The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-08-21

Smyrna they nave done all they could 10
purchase our women to purchase all the
treasures which the country of Homer possess
ed before its disasters, would scarcely suffice.
Amongst the ravishers of them, are some with
souls so atrocious that they will not listen to
any species of arrangement.
"One of these monsters refused 1O, 1000 pr
astres for the ransom of the wife Of Gaba, and
replied that he would not restore her for 200,
900. ! have contributed to the raIisom of
Theodore Halle, purchased for 5000 piastres.
M. Petrochochico, on learning the death of his
brother, precipitated himself from a window;
his sister Julia threw herself into ditch the
other, made slave, was brought here, where
she was Immediately purchased. Our good
friend, Jean dAndre, was killed in his house
in the presence of his wife, whilst Fastening to
save his two sons, who shared the fate of their
father, also, in the presence of their mother;
the latter has been conveyed in slavery to Al
gers.
"My hand refuses to trace at greater length
the atrocious scenes which have witnessed,
and others thousand times more dreadful
might be added to those have cited. In one
word, the sanguinary catastrophe of Scio has
produced the death or misery Of 10000 indi-
viduals; for to that amount may be estimated
the number of our fellow-counirymen and
women put to death or reduced to slavery
Just God, when will the day of vengeance
come, and what vengeance can ever infict up
on our odious assassins all the chastisement
which they deserve 20
From the London Morning Chronicle, July6.I
We have to call the attention of our readers
to letter from Greek merchant. at Leghorr,
70 taf re .1l;.
count of the late scenes at Scio, obtained from
two of the survivors. We have given another
letter ON the same subject from Smyrna.
These letters speak for themselves they
require no comment from US. Callous indeed
must the heart of that man be who can read
these letters unmoved.
What comment these black transactions
at Scio form ON the negotiations with the
Turks. The Sciots had done nothing to in
cur the resentment Of the Porte. They had
not taken up arms along with the rest of their :
complementary had even contributed large
ly to the war against them; and yet, in spite of
all these circumstances, while the powers Of
Europe arc pluming themselves on the impress
sion they have made at Consiantinople, we
see them avail themselves of the pretext of
an invasion of the Samiots, which the Sciots
were unable to prevent, to exterminate the
population, and convert this garden of tho
East into wilderness. Is it not a mockery
to talk of negotiating with such people?
Copy Of teller arritten from Leghorn, by a
Greek house, 10 one of has friends here,
LEGHoRN, JUNE Is, 1922.
My dear friend--Tn my last of the 18th inst.
| informed you of the arrival here on that day
of our countrymen, Nj. M. Rodocanachi, and
NJ G. Zizinia, from Scio; they had obtained
their passage on board an Austrian ship Of
war, and had performed their journey in 81
days from scio, and 30 days from Smyrna.lI
know the anxiety you must feel respecting the
deplorable situation of our unfortunate island
of that we were able to judge by the keen
ness of our feelings on the subject; and as
these two friends had come directly from Scio,
had been witnesses of part of the horrors COM
mitted there, hardly left them for two days,
during which time they gave me the following
vivid picture of the misery of our dear country,
as nearly as can remember
1t was on the nth Of April that the Captain
Pacha landed several thousand men but the
Turkish fleet had scarcely hove in sight when
the commander IN the castle began lombard
ing the town, and from that time till our de-
parture, it was one continual scene of murder,
coniagration and plumber, both in country and
town-nor were they even satisfied with the
raYages fire made upon the houses its pro-
gress was too slow for their fury. They took
to the castle about 800 of the gardeners of
the principal and most respectable families.
whom by dint Of threat of instant death. and
promises Of liberty, they forced to confess, as
far as they knew, where any property had
been hid !; in almost every garden at six or
eight yards distance, were seen pits dug for
the purpose Of grasping the supposed concealed
treasure. All the women were sent into slave
ry, the men and male children above 12
years of age, were massacred, the children Of
the tenderest age, and the most beautiful from,
among the young women, they sent on board
the ships, with great pomp and solemnity, un-
der a salute of guns. They cireumcised the
male children in token of conversion of the
Mahometan faith, and then sent off the chill
drcr of both sexes by land, to ConstantinopIe.
by way of Smyrna, under an escort of Turk
ish soldiery. Two regiments of Turks had
assembled and shut up in place in the coun-
try about 700 persons, chiefly peasants, which
they meant to divide among themselves as
slaves, but not being able to agree in the par
tition, began disputing. An lmcan or priest.
more humane than the nest, expostulated with
them on their dissensions, and cXhorted them
to concord; when one of those savage brutea
exclaimed, the only way to avoid discussion
was to put them all to the sword and. to tho
lasting shame Of the human race, in less than
an half of an hour, all those innocent men
were put to death; others of these butchers
had in their possession four families Of distnc.
ton the women and children they sent 10
the city, and the men they bled to death,as