American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-08-03

TFoW he He1p 10fF C0f1mefCtW .fdteTtSeF, Jag 81.
From Francs--By the arrival, last evening. Of
the packet ship Edward Qucsnel, we received Pa.
ria papers to the 10th Of June, bearing melancholy
tdngs concerning the pour Greeks teo thousand
fre hundred Of uhom hare been put t. the srora
in battle funght on the 9th of May Humanity
bleeds in behuli;ng this miserable but heroic PEG.
pie slaughtered like dogs; hut manhood exuls in
the desperate and unyie!hins courage with which,
they meet destruction, instead Of slavery. The
Greeks. i, seems, had assembled 10000 men for
tie relief Of Athens. Pour thousand had march.
ed in the direction Of Asomato. at the north OF
the PYreus. for the purpose of attacking the Turks
IN the rear. who occupied fortified position
among the olive groves, while the ether troops
we're to attack them in front On the 4th, Kari
askaki commenced the attack OF the Turks, and
Was killed, ,cih eco of his mpa. On the 9th. an
engagement took place between the Turks aud
those Greeks who had effected landing frcm the
heet. Two thousand men, sent by Redscsld Pa.
cha, attacked them. and the defeat and slaughter
Of the Greeks vas horrid Olt of % Philheo-
nists. Is were Killed. The total loss Of the
Greeks in killed was 2.5G0 men. Lord Cochrane
with difficulty succeeded in taking On board the
Heet the remnant of the army, and General
Church, in rallying his troops, narrowly escaped
hcing made prisoner. The expedition Is said 4
have been well planned. and the defeat is atritu
tel to the superiority of the Turkish cavary
ne OreeKS, however, lnOuEH Ue'tdtSG WIKI
great loss, still continued their efforts for the IRE
ser,ation of Athens. At the receipt OF the ne
intelligence, General Church still kept possts'lnE
Of the heights Of Phalermo with 5000 men, and %.
the 16,h Of May, that is. ten days after the deira
the Acropoli, held out. On the 18th Lord C0ch-
rane was securing the Archipelago in search os
lrentorcements.
There is an incident connected with this defeats
which shows that the spirit OF their fathers is still
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the deeds Of I.eonidas and tire Spartans After
the battle, very honorable captulation was Of
fered to the Greeks, who are yet bese4ed III the
Acropolis they returned, for answer, that $ il the
pacha wished their arms, he must come AMI take
them, and that they would not surrender the cita-
del until death" Before the attack, Lord Coch-
rane promised 900 talars to the man who should
carry off the color of Redschid pacha, and the
same'sum to him who should hoist the Admral's
flag on the gate of the citadel Of Athens.
The Augsbursh Gazette and the Austrian Obscr-
yer coninne to give letters from different places
IN the Levant relative to the victories obtained by
the Greeks over the Turks, at Athens and in ils
vicinity, toward, the end of April. They containt
however, very little that is new. Il seems tiatin
tifled convent, dedicated 70 81. Spirrilon, a
few hundred Turks held our for long time aiih
rema kable courage At length they offered to
capitulatc, which the Greeks refused. Gen Church,
however, struck with the resoute manner IN "hcn
they defended themselves, thought proper TO grant
them captu!ation and free e.ress from the con.
vent. The Greeks, nevertheless having just learn
ed that Ibrahim Pacha continued to murder their
wives and children without pity in the Morea, ielt
upon the garrison as they were going out, and in
spite Of tie Inconsistencies Of Gen. Church, massa-
cred them all.
The Augsburgh Gazette contains the following
intelligence dated Trieste, May 81 &c y vessel
arrived here from Smyrna in ten days announces
that Reschd Pacha, earaged by the massacre oftae
garrison Of St. Si,iron, has caused all the Greeks
that were in his power to be beheahcd according
to letters from Zante, the Greeks who are found
along The road where Ibrahim Pacha passes, are o.
blised to Zee into the mountains, to avoid being
murdered. On the s5th Of April, upwards OF 1900
women and children were nassacred. great
number who had gone in Che direction Of the coast
we're taken by the enemy's vessels; sumo succeed
ed in getting to Zante from. whencc they were sent
to Calanos"