The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-02 00:00:00

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THE CASTLE OF MOREA.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The following is an extract of a letter :
" His Majesty's ship Blonde, before the Castle
of Morea, Oct. 30.
" The English union-jack is now flying alongside
the lily of France, upon the lately supposed impreg
liable walls of the Chateau de Morea ; and I have
now to inform you, that we had no sooner recognized
the flag of truce, than the Aga or Governor of the
fortress came out, attended by two of his chiefs, to
demand an audience of General Maison, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the French military forces in the
More; who was present in the trenches. The Go-
vernor commenced his harangue by saying, that as
the Christian Powers were pleased to offer him terms
of capitulation at various periods during the siege,
he was now willing to accept of them, and so put an
end to future bloodshed. To this the conquering
General thus replied in an angry tone, " You have
treated my proffered terms with contempt, and
therefore I will hear nothing but an unconditional sur-
render." The Aga turned as pale as death. " Ge-
neral," said he, " you will, I hope, allow my people
to march out with the honours of war; you will not,
I trust, strip them of their arms." At tl►is the Ge-

neral said that he would not only strip them of their
arms, but even to their very shirts; that as they
forced him to extremities, they must now abide the
consequences. On saying this he ordered the gre-
nadiers to .the charge, when these brave fellows,
with their black nodding plumes, rushed to the
gates of the fortress. Resistance was vain,
tke Turks gave way, and instantly laid down.
their arms. They were then mustered, when
it appeared that there were only 050 fighting
men iq the garrison. We cannot ascertain
the amount of their loss ; but I fancy it must
have been immense, for report says that there were
upwards of eighteen hundred in the Chateau at the

commencement of the siege. There were no sailors
either English or French, admitted into the breach,
ing batteries, except the Blonds';, and a division
from Admiral de. Rigny's flag-ship. Ours was the
central battery, and the most adjacent to the Turkish
.walls; Lieutenant Luckraft held the chief command,
and next to him came Lieutenant Dacre4. They
behaved with so much bravery, and so wily main-
tained the unshaken character of British seamen, as
to merit the puhlic npprob,ation of the French Com-
rnawler,in- Chief. The French, I understand, ate to
hold temporary possession of the fortresses, until the
Creeks are re-established in their ancient posses-
sions; but this will take some time, for there are no
houses in which they can take shelter, because the

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army of Ibrahim Pacha ravaged the whole country.
However, the Greeks are now beginning to mine
down from the mountains, and ropy of them are

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now at work, throwingp tvmporary huts, or places
of residence,. in the neighbourhood of Patras. Not

one of the Greeks came down to the trenches to
assist our people in carrying on the arduous work
of the siege. An officer of the Freoch artillery went
out snipe-shooting a few days back, and, hoirihle to
relate, 'be was basely butchered by the people- that
Ire came to assist. The Greeks murdered him, for

the sake of his arms and clothing, and left his naked
body on the hills, where it was discovered the day
before yesterday by some of our officers, who went
out also snipe-shooting.
The exertions of Captain Lyons have qehlo4k
been equalled, certainly not excelied, by any British
officer :• he was constantly in the trenches, and ex-
posed to a tremendous fire of great guns and muske-
try. Lieutenants huckraft and Dacres were twelve
days and nights constantly in the trenches, the three
last of which they worked their battering gtip with
such effect as to expend upwards of 1,000 18-pound
shot, and 0,P:0 lb. weight of powder; never were
four guns worked with greater dexterity than those
of the Blonde's, which were placed on. George the
Fourth's battery. (All the batteries had dio;:rent
names, and properly nurphgecli eo a 5 to W1(11(4".)
Too Much rannot be said 141 favour of the exertions
Of Captain Lyons, and the officers and crew of the
Blonde. The .zEtna fired well yesterday ; she threw
in 128 shells, thirteens and tens, and kept up a well-
directed fire front a long gun : she expended up-
viards of (300 lb, of powder ; her shells contributed
much to the destruction of thp Chateau de Mores.
Adtniral de Itigny ought to, have commanded the
naval part of the expedition, but this he waved in
favour of Captain Lyons. I atu sorry to say that his
shipcommuoe,
Wat wrecked on the t:o0t of Sailts Maria, bout eight
o'clock in the evening of the 11th instant ; she ran
upon a rock, which went riglit through her bottom,
and caused her to fill; she could net, however, sink,
because of hanging upon the rock, but by cutting
away her mots, and these fortunately fulling on
shore, the sloop was kept nearly upright, and thus
the greaiei.part of the public stores, particularly in
the Viettlit!ling Departn'tent, were The
e,4.ce.si.:•ply dark at the were
'StrOiv'o ck. n
jives were lost. The ship filled so stiddeub, thai
many- of the young' geiitleinen km their chests and
baggage, Thu otfiPvfs 4tlo vrew are now_on hoard
the Anna,"

ARBROATII.—Last week a young girl in
Helen-street met her death in a most affecting manner.
In standing up to trim a lamp, on the tnantle•pieee above
the f.iee, her !clothes ...aught fire ; and none being in the
house to assist her,•She was burr t.or sOcii 'a shOefiinernan-
ner that she died on Thiastlay.j—Fi • • "

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4i) )(4pernelit to the ‘f Greengyp!. the
Porde Wok. place nu Tuesday night from 4ppleby. Tl 4
bridegroom, a son of Eticulapius, induced
,his fair charmer.
to accompany him to the far-famed spot in a post-chaise,
which he had prepared ready a little way out of the town,
about half-past nine p.m. Off they set, and arrived at
Gretna about half-past one next morning, when Vulcan
was called from his downy pillow and the happy Pair were
united in the silken bands of wedlock. On the disappear-
the yoqtx lady from her home, a fruitless search
svas tirade in the neigldmiiihoud,; 4r irac, :bey con.jeot4e4
that she was " awa to the North, and was pursued ;. but
on the pursuers arriving at the last toll-bar they were in-
formed that a chaise had gone through two hours before;
further pursuit was,therefore deemed useless, and they re-
turned, home rather disappointed at not overtaking the
fugitive.,,-IVEstmoreland Adrcrtisen