Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-02-10

three thousond prisoners, whom they had con-
Quoted to Cane. The paper of the latest date
reasser's these accounts, as il states on fur
Their Information, but states that they have
heen positively contradicied by the Greeks
II is added that in the latest accounts the
Greeks at Hydra admit that their country
men in Gambia had met with the disasters a
bove stated, hut that subsequently, those who
had rctreated Ia the mountains re- tesc,ndst
attacked the Turks, and after staying many
hundreds compelled than again to retire
within th.'ir Notifications. The Smyrna e,li-
tor admits that the truth probably is that the
Turks, finding nothing more 10 combat, had
retired Ia their f"rili, d places with their hoo.
~, and that the Greeks had again laken pos
session of the plains.
We do not find that in any other quarter the
Turks pretended To haze obtained any posi-
| tive advantage, except that, as has several
times before been pretended, NIissolonghi. the
siege of which was aided by Barbary squad
ron, was on the point of surrenderins. On
| the other hand, the Greeks had obtained
several advantages, as will be found related IL
the following extracts.-The most important
of these events is the surrender of Corinth.
which is represented in the papers as IN the
point Of taking place, and authenticity an
nounced in the letter which we copy-The
following extracts are translated from the Ori
entail Spectator. ID. .4dr.
ATHENS, Nov. I.-Corinh, which has not
beeo able to procure provisions, is ON the point
of capituIation. A part Of the Albanian gar.
rison has already left the place.
| November Sit is still said that the Turkish
garrison Of Corinth has held parl-ys respect
ing surrender, for want Of provsions.-It is
fact that II will be forced 10 capitulate, if it
Is not assisted in season by the Agerine and
'Funisian division which is bo,-kading aIisso-
longh by sea, and it is not probable that this
division will give up the blockade of a place
still more important. for the sake of supplying
Corlnih with provisions.
| ,AhOulabuul Parha is al Zeitun with fifteen
Thousand men. His intention. are net known
bat the Turks seem 10 be every where TAX
ing positions which will leave their rear in safe
ty, wishing 10 precipiaie nothing. They are
now masters of all the guIph of Volo, they
have no anxiety for Euhea, Nrgropuut aud
Carsto heiOg two very strong and well prn,i-
s'oned places. Trqueri has submitted. The
Agraphioirs are making no farther motion
AiiIca is held in check. IT" enly five thou
sand Turks are hlnrkading hlissolonghi by
land. The camps al Zetun can be brouy Int 10
act equally well, and as convenience demands
either on Eubea, Attica, the canton of Aspro
Potamos, finally on SaIoni, Lrpanto ar Misso-
loRghi. The Ottomans march every where
| without resistance, and their power and sup--
r'ority over the Greeks is every where ac-
knOwledged. The business however is not
yet finished, and perhaps we are destined To
see fourth campaign. But if among other
reasons, the localities have prevented the
Turks from arriving at the proposed result.
that of reducing Greece to submissions il is sill
more certain that the Greeks by their own
means alone can never reach the end of their
desires, can never succeed in establishing their
own Independence. They are generally spns-
BILE OF this, their generals alone, " i'll not feel it
accustomed Ia command, every idea of sub
mission 10 the Grand Seignor or anv me else.
sh cks them, and irritafts their presumption.
Ont oi about five hundred thousand souls who
occupy the Peloponesus there are four hun
dred and fifty thousand who suffer and muir
muir silently at this state of things-and there
are fifty thousand individuals bearing arms
who gain as well as lose by it, More than
WISH Is necessary To make them &C. Chance
alone puts them in motion here aud ihrrr-
How many fine things will he said in the halls
OF the PhIiheenes If Corinth yields, and yet it
may be safely said beforehand that the re
duction of this p ce will not advance in the
slightest deg'er the cause of the Greeks.
The executive powrr.is transported for the
present 10 NapoIi di Romania, and the legis-
lative To Argos, several members of this body
are al Saiam'na, and propose 10 pass over into
the Peninsula.
TIL Phihrenes OF distinction have arrived
at Hydra-they were well received there, and
are lodged in the finest houses II is said they
nave made very singular propositions Ia the
Greeks with regard 10 the island of Rhodes
we have had nothing but projects for IA long
| time.
SMYRNA, Nov. 1.-THE squadron Of the
Captain Pacha was al The latter end of DC
tober, in the Gulph Of Voo-it had anchored
! for short time in the waters of The island of
Skiate, and il was supposed that it\w ouId sail
toward Sa9nica, when sudden and extreme
~ violent gale forced il to quit its position, and
anchor In the Dardanelles-w where i, was seen
this week in good condition. Since the squad
ron has retired from the gulph of Salonca.
the sea has been left free To the Greek HotiIls
which watched at distance the motions of
the Turkish ships. The Greeks had already
learned the sad state 10 which Missolonghi
was reduced-the garrison of vi ich had in
formed the Greek government that they
should be compelled 10 surrender for want Of
provisions If they were not supplied SOON
The islanders, after the retreat of the Grand
Admiral, whom they apparently hoped would
he compelled by the season to keep at dis
lance from them fOf some time, made pr.na
rafions for sailing toward MIss0longhi. Ac-
cording To the news we have received from
syria dated Nov. 9th, there were about thirty
Hydriote vessels which had undertaken To-
supply Missolonghi. 1t is not certain thai
they succeeded, for they would find il bIock-
AIDED by an Algerine and Tunislan division,
whose vigilance IL is not very probable they
would be able to elude unless some tempest
should favor their design, even surprising
that Missolonghi had not surrendered b.fnre
their arrival. However this NAV b.. This Hv-
driote hotilla has profted by the circumstance
to take possession of FIVE Turkish merchant
ships, of which were small hrirs and