American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-27
pnom A LONDON PAPER OF JUNE &c.

The following affecting appeal from the Greeks
at ConstaniinopIe to their brethren and countrymen
here, was received by the last mail from Turkey.
We publish it without COMMENT leaving the state
men as it will do most eloquently, speak for it.
Sell :
aConStantinople .Hay IS, 1929.
"Dear and beloved Brethren and Countrymen,
We doubt lot 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 counlrymen
ten Of them in prison here, and those in the cas-
tie OF Scio, 80 in all-universaliy esteemed and re
spected, chosen and held hostages tor more than
year past, have at last without single motive,
without even the shadow OF a personal accusation
against them, been barbarousiy executed! We at
first deeply lamented the unmered restraint put
upon the persons OF those now no more; their DEATH
ignomnous and cruel, in the FIRST burst of grief
nearly paralyzed our faculties. Who can without
shuddering, lead of the total ruin, the universal
desoaIion of our famed and once happy isle (Sco;)
the destruction of all its inhabitants, nearly one
hundred thousand, who except a very few, who
almost miraculously escaped from those Inflated
shores, have fallen victims TO the sword, TO fire,
hunger, and slavery--that worst OF all evils !! Who
can. without feelings of indignation, without exc
Grating the perpetrators of these horrid acts, be-
hold a whole city lately SO fourishing, now one
heap Of ruins; whole villages, innunerable coun-
d
school, library, hospital Tor the sick. hundreds of
churches richly adorned--all all ons confused mass
oil smoking rubbish Our island lately so much
frequented by Europeans, and more especially by
families of the hrst rank will now have only her
ashes to show the passing stranger. Nor is this
dreadful in ITSELF the most dire OF our calames.
The slavery OF so many respectable women, young
people and chid'en Of both sexes, sent off TO differ
ent parts of Asia-lhe markets of this city and
Oh viii anI NJ he
first rank, who have received the best education !
" hat can be more dreadful than this Happy,
thrice happy those whom the steel OF the assassin
has snatched from scenes so narrowing to the feel
ings how miserable those still suffered to exist,
who the sufferings, hear the cries and plteous
accents of their wives chill ren, and relatives. and
are witnesses to the barbarous treatment this deyo
ted and innocent people receive from the wretches
who have them in their power What can be LAID
10 our charge! We poor Sciots, who, from the
beginning have remained faithful, are rewarded with
death and slavery. 1t is well known, as as the
Porte heard Of the instruction in the Morea, and
sundry islands OF the Archipelago. it sent here al
Pacha, having with him about three thousand troops,
tie whole of the expense Of this garrison was de
frayed by our island, which IN The course Of about
fourteen months. paid than 2,700,000 piasters.
each according to his means. Besides thai, the
Sultan ordered choice TO be made Of sixty of the
most considerable and respectable OF our country
men, beginning by our Archbishop Plato The elder
and other principal inhabitants. When the news
OF the invasion of the imprudent Samiotes FIRST
spread in Sco. the principal inhabitants waited on
the Pacha to apprize him OF it. What was his an
swer? to send into the castle, as hostages more
o these innocent men. and to trans ort all the pro-
visions oil the city into the citadel, not leaving
any whatever for tle poor inhabitants Of the city,
who are numerous A month after, when he
Siniotes landed the Pacha sent some of the hosta-
ges, with several Turks, prevail on the Samiotes
TO evacuatc the isand but they imprudeGtly resell
we'd to advance, and told those ministers OF the peace
that they would sooner put them 10 death than do
The Pacha then shut himself up iii the castle
with all the military, taking with him all the hosta.
ees. II understood that number Of the pea.
santry had Joined the Samotes they were a man.
ner forced to it, being apprehensive Of the Samotes
themselves, and they we're only armed with sucks
and slaves Eleven days alter, the Turkish feet
arrived at the island, and landed $4,000 soldiers
who joined by the 5000 in the castle being unable
to attack and defeat the 5000 Samioes used their
weapons against The innocent and disarmed inhabi.
tants, and turned their fury against women and
children, killing, burning and taking in slavery all
the inhabitants OF the place the men they slaught
ered the women and children they brutalIy treated
and huddled together in one Of the large squares,
which contained several hundreds Of the most re-
spectacle families they have not left stone upon
"a StOue-aIl uSstloyeu, all utSUoyeu all ruined IL
would fill volumes to record the different scenes OF
horror Of which the ruHians were guilty-humanity
shudders at It. But this universal desoation had
not yet satisfied the elood.thirsty followers of Ma
homet; they had heaped upon the trembling and
tender victims all the bitterness of thei fanaticsm
--95 men, the first of their nation both as 10 char
acter and property, men who had always followed
the paths of recttude in their commercial transac.
tions-whose rel.,ions were established in almost
every commercial city the known world--men
innocent of any ma, in against the Turkish
government, and WIN Co I'D not ii even they would
have been partcipators in the rising OF the Island
since they had been Ii months under The crr..r, Il