The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-28 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1819.

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM Tim MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

[The Times.]
EVACUATION- OF. PARGA.

Letters have. been received from the lonian
Islands, dated in the beginning of June, detailing
the events which took place on the cession of
Parga to the Turks. We collect from them the
following particulars -
" By Sir TAOMAS MAITLAND'S orders, the
Officer commanding the British Garrison at Parga
made known to the inhabitants, that in con-
formity to arrangements with ALI PACHA, a
Turkish force was to enter their territory without
delay, but that the English troops would remain
for their protection along with the Turks, until
they were able to arrange all their affairs, and
complete the emigration. On receiving this inti-
mat ion,which was confirmed by the approach of an
Ottoman force, the Parguinotes, having held a
consultation, sent to inform the Commandant that
as such was the determination of the British Go-
vernment, !bey had unanimously resolved, that
should one single Turk enter their territory be-
fore. all of them should have had a fair opportu-
nityof leaving it, they would put to death all
their wives and children, and afterwards defend
themselves against any force, Turkish or Chris-
tian, that should violate the pledge -made to
them, and that they would fight until only
one should survive to tell the story. The Eng-
lish Commandant, perceiving by their prepara-
tions that this resolutioO was irrevocable, instant-
ly dispatched information to Sir THOMAS MAIT-
LAND, at Corfu, who sent General Sir FREDERICK
Anam to expostulate with them. That Officer,
on his arrival at Parga, observed a large fire in
the public square, where the inhabitants had heap-
ed together the bones of their ancestors, collected
front the churches and cemeteries. All the asale
population stood armed at the doors of their re-
spective dwellings ; the women and children were
within, awaiting their fate : a gloomy and
awful silence prevailed. A few of the pri-
mates, with- the Protopapa. at their Weail, -re-
ceived General ADAM on his landiug, and assur-
ed him, that the meditated sacrifice would be
immediately executed, unless he could stop the
entrance of the Turks, who had already ar-
rived near the frontier, and effectually protect their
embarkation and departure. Fortunately, Sir
FREDERICK ADAM found means to prevail on the
Ottoman Commandant to halt with his force. The,
Glasgow frigate,' Captein MAITLAND, which had
been sent from Corfu, having arrived, the em-
narkation cointwuce;l, and all the Parguinotes
proceeded, under tier protection, to Corfu. The
Turks, on their entrance, found Parga a desert ;.
and the only signal that masked their reception
was she smoke of the funeral pyre, in which its
late inhabitants had consumed the bones of their
forefathers.—The unfortunate etnigrants are now
principally at Corfu, waiting, as houseless wander-
ers, the distribution of the miserable pittance of
481. per head, obtained for them by their pro-
tectors, which is to be called a compensation for
the loss of their property, their native soil, and
social existence."

Our Private Correspondent of this day informs
us, that Count Cabo d'lstria labours tinder a dis•
ease which may by possibility prevent his crossing
the Channel for London, or removing to any dis-
tance from the French Capital, for some time to
come. His Excellency is said in some of the
Journals to have lent his active assistance, and
to have contributed powerfully towards the esta-
blishment of a, University in the lonian Islcs,
which we are told, on the sante authority, Lord
Guildford has been employed to found by the Bri-
tish Government, for the instruction and gra:ia-
cation of the interesting inbab;tants of those
Islands. Count Cape d'lstria is generally under-
stood to be a native of the Island of Corfu.