Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-20


wounded and prisoner, tLey have gained signal
and decisive triumph. Had the Turkish or Egyp-
tian General penetrated and gained possession oil
the Morea, reason and The experience OF past ages
suggest strong grounds for apprehendng the ruin OF
the Greeks. The Greeks are TO the Turks at pre-
sent something like wha, the Athenans were TO
| the Lacedemonians in the memorable PelopoDne-
sian war. They have great maritime superiority.
With this the Athenians proracted the war
one Of the mos, sanguinary in history-during 20
| years. but were at last reduced to extremity ana
ruin 1t is TO be feared the. fate OF Greece would
now again be determined by that of the Peloponne-
sus, if The Pacha succeeded in his INVASION IL
was not even once, bui twice. that the destinies oil
Greece were determined here. The capture OF O.
rin,b and the Is,hmus alone by Munmius, the no
man General, made Greece Roman province Ii
is rather an interesting historical coincidence, that
the same place, the shmus, which was the scene
OF victory to the ancient oppressor, is now (sup-
posing the ne true) the scene OF defeat TO the
modern. On this narrow tongue of land lbrahim
Pacha is stated to have been defeated, wounded,
and made prisoner. Another curious historical
peculiarly, is that this is, believe, the hrst IN
stance in which Egyptian army has fought in
Greece. 1t is supposed that Greece was hrst peo-
pied from Ph9ncia aud Egyp but this is the iirst
time that Greeks and Egyptians have been opposed
TO each other in In he time OF Pericles
disastrous expedition was sent to Egypt, but II vi as
directed against the Persians whose yoke the ESyp-
ians were DESTROYS 20 throw Off. This intelligence
is no, OF nature 10 be implicitly believed Nres's
on the authority of the Captains OF Austrian YES
sels and though dated both from Leshorn and
Trieste, is trace ble 10 4 common source.
The GREEKs.-A correspondence from Gen
Roche is given in the Paris papers, dated from Ma
poll iii Romania, the last letter being OF the 2Sh oil
June addressed 10 the society established at Paris
in f.vour Of the Greeks. Details given oil the
n thairh autn p
taken possession of Caamata and Tripolizza, and
of the burnings and barbaIous devas,a,ions which
spread general desola,ion. and would 1t continued,
reduce the Peioponnesus to Il desert
On the 25th June, Ibrahim Pacha appeared be
fore Napo di Romani~, had began an attack 81 1--WE
in the morning. an important ouiwork, called the
Mills, which was defended by Prince Ypsilanii
and small body OF Greeks, aided by the counsel
and presence oil General Roche The Egyptian
forces consisted of 1900 infantry, and from o zoe
cavalry In spite OF the great inequality oil number
The post was bravey maintalned by the Greeks, and
after a resoutc resistance against all the attacks oil
the barbarians, they succeeded, at eight In the even
ing, in driving away Ibrahim Pacha, with the los:
OF four hundred He directed his retreat by
the road which led both 10 iripozza and Caiama
ia, and il eXpec cd the want o. provlslo woul'
ri lo,ce him wholly to withdraw, while the Guerilla
: were ordered to follow and haIrass his march IN ev
cry possible way
Several letters dated Trieste 2sth ul,. give mos
important intelligence, and are, we hope from cir
Gums, ances, entitled % some credit. Two vessel
had arrived from the Levant with nearly similar re
ports respecting great successes oil the Grse%s, on
of them had been spoken By an Austrian vessel OF
Cape Alatapan, the other by Greek cruiser In
captains bad report ed that the Greeks had been com
pleiely successful in the vicinity oil Napoli Ill 10
mania. Ibralm Pacha mad iouad his situation s.
critical that he commenced rapid rereat, but Tn
Greek forces having taken possession oil all the pas
SEES, ne was brought to action aud completely de
ieated; himself prisoner, aid brought to the caFiis
f severely wounded Both accounts agree i ;iii
. general outline. We arc, however, sorry 10 state
: that the Egyptian feet had succeeded IN thrown
in renic=c snents INTO Navarino. Between M
and six thousand are reported 10 have landed
IS the ne;shbourhood OF Navarlao.
. a letter rom 1t gIorn, OF Aug. LIST, states tn;
, the same Intelligence had been received there by
: Austrian vessel from Constantinopie.
The Neckar Gazette of the Sth OF August say
4 that on the 10Th OF June, %. So they observe
from the ramparrs of Napo d Romana, retro
70 grade NOV ement Of the Egyptian army. Toward
T. midnight the government received the news TN
Colocotroni had attacked the rear OF the Egyptia.
4 and killed 500 men, On The 18th the enemy WI
already out of sight of the fortress; on the 10th
), was that Ibrahim Pacha. b,f fifario was receive
> nat The Egyptians had sustained new defeat a
"iOiosj anu ne was In Tue denies
or that will be difficult for him To get back to Tn
coast of Messenls. General Roche, who was sen
e to Greece by the committee at Paris, to obtain in
formation respecting the OF affairs writes lror
Argos OF the I'd July, that The Peloponnesus ha
, risen In mass, and that the Egyptian army wa
annihIlaied. Never spopular movement NOR
terrible and more just, for the life or death of
population OF 400, 900 souls was at stake
FROM GREECE
We are permitted TO copy tie following extracts
from letter 10 gentleman in this town dated
sc LEGHoRN, July 20
" The cause of Grecian Liberty approaches zeal
10 that period when they will be forever emanc
pated from Mahometan slavery. BY letters yeser-
DAY from the Morea, we have the copy of a letter
rom ColocotroDi commander OF the Greciin troops
IN which he The Senate, that he has so en-
cIrcled lbratm Paoha that he will be in few day.
compelled TO surrender. With this prisoner they
will be able to repay the loan in England, az he is
Immensely rich, Independent of his father lie had
the imprudence to penetrate thirty miles into the
Morea, where he has fallen into lie snare, after
losing about half OF his troops. He has with
Dim, by tie latest accounts, only 6000.''
| The letter proceeds to relate tie defeat OF the
! Turks at Salone, OF which have had repeated
! accounts, the defeat of the Turkish squadron and
The raising oil the seige of ,issolonghi, respecting
whcA we have had contradictory accounts.
| Admiral Miaulis is before Suda, with fifty
Grecian ships aud ten brulots. He has written
o the Senate that he will perish or destroy the
whole OF the squadron in Suda. This is conpos-
ed OF about 30 Egyptians, 81 which escaped from
the destruction of the Turkish squadron near
Athens, ard Algerines and Tunisians which may
be 10 to 49, ia all about 80 to 100 sail Of ships
OF war and transports. AlodoD, Coron and Patras,
are so closely bockaded, that not fishing boat
can enter or escape. Thus have in haste and
In few words, given you the present state OF
Greece. On board of the 81 Turkish vessels
brought into Hydra, were 40 Austrian officers, who