The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-02 00:00:00

(From No. 2.)

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Turks, as a compliment to Jussuf Pacha, from the lion. Lord
Byron, has returned to Itlissolonghi, bringing merely a receipt
from the Pacha. We wonder that the proud Jussuf did not
condescend to reply to the polite and humane letter which his
Lordship sent with this present; this can be ascribed only to
' the incorrigible barbarism and ignorance of the disciples of
Mahomet ; but the Greeks, who are friends of their country
and of humanity, and foreigners who desire the real welfare of
Greece, will not fail, when an opportunity offers, to follow the
generous example of the noble Lord.
The following is Lord Byron's letter to Jussuf Pacha:—
" To his Highness Jussuf Pacha, Governor of the Provinces of
Aldin and Garechan, and Commander of the Ottoman
Armies in the Forts, &c.
Your Highness,—.A vessel, with some of my friends and
domestics, was taken some days ago' to the forts by a Turkish
frigate, and released by order of your Highness.
" I give you thanks, not far having relealed a vessel which,.
bearing a neutral flag, and long under English protection, you
had no right to detain, but, for having treated my friends with
the greatest courtesy while they were in your power: Hoping,
to do something agreeable to your Highness, I have requested'
the Greek Government here to place at my disposal four Turk...*
ish prisoners, which hits been politely granted me. 1 therefore,
send them free to your Highness, to return your civility as far
as lies in my power. They are sent without any condition
but if the atlau can tteserve a place in your memory, I will
inertly request your Highness to be pleased to treat with hu--
manity any Greeks who may be now, or may hereafter fall`
into the hands of Mussulmen; since the honors of war are suf
ficient of themselves, without adding on either side greater'
rigour in cold blood. I have the honour to be, &c.
Missolonghi 23 (11) January, 1824."
No. 3, of the 3d of April, contains the Address of the Com-
mittee formed at Cambridge to undertake a subscription for the
Greeks; also a letter from Lord Byron, dated from Cepha-
lonia, the 30th of November, last year, to the Greek Govern
men; in which, alluding to the reports of dissensions among
the Greeks, he expresses a hope that they ate false or exagger-
ated. He says he must frankly confess, that unless order and
union are consolidated, all hopes of a loan, and of any succour
which Greece might expect from foreigners, will be suspended
and checked; and what is snore, the great Powersrvf Europe,
none of which was an enemy to Greece, and seemed inclined to
favour the establishment of an independent power in Greece,
will be persuaded that the Greeks are unfit to govern them-
selves, and will take some measures to put an end to your dis-
orders, which will destroy at once all your hopes. " Allow me
to add," he says, " once for all, I desire the welfare of Greece,
and nothing else. I will do my utmost to secure it, but I will
never consent that the public or individuals in England shall be
deceived with respect to the real state of Greece."
In a letter to Prince Mavrocordato, then returned to Idm, in
consequence of these dissensions, he expresses his regret at
them, and says—" Greece has now three ways to choose—to re-
conquer its liberty ; to become a dependent on the soverejgns of
Europe; or to be again a Turkish province. There is no al-
ternative but between these three ; but civil wars seem to lead
only to the last. if you envy the fate of Walachia or the Crimea,
you may have it to-morrow ' • if that of Italy, the day after to-
morrow; but if Greece will become free and independent, she
must decide now, or it will be too late."
No. 5, of April 17, contains a refutation of two articles in
the Journal of Frankfort ; one stating that a poem by Lord
Byron, called The Triumph if Hellas at Mitsolonghi, was
circulated in the lonian Islands; the other, that public re-
joicings bad been made at Missolonglii on the death of Sir T.
Maitland. To the first it says, "We know not of any such
poem, in Greek, is circulated as a translation from Lord Byron;
but we are authorized to affirm that Lord Byron never wrote
any such poem, and that for more than nine months, that is
since he left Genoa for Greece, the noble Lord has not written
any poetical composition whatever. With respect to the second
article, so vile a sentiment never entered the minds of the
Greeks. If they suffered by the conduct of the Lord High
Commissioner at the beginning of their glorious struggle, they
acknowledge the difficult and delicate situation in which he was
placed ; and they confess that the policy of the British Cabinet
having changed in the last year, his conduct became much
more favourable to the Greek cause. Since some persons are
pleased, whether through ignorance or worse reasons, to de•
claim against the government of the late Sir Thomas Maitland,
we are authorized by a person of distinction, who went to the
lonian Islands strongly prejudiced against him, to bear witness
that these accusations were ill-founded; that under his auspices
the lonian Islands were more flourishing than many other
countries celebrated for their prosperity, and that perhaps that
mode of government was one of the most suitable to the inha-
bitants
.of those islands."