The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-11-06

although it imust'be position Of no strength,
in the fallen condition of that once renowned Il
city. vet they may be animated 10y the sight
of SALAMIs, directly over against them, ana
their sailors may be told how Themistocies,
with a most Insignificant force, drew the mem
orable feet of Xerxes into narrow sea,
where his large ships could not be conducted,
and utterly destroyed them-a feet, which, +,
according to the historian, was the greatest
then known in the history of mankind, yet oy |
snch inadequate means overthrown. .Ndns
pari naodO Gptid SdlGainG pGrrO natnerO nara
ura, MARINA post hOnainum naemOr1am eidSsts
est dericta."
Marathon also is now directly within Their
view. only ten miles before them, where MIL
tiades. instead of intrenching himself behind
walls now in the dust, combated on the open
plain with the captain of the Darius, and tctth
only handful Of .4theniGns, the fathers o. me
present Greeks, obtained that immortal Victo-
nv over an hundred thousand men. qua pug
ma ntlla enina tnqttam tam eTtgtid n1d'aes 'd'l-
las OpsS prOstrarit.
Signal successes in war, under distinguished
commanders, are as likely to overthrow the
barharians of the present day as the former
times: and the rather, because examples nave
such powerful influence ON all the exertions
of mankind.
NV observations, my Lord, upon this afflict-
ing subject, are drawing fast to their close. 1t
l has been for some time no secret that Con-
| gress is to be held upon the continent, where
| the subject of the Greeks cannot but come
under consideration, and that we are to be
1t was this which determined me, without
moments delay, to write and to publish this
letter; because it would have been too late
to make any useful appeal to your Lordship
or the pubick, after we had taken our part,
and perhaps concurred in measures which /
could then only uselessly dissent from.
If this Congress of sovereigns and their
ministers is only to have for its object the re-
newed support of principles and projects al
| ready too notorious and if, to avoid any in
| congruity or departure rom the system hith-
erto acted upon, Turkey is to be sanctimoni-
ously upheld as a legitimate sovereignty, and
| the Greeks are to be sacrificed, or in any man
| ner compromised on the ground that they are
| the subjects of the Porte, and bound by their
allegiance, though against their universal will,
| to obedience and peace desire hereby to
express my adherence of comprehendng this
country in such an odious combine ton: and
am confident thai the great mass of the Brit
ish people will join me in my protest. NV
alarm as to the future, my Lord, is justified
by what is past. The conduct of Russia is
quite inexplicable upon any other ground than
that she has been recently at least acting in
! concert with the continental powers. and that
the continental powers, and ourselves. per-
haps, along with them, had taken no steps for
any establishment for the Greeks, nor were
preparing to provide for them any security
whatsoever.
Russia, my Lord, in the early part of the
spring collected an immense army, and as the
season advanced, marched large divisions Of
it in the direction of the Turkish frontier:
yet, although the atrocities multiplied every
hour, and with accumulated horrors, she took
no step to prevent them and although she
knew that the Greeks were in arms for their
independence, and making glorious struggle
against their oppressors, she proceeded no
adequate 10 tTIell t'rutrUtrvri'ui supPvrr. ,ytr
how could the evacuation of Moldavia and
Wallachia put stop to the barbarous out
RACES on the unhappy Greeks, then at their
portentous height? and what demand for their
benefit could be more useless than that of re-
building the churches which had been demol-
ished; since what defenceIess Christian. I'M
less he aspiged to the fame of a MARTYR.
would venture to set foot ia any one of them
Lord, but think | see the performance of
the Holy Alliance in this retrograde proceed
ing that the Emperour resolved to sacrifice
his personal ambition, tempted as he was to
the qualification oft and that when the con-
federates continued to consider Turkey as
legitimate government Which nledtfaied no
reformation, they determined TO remain neu-
trail, and 10 leGpe Tie Greeks 10 Themselves
In off a.
through the press, whilst Parliament is not
sitting, have only stated the prlncipIes on
which think we should act, but have NOT
presumed to thrust myself into the publick
councils by suggesting the ittest course TO be
pursued for giving them the most desirable
effect. | have not the means, even if nv
judgment were equal TO the decision, of as
certainiDg the most favourable or ehicacious
mode of seconding the noble efforts of the
Greeks for liberty and life. An immediate
invasion by combined force, for the expul-
sion of the Turks from Europe might be at
tended with difficulties which cannot cor
rectly estimate, and which, in the immediate
consequences of that sanSuinary conflict.
might be injurious to the great object of blood
less liberation but what firmly maintain
to be quite indispensable, is 10 compel a total
remuneration by The Turks Of all dominion O.
rer The Greeks as subjects, and 10 guarantee
''sodr '-'dspendenee by all The nations mI.ich
should engage IN Their support aclt5 sueh e1s
tem Of territory as might be thought Just, con-
s'derang their grotcing population and their
former condition, scitich has been orerthroscn.
Nofhtng short Of This (if it can be brought
about by our commanding councis) can de-
liver our country from universal reproach. nor
secure us against consequences which might
be fatal in the end TO the best interests of our
country, which hasten in very few sem