Star.
London, England, 1822-10-02 00:00:00

THE GREEKS.

It will be seen by our extracts from the French
Papers. that the cause of the Greeks is by no means
so hopeless as their enemies have represented. The
private accounts from the seat of war and from the
lonian Islands are still more satisfactory. Accounts
from Corfu to the 20th of August state, that the
Turks under the command of CHOURSCHID PACII4I,
after a severe defeat from the Greeks under COLO.
COTROIy, had retired on Corinth, with the loss of all
their warlike stores, and 1500 horses; that Corinth
was without provisions, and that there was little
chance of immediate supplies ; that Napoli di Ro-
mani capitulated to the Greeks on the 11th August,
where afterwards the Greek Islanders brought their
families, and that the Greek fleet after landing them
had proceeded to Patras ; that 3000 Turks had been
detached from Previsa to Macrinozos, and had been
repelled by TOUNOHAN, and that three thousand
more of the barbarians had proceeded from Patras to
Candila, opposite to Santa Maura, and were defeated
by BARNACIIIOI7I and Isco, with the loss of two-
thirds of their numbers. These accounts from Corfu
farther assert, that three thousand Turks who had
landed at Lutraki, near Arta, and at Fidari, near
IVlissiolongi, had also been defeated ; and that at Ka-
, tuna the Greeks had burned all their houses, and de-
vistaed the country to deprive the Turks of provi-
sions and necessary supplies. They farther state that
for many days it had been known at Corfu, that thei
Turkish fleet was at Patras, but that they had no
troops on board sufficiently strong for making incur-
sions into the country ; that within a few days of the
date of this letter, advices had been received of the
arrival of a part of the Grecian fleet, and of the daily
expected arrival of the remainder off Patras, but that
no action had taken place.
The latest intelligence from Constantinople gives
no dates, but appears to refer to the operations in
July only.

One letter, dated. Constantinople, the 26th August,
states, that the Porte was much afflicted by the cruel
murder of the 78 hostages at Scio, and that all the
barbarities committed in that garden of the world
were the acts of the late Captain Pach, in contradic-
tion to the instructions of clemency-which the beak*
Mahomedan Government had transmitted to him.
Does this letter-writer suppose that the People of Eng-
land have forgotten the fact, "Mat at Oa sine time**
&lot hostages, !soae of then under seoentreight years
of age—the fat*: and grandfathers of a younger
sestet' y, and that forty hoitages from' the Moral were
smells butchered at Constantinople itself?"
The following letters from the lonian Islands,
which contain some additional informatibn on the`,
subject, have been received via Paris ; .
" CORFU, AUGUST 97.
At the beginning of last month Chonrsthid Pacha
succeeded lit collecting is Thasaly a considerable

salty of 90,000 men. Lie divided it Into two corps,
of which one consisting 0(10,000 then, commanded
by Diarhangi, entered the Pelopennestts by Neopai
tras, and was completely destroyed. Chourschid
Pacha, at the head off' the other corps of. 20,000,
marched towards Thermbnlie, in' thi hope of passing
without meeting any resistance ; butrthebtamOdys.
seas collected the other Greek Chiefs, pointed out to
them the great danger to which Greece was exposed,
and they all reiolied to stop up the passage, and to
conquer or perish with.their arms in their hands.
" The Greeks, commanded by Odysseus, Nicetat,
Contojean, and Gouvas, amounted to 10000 men.--
Chourschid Pacha arrived at Fontana, where the
Greeks attacked him on the 20th and 21st'of last
month. The comllat was bloody; but, after a spi,
rited resistance, the enemy was forced to take US
Night and to return to Larissa with only silt thousand
men. This memorable battle, tharefore,..cast the
Turks twelve thousand men.

" The day before yesterday a friend of mite named
Cazartos, arrived here from Janina. He left tari,sa
the day after the arrival of Chourschid, and he has
assured me of the deplorable state of the Pacha.
to We are informed also, that on the 20th of this
month the brave Souliots fell on the camp of Omar
V.rioni by night. They killed a great number of
Turks, took two pieces of cannon, and made them-
selves masters of the village called Myllous."

" ZANTE, AUGUST 25.
64 We are positively informed that the plan of the
Turks has failed. A letter from Calamata,. date!
the 20th of this month, brings us the following intel.
ligence. The 10,000 Turks, who, towards the. end
of last month, entered the Peloponnesus by the isth-
mus of Corinth, and who afterwards,when itincorced
by 2,000 men from the fortress of Patras, under the
command ofJussuf Pasha, captured Corinth, deserted
and abandoned by the Greeks, marched towards A rgos,
with the intention of uniting themselves to the gar-
rison of Napoli di Romani, and of attacking the
Greeks in the Argolide ; but, on the 6th and Bth of
August, the Greeks attacked them by surprise between
Argus and the village of St. George, killed 3,000
men, took 2,000 horses, and 150 camels, the baggage
and ammunition. The remainder of the Turkish
army regained. Corinth in disorder, and on the day
after were attacked between Corinth and Dervenes
by Colocotroni and Mauro Michali, and completely
destroyed. Colbcrotoni and Mauro Michali have
shewn the greatest courage and patriotism in the
different encounters."

A letter from Missologgo says: " The Turkish
fleet arrived at Patras, has done nothing but trans-
port 3000 men from that place to Candilas to attack
the Arcarnania, but Captain Barnatrioti, at the head
of 5000 men, fell en them during the night, and de-
stroyed them entirely. At the same epoch, the Pacha
d'Arta sent Panoussaga, at the bead of 2,800 men,
to unite with the 3000 disembarked from the firer,
but fortunately he was attacked so vehemently by
Giogo and Guiba (the son), at Lontrake, near Bonisa,
that he was forced to retire with very considerable
loss to Prevesa. The same Tui kish fleet sent forty
small vessels, with 500 men, up the river Fidaco,
near Missologgo, to take in water. The Greeks al-
lowed them to enter, and fell on them, burnt the
vessels, and killed nearly all the 500 men. At pre-
sent, the President Maurocordato is at Machala
whence he directs the affairs of the Artoloacarnania:',

The German Papers last received contain one of
those demi-official self-adulatory documents which
the Court of St. Pctersburgh sometimes contrives to
get smuggled to the Public through the medium of
a foreign Journal. The article, which is dated St.
Petersburgh, August 28, after announcing his Ms.
Jzsres journey to Vienna, whines at the loss his sub..
'jects will sustain by his absence, which, it is hinted,
may be for several months. We are then told, that
" Offended at a neighbouring Power which seemed to
have laid down as a rule, to depart from those prin-
ciples, which, with all other deviations from ordinary
forms, could alone place it in the rank of European
Power, the great heart of the EMPEROR preferred
counting the drops of blood which the pursuance of his
just claims to satisfaction must have caused to flow.
Elevated above the functions innate in the nature of
man and Sovereigns, the Ruler of the greatest
Erripire on earth, resolved to follow only his own
feelings for the pence and happiness of nations, and
to illustrate his name by the greates: example of mo-
deration that so mighty a Monarch could leave to
posterity. Even the p-rospect of a great increase of
power could not induce his MAJEITY to sacrifice Ms
pure principles to ordinary policy."
This is what Mr. Burchell would call " fudge,"
and is at best but a very clumsy way of accounting
for the defeat of the Russian Cabinet in its negocia-
dons with the Ottoman Porte.
The writer then alludes to the dissatisfaction of the
Poles, and talks of the Emperor of Itosszn "holding
out his august hands to conjure every storm that
threatens danger to the happy citizens ;" and of the
Russian nation :hewing " the way by which its be-
loved Sovereign returns with the flowers of its bound-
less gratitude.
This proceedings of the Congress are, slightly al-
luded to, but it is evident that some interference with
Spain and Portugal is contemplated. If, however,
the Emperor of Russia: " counts the drops of blood"
that are likely to be shed by such an iniquitous at.
cothpt tem to coerce 'a nation into submission to des.
on, he will of course, to sustain his character for
opacity, desist from his purpose.

REPORT of a dreadful FIRE di .NEW YORK.

BEV ENGLAND COFFEE-HOWE, OCTOBER 2.

PRIVATE LETTER.

" LIVERPOOL, SEPT.
U The Hercules, GARDINER, from New York, ar-
tired off Holyhead yesterday. Captain GARDINER
reports, that he saw the Tobacco Plant, from Phila-
delphia, four days before, off Cape Clear, for this
Port. A steamboat is gone to meet her, to take her,
in tow. Exchange at New York 101,4.
"P. S.—l have just heard that letters from New.
York, per Hercules, state, that a most destructive
fire bad broke out at New York, and destroyed nearly
half the City. lam this moment informed so by a
!Gentleman ‘s ho may be depended upon.