Star.
London, England, 1824-10-15 00:00:00

30,000 Turks in readiness, and unless the Samiotsoppose
a more formidable resistance to them than they did at,
Ipsara, the Capitan Pacha will be speedily master of the
Archipelago. Had he proceeded from Ipsara forthwith
to Samos. that event had ere now taken place; but the
Turks never dream of following up a success—after one
battle the soldiers always return home, either beaten or
with booty: They havono pay—they equip themselves
for the field—they levy contributions on the towns as
they go along, and having no Commissariat, are liable
to famine if they have not the good fortune to find pro-
visions daily. Hence the co-operation of the Pacha of
Egypt is so necessary to the Turks. His stores are of
fat more advantage than his troops. Nothing is likely,
to be attempted this year against the Morea. The
Turks would not dare to keep at sea in winter; and if
they did, the Greek fleet, however inferior, would prove
sufficiently formidable. The new Peloponnesian war
will probably be no less protracted than efe old.
A short residence in Asia Minor coniinced me how
egregiously we are mistaken in England in our esti-
vate of the Turkish character and of the condition of
the Greeks before the revolution. Candia was the only
place where the oppression, we read such exaggerated
accounts id, did really exist. In Smyrna and Constan-
tinople the Greeks attained to riches and to honours;
the imposts that were levied did not, in point of fact,
equal the taxation of Christian countries; and religious
toleration was freely enjoyed. If Greece bad reason
to revolt, let Ireland blush for her petty insurrections
Even now no Greek is molested with impunity ; they
continue their avocations in the Turkish towns as usual,
and rob their fellow Christians with the same good
will as ever. Ask an English merchant at Smyrna
his opinion of a Greek, and be answers you with an
univercal anathema against the nation: he has been de-
ceived by them so often, that he at length confounds the
Li‘liae and the individual, and his prejudices render it
impossible to get from him one syllable of correct infor-
mation on the subject of the war. I have been more
than once very gravely assured that the Morea was in
the possession of the Turks. Now there is no other rea-
son for this partiality, than that the Turks are punctual
in their transactions with them, and the Greeks are not.
This, however, would be no very efficient cause why
they should not strike for freedom. The Turk may be
a very honest and a very moral man (and, in the true
sense of both terms, I believe him to be so), without
ceasing to be ojious as a master—albeit not unneces-
sarily cruel ; for certes, I would rather sojourn in his
dominions than in the half-civilised Russian, or the
denii-barbarized German ' • for there is no police in
the first place, and no danger of incarceration in
the second, for the expression of political opinion,
even in the presence of an Aga. An Englishman
Las more to dread, in the way of insult, from a
pt omenade in Lyons, than from a tour over the
whole of Turkey. He may hear the epithet giaour oc-
casionally bestowed on him; but there is something
much more offensive to my ears in the mutilated " Got
dam" of a Frenchman, than in the Turk's haughty term,
" unbelieving.dog."
At Constantinople a conspiracy has been just disco-
vered against the Sultan ; he was to have been put to
death, and a change effected in the Divan. The heads
of the gentlemen who so conspired are now ornament-
ing the wails of the Seraglio, and tranquil:ity is re-
stored. The Sultan yet lives to tremble in security—
amnia rata amens.

Til E EVENING STAR.

LONDON:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1824.
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