Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-08-03
TURKEY.

| TURKEY.
The treasure taken by the Greeks from
Ali Pacha is estimateda at above 100 mil
lions of piastres.
At Nissa, the second town in Servia,
the Turkish Pacha was beheaded on 10th
of May, on suspicion of secretly favoring
the cause of the Greeks. The Archbish
Cd Athanasius. with three noble Servians,
were executed by order of the Porte
The former was hanged at the door of the
church, and his body, after having been
ANONYMOUSLY dragged through the
streets, was torn in pieces, and cast to the
dogs.
The successor of the venerable Greek
Patriarch, who was hung by the Turks, is
ascertained to have been strangled by or
der of the Grand Seignoir, instead of dy'
ing of fright and grief, as has been here
tofore reported.
Several districts Of Bulgaria have re-
VOTED, and the Bishop of Ternova has ia
ken the field at the head Of 1000 men.
A late but unauthenticated account was
received at Moldavia on the 9th Of May
from Wallachia, stating that the Turks
had given battle to Theodore, whom they
took prisoner and beheaded, and that
Ypsilanti had fled to Cronstadt.
There is much reason to doubt the cor
rectness of this report; the affairs OF the
insurgents, however, do not at present
appear to be in SO favourable train as
they have been heretofore represented
Should they be able, by a Fabian poll
cy, to prolong the contest, there is little
doubt that they will ultimately succeed.
Great efforts are now making by the
Turks to oppose them; not only by the
sabre and the cord, but the more honora-
BILE method of open war
The population of Turkey in Europe
may be reckoned at about ten millions,
viz 100000, Turks, 100000 Jews,
100000 Greeks of Hellenists, 500 900
Bulgarians, $4,000 Moldavians and
Wallachians, $1,000 Armenians, $4,000
Arnauts, 100000 Albanians, 45O, 900 Ser
vians, 80 900 Raitz ians; $50 900 Bosnians,
Soc, 900 Dalmatians, and SO, 900 Croatians.
Odessa, May 81.
am sure you will congratulate me on
my escape from Constantinople: it is abb
solutely disgraceful that the other powers
of Europe tolerate such barbarous race
as the Turks; people have been shot
whilst quietly walking along the street,
and no question asked. A man only
degree or two above a common constable
is invested with the power of hanging
on suspicion but not a single Turk has
suffered--they were all Greeks, or more
western Europeans. In this place is an
elderly man, a Greek prince, formerly
Governor of Moldavia: the report is, that
the Greek patriarch was surety to the
Grand Seignor for his remaining in Con-
stantinople, and that his (the patriarch's)
execution took place in consequence of
the flight of this man, for whom he stood
pledged. The Lazaretto here is full of
fugitive Greeks.
The taking of Galatz, and the massa
ere of its inhabitants to the almost incred-
IDLE number OF 5000 men, women and
children, by the Ottomans, are events re-
peated in these French papers; as like
wise that Turkish troops had been de-
tached towards Romania and Jassy. Sc
veral bands of Janissaries are said to
make excursions from Constantinople to
the country, not, it may well be supposed,
to preserve tranquility, but to augment,
by their outrages and depredations, the
terror that every where prevails: A vi
emma paragraph speaks of the death of
the new Greek Patriarch; and alleges
that it, also, like that of his predecessor,
was effected by violent means. But If the
destruction of this unfortunate ecclesias-
tic had been previously resolved upon by
the Divan as we are led to conclude from
the wording of the paragraph, the delay
of his murder until after his elevation,
could have had no other apparent motive
than the desire still more signally to insult
and mortify the Greek inhabitants of
Turkey. A body of zoo or 500 Greeks in
their light from Jassy, are said to have
solicited protection within the Russian
frontier at Skoieni; but to haze received
a peremptspry refusal, and to have been
thus driven away towards Pruth. Was
this uEhospitabe measure towards num-
Der of fellow christians pursued by inf
dels necessary obligation upon the Court
of St. Petersburgh? Was it a sacrifice
strictly demanded of the Russian agents
in that quarter, by the harsh bonds Of lie
gitimacy which their government has
signed?-Or was the distrust OF the Grand
Seignor in the honor of Russia such,
that no proof of her neutral intentions
would satisfy him, but one which ought
to make all christian protestants rs well