Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-01-21

fore them.-Those who attempted by
starvation to procure their release
were forced with blows to take food
Many young women, lately the boas
and ornament Of the city, found the
means, by stabbing each other, to es
cape the fate which awaited them
Formany months, the market of Smyrna
was filled with goods of various kinds
clothing, and valuable furniture from
the sack of Scio, sold IN lots qUith hei,
late euoners.-1his recital, continues the
French author, will make our reader;
shudler; but the principal features Of
it are from an eye witness editor
of The Oriental Spectator-whow wrote
undei the eyes of a Pacha, and who is
habillally unfavorable to the cause Of
| the Greeks. We have presented but a
feeble sketch of the scenes that passed.
All attempts to enter into the. secret
miseries of a catastrophe like this must
indeed be feeble. Twenty FIVE thou
sand fathers, husbands, aud brothers,
put to the sword, empaled, drowned,
burned,and hanged: and forty one thou
sand wives, mothers, sisters, daughters,
and children, torn from the bosom OF
their families, sold a Uil prir, at base
price sold to Turks, name that CAR
ries horrours and indignites in the sound,
sold to the Asiatlck markets to be des-
patched by caravans to Syria, TO Bag
dad, and to Arabia ladies of whose
number we have seen several, the wives
and daughters of respectable Greek
merchants in, different parts of Europe
dragged with ropes about their necks
into the Turkish transport ships these
scenes form an amount of suffering, OF
extreme, insupportable suffering, on
which the mind can with difficulty bring
itself TO dwell. 1t will be remembered
that the Tunisian and Algerine squad
rons formed part of the Turkish fleet.
America knows something of these
wretches, for her citizens have been
chained by the neck TO the wheeIbar-
row in their fortresses. By the accounts
from the Archipelago, the iraffick in the
miserable Greeks was pursued by none
with greater eagerness than by these
enemies of the human race and when
their own ships were filled with victims,
to be transported from the delightful
Island Of Scio to Algiers and Tunis, neu.
trail vessels, Austrian, Italian, English,
were chartered and freighted with fell
law christians, sold into slavery on the
Barbary coast. In Constantinople, the
slave market was filled with Sciotes
nay, on receiving there the intelligence
OF the events in that Island, not only
were the ten hostages hung, but Sciote
merchants, who had been for months in
the capitol, were shot at in the street
like dogs, by the Janisaries. These
things passed under Lord Strangford's
eyes, they were mentioned in the Brit
lsh Parliament, the noble English spirit
klndled at the recital of such horrous.
Bat unfortunately the British Prime
Minister was shocked at the thought of
Interfering with the internal admins
tralion of Turkey" We have seen an
extractfrom work published at Leipzig
in 1921, containing an account of the
excuses, which took place in Constan-
tlnople at the time when the Patriarch
was hung. 1t was our intention to
make an extract from it, but the tor
lures Inflicted by the Janisaries on the
Greeks, VINO fell into their hands, are
too disgustingly horrible to be repeated
We ask then whether it is not the
right, nay the duty, of the civilized ma.
lions Of the earth to interfere, & rescue a
civilized Christianpeople, from the hand.
of these wretches? Is it not too grea,
an insult on the age, to see all the pow
ers Of Europe, save one, leagued togetb.
er, and pouring their armies into every
weak and decripid state, that makes ar
effort to improve its institutions, under
the pretence that the peace of Europe i:
in danger from RevoIutionists and YET
see these potentates unfolding the
Turkish despotism in the Weakening
cruelties, which it exercises over the
inhabitants of one of the fairest portion,
ofthe earth? But the Greeks we are
told, are pirates and robbers, and de-
serve no better. What, pirates anC
robbers, that send one hundred of their
young men annually, TO the diferen
Universities of Western Europe? Pi
rates and robbers, who, in one of tbeiI
Islands, had a library fund, yielding on,
thousand dollars annually, which i,
more than can be said of any city, town
or college in the United States of Amer
lea? Pirates and robbers, who, almos
with the Turkish scimetar at their neck,
published the Constitution of Epidaurus