Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-11-26
Vol. /. No. 49,.


armed with a sabre stopped us and killed sue
cessi'ely eleven of our men. Alarmed himself
at the numher which presented, he fled. He
was pursued. We came to three cannon
served by thirty men, who, astonisiied. suffered
themselves To be taken. and were Immediately
sacTlhced. we must have certainly fallen. IF
the Greek Albanians, who were better s;tu,tod
nau hred. But they demanded quarters: we
zen Oh them aud overpowered them. The Crook
AIoal'ians rallied: they opposed force TO force
"eai< efforts. Disorder was among them: thev
were Vanquished, though they dearly sold their
hVes. we then penetrated rapidly into fine ISL
a"d' 70 eiect our junction with the other Turks.
l was at the explosion of st. Nicolo. Five In
SIN thousand Ottomans surrounded this fortress.
though destitute of artillery, nv brave com.
panions wished to give the assaults; nothing abat-
ecu oheir courage, not even the canister shot.
poured from the castle, nor the brisk firing Of
the besieged. Two hours before tbe terrihia
catastrophe, an Ipsariot with a match in his
hand advanced towards us. He was shot down
by a thousand balls. A second succeeded r.
the same fate; a third appeared and persisted in
the same manner. What was our Acknowledgement
~ sec d iouftii, a nth, and even a sixth. Sub
lime devotion. Some moments after ST. NicoIo
oiew up. Though one of the most distant.
was violently thrown down and covered will,
earth. got up an hour after, feeling as if Lbad
Deen raised from the dead. 1t is generally be-
four thousand Turks persisted about This fortresS
we afterwards learnt that the SPOT to which tho
II greeks were advancing, was a vast subter-
ranean powder Magazine, Which had done nc
SO much injury by the explosion.
we learn from a European who visited Ipsa-
IA after ITS destruction, that there wore toIo.
graphs all about the Island excent at tho sno,
where the landing was effected, so inaccessible
was that place considered. For want of this
telegraph they could not learn i'm season that the
enemy were on the island.
Ips,ro c.ol ~
iPsara formerly bore the name of Psyra.
fsyrls IN literal Greek, means n dry. uncuIfiva-
ted land, and 1t is probably TO the dryness of its
soil that 1t owes IFS ancient name. lpsara had
IN ancient tunes a temple consecratcd 10 Rae
chus' on 'he same spot where is now found a
monastery dedicated TO the Virgin. Psyra.
says 0lfa0o IS opposite the promontory Relena,
sixty stad'a from Scio. Ii is rocky island. of
diiilcult access, and has a city bearino tho sama
name. Psyra changed its name to Psara. he
uatSH a handiul OF men, wishing TO shake the
lurkish dominion, about a century since. took
refuge on tins rock. Fishing was their princi-
and multiplied. They always maintsi,ed n.
mong themselves that spirit of Independence
which In our times have raised them so much
above other Greeks.
During the French revolutions, these hardy
haViSators threw themselves into the Mediter-
raneaD. They gave themselves uD To sm,r
gi'hG, ancacquircd Immense wealth. Before the
Greek revolution the population of this island
amounted 10 5000 souls. AT the time of its fall.
ii'Sara contained about twelve thousand.
hiSh cham OF mountains, running north and
south, growing lowe r as it advances, divides the
isiaho. At the south east stood the city. and
near IL n safe port, large enough, to contain
aoout thirty ships. At the south west. ahout a
s'iic from the island. is an inlet called Anti In
sara. at the north west is the creek where the
hrSt landing was effected. II is about 100 pa
ce' long and 90 vide, and is surrounded by very
! steep TlCkS lha Eo1t,tj, -. Al
rated INTO two equa! parts bv rock. and If ia
Only very small Galieys that can enter if. In
inc INFERIOR OF the Island we found some acres
OF ROCK winch several rich individuals had trans
Ot.n'u ih'o Vineyards. The only trees which
refreshed the 1psaricts when they LEFT their c;tv
were l7G hg trees, two jTbier trees and some
pears. They had four wells, three of which
were very deep and salt. The Other, placed
near the city, supplied the inhabi,ants; each
house had also its ~cistern.
An European paper relates, that an old Janis.
airy, aged OF, has lately performed ON LorsehacI,
the Journey from Adrianople to TopI,;s. ne las
never made use of speCtaclcs, and every dav Ie
reads four chapters of the Koran wifionf f,t;9no
lie has 20 children, including grand children
ana great-grand children. He knows several
languages, having served in Egypt, and even re-
cites ON holy-days part of the traredv of sMa-
homet" Of Voltaire.
The company who intend to run steam boats
between Britain and India, have commenced
building a vessel of 500 tons burthcn, and expect
to have 1T ready for sea in the month of Doco,n-
Der next. a supply of Goals has been sent ont
to the Cape of Good Hope, for her VOYAGE from
thence to Bengal. From every calculation that
has been made, it is expected that she VIII per-
form the passage IN sixty days.
1t rs SAID there are between seven and eight
! hundred arts nf Do,l;o,o.4 -. T.. =
English Criminal Law. The Code .NoDoicoa
awards the punishment of death to six cases
only-that of England to 900!
The entire population of the Colombian Re-
pubic IS estimated, in a Caracas neyyspaper AZ
2,614,GOO souls.
RISE OF TyCEHrrs