The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
GREECE.


The return of Dr. Howe from Greece, affords
the means of obtaining information of the pres
ent state of that country, which may be relied
upon. The following extracts from Letters to
the New York and Boston Greek Committees
will be found interesting.
" Gentlemen Amid the various, contra
dictory, and exaggerated accounts which
are circulated about Greece, you may nat
urally expect some authentic information
from those whose residence in that inter-
esting country, has enabled them to know
the truth The contributions which New
York so literally sent out, have been the
means not only of relieving innumerabte
cases of individual misery, Of feeding the
hungry, and clothing the naked and house
less but they have produced a good moral
effect upon the people: they we're spread
far and wide, not only to those in the large
towns and along the sea-coast, but penetrat-
ed into the interior, and were partaken of
by thousands of those wretches who have
escaped massacre and fled from their burn
ing villages, to the caves of the mountains
those who did not partake heard of them and
were cheered in their misery by the thought
that their suferings were known and com
misserated, and that they were considered
WOIIu} Vi INC udDu VI CHARITY
stretched out to them across the globe.
This wide spreading feeling could not
= fail to do good, and encourage the people
to persist in their noble cause ; nor was it
unaccompanied by gratitude towards the
donors thousands who had never heard
the name of America, learned to pronounce
it for the first time with a blessing and
Greece will never forget the kindness done
Lor w ,or &C ,;tkop oil,
The situation of Greece, previous to the
battle of Navarino, was most alarming =
the overwhelming superiority in number,
strength, and equipments of the Turkish
vessels enabled them to pour in supplies
and reinforcements from Egypt and Con-
stantnople to the Morea, and Ibrahim Pa
cha with his disciplined Arabs, was prepar-
ing to sweep across it, and join the hordes
of the interchangeable Cutayhi, the conqueror
of Athens, before Corinth. And what had
the Greeks to oppose ?-nothing-not the
shadow of resistance without money or
ammunition, or provisions, how could the
slightest force be kept together? The
Peleponessus must have again been laid
waste and would have been useless to both
parties for though the Greeks could not
have defended it they would have retreated
kept up from them partisan warfare but
the mass of the people must have taken ref
uge in the islands. Here was the last hope
of the Greeks, and here it was probable
they would have made good their stand, and
constituted q small but free people. But
the battle of Navarino has changed all, and
it is probable that the future fate Of Greece
will be decided in the cabinets of Europe !;
,Flof 70 tho cfrnrola 81, o1o bon1
ed with Turkey, she will probably come off
conqueror; her fleet will be able to resist
the enemy's, and if the supplies are cut off
from Egypt only three months, Ibrahim Pa
cha must quit the Morea, or starve, and in
six, every fortress in it, must fall into the
hands of the Greeks. AS for renewing the
attempt to conquer it by force from
Romelia across the Isthmus of Corinth, it
would be beyond the power of the Sultan f:
it would require d force of 10000 men,
whose line of communication would have to
be kept up through vast tract Of country,
intersected by rugged mountains, and diff
cult defiles, most dangerous in the hands of
mountain warriors such an expedition
would probably share the fate of Dvama
Ais in 1923, who only saved miserable
remnant of his army, which on entering the
Morea consisted of $4,000 men.
AS for Romelia, it is lost, irrecovably, for
the presents but Gambia, Cyprus, Scio, and
Mytilene will be recovered-and these, with
the Morea, will constitute an important ma
ton and should the cry of their people be
heard the government will be a republican
one.
The Greek feet under Cochrane is daily
assuming a more respectable appearance
and will soon be able to make head agalns
any naval force the Turks can send out.
F.. But, though as have stated the resourc
es of Greece are nearly exhausted, and gov
eminent has seldom dollar at command
vet, the spirit of the people is not crushed
and only a few days before the battle o
Navarino, there was fitted out, perhaps, the
best regulated and most rational expedition
that has sailed during the war; mean tina
for the retaking of Scio; principally got VI
and regulated by Glarakis. This eXcellen
patriot and shrewd statesman, on the frs
rumors of the intended interference of tn,
European Sovereigns in favor of Greece
saw that they must include all those part
of it actually in arms; and in order to hav
Scio included, resolved to attempt the rails
ing the standard Of revolt there. His pow
erful influence over the Sciotes induced
them to come readily into the plan, and thel
all cordially seconded him. Let us give thu
poor Greeks their due, and if too often WI
find them mercenary and trickish, when VIZ
see examples of genuine and generous pa
triotsm, let it be known; not onlyt Glar
axis labor day and night upon his plan, bu