The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-13 00:00:00

GREEK

By the regular mail from Turkey, letters fiorn
Constantinople to the 10th of May'have been re-
ceived.—ln the early part of the month that
capital was exposed to considerable disorder and
irritation. The Vizier, BENDER ALI, who, it ap-
pears, was disposed to adopt a conciliatory line
of conduct towards the Greeks—and who, con-
trary to the former accounts, was not at all im-
plicated in the execution of the venerable Patri-
arch, that event having been determined upon
previously to his arrival, had scarcely exercised
the duties of his office a week when he was de-
poed and ordered into exile. He had, imme-
diately on his assuming his, functions, issued a
very conciliatory proclamation, calling upon the
Greeks to return to their allegiance and to their
ordinary occupations, promising them favour and
protection : happy had it been if this temperate
policy had been persevered in, as it would have
been the means of preventing the disastrous con-
sequences which followed immediately upon his
dismissal frOm office. This event was the signal
for the , renewal, with increased fury, of
all the atrocities which had been before
perpetrated by the undisciplined Turks, and
which his firmness had restrained ; several
murders were committedrand the greatest alarm
and distrust naturally, prevailed. A great num-
ber of the Turks, feeling very properly indignant
at such proceedings, held a meeting, at which
resolutions were passed expressive of the detes-
tation which 'they had excited amongst them, and
a deputation was sent to the GRAND SruNon, de-
manding the restoration of the Vizier 'to power,
and the punishment of his accusers. The Porte
had subsequently adopted measures for repress-
ing the excesses of
_the Turks, and, at the date
of the latest letters, comparative tranquillity had
been restored.—The conduct of Lord STRAN.3
FORD, the British Minister, has been above all
praise ; as his firmness and intrepidity have been
alone the means of preserving his countrymen,
residing at Constantinople, from sharing the un-
fortunate consequences of the besotted fury of
the Mussulmans. His Lordship ordered some
ships of war up from the Mediterranean, and, in
a spirited remonstrance which he made to the
Porte, declared most unequivocally, that unless
complete protection were afforded to the persons
and property of the English, he should order a
numerous squadron to the Dardanelles, which
would repay with dreadful retribution any insults
or outrages that might be committed against them.
The result of the persecutions which the Greeks
have suffered at Constantinople, in conseqbence
of the rebellion of their countrymen in the West-
ern provinces, is likely to be the almost total
extirpation of these people from the capital. In-
deed, at present there hardly remains a single
Greek establishment of any consequence there ;
most of those who had escaped the fury of the
Turks having fled to Odessa and other neutral
places. This may be expected to operate fa-
vourably to the British Commerce with Turkey,
as the trade having been principally carried on
by the Greeks heretofore, must naturally fall in
a great measure into the hands of the English
merchants established there. This opinion seems
to be confirmed by the fact that trade had al-
ready partly revived with the restoration of tran-
quillity—some considerable sales of importsshav-
ing been effected. The warehouses had bee❑
re-opened, and the Janizarics had received par-
ticular orders from the Government to arrest any
persons who might be found committing violences
on the shopkeepers.

Extract of a letter from Constantinople, dated
10th May, 1821:---" I have been on board 15
days in a tier of ships, and the first object which
I saw when I came on board was, the headless
corpse of a Greek floating in the stagnant water
behind us (the Turks hang, behead, and cast into
the stream.) A day or two after, they hung four
at two places near us : a day or two after this,
the Jews bore along a headless corpse of a Jew
just executed : three days ago an Englishman
was shot whilst quietly walking in a street near
us: two days ago they bore past a poor Greek,
shot in the side, in the agonies of death'; and
last night they hung another pow fellow close
to us, for having some gunpowder in his shop.
The executions in the city have been on an ave-
rage 20 per day, all Greeks. The Turks, have

been all confusion, and, are almost on the point of
suspecting one another. Austrians, French,
Italians, and English have been shot, out of mere
cruel caprice. and barbarous, wantonness. The

Turkish soldiers, as they pass down tbe Bospho-
rus, fire their pistols among the shipping as good
sport. They do in reality think us nothing but
dogs. A general massacre of all the Greeks
was proposed in Divin ; the Vizier opposed it,
and recommended the execution of the Patriarch

and high Clergy ; they took his advice, but dis-
missed him."