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all stripped, with gashing wounds; and from
the different apartments, every moment
fresh sacrifices we're brought out to receive
the deadly stroke.-One Turkish womans
with wound in her neck, half stripped,
had escaped from one Of the rooms. where
the work Of slaughter was going on; but 40
she was getting down the Staircase. to Hy
through the courtyard, the dead bodies
with which it was strewed over, presented
themselves to her view, and there she
stood few moments, with her child in her
arms, uuperccived by the Greeks, her hair
dishevclled, and her countenance bespeak-
ing horror and agony, till some ruthan get
up stairs, dragged her down, and having
torn the child from her arms, dashed it on
the ground. When she saw her infant well
tering in blood, her eyes flashed with horror
and Indignation for one moment, and in
the next she fell dead over her child. In
less than two hours, about six hundred
Turks were killed.-Amongst them was the
Turkish servant of the Princess of Wales.
whilst at Athens. In the evening the maEis-
trates appeared ON the bazaar, and read q
letter to the crowd that had gathered there's
according to which Choursit Pacha, altho'
he had passed the Thermopyle, was yet
some distance from Livadia. The soldiers
shouted, and began to dance the romaika in
the middle of the bazaar, with pistols in their
belts, and the bloody swords in their scab-
bards. Wild songs resounded in various
parts of the town, and horrid merriment
succeeded the terrors of the day.
Some Turks in the confusion made their
escape into the houses Of the French, Aus
tran, and Dutch Consuls; others were res.
cued for money the following days, and car
ried safely by Fench brig to Smyrna.
To relieve my mind from the horrors
had witnessed, left, Athens for the Archi-
pelagus, and after short excurtion to the
islands, I arrived again in the Pireus. at the
moment when all the Athenians, except the
garrison, had gone to Salamls. HgiDa. or
Poros (thc ancient Calauria,) the Turks
having penetrated through the Isthsmus in
to the Morea. For long time the invasion
of Attica was expected either from the
Turks in the Morea, by the way of Megara.
or from the Turks Of Ncgropont; but fortu-
nately, this invasion did not take place; for
had it taken place, the dissensions among the
Greek captains in the Acropolis might have
egabfed the Turks to retzke the citadel
without much resistance. The most i'm
portant event during the three months
stayed after the massacre Of the Turks at
Athens. was the discovery of we'll, outside
the castle, near the grotto of Pan, and OF
subterraneous passage, that anciently led to
1t.
A passage of Pausanias, cap. %, led to
the discovery. and, sinsularly enough. the
COPY had brought to Athens, was the only
one to be found in the town at that time.
The walls OF an old Greek chapel were
found, decorated with fesco paintings in the
style that ls still prevalent in the Greek
churches This place contained the well.
1t was plentifully supplied with water, in
spite of the dry season; the Greeks imme-
diately erected battery for its defence,
and Joined it thereby to the Acropolis.-
There was also search made for the well.
which according to Pausanias. existed an
ciently in the temple of Minerva Polias, but
without success; but the beautiful porch
where the Turks kept their powder maga"
zire was opened again, and the magazine re-
moved to more convenient place.
All the cisterns were cleaned, and filled
with water; the wall between the citadel
and the town, which had done so much harm
to the Turks, demolished; and the avenue
to the Acropolis cleared from all incu n
brances. Captain Gouras, stern but cour-
ageous chieftain. was appointed by Odys-
seus as governor of the fortress, and there
is no doubt, that under his command. the
fortress could stand long and obstinate
siege. Before my departure from Athens,
I witnessed the ceremony with which Cap
tain Odysseus was proclaimed the comman-
der of Oriental Greece. by deputies of Ia
lanto, Livadia. Thebes, and the magistrates
of Athens: he was presented in the same
courtyard where the Turks had been kill
led, with sword of Damascus. and he
pledged himself in the presence of all the
people of Athens, to use it in defence of lib
erty and the faith. Since that time he has
drawn it against his country. and disgrace
full death has closed the life of man. who
With more exalted and less selfish princi-
piles, might have become bright ornament
to the annals of Greece. His valor and his
abilities entitled him to wear SO splendid
name.
The house of the Austrian Consul. Gro
plus, who had shown OIL all occasions the
warmest interest in the cause OF the Greeks,
and bv whom was received with the great
est kindness, at the time. Athens had been
abandoned by its inhabitants. became after
the embark alton of those Turks that had
been rescued Immediately after the massa-
ere, again the refuge for these unfortunate
people. A great number we're, for money,
released by the Consul; amongst whom were
several Turkish ladies of distinction, as the
wife OF Hassan Aga, with her daughter, two
sisters of Mehmet Aga, the wife Of the wal
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