The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-10
'TER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1927.

the country to its present state, and the re-
ply VIII invariably be "Oi megaLoi''-" the
great and what is the cure ma t0,Ls
/ mopSonen !! =" that their heads NAV fall.n
l IL is tHese men who have invariably oppos-
, ed the introduction of order INTO the coun-
3 try-and why? Because, with it thew
must fall IN the feet, in the army, in ev-
{ cry department of administration, it is the
} same. The soldier looks not to Govern
t ment as his director, for he receives not
his pay from 1T he knows only his chief,
: and VIII bllndly follow him against another
Chief, OF even against the Government it.
5 sell, with almost the same alacrity as
r against the Turks. The chiefs being thus
!; superior to the Government, practice the
D most abolrlnable eXtortions, and have been
growing nch, while the people haze be-
! come miserahly poor. One fact alone, will
/ give youan idea Of this system. 1 have
: known the time when Greece had not 5000
, men on foot while Government was giving
daily pay and rations for 10000, besides
| the pay OF the Generals. And when Gov
{ ernment cousl not find means to satisfy
, any importu1ate claimant, they tried to
+ pacliy him by some high title. Any one.
, be his profession what it might, who had
claims upon Government, could then have
as Tor Major Or Captain, it was beneath
ones notice This was, and is SO common,
that titles hereIare made ridiculous by so
many assuming them who cannot support
4 them: there are kundreds of foreigners,
men who were only ccrpordls or SeriedntS in
the European armies, who have got titles,
and strut about with one or two ragged
soldiers at their heels, and call themselves
J. | fNnnnrnl.
being with a body of three hundred men
and, on council of war being called in
moment of alarm, there appeared three
Generals, four Vice Generals, fce Colonies,
: and more than twenty-five Captains. This
has made the business so ridiculous. that
officers who have really held any rank in q
regular array, are not willing to put them
selves upon rank with corporals, and SER
Jeants, many of them the scum of Europe,
and they choose TO serve as volunteers, or
4 they quit the country in disgust. And
they do Well-for, as much as they pretend
to desplse Europeans, the Greeks have in
reality respect for them, and for their
oPlnions-and they rejoice to find selfish
men, who, for their own interest, by action,
word and writing, uphold their system :;
men who cry that the PolicGri system is
the only one TO save Greece. and compar-
ing them lperhaps with justice to the
Guerrillas Of Spain; lauding their skill in
Plllaglng their bravery in fighting, shelter
t ed Behind a stone wall, or their expertness
in whipping off tile head of dead Turk
, but they know not, or rather know and
care rot for their distressing the country
the disputes among themselves their read
mess to fight out the quarrels of their
chietsffer the produce of a province, or for
the possession of a town, and last, their
disobedience, their rebellion to Govern
rnent,
+ Greece has now FIVE important fortresses,
but yet an order from government Ia Gov
ernor chosen by the unanimous suffrages
of the people} would be laughed ut by
the commander of any one of them, except
that of Methana, which is held by the rem
nant of the regular troops. That unfortu-
nate band, which has so often been doomed
to destruction by all the irregular chiefs
been again and again assaulted by all the
arts,of intrigue, has been the victim of open
, treachery. 1t is true that the brayest OF
the soldery never would enter its ranks,
, dispising what they called the life of a
slave still, though composed as it was of
mere boys, the outscouring of the islands,
| it showed what discipline may do; and
/ when in face of the enemy, conducted itself
often better, invariably as aoeii, as the BRAY
est of the irregulars and eight months
!. ago, when Athens had not one hundred
, pounds of powder, and the other chiefs had
: been in vain implored to relieve it, six hum
; bred of them with each forty pounds of
> powder on his back marched with charged
> bayonets upon the lines of the enemy, on
a cleal moonshiny night, forced themselves
through, and saved the place from falling {;
. a thing which six weeks ago | saw 10000
r irregulars in vain attempting to do. But
. the werd irreguiGrS must convey to you
. a very imperfect idea of Greek soldiery ::
picture to yourself rather herd of men
/, who have each gun and two pistols, but
a who know nothing Of a bayonet rife, or
. cannon ;who know nothing of discipline even
. enough to form INTO IiRe who never enlisted
+ but come and go as they choose; who are
U never mustered, and whose number it is i'm
: possible to calculate-are without any OF
G tile appurtenances of q camp, with Meth
1 er drum nor any musical instrument, nor
= I uniform, nor even tent; but what Is worse
f than all, they have nothing of esprit du
!, corps, the real soul of an army ; and though
:; personally rather brave they are cowardly
!, as a body. | have been witness of numer-
v Gus instances Of personal courage on the
' part of the soldiers and sailors, but never
: of what could be called q general gallant
o affair; perhaps | may except their defen-
. ces which arc often very fine. | have
: heightened out my letter, led on from one
f observation to another, without detailing to
S you the occurring events; but You will see
r that affairs are at low ebb, and you have
= gained, perhaps, some new ideas on the
; causes of this: and now, for the future
t prospects OF Greece. The question of her
5 ultimate success mustb be difficult to decide
{ if she can get the mastry of the sea all is
a fnished the Morea, Gambia, Cyprus, Ne
r gropont, in fact all the islands must, in six
: months, be in her power, Ibrahim Pacha
: cannot remain with his army in the Pelopo-
g nessus, nor hold bis castles three months