The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-08-14

weather-Dcaten cneekS WOulu nave Deen
bathed in tears. BY slow degrees he ex-
tracted from the sorrowing girl the sad
tale, that her affections had been capti-
waited by young Greek; that her par
ent on discovering their passion, had G.
iec,ed her from her only home, and she
had wandered from place to place, ill
compelled by the storm TO seek shelter
in the wood.
The advertisement, which seemed to
relieve the poor girl, had scarcely ended
when the other pacillars hastily return
ed. They had been discovered or be-
trayed; and some Albanians were in
pursuit of them,
"Away !" said the loaded of the dis
appointed Clepht "let us leave the wo-
man, Tsara we cannot cucumber our
selves; we must take our route through
the ravines, and up the steepest path" ;"
"Dmetri," replied the other the maid
EN- is in distress she will be sefer with
us than with the villainous Albanites.-
Let us convey her to our chief; l will
bear the burden"
With this, Tsara, nothing 10th, raised
the Turkish damsel in his vigorous arms
and bore her along as if she were but a
pigeon. The party plunged into the
thickcst part of the wood, gained the
green ravines, smiling with corn and ol-
i've trees, climbed the almost perpendic-
alar crags, aided by casually grasping
an arbutus, or lentisk, or an oleander,
and reached their lImeri, where their
captain greeted them.
'sBrothers! God be praised ye have
a goodly booty. How ! could you find
nothing in the farm of Aga Hassan but
woman? A little maize or diminion
or sheep or two, would have been as
well. But agios Petros! the girl is beau
tiful she is an angel !"
"She will be ransomed, no doubt,
said Tsara, sand ten purses will reward
us for our disappointment to night. we
entrust her to your care captain.
The captain was ColOcotroni,--
brave. that is, fearless. and somewhat OF
the ruflinn predommated in his charac-
ter. "What am to do with her 7" he
asked, his eyes fixed upsn the trembling
bIushlng Toorki.
1--WE confde her to your care, repeat
ed several voices, laying a stress upon
two of the expressions.
The wildness of the scene, the rough
manners Of the Clephts, the inauspicious
reception given her, by the captain, and
perhaps the kecness of the air in this
high region, gave new impulse to the
Osmanli nymph, who forgot, for mo-
ment, her late gEefs, in the peculiarly
of her situation. She was at the mercy
Of the chief Of band of robbers.
She was conducted TO their best a
partment, natural cavern, in which
their power, and stores and provisions
were disposited. Assurance of safety,
of.protection, Of assistance, we're made
to her she was told to "fear nothing"
The helpless condition of n defence
less female is of itself sufficient pro-
pection to her against nineteenth of fman-
kind: with the one-tenth it is an invita-
tion to cowardly insult. The Clephts
we're proyerbially forbearing on such
occasions, there were some exceptions
Captain Colocotroni was one.
The charms Of the Osmanli damscl o.
verpowered the sentiments of honor, the
pride Of Clephtic magnanimity, the Sc
verify of even Spartan discipline and
self-d enial, in the breast of the captain.
The wretched girl sunk under his bru-
tai violence. She proclaimed the wrong
she had endured, and expired in kind
of phrenzy, produced by combined o.
peration of grief, compunction, and the
bitterness of sha ne.
"Captain," said Tsara, who had be-
gan to cherish and interest towards the
young female, which in bosom less
rough, might have merited the name of
love, "you have violated the secrad law
of hospitality you have disgraced the
name of a Spartan Clepht; you are un-
worthy of your post"
"How is this Bearded! Bear him
off, and hurl him down the precipice =
What you hesitate ? Then this shall
ensure obedience"
His gur leaped to the shoulder of Col
ocotroni, and Tsara's was equally ready
The pillicars, however, stepped between
and two of them disarmed the captain.
He reviled them in the most opprobrious
term, m,threatcned them with vengeance of
his own arm, from the Turks, from Hea-
ven,-for these people are singularly
pious or rather superstitions.
Disregarding his clamours, some Of
the Clephtic band proceeded to the cav
ern, where lay the body of the dishon-
ored, the murdered Toorki; they
brought it forth, placed it on the ground
before t he stupifed Colocotroni; they
pinioned his limbs, bound him closely to
the corpse, and bearing the living aud
the dead on their spears to the edges Of
the precipice, ihnt skirted deep defile,