Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-05-29
NEWS FROM GREECE.

are indebted TO gentleman VINO came
in the brig Shepherdess, Capt. Storer,
arrived on Saturday from Messina and
Gibraltar, for file of Gibraltar papers
to the first April, and for the following
information respecting the Greeks,
which comes from the most authentic
source-DaiIy .4dr.
The Greeks, in their struggle for free
dom, have succeeded beyond the hopes
of the warmest friends to their noble
cause. Reduced by the most abject
slavery for many centuries in civiliza-
ton to the level of the Turks them
selves, without any regular concerted
plans and little harmony among them,
they have, in the Morea and some Of the
Islands in the vicinity, resisted every
effort the Ottoman government has been
able TO make to crush the renovatng
genius Of their ancestors After long
continuation Of sdnguinary engagement
and horrid cruelties on Both sides, they
have finally destroyed the whole OF the
Turks excepting the garrison Of Corch,
Modon, and Pa.ras; the two former
consisting of about three hundred men,
| and the latter OF thousand, have de-
manded a capitulation, but we have
not yet received any information of its
having been agreed to.
Several strong s9uadrons have been
sent by the Ottoman government to
raise the blockade Of these and other
forts in the Morea. but their designs
have been constantly frustrated by a
numerous squadron of armed merchant
vessels manned by old and enterpris-
ing sailors, commanded principally by
the owners of vessels, inhabitants of the
Islands of Idra, Ipsera, and Spezia--
In these attempts to relieve the garri-
sons, the Turks have lost by confagra-
ton three ships of the line, several fri
| gates, and the whole of the troops that
| they conveyed in small vessels.
| The last Turkish army stationed ON
the North coast of the Gulf of Lepanto,
commanded by 0mer Pasha, has, by
the last accounts we have received,
| been completely beaten near Monolo-
gil The Greeks have pursued him and
the stragglers of his army as far as the
port of Velrizzo, which they have ia
ken, and Omer Pasha has retired with
fifteen Of his followers to Orta. This
leaves the whole of Livadia, drawing a
line from Vorrigia to Thermopyle, free
! of the Turks, excepting a small garri-
son at Lepante, which, in all probabili-
ty, will capitulate with that of Patras.
The inhabitants of the Isle Of Gambia,
who have suffered the greatest crueltieS
since the arrival of the Turkish squad
ron there, have, assisted by the Greek
! hotilla, retakcn, with great loss on both
! sides, the forts occupied by the Turks.
The troops of the Bashaw of Egypt,
| who is the brother of the Sultan's mo-
ther, forming part of the garrisons,
have been sent by capitulation TO Alex
andria; and the others, who were Turks,
have agreed to live in harmony with
the Greeks.
The inhabitants OF this Island, COM
posed of Greeks and Turks, famiharise
together more than in any other part Of
the world; they intermarry frequently,
! iotNItHotdiuliiS tlc laws VI uhdIlcliitt
| punish by death their women who have
had connexion with Christians. .
Since the surrender of Napoh di Ro-
mania, the Greeks have established the
seat of their government in that city,
Lord North, or Clifford, arrived at
Zante the 25th January, 1898, and sent
a person to the opposite coast to Mes
solongi, in order to make an offer to the
Prince Morrorcordat6 of the loan of
two and half millions of dollars at the
rate of per cent. per annum. This
affair, though treated by individuals, is
| a government transaction.
Another Engishman is gone to Ma
poll di Romahia, to make another offer
to the Senate of five millions of dol
lars.