The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-14

ton, and are transported at the sight of tract
or bible. The peassntry are virtuous and
modest, the merchants cunning, decstiul and
intriguing, the soldiers are brave, patient, and
strongly attached to liberty. have given
away several thousands of tracts, which re-
ceived of Mr.. Temple, at Malta, to citizens,
officers and soldiers They are much pleased
with reading these feathers, as they call them;
and | have frequently passed through the
camp and seen one of the soldiers reading a
tract, with ten or twelve others listening to
hear him.
Superstition is losing ground in Greece.
Many of the Priests are beginning TO preach
on the Sabbath, and many OF the people to eat
meat in Lent. The Priests, as far as have
been able to learn, are generally moral, but
devoted TO the dogmas of their church.
"The Greek women are modest, handsome,
and yirtuous. The astonishing examples ex-
hlbited here of morals by those Franks who
have come from France, Italy and Germany,
have lead the Greek females TO shun foreign
er, while in his Frank costume, almost as much
as Turk. Schools are beginning to be estah-
lished in all the principal towns and villages.
Mr.. Edward Mason, a gentleman from
Scotland, whose classical and religious charac-
ter is Of the highest cast, has devoted himselfto
the service of Greece. He is accompanied by
Greek, who has been two years in England,
learning the Lancastrian system Of education,
and who, by the grace of God, has become ex-
perlmentally acquainted with the truths of the
gospel. Mason does wonders; he already
talks with the priests, and will soon, il Provi-
dence permit, establish a school for the study
OF ancient Greek and Philosophy at Trpolizza
DR.. Howe, from Boston, does honor to his
country, family and friends. His STANDARD of
morality is high. We all love him dearly.
lie has done much to relieve the suferings of
the wounded already.
| 1.-The civil dissensions have all been put
down in the Morea. Ulysses isthe only chief
who is now with the Turks, ano he, think,
will soon be subdued. The misery of the
country is beyond all description. Women
and children are flying, almost naked and
starved, from the fury of the mercIless savases
The men with their noses and ears cut of. II
there was ever country which demanded the
charities of the Christian world, that country
is Greece. Yet 1t is my real opinion, that she
VIII again take her place among the nations Of
the earth as free and enlightened republic
MY reasons for thus thinking, may be seen in
my letters to the Greek Committee.
As to my own fare you may cali it what YOU
please. have taken the Albanian dress.
have travelled three hundred miles on foot
and carried my gun, dirk aud pistols. Five
nights have slept on the ground, without any
covering bat my carpet, and during three d
them it rained necessarily. In short, have
waded through rivers, climbed mountains
amid the SHOWS, with my feet to the ground
been exposed to the Turks, and was once yer,
near being cut up by those monsters. whose
tender mercies are cruelty. | have Jared like
a Greek, and with the Greeks am willing I,
suiier for the cause of religion and freedom.
1 Gall me in America crusader or what yor
like, my life is devoted to the overturpipe o
the Turkish empire and if it be the will q
God, hope to see the downfall of the false
prophet. God is on the side of the Greeks
1000 Turks have already lost their lives il
this sanguinary contest. The Campaign i.
again opening. Let the Greeks and your un.
worthy friend have an interest in your pray.
ers. hope to see you again, but the win ii
| the Lord be done. Farewell.
&c Yours, affectionately,
81. P. MILLER