before
you, at first filled us with the most painful sentiments. We
had claimed the support of our Christian brethren, who are
pleased to acknowledge the germs of high civilization which
they owe to our fore-fathers ; and these very brethren act!
Christians—these civilised men-4leclare that they, allied to
the barbarians, recognise as solely lawful in this country the
domination of the savage sons of Othman, which has already
devoured half a million of Cretans, and which will soon have
depopulated our foimerly flourshing soil. These cruel words
from the representatives of the Christian nations have deeply
afflicted us.
But, after having maturely weighed every probability, the
wisest and most learned among us have recognised•that it was
impossible for the Consuls to have faithfully expressed the opi-
nions of the Governments and nations of Christendom ; they
could only see in these letters an act of complaisance towards
Tapir Pacha,—an act that motives of humanity can alone
excuse.

The reasons which prevent their admitting the possibility of
the assertions contained in the Consuls' letters being exact,
are the following:—
It is impossible that the English Government should con-
demn the legality of our resistance. Has the present Govern-
ment of England other bases of legality than the Christian
Government of Crete, which is the sincere expression of the
will of the whole population of the island that has remained
faithful to the laws of our Saviour? The present English Go-
vernment is sprung from the revolution of 1688, which deprived
the Stuarts of the British Throne; and if there be any diffe-
rence of situation, that difference is entirely to our advantage,
for assuredly the barbarous Government of the Ottomans is far
more oppressive than was that of the Stuarts, who were more
unfortunate than guilty.
No, England, faithful to the principles of her political exist-
ence—no, England, that ever solemnly proclaimed the !sublime
idea of civil and religious liberty for the whole world—no,
England, the classic soil of legal liberty, does not condemn the
Cretans fighting for the Christian religion, for Christian liberty
and legality
It is impossible that the Russian Government and nation,
connected with us by the community of orthodox faith, should
consider our resistance against the infidels as a crime. Is not
the Czar the protector of the Christian faith in the east ? Has
he not sworn before the altar to defend it against its enemies,
and especially against Islamism. which has done so much in-
jury to the church and to the faithful ? Did not the Empress
Catherine, if glorious memory, call our fathers to arms against
the common enemy of our religion ? Did not the Czar Nicholas,
the conqueror, take up arms to avenge the faith outraged by the
barbarous Ottomans? And would his empire exist if the
Russians had believed in the legitimacy of the Khan of the
Tartars, to whom Russia belonged by the same right as Crete
may now belong to the Sultan, i. e., by brutal force ?
No ; Russia and her pious Czar will never term rebellious
those who are fighting in the name of Jesus Christ against the
Mussulmans. The orthodox Christian religion is the basis of
the Russian empire ; the Czar will not fail to preserve it from
profanation
It is impossible that the French Government, which sprung
from the Revolution of 1830, can invoke against the Cretans
the legality of the Turkish domination. Charles X. was a
humane and religious Prince, and yet arms were taken up
against him for the defence of liberty menaced by the ordi-
nances of July. Now; the Turkish Government has not only
encroached on every law protecting civil liberty, but has
trampled under foot every divine and human law.
France is proud of her struggles for liberty, which she has
justly termed glorious ; how then can civilised and civilising
France express the sacrilegious thought that the holy struggle
of the Cretan Christians is an inglorious struggle ? No ; he
who speaks thus is not a Frenchman. The Consul has signed
his forfeiture of that respected quality in signing the letter
which he forwarded to us, Insurgents of Crete!
It is impossible that the Government of his Apostolial Ma-
jesty, which, by a secu'ar struggle against the Mussulmans,
has preserved ail Europe from their domination—it is impos-
sible that so paternal and humane a Governmert should recog-
nise the legality. of a tyrannical power, employing by turns
against the Christians the blazing torch and the assassin's knife
which has lately fired two hundred towns or villages in Bulga-
ria and Macedonia, and which, not satisfied with stripping the
Christians of their property, delivers their wives and their
daughters to the brutality of an unbridled soldiery.
No ; the prudent Austrian Government will not place such
dangerous arms at the disposal of the enemies of legality in
Europe. The Austrian Consul, the sole German ..'onsul in
Crete, represents here not the Austrian tribe, but the whole
German nation—that nation which revealed to the world,
through the immortal Herder, the Christian humanitary dogmas
—that nation which now restores to the Greeks the rich loans
contracted from our ancestors—that nation whither young
Greece used to go to light the sacred flame of her political and
moral regeneration.
Did not the Protestants in Germany during the 16th cen-
tury create the Duchy of Prussia, that fundamental basis of the
monarchy of Frederick the Great? Did not Albert of Bran-
denburg abolish the domination of the Teutonic knights in the
name of the Prussian towns and commons? And doubtless no
comparison can be established between the Government of those
Christian knights, subservient to the holy empire, and the brutal
tyranny of the Ottoman ?
No. Germany, that is raising a colossal monument to Her-
mann, her liberator from the Roman yoke, which was a civi-
lising yoke, will riot condem the sons ;of Minos, who, invoking
the holy name of the Saviour, are rising against a brutalising
yoke !
In fine, it is impossible, and besides we know the contrary
to be the case, that Greece should consider our devotedness as
Christians and as civilized. men a mere mad undertaking, and
that she should apply to us words that wounded her to her in-
most heart, when in 11321 the bloody application was addressed
to her I
Is not King Otho the expression of the attained end of Hel.
lenic independence? Humane and generous as he is, he can-
not long deny assistance to men who have a sacred call on the
gratitude of Greece, to whose deliverance they largely contri.
buted. Do not say, 0 Piroglon ! that thou art a Greek ; never
shall we believe it, for we are Greeks.
Convinced by all these motives that the Consuls at Canea
have not acted according to their instructions, that they have,
through weakness, expressed sentiments contrary to those of the
Governments and nations that they represent, we solemnly ap-
peal against their judgment to the supreme tribunal of the pub-
lic opinion of the civil sed world; we appeal from it to all that
Europe contains of generous Christian men, not in mouth, but
in heat t 1 And to this appeal we join the declaration before
God and men, that, martyrs of our faith, we have sworn, at the
foot of the liberating cross, to die sooner' than again suumit to
the yoke of the barbarians.
,‘ If, therefore, you receive intelligence that order is re-
established in rete by the Turks and by their faithful
Christian allies, add thereto a prayer for the Cretans who
will then have ceased to exist, and who will prove before the
Eternal their conduct to be conformable to their holy
laws, and which they will then moreover have legithnised
with their blood, as have done their brethren the martyrs of
Bulgaria and those equally venerable men whom the barba-
Jians lately massacred in Lebanon, while, kneeling before the
altars of the Lord, they were imploring down his blessing; on
the Christians of Europe by whom they were abandoned
May God be merciful to you as well as to us.
The Governmental Directory :
D. CHOKRKTIS, President.
CH. ROUSSOUS BOOR-DOUMBAKIS
CONDAXA KIS Councillors.
BISLA
CHRYSOPHOPOULAS

S. L. Cnolan's, Secretary.
Done at Bise, of Apokorona, on the day of St. Glyeera,
.3-25 May, 1841.

The Sul of Marseilles states that the latest ad-
vices from Trieste make no mention of the cholera having
broken out near that city, and that there is every reason to be-
lieve the rumour totally unfounded.
WEST INDIA MAIL STEAMERS.--We for-
merly alluded to the array of splendid new steamers which were
fitting up in the East Harbour for the purpose of carrying
the West India mails. Last week the Dee was added to
their number, so that there are now five of these magnifi-
cent ships, registering no less than 9,500 tons, under the
hands of a great variety of artificers, all getting ready for
service at one time. For durability, elegance of model, and
the promise of the finest sailing qualities, these vessels arc
pronounced, by the most competent judges, to be unrivalled,
and certainly present a most imposing spectacle. The hurry
to have them fitted out for sea is so great, that almost every
kind of work connected with them is going on at once, and
consequently a vast number of hands may be seen busily en-
_ A.......................... gaged in the work on every lawful day of the week. We need
belie 01, . ~lA.JESTY'S THE scarcely add that the expenditure for this labour alone must
be very large, since the entire cost of these five vessels can-
1141t. "oft 'tifekitige! P,..uri tan.i was per.cormed last evenin fur the
not fall greatly short of, if it do not exceed 400,000/.
(Iwo? eiiin., raglioni. We have never heard his—the.
Greenock Advertiser.
114 ,er, ' s Greenock
with finer effect. This,
I;ol4,`•teatanea can a,arcely think a justification of the unreason- TERRIFIC THUNDER
tow;liier,
It of the audience who, by encores, had almost a forenoon, between eloen. and twelve o'clock, the. metropolis
teiii-m' It- the opera. A new ballet called' Matilde, fol- and for miles round was visited by a. most terrific storm of
ti, -Pt eve terminated-at t late an hour' to permit us to at- thunder and lightning, accompanied in many parts by heavy
kelt; 11„4, to Unravel its •010 yand very complex construe- falls of rain and hail. The morning had been, from. an early
57,1,411,21,,e-e'sistare.ar.toailedof csome s- o f the stfupid an.omime by no hour, remarkably fine, but about ten o'clock heavy c ouds began
;:i,!le;ritet:ll,:i_as
.connect‘ the arts o the pan
,it ma be- to gather from the south, although the lower current of wind
it it s',lii'erter, is rely`edas averybbrilliants eyetaele Some was from the north, and soon after eleven o'clock the sky
splendid,.be-
ersd and groupingsatefeateand tableaux. came quite overcast, the storm bursting forth about thirty
ti,,, ttic (6„'t, 18 inters h extreme. But minutes afterwards. Over Kingston, Richmond, and the
,ttilti,;:aftathe.e...izniegtt.if Tal,;lionei that constitutes the chief Urn-. adjacent parts, it was particularly severe, the hailstones being
That old Tvrole,e air, which she introduced of an enormous size, some exceeding that, of a
.large goo,e-
111141ti,,,aise'd familiar some seasons ago she revived last night, in berry, and the lightning was exceedingly vivid.
.At
.East
IltrtLher thanee, tke surpassing gracefulness, of which imposed Sheen the gardener of Dr. Bfng was struck by the lightning,
4Nt -light r'ec'ssitY of repeating it for the gratification of depriving him of his sight. tis
.hoped his sight may be re.-
kkiety,
I.kanditory A Spanish dance too, full of character stored. He, however, stiil remains very ill. from the shock.
tro a de d:e avted, rather than danced, with charming effect. The storm lasted about an hour, but during the , afternoon
44.17 i nz with Wile. Guy Stephan was a very britliant thunder as heard at intervals, and abont sevenock
vlaast
. till 407hith both artistes won plaudi!s and bouquets in evening the storm again returned, but. with diminished i -
13 e h lence, the heavy rain continuinguntil a late hour.
Pita thelrllngyery crowded, and Mdlle. Taglioni was called VIENNA, JULY 6.—Baron Von Sturmer, the
a grace p the. curtain, and made her acknowledgments Imperial Internuncio at Constantinople, has received from his
peculiar to herself.
thtri'llk C .._.t...a..••••.,............................rm0mmn 11Iajesty the Emperor tie Cross of Commander of the Royal
Hu„ Favian Order of St. Stephen, as a testimony of his Ma-
-4c s„ 44.3 'such retarded
unsettled state of the wea- jetty s satisfaction with his zealous efforts to effect the final ar-
thlelfietscain. . the hay harvest ; the crops oil rangement of the Egyptian Question. .
itm 0 thre this vicinity, after having been cut from Organs are •of great antiquity, but violins are
VCtu 14 voe w°eks, were only secured a few days ago, not. The former was first brought to Europe from the Greek
Ot l'llble -7 indifferent condition. The present unfa- empire in 758, and violins were first invented about 1477, and
14 the erasnect of the season .e.nts the general cutting introduced by Charles 11. The gamut in music was first in-
atb Ne °Ps, although quite readye‘ for the-scythe. Corn vented by Guy L'Aretin, in 1025. Musical glasses are of
I ral look German origin, but revived by Dr. Franklin, 1760.
Thet ha, s well, and promises an early and
tt .
.._. vest.--York Courant. The railroad from Vienna to Raab, which has
iaLaroad 'Directors of the London and Brighton . just been opened to the public, conveys daily from 17,000 to
of 4113 are
makinggreat 'the line,and
300 exertions to complete .1 70,000 f.
20,000 persons. The receipts for the first week amounted to
extra men have been taken on. 1