The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-08-14
MAssACRE or THE GREEKS,

LONDON, JUNE 26.-The following afiec. |
ting appeal from the Greeks al Cons,an-
tinopIe to their brethren and countrymch |
here, was received by the last mail from
Turkey. We publish it without COM |
mont, leaving the statement, as it will do
most eloquently, to speak for i:self.-
"Consfantinohie, Moy IS, 1922.
( "Dear and beloved Brethren and Coun-
trymeD,--We doubt not that the news
contained herein must have already
reached you, and fallen like thunderbolt
on your hearts. What more dreadful
than the knowledge that our illustrious
and innocent countrymen--ten Of them
IN prison here, and those In the castle OF
ocio, 30 in all-universally esteemed and
respected chosen and held as hostages for
more thsn year past, have, at last. with,
out single motive, without even the
shadow OF personal accusation apains,
them, been barbarously executed We
al hrst deeply lamented the unmerited
restraint pot upon the persons of those
now no more; their death, ignominiou.
and cruel, in The 6rst burst Of grief near
~ paralysed our faculties. Who can,
without shuddering read of the total ruin,
the univeral desolation Of our famed and
once happy e(Scio) ;ithe destruction of
all Its inhabitants. nearly one hundred
Thousand, who, except very few who al.
most miraculously escaped from those ILL
lated shores, have fallen victims to the
sword, to lire, hunger, and slavery--,ha,
worst OF all evi.sl Who can, withou,
feelings OF Indignation, without execra,ine
the perpetrators Of these horrid acts. be.
hold whole city lately SO flourishipe.
now one heap of ruins; whole villages,
innumerable country seats, prey to the
flames; our celebrated school, library,
hospital tor the sick, hundreds of church.
es, richly adorned-all, all one confused
mass OF smoking rubbish Our island late
~ SO much irequen,ed by Europeans, and
more especially by English families OF
the tirst rank, will now have only her ash
es to shew the passing stranger Nor is
this so dreadful in itself, the most dire OF
our calamities. The slavery Of so many
respectable woman, young people, and
children of both sexes, sent off to differ.
emf parts OF Asia-the markets of this CT
~ and Smyrna filled with women and
young people of the first rank, and who
have received the best education! w hat
can be more dreadful than this ! Happy,
thrice happy those whom the steel of the
assassin has snatched from scenes so har-
rowing to the feelings: how miserable
those still suffered to exist, who see the
isufferings, hear the cries and piteous &C.
cents OF their wives, children, and rela-
uves, and are witnesses to the barbarous
treatment this devoted and innocent peo-
pie receive from the wretches who have
them IN their power! What can be laid to
our charge! We poor Sciots, who. from
the beginning have remained faithful, are
rewarded with death and slavery. II is
well known, as soon as the Porte heard OF
the lnsurrection in the Morea, and sun.
dry islands Of the Archipelago, it sent
here Pacha, having with him about
three thousand troops; the whole of the
expense OF this garrison was betrayed by
our island, which, in the course Of abou,
fourteen months, paid more than e,7OO.
600 piasters, each according to his means
Besides that, the Sultan ordered choice
to be made of sixty of the most considera
BILE and respectable from our countrymen.
beginning BY our Archbishop Plato, the
elder and other principal inhabitants.
| When the news of the invasion of the I'M.
prudent Samiotes first spread In Scio. the
principal inhabitants waited on the Pacba
to apprise him Of it. What was his am
swer to send into the castle, as hostages
some more OF these innocent men land to
transport all provisions out of the citadel,
not leaving any whatever for the poor inha-
bitanis OF the city who were so numerous.
4 month after, when Samiotes landed, the
Pacha sent some of the hostages, with Sc
veral Turks, to prevail on the Samiotes
TO evacuale the island but they inpru-
IDENTITY resolved to advance, and told these
ministers OF peace they would sooner pu,
Them to death than do so. The Pacha
then shut himself up in the castle with
all the military, taking with him all the
hostages. 1t was understood that mum.
Der OF the peasantry had joined Samiotes
| they were in manner forced to it, being
spprehensive Samlotes themselves, and
they were only armed with sticks and
slaves Eleven days after, the Turkish
| fleet arrived at the island, and landed
-, 900 soldiers; who, joined by the 5000
IN the castle, being unable to attack and
defeat the 5000 Samiotes, used their
| weapons against the innocent and dis
armed inhabitants, and turned their fury
against women and children, killing,
burning, and taking in slavery all the in
habitanfS of The nlacP. the man they