Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-01-14

ed that the isthmus was never forced
and the Turkish army, without havin;
1 effected any thing, was recalled to head
quarters.
i On the first and third of May. the fee
OF the Capudan Pacha sailed from Con
stantinople. According to the most prob
+ able accounts, it consisted of seventy
IshiPs of war of all sizes, and thirty trans
lport vessels. The ships of war, how
lever, in the Turkish navy, also serve
the purpose of transports, and consid
cradle body of men was put on board tc
reinforce the various garrisons. Though
the general plan of the Turkish cam.
Pagn was well understood to consist Of
the tour of the fortresses and debark.
atlon OF the troops at Patras; yet as the
Capudan Pacha, the last year, had made
Ia powerful effort to regain Scio, so il
was thought. this year, that an attempt
would be made on some one of the ISL
ands. lpsara and Samos were thought
to be particularly exposed, and the most
active preparations were made to defend
them. At Ipsara $50 battering cannon
were mounted on different parts of the
coast, itself little else than a rock.
Twelve thousand men armed with mus
kerry, were organized to appear at a
moments warning. Twenty-Five briggs
mounting each 12 cannons, and carrying
crews Of from 10 to 100 men, fire
ships, and 100 gunboats, or acampGvias,
we're in perfect readiness. We give
this statement Of the strength of the ISL
and with confidence, for we find it in the
Smyrna paper. The motives of the edi-
tor, in thus letting the Turkish Admiral
know what he might expect, if he at
tempted landing, can be estimated.
No attempt, however, was made on
any one of the islands in the possession
of the Greeks. About the beginning of
June, the Capudan Pacha appeared off
the coast Of Negropout, and landed
large force. This body of men obliged
the Greeks TO raise the siege of Carystos.
The garrison of that place, uniting with
the forces thus landed, and the garrison
OF the city of Negropont, made an incur
sion into Attica, as far as the walls Of
Athens. The inhabitants of this city de-
serted it at the approach of the Turks,
and took refuge in Salamis and the other
islands. The fortress of Athens, how
ever, was strongly garrisoned and well
provisioned by the Greeks, and the
Turkish troops from Negropont were
soon obliged 10 retire, to check the pro-
gFess that the Greeks were making in
their absence, in that island. Here eud-
ed the cooperation: which the Turkish
icommandant Of Negropont was TO afford
TO the general plan Of the campaign.
With the appearance OF the feet of
the Capudan Pacha, the Seraskier Me-
hemet Ali, in Thessaly, put himself in
Imotion.-Ulysses,a at his old post of Their
ImoPyle, and with a small army, kept
him some time in check; the rather as
rulnours began to prevail, Of general
rising among the peasanlry of many
mountain villages around the plains of
Thessaly, who had as yet taken no part
in the war. The first symptoms of this
rising were experienced by the Pacha
Of Sc.utari, who, with 5000 men, was TO
pass through the defiles of Agrapha, on
his way to Livadia. The Agraphiotes
Iook arms and resisted his passage, and,
lnder the brave chieftain Stonari, kept
The Pacha long stationary, and cost him
many men. A reinforcement, however,
Of $4,000 men, enabled him finally TO force
his way.
We now, for the last time, quote the
: Oriental Spectator" the great source,
we repeat, from which intelligence un-
favourable to the Greek cause, is circu-
lated in Europe. The editorof that pa
per, who appears TO be an ultra French
man in Turkish pay, in his paper of the
2Oth June, which is now before us, says,
8 The Pacha Of Scutari Is ,.ov OF Tier
maopy!e !" and in the paper of the l1th
of July, it is further added, ''The Pacha
of Scutari, with FORTY THOUSAND MEN, has
taken possession Of the first defJes of the
.Norea." acknowledgement, coming from
a spot within days sail of the scene Of
action, was truly alarming to the friends
of humanity. There 7Oas not cord Of
truth in ii The Pacha of Scutari, down
to the last accounts, has seen neither the
defiies of the Morea nor ThermepyIe
and at The date of this pretended intelli.
gence, was struggling hard with 80oC
men in the mountains of Agrapha!
After the reinforcement mentioned
the Pacha of Scutari and the Seraskiel
crossed the mountains into Livadia
Whether the former was in season tC
join forces with the latter, we have no
bean ahln tn collnct with rertainty fror