Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-05-06
naARrINsBURG, va: THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1880

bis juvenile scorn Of the Greek people, "the
J hereditary bondsmen," by sacrificing his life
; for their resurrection. Tired with pleasure
and praise, the volnptuous Don Juan begirt
himself for hardships which Childe Harold
J did not cotrt--Iesolved 10 sharpen the edge
} OF his enjoyments by terupcring il in perl5--
land sought to heighten the lustre of his poetic
Icrown by reflected light from the warriors
helmet. while be lived. it was necessary for
him TO live in the eve ofthe world, andG reece,
deserted by the Holy Alliance, offered him the
best stage for his exhibition. But though
nothing could be more romantic than his ex-
pedition, probably nothing could have been
more inefficient than his exertions During
/ the four or five months which he devoted 10
the cause m the Ionion Islands or at Misso-
longhi, he talked and disputed, and reasoned
on the state of Greece. wrote letters TO fac
tious chieis--hired and discharged Souliot at
tendants-- laughed at Mr.. Jeremy Beutham
and the Phil hellenes-- prepared for an expe.
dition to Lepanto, which was always deferred
rode sat. smoked cigars, and wrote verses
But during the Whole OF this interval, he did
literally nothing for Greek independence. In
deed IT seems to us extremely doubtful wheth-
er he ever could have performed any sub
staniiai service, or acquired any lasting glory
IN such cause. Though his Tyre WAS pow.
eriui, 1t was strung only for England ami TO
move the rue countrymen Of Orpheus, il must
have sounded the language of that rock mo-
wing bard. In joining the faction bands. by
whose cooperation alone he could execute
any military cnterpriss-bands led by chiefs
who could not appreciate his talents or res
pect his anthority-he fell into d chaos where
his voice could not have bcenheard. He was
neither Hercules to frishten the klcstic cap
itani, nor prince 20 impose upon the in-
triguing primates, nor military leader to in
spire confidence into the ignorant soldier
| He could neither head an army nor drill
company. The greedy members of the gov
ernmont looked upon him merely as the dis
penser of the Greek loan, and his own nutin-
| Gus Ssuliots bestowed upon him their ,apa-
cious i1o'atry only so long as they considered
him large pack OF Spanish piastres,s
Towards the end Of this year in which the
Greeks gained some advantages at sea, with
out losing any thing by land Oh the continent
| though ipsara was converted into a heap of
rans,) the executive and the legislative boz
dies, under the influence Of the faction of the
capital and of the islands, came 10 blows, and
the military power being overpowered, Sc
veral of The chiefs (among the rest Coloeotro-
nil were imprisoned, with the intention of
trying and executing them. Notwithstand-
! ing these dissensions, the independence and
the tranquility which the Morea and CONT
mental Greece generally enjoyed, had pro-
| duced a sensible improvement on the state Of
the country. Justice was administered with
a certain degree of impartiaiity--si violence
was shecked-the peasants had r,turned to
| their homes and agaia began TO cultivate their
( fields.
! This year, however, msst be allowed TO
have seen the last of the uuaided successes
of the Greeks, for though the noble defence
Of Missolonghi, from tie summer of 1876 10
the spring Of 1926, may be said TO hare been
equivalent to any former victory, Greek af
fairs began rapidly 10 decline. The new en-
envy who now appeared an the field was moro
terrible than any former assailant whom tbs
Greeks had encountered, willis thsir powers
of resistance had been weakened bya decline
in their patriotict enthusiasm, by dissensions
between the members of the government and
the legislature, and by civil war between
the faction of the islands and the continental
chiefs. fhrahim Pasha landed in the Mosea
in the spring of this year. with an army of
90 600 disciplined troops, commanded by Eu-
ropean officers, and provided with every kind
of military means The army, renewed or
increased by reinforcement. never left The
country till he capitulated for its evacuation
with the French general in 1928. Though
he net with brave resistance IN the cap
tare of Navarin, the Egyptian chief encoun.
tered few obstacles IN overcoming the rest Of
the peninsula MissolonShi, which had been
beseiged in the summer of this year, by an
army of Ia 600 men. under kiHtachi Pasha,
a commander of great reputation, did not
surrender till his army had been strengthes-
cd by reinforcement of 200 men from l.
| brahim, commanded by that Pasha in per-
! son, assisted by French engineer officers
| The alarm which these dlscouraging events
inspired, and the hopeless weakness to whish
the government was reduced, by the insu-
lbordination of the troops and the dissension
OF the chiefs, was such, that some of the most
intelligent members Of the executive propos-
led to place their struggling cause under En-
glish protectlon--a proposition which met
! witha most unaccountahle protest from two
persons OF the name of Roche and Washing
ton. who being sent as agents for the distri-
button of charitable funds, by committees OF
their couutrymen in Franco aid The United
/, States, assumed, in the masquerade Of TIE
moment, and amid the general confusion OF
lerery Kind of authority, the character of pe-
Iiitical patrons and diplomatic missionaries.
!. The important and memorable act of Eu-
lropean diplomacy, the Treaty of London
; which put an end TO this state of things by
7 Throwing the weight of three sqladrons into
1.-THE scale OF the Greeks, was FASTENED both
> by the report Of their incre ssing dissention,
! luitbin. and the knowledge of their iorrnida
5 bic dangers from without, for strong appre