American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-04-27

lhonored, her soil smoking with blood, her rlaroD
sold into slavery, and we are stiIl--so much for
what Mr.. Clay has APPLY termed /" u cold and stiv5
ering pulley"
The people will express their sympathies howev+
Grand ssit was observed in debate at Washington
that legislative bodies are abstract creations" We
shall look for their sympathies, only when an a.
menGment to the constitution, or some other inn
papable topic, such as might elicit the loves of the
triangles, may render its exhibition becoming and
decorous. Charleston Courier.
Egtract from the address to the people Of Bostor,
By their Committee.
SAT Constantinope, after the cruel spectacle OF
the Patriarch hung Easter day, at the door OF his
church; and OF ladies and children, from the ancient
Greek families in the FanaI torn from their homes
and surrendered to brutal soldery in the bazaar;
thousands Of Greeks fed, in the EXTREMIST misery's
TO the Morea, and the free isles. Throughout tbs
cities OF Asia Minor, particularly at Smyrna, the
Greeks were shot at like dogs, by the iawess Janss
larIes; and European and American merchants es-
tabised there, obliged to shut their doors OH
women who after wandering for two days without
food and in constant peril OF their lives, came to inn
plore single nights shelter, from pursuit, brutality
and death'
In the catastrophe of Sco, besides fortyon ,foaa
sand, principally of women and children, sold to sa4
very besides twenty-five thousand, who had Perlohs
led With arms in their hands, or were hanged, i'm
paled, burned drowned, by the ruthless victors5 IL
rs computed that fifteen or twenty thousand success
ded in making their escape to the independent Gree
clan Islands, in state of total wanty and OF misery
OF the most ptable description"
" II was indeed sight too horrible 10 be efdufedt
when men beheld their wives led into captivity their
chaste daughters shamelessly dishonored on the hgs
ways, and in the Streets by the vilest oil the multi
tude, their innocent infants snatched from their arvn5s
and dashed upon the ground. Many women, unablG
| to endure so shocking calamity, threw themselves
from the windows of their houses others cast ther'
selves into The sea, with their children, choosing RAJ
Their to be themselves The destroyers of thier off,
spring, than TO leave them to perish by the barbara
ty OF the enemy. **1 Out Of more than a hundred
thousand inhabitants, there now remains but twelve
hundred on the island. The greater part Of the ms1
and Of the aged women were destroyed. The yoans
ger women were made slaves, and carried into Asia
and elsewhere, to be exposed to the insoence and
cruelty OF barbarans. And when the consuls OF Egg
ropesn powers resident Scio, deceived by the ns
sidous promises of the Capudan Pacha, had persuas
ded the tugitiyes to return, and had delivered uP
those OF the Greeks who had sought the protection
OF their flag these also shared the tate Of their erea
thren.'
Many families OF the upper and middle classes Of
merchants, brought Up to abundance, and all the cos
veniencies of life, are compelled TO take up their
bode IN the roofs OF houses, are ready 10 perish Tor
want oil clothing, and ashamed to so abroad, have n5
beds whereon to give little rest TO their weary
rames are destitute OF necessary daily food, scarce"
Iy supplying the urgent wants OF nature, with the
coarsest bread"
I" AT Constantincple, after the murder OF the Pa
triarch, " one hundred and seventy six oil the mos
respectable Greeks were dragged upon the pavement!
ill the flesh was torn from their limbs, and they en-
pred. The Janisaries heated the rsmrodS OF their
guns red hot and forced them into the bodies OF theis
prisoners; others were blinded by burning irons ];
and the hands and feet OF others exposed 10 live Goals
On one day. four thousand bodies were found in the
streets, the Limbs mulilated, and the heads cut off,
Some we're nailed by their ears to tables; others
had burning Goals thrust into their mouths, and their
hesh torn with hot pincers. A large number were
nailed to trees others were scourged to death; OF
others the hands and feet were sawn Off Children
perished IN multiiudes by the bayonet. Without
the walls OF the city, were seen several wretches
buried alive TO the neck, with their mouths kept o.
pen by gag, that the ants and vermin might
creep in" In these sickening horrors, there is unfor
tunatey nothing inconsistent with the Turkish ha-
bits and manners nothing improbable, at moment
when, according to an expression in an official note
OF Lord Srangtord, the English ambassador toi the
Ottoman Porte, &c the distinction between the limo.
cent was unknown, and all the Creeks without exo
ception we're criminals in the eyes OF an exasPera~
ted populace.'
" In the monastery of Pantelemon, the Turkish
commandant caused the brethren Of the fraternity to
be sadded and bridled, like beasts of burden, and
trayersed the hills he and his soldiers thus mounted
till these unfortunate Christians in many cases drop
ed dead with fatigue and merciless beating,''
The celebrated poet Dryden who was extremely
poor, was one evening In company with lord Dorset
and other distinguished nobemen, when the con-
versaon turned upon the art of composition, and
ii was finally agreed among them TO enter into a
competition who should produce the best FIVE or