Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-11-19
LETTERS FROM GREECE. /,

DIR. Howe, on the state and prospects OF
Greece. The first of these letters, which sp-
nears in the Courier Of Tuesday last, We SUBJ
,oin. and shall follow it up with the second,
40 soon as we can obtain it. We IRE appre-
hens;ye that our rea :es will discover an
abatement--not Of devotion to the great cause
but of that ardour Of expectation Which
characterized some of the earlier correspon-
dence of this gentleman. His opinion Of Col
ocotroni accords with that which We have
more than once thrown out in relation to the
Greek Chiefs. 1t is q dangerous, although,
in this case, a necessary, experiment, to take
robbers for military commanders. The desti-
nv of Greece seems to depend on a thread.
National JDrnol
From the Boston Courier
Hydra, July SOL do no. recollect
the date or contents Of my last, and
perchance / may recapitulate some
things of which had then advised you:
but it is better to be twice told, than TO
be ignorant. yet continue at Hydra
with the wounded Of the feet, but stall
soon set out for the army and join Up
SLANT before Tripolizza, where can
obtain accurate and early information
of the true state of affairs III the Morea;
which assure you is difficult mat
ter, even here in Greece--how much
less so in Europe and America. The
statements which are made in your
| papers about this country, are really
amusing to one residing here; and you
often give eircumstantial accounts Of
the march of an army, the fall OF q
town, or a naval ems cement, before
we hear of them; these accounts gen.
orally represent the state Of the coun-
try as more furnishing than IT in reality
is; and give the Greeks credit for valor
shown, and victory won, in places
which they never heard Of. Our edi-
tors should be more Cautious, and not
retail, as genuine, the fabricated or dis
torted stories which are poured out on
the world in wholesale, by the loan con-
tractors: or percharce by some mis-
! Judging friend Of Greece, who thinks
to help her cause by throwing dust in
the eyes Of the world, and keeping them
blind to her true, condition. The al
fairs of Greece have arrived to an ini-
portant, perilous crisis; years are re.
quisite to decide the. game in her Ia.
vour-a month. a week, may cast the
die against her; say it may be cast
aeains, her. for stranger things have
already happened this season. but l
do not think it will. A month since,
her affairs were more perilous than at
present, then, her great enemy, the ar
my of Ibrahim Pacha, was al the gates
of NapoIi, and the smoking ruins OF
Nice, CaIamata, Trippolizza, and Az
gos, marked the route he had taken.
A month since, the soldiers OF Greece
were flying in all directions, and ncne
could lie found to man the passes; now,
Ibrahim Pacha is encamped on the
plain Of Trippolizza, and every pass
from that, plain is defended by Greeks,
who have assembled about the place 20
the amount of 5000 men. The latter
hope to keep him shut up in the plain,
| and to starve him to death; this, l
fear, cannot be done, since few days
ago, a body Of 1900 troops joined
him from ModoD; however, he cannot
pass with his troops so easily in any
other direction, for two attempts TO
move towards Patras have been frus-
trated by the Greeks. AS for his at.
tempting to carry Napoli, it would be
ridiculous; he can do nothing against
it without he commands the Gulf, and
the Turkish, frigates, having once tas-
ted our brulois there, will not venture
in again. In fact, Napoli could not
with any prudence be blockaded BY sea,
unless the islands Of Hydra and Spet-
RIGA were first reduced; this with Spet-
RIGA would be a matter Of no great diff.
ficulty, but Hydra would obstinately
resist: Hydra, in her present situation,
secures Napoli; but, Hydra lost, would
bring destruction, not to Napoli alone,
but on all Greece, During the currcn,
ihohth, ho '1""s oS'ioh' navy 'onen
place either al sea or in the Morea: a,
Trippolizza, there have been continual
skirmishing, and the Greeks, like the
Russians against Charles XII. if they
have not been always victorious, have
come out Of each affair better fitted fol
the next; and each encounter shows
them the great advantage which dis
cipline gives an army. Ypsilanti ha'
distinguished himself as leader, anc
Colocotroni as a soldier; the latter, the
pride and boast Of the army but sia
weeks since, has shown what the!
should have known, that an uneducat
ed mountain chieftain, though as brave
as Caesar, is not fit to lead against {
regular army. But the dreaded influ
ence of Colocotroni is lost-he has new
er before opposed tactic troops, ane
cannot conceal from the soldiers tina
he now holds an Office which he is en-
. tirely unfit for; and that, however ex
cellent as a marauder and robber, he i
no general. Yesterday came a repor
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