The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-30 00:00:00

THE GREEK tOMMITTEC.

CORFU, APRIL 9-s.—ln Epirus, DO Tcirkiish
. force whatever is assembled. All, the troops
with the Pasha hardly amount to 1,500. The
Vizier, Bosdit Achrnet Pasha, has been required
to march from Prevesa in order to take the corn-
. mend of Triccala, in. Thessaly. But he is much
distressed for want of money, and he and Omer
Pasha have repeatedly sent messengers to
Constantinople for pecuniary supplies, but they
could obtain nothing. Oil the contrary, we
are assured that the last bills of Exchange drawn
by Christian merchants for the subsistence of
the Turkish troops have been protested. The
Albanian guards of Bosdit Achmet have threaten-
ed to prevent his departure unless their arrears
are paid. In his despair he dispatched a Jew
with his jewels to Corfu to negociate a loan, but
without any success for the present, or any hope
for the future. Jn Albania) the civil war be-
tween Omer Pasha's adherents.and his rivals still
continues, and its ravages extend even to Beratt,
the capital. The I3ey of Ferali has lately march-
ed against Omer's nephew, and the troops of the
former have been reinforced by 500 men belong-
ing to Ismael Bey of Valona, who has for many
months been in open revolt against Omer. The
Turks hope that the Vizier of Scutari will take
the field against the Greeks ; but this is very
doubtful from the losses which lie sustain-
ed in the former •campaign. Besides, he is
conscious of having lost the Sultan's favour,
and would not risk the abandonment of his
few adherents, nor the absence of his troops,
lest the Montenegrians should seize that oppor-
tunity for attacking him. In Larissa, which are
the head-quarters of the Turkish forces, and
where is the Seraskier Mahomet Pasha, the suc-
cessor of the unfortunate Courschid, no army is
yet assembled.

From the arrangements which the Greek Ka.
pitani are taking in the 'neighbourhood of Mount
Pilules towards Thessaly, it seems that a general
revolt is on the point of bursting forth through.
out the whole chains pf mountains which bur.
round that province—it appears to be the intention
of the Greeks to occupy the straits of Alassomt
and Tempe, which face Macedonia from Thessaly,
and those of Mezzovo, which separate Thessaly
from Epirus, before the Turks are collected at
Larissa. Should the Greeks succeed in this ob.
jell, the few Ottoman troops scattered at Larissa
and Triccala would be cut oil', and there will be
little probability that they can re-organize them-
selves during the remainder,of the campaign to
march against' the Greeks. 'Thus the Greeks
will have ample time to combine their plans and
operations against their enemies in Epirus and
Macedonia. The Creeks are now occupied with
their elections, and in giving more strength and
consistency to their own Government.

The Greek fleet.) after having caused many
diversions and much ThiSchief to the enemy by
vigorous coup-de:owains On the Coasts Of Africa,
Asia, and Macedonia, and after having liberated
the Island of Thasos, sailed to the Hellespont to
encounter the Ottoman fleet when it sails.
Besides the Provinces of Kissamo and Selino,
which the Candiots have taken from the Turks,
and which alone remained in their possession, it
is reported to-day that the Greeks have occupied
the strong fortress of Cannea. But this requires
confirmation. • The occupation of SelinO was the
consequence of a victory obtained by the Greeks
over the remnant of the Turkish forces in that
kingdom. The inhabitants have requested to
have as Governor-General of the whole Island
Emmanuel Tombazi, of Hydra, who has, in
obedience to the public voice, and with the ap-
probation of the National Government,
gone to take the appointment. already
'she Citadel of Corinth is reduced to extremity.
One of the first operations of the Greeks will
be a vigorous attack on Patras of
, after the fall
which the entire Pelopennesus will becompletely
secured against any future attack from Turkey.
The enterprize is likely to succeed, because they
are seriously bent ou the execution of it, and the
idea is gravely entertained by all the inhabitants
of the Peninsula, as well as the other Greeks,
who are at length desirous to secure: their inde-
pendence. •

Extract of a Letter from "Won, dated 18M inst.
" The insults and outrages on the peaceable
inhabitants of this place, those who have never
mixed in politics, but attended to their business
and domestic pursuits, are so great that they are
now beyond all endurance, and if they con-
tinue, God only knows what will be the con-
sequence, for there is a rage and, enmity brew-
ing that will, ere lone., destroy every thing the
French have left behind them in their line of
march ; for the further they advance the less able
are they to protect us. They will have to answer
for their own acts in emptying prisons, and then
placing their late inmates in garrison among
us. The besieged in Santona lately made a
brilliant sortie. They took the people of the
Faith by surprise, and gave. them such a. beating,
that their killed and wounded excoed 300. The
remainder dispersed, and went to live on their
estates ; that is, the high roads, where we ex-
peat they will become public robbers. Even
some of them have taken refuge in a most mise-
rable state, and yet they have not overcome their
panic. Santona is converted into a kind of Gib-
raltar, with 2,000 good troops in garrison, be-
sides many sailors and artillery, and is very
abundant in provisions. The Faith Party aban-
doned, or rather fled away from Santander,
—and we hope they will soon receive their
deserts. In Asturias there is a great number
of troops forming, and among them the three
thousand troops who Left Billioa on the approach
of the French, and now under the command of
Palarea, and the volunteers of our place are also
collecting there. The meetings at Guernica,
which you are aware are in the old style, and
conformably to the old privileges of this Province,
continue ; but nothing is decided in them."