The Litchfield County post., 1827-01-12
From Black,Uood's Magaziae.
 GREECE.
COntinased.

COntinued.
 The Greek insurrection assumes to us an aspect of loftier importance from those con- alterations. Whatever might be our sympa- thles with the fortunes of brave and unhap- py people, striving with their naked hands to tear off the manacles that have cut them to the soul, we feel still stronger interest in this generous struggle, from its giving the sig nal of mightier changes perhaps throughout the whole extent of the civilized world. It may be extinguished, and the time, which shall yet surely come, may be thus deferred but if it should succeed, it will have made the only permanent aggression on the fabric of the Turkish power, the only permanent n- road into that great interdicted desert, it will have stricken the first blow on the Talisman on which is engraved the spell which has for ages kept the Ottoman throne inaccessible to the hostility of human nature.
 It is impossible that this goddess, corrupt, and mfdel kingdom, should be tolerated but for the purposes of punishing. There have been other criminals revolters from the faith, abusers of the heneyOlence of Heaven, on whom the Ottoman has been brought as the locust, to destroy the %living vegetation of their strength and prosperity. The pcstilence 1 and famine are the inferior agents of wrath,
 
 may be as deeply determined as for it's ;nflic- tion; and then comes the retribntion of the punlshcr Human violence was used in the whole course of the Jewish Annals tor the castigatiOn of the crimes of Israel. The As syrian ido!ator was made great for his day by the fall of the chosen people. But when the hour of deverance was ordained, there was l ordained with it the ruin of the instrument of slavery and blood, and Assyria was cast from her golden supremacy, and Babylon was con demned into the haunt of the vulture and the lion forever s
 The Geographical description of Greece a. dopted by the Provisional Government, is as follows:-
 INHABITANTS.
 Eastern Hellas, containing 8O.0Oo Western Hellas, 10000 The MOrea, 100000 l Crete and the Islands, S50,OOO Epirus, 100000 Thessaly, 3GO,OOO Macedonia, 100000 Total, 2,35O,O | Of this population but about one third can be called original Greeks. The rest are Albani- nians and Turks, with some thousands of Franks and Jews. The mountainous regions had never been completely reduced under the Turks. The horse and scymitar had made them masters ofthe plain, they became feudal possessors of the territory under the usual tenure of military service to the Sultan, and held the remaining Greeks as ca!tivators ! and serfs of the soil But multitudes had re- ] treated to the freedom and security of the mountain tracts, and as the Turkish chainOk- came heavier, muItitudes flung it off and flew to their free coIntrymen. The vacancy pro duced by this flight was partially filled up by forced or voluntary accessiOns of Christian inhabitants from Albania and Bulgaria. A. bout two hundred years ago, large emigra- ton of Christian Albanians entered BGtia, Attica, and Argos, where their language is still retained. The island of Hydra, the seat of the commercial and naval enterprise of Greece, was peoped by this race, and in whatever quarter they settled, they have been hardy, active and brave.
 l Another multitude of original Greeks had passed over into Asia Minor during the last half century They fled from the increased oppression of the Turks, yet they passed un- der a Turkish Government but it was that of the Kara Osman Oglu family, the singular Iy mild vceroys of tllc valleys of the Hemus and Caicus.
 There was but little severity in the estab- Iished tributes of the Greeks under even the European Turks. The mode of appOrtion- ing the rent had been adopted from the usages of the Greek Empire. A seventh of the pro- duce was set apart for the land tax. The landlord received half the remainder, or a larger portion, according to his supply of seed. stock, and agricultural tools The cap