Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-10-22

noiu, ana parity ny luck, party oy SKIN,
reduced it; this raised my fame, and !
have kept it up since by my practice.
| would not have you think that
Greek army is any thing like regular
one /; far from ii i: they have no order, no
discipline, nothing like tactics-they are
an assembly OF men fighting without
skill, without subordinsuon, but with
valor and perseverance that would do
honor 10 the veterans Of Europe. ltmay
be asked IT these men are so ignorant, SO
undlsciplined, how have they SO nobly
maintained their ground Tor four years
past? answer, first from the Jolly and
cowardice oil their opponents, and second
ly, from the nature OF their country: the
Morea is exactly fitted for carrying on,
what The Greeks at present are only able
s~-ry on, desperate partIzaD warfare.
| Here you do not see, as III America, open
and extensive plains or gradually swell
ng hill but you have deep narrow wales,
| from the sides of which the rocky cliffs
rise abruptly nd almost perpendicularly,
TO stupendous height; it is delightful
at this season, to stand in these wales,
where the warm and exhiIlrating air OF
spring gives life and beauty to the ver-
dure, and to see the shaggy mountain
rising almost directly over your head,
and piercing through the clear blue
sky, I'LL its top becomes covered with
the snow and ice of winter. The roads
(or sheep paths as they may more pro-
| ly he Cail aH \ Hnr.. MI ny
these mountains and you are sometimes
obliged to creep along ledge five or
six feet wide, with the rock rising into
perpendicular height OF two hundred feet
on the one side, and sinking into an
abyss of as many on the other. 1t re-
qu,res steady head and firm nerve to
pass these defies on a mule, which,
hough IN reality the safest way, but few
can be brought to trust themselves to.
Now where there is bui one such pass
as tins, by which an enemy can get al
particular section of country, you may
easily conceive how handful of bold
skilul mountalneeis may cui up an ar
my. Among these mountains, and in
these defies have persisted two hundred
thousand forks since the beginning OF
Ibis Sanguipary conquest; and THIS year
| hope many more will find their CORY
tomb in the same places Tor the Turks
are making strong exerllons.
| do not feel the least anxiety about
the result Of the present campaign, nor
any tear of Greece being subducd by
jhe Turk, fer ii can only be done by ex
terminating every Greek. They have
tasted liberty, and comparing i: with their
former degraded situation, they will die
rather than return 10 ii.
expec ,ed to find many foreigners
here, bat have been much Disappointed.
They locked over in the beg iDning CT the
contest, expecting TO reap iaurels and
dollars, bu, finding the FIRST thorns, and
the iasI only promises, they became dis
gusted with Greece, the Greeks with
them, and the few who could go, went
home venting their malice in slanderipg
the country. That such men were not
| fied to serve the cause OF liberty, their
conduc, Sufficiently demonstrates. How
ever, the fate of foreigners, taken in The
best light, is appalling; poor Byron is
dead-Lord Murray is dead-GeneraI
Norman and a host OF brave Germans
and Poles, have paid with their blood
their tribute TO liberty, and have lett
heir bones bleaching in the valleys OF
Greece. The lot OF Norman is par,icu-
larly affecting; he was actuated by the
best motives, and broughtover about two
hundred brave Germans, whom he form
ed into corps, and attempted TO intro
duce discipline among the Greeks. He
thought that he had inspired them with
confidence enough in their arms and tao
les, to withstand an attack OF the Turks
in the open plains, but at Pscr he was
attacked by 10000 Turks, and his whole
army Of Greeks fed to the mountains;
| Norman and his two hundred Europeans
stood the whole attack again and again
the cavalry darted in upon the desperate
little band, aud in vain attempted TO break
their hollow square; they were repulsed
with immense loss-tlli Norman, see
ing his men reduced TO almost nothing,
put himself a, the head OF the remainder,
Orokc thTooSh Tic Tauhs w 'uC SHOHiy
and effected their escape; but OF his Two
hundred men only thirty were lett alive.
One OF Norman's aids, young and chiv-
arous Frenchman, determined not 10 be
taken alive, placed his back agains,
tree, and actually killed ten Turks win
his sabre; at last they broke his r.igh
with spear, and carried him off: struck
with admiration OF his skill and courage,