American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-23
Smyrna, May IS


your character the blow which has struck US is So
terrible that all my reason is required not to sue
cumb under 1t This opening alarms you--fsti-
mate at once the extent Of our barbarous enc mics
we have to deplore the loss of our numerous
family
OF all our relations my youngest sister alone es.
caped by miracle, owing to the protection of a
generous Frenchman, she has been restored t.
my embraces How can | speak to you OF our
father! Alas this venerable old man now mplores
the Supreme Being for his country, and for the
unfortunste children who have survived him. The
following are the details of his dreadful assassina
ton You know that he and our TWO brothers,
theodore and Constantine, and your father.iu.law,
were amongst the hostages shut up in the castle on
the 9th instant; they went up with the Archbishop
and It appears that. Notwithstanding the promises of
the barbarlans. they had been all the time confined
IN dungeons; they were placed in two Ines and
were either hung OF put to death with prolonged
torments.
Our father and his companions Witnessed with
tranquility the preparations for their execution and
these martyrs to their 6dety did not lose their
presence OF mind for single instant. Our sister
Henrietta is slave, and have not yet succeeded in
discovering TO what country of Asia the Infamous
ravshers have carried her. Nor have vet been
aole to Obtain the leas, information respecting the
tate OF our dear mother and three other sisters the
destiny OF your wife and her family has also escaped
my search In short, our misiortunes are SO great
that can scarcely credit them.
I'm the II 18th instant quilted Scio-saved by |
miracle from the dangers OF the most sanguinary
castastrophe, OF which any one can form an idea-l
bu' do not feel that Joy which one might expe |
Renee on being delivered from the dreadful rerls TO
which have been exposed Hatred and indiena.
non against our executioners are the only senti-
ments which can henceforlh dwell in INV heart
hanks to the European costume which have
ADOPTED, the captain of English vessel agreed TO
axe me on board but my dreadful situation in
crested neither Turks nor Englishmen The can.
ain OF the vessel would not allow me to embark |
III mad reckoned out to him 500 piastres and il
was not MI after he had examined Them one BY one.
NAT received from him permission to set nv foot
oh board the vessel, whatever was my danger in re-
naming longer on board the chaloupe | have left
me Island IN ashes The Turks. after pillapine all
ne houses' set them on fire. and joining sword to
are 70 demolish them more readily they de moIished
mem 10 the last stone, in the hope of finding con-
cealed treasure s
throughout the opulent Scio only fifteen houses
arc standing containing our mothers, our sisters,
,ur daughters, reduced to the dreadful slavery
mere the monsters profane every thing to rratif,
neir rage and their passions and often the virgins
shom they have sullied by their embraces. receive
rom themselves the death which they wish for r
All the chateaus which rendered our island the !
most agreeable in the Mediterranean, our academy
he library, the superb edGces Of Saint Anuieiroso