Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-01-07

ton; library Of 10, 900 volumes; print
ing press, and very extensive and
successful trade. Thus prosperous, the
Sciotes had taken no part in the Revo-
luton, when it burst forth in almost
every part of Greece, the last year.
The Turkish governor of the castle,
However, thought it prudent TO take
ninety FIVE of the principal inhabitants
as hostages, Of whom ten were sent 10
Constantinople, and ten were confined
in the castle. This measure prodnced
same alarm, aud several Of the Sciotes
fled 10 the neighboring islands, particu-
larly to Samos. In the month OF March
of this year I822) a party of Samians
joined by these fugitives landed on Scio
and raised the standard of independence.
| The pesantry joined them en- masse,
They marched without resistance to the
city the Turks were driven into the
castle, which the Greeks Immediately
began 10 cannonade. News of this re-
volt was communicated without delay,
to the Turkish squadron, which by this
time had been joined by the Capudan
Pacha. On the 18th of April, the Otto
man feet appeared before Scio and lam
ded $4,000 men. The Greeks of course.
had nothing to oppose to this force
They sustained, however, murderous
conflict for some time, between the
Turks who landed, and those Of the
castle, who made sortie, but were at
length driven to the mountains. The
Turkish army now entered the city,
and an indiscriminate massacre began.
The city was soon on fire, and murder
and raplne prevailed till the 18th by
which time the city was heap Ufruins.
The sale of prisoners then commenced,
and many thousands, particularly fe-
males, who had been bred up in compe-
tence, and some, 10 luxury, were sold as
slaves. 1t has been asserted on good
authority, that this was the fate of $4,000
Some anecdotes of uncommon savage
ness, are related in the French Mont
teur, on the authority of letter from
Scio, apparently written by the French
Consul, TO whose courage and humanity
large portion of those who escaped,
owed their lives.--Seven hundred pris-
oners had fallen into the possession of
two Turkish regiments, that quarrelled
as to the partition Of their captives.
The Turks were about TO proceed to
violence among themselves, when some
one proposed 10 preserve the peace, by
shooting the whole seven hundred in
cold blood, which was accordingly
| done. A considerable number, who had
escaped the first slaughter, reduced by
famine, submitted on discretion to the
Turks. Of these, thirty five of the
most respectable were sent by the Ca
pudan Pacha on board his ship, and eight
hundred others sent TO the castle, till
their lot should be decided, on the 18th
Of May, month after the cessation of
every thing like resistance, not to say
life, in Scio, these thirty FIVE were hung
at the yard arm, on board the admirsl's
ship, and in reply to this, as signal, the
eighty FIVE original hostages were hung
from the battlements of the castle, and
the eight hundred s!rangled in its courts.
The streets Of Scio we're so cucumber
ed with dead, whom there was no one
to bury, no one to remove, that the Jews
of Smyrna were ordered over to throw
them into the sea. For the payment,
they were permitted TO CLEAN the plum
der Of the city, and brought back with
them the copper kitchen utensils of
thousands of desoate hearths, of which
IA quantity bought as old copper in the
stalls of Smyrna has been seen on the
wharves in this town.-There are also
now in this town two children, who fled
from the horrors of that day to the
mountains, and having escaped to Malta.
were sent out by our missionaries TO the
benevolent care Of the Foreign Mission
airy Society in this country. When the
news Of these events reached CONSTANT
noplc, the ten other hostages, notwith-
standing the interference CT Lord Strang-
ford, the British Minister, lcere also
Stranglcd. When the intelligence reach
ed England, some friends of liberty and
humanity in both houses Of Parliament
made the murder of the hostages mat
ter of inquiry. Sir James Mackin-
tosh and Mr.. Wilberforce appealed to
Lord Castlereagh, to put a stop TO such
horrors. The minister replied, that
T" the gentlemen could not be SO quixot-
ic, as 10 wish him to interfere in the
internal administration Of The Turkish
empire" Buff the British and other
powerful cabinets do actually uphold a
decayed barbarous empire, do they not
take upon themselves the responsibility
of its inhuman acts?
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