Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-11-23

Boston Daily Advertiser. from the Snayrnean.
will be read with interest:
Smyrna. July 2l.-A Mussulman, who
was an eve witness, iaforms Us, that DUR
ing the taking OF fpsara by the Turks. Sc
raj individuals succeeded 10 saving The M
selves from the general determination -
Thsy retired to a very rocky place ST the
north Of the island In vain we promised
then by our boards and by every thing we
held most sacred, to graft them their lives
If they would surrender--they we're deaf
20 all our propositions. they cried out IN
s,ant'y. we have food. ue huve arms, III.
sERTY OR DEATH. thss IS the ~lpsariot MORO.
This IS the spoil o. brave man. said a
Turk proui lily, the other day. showing an
Ipsariot tunic in which he was clot6ed.-
Va,nlv. said he, did, efer him his lite,
he would fall under my arms. | belong
"a added the Turk, TO the brst division
which effected its landing in a very steep
place. Con iucted by The European trans
por,s. we drew near the shore, and taVor-
ed by the clouds of smoke produced by
4he brisk cannena5ing from our iaet. we
approached very near a little cove without
beng seen. AT sight OF so famous a coun-
try our Albanisns refused to throw them
selves into the water. A brisk a!tercauoh
sro e between the troops and the mIli'ia.
The volunteers. carried away by en'ousIa-
asm, threw themselves into the sea we
advanced silently to a little spot, then
creeping like goats, one after tie otber,
we arrived at the entrance oil a narrow
de6le. where a Greek armed with a sabre
stopped us and killed successfully eleven
OF our men Alarmed himself al the mum.
Der which presented, he fed. He was
pursued We lame TO three cannon serv-
ed by thirty men, who. sstonished, suffer
ed themselves 10 be taken, and were i'm.
mediately sacrificed We must have GER
tainly fallen. If the Greek Albanians. who
were better situated, had fred But they
demanded quarters; we fell on hem aod
~overpowered them The Greek AIbanians
rallied; they opposed force to force. Weak
efforts Disorder was among them; they
were vanqdished, though they dearly sold
their lives. We then penetrated rapidly
into the Island, to effect our junction with
the other Turks. was at the explosion
OF st. Nicoio Five to six thousand Otto.
mans surrounded this fortress. Though
destitute of artillery my brave compa.
GtlBs wtSUcl W ktsc ID oSSou''j o"NSS
ebated beir courage. not even the CaDDls
Eel. slot poured from the castle, nor lie
brisk firing Of the besieged. Two hours
before the terrible catastrophe. an ipsar'ot
rith a match in his ha0d advanced to-
wards us. He was shot down by a thou
sand balls. A second succeeded TO the
same fate; a third appeared aud psr'sheo
an the same manner. What was our aston
isnpent TO see a fourth, a nth. and even
a sixth. Sublime devotion ! Some mo.
ments after st. Nicolo biew up. Though
one OF the most distant, ! was violently
thrown do 20 and covered with earth. I
got up an hOu- after. feeling as IT l hao
been raised from the dead 1t is generally
believed in the OTTOMAN army that from
,hree 10 four thousand Turks persisted a.
hon, this fortress. We afterwards learnt
that the spot 10 which the six Greeks were
advancing was a vas subterraDean powder
magazine, which had done US so much iD~
Jury by the explosion.
We lear0 from a European who visited
Insara after its destruction, that there
were telegrapbs all about the island except
at the spot where the laading was effected,
go inaccessible was that place considered.
For want OF this telegraph they could not
learn in season that the enemy were ON
the island.
Ipsara formerly bore the name OF Psyra.
Psyris in literal creek, means a dry, IN.
cultivated land; and II IS probably to the
drypess of is soil that u owes Ms ancient
name. lpsara had in ancient times a tenn
pie dedicated to Bsecbus, on the same
spot whore Is now fund monastery dedi-
Gated TO the Virgin Psyrs. gays Straoo,
Is opposite the %promontory Helena. sixty
s,adia from Scio. 1t Is rocky ISLAND, OF
dimnlt access, AMI has a city bearing the
sane name Psyra changed It's name to
Psara because a handful OF men, wishing
IN snake the Turkish dominion, about q
century since, took refuge on this rock -
Fishing was their principal employment.
They p~rospered increased and multiplied.
They always maintained among themselves
that spirit OF independence which M our
times, have raised them so much above
other Greeks.
Du:ing the French Revolution, these
hardy n~avigators threw themselves into
The Mediterranean. They gave themselves
ND to smuggling, and acquired Immense
wealth. Before the Greek revolution the
DopuiAtioo OF this island amounted TO 5000
souls. Al toe time OF its fsli, lpsars con-
famed about twelve thousand.
A high chaia OF mountains, running
north AM south, growing lower as 1t ad-
vsnces, divides the island. A. the south
east stoodt the city, and near 1t a safe port,
large enough to contain about thirty ships
AZ The south west about a mile from the
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