594. 
“ A Turkish brig was pursued. by a. num- 
ber of Greek ships-on the 10th, and, after 
2 gallant running fight, driven on a rock 
near Ithaca. ‘THe Greeks rifled the sink- 
ing ship, and pursued ‘forty-eight Turks 
who sought a refugé on the shore. Some 
were killed }’some escaped. The brig had 
250,000 piastres on board, for the payment 
of the soldiers at Patras. Letters address- 
ed to Ustif Pacha, the commandait, and 
others, stated that the troops had had no 
pay for eighteen months, and that the 
Porte, during that period, had not given 
them wherewithal to pay the barbers for 
shaving them. Usuff Pacha’s bills, for the 
payment of provisions, had been rejected at 
Constantinople. The commandant of 
Coron applied to the Porte for cannoneers 
and ammunition. The reply was, that they 
had ‘not cannoneers eyen to supply the 
fleet ; but that’ they would send a supply of 
ammunition. ‘ 
4 Oy the 10th December, a Greek ves- 
sQ)Swith twenty men, attacked a Turicish 
vessel with ‘seventy mén ‘on-board. The 
latter Was proceeding from ‘Patras to Pre- 
vesa, with persons who ‘had fled on account 
of ‘the, disordets’ which’ prevail at Patras. 
‘The ‘fight Wwas'so obstinate that the Turkish 
yassel went down : seven men were taken 
up ind saved, and some reached the shore, 
but most of them: were killed.” 
What a picture does the former of 
these narratives exhibit of the helpless 
and exhausted state of the Turkish Em- 
pire. Should (which is not unlikely) the 
Pacha of Egypt, seize the tempting occa- 
sion for revolt, how near to its dissolu- 
tion must be that gorgeous and detest- 
able despotism. The vulture, however, 
is ready to prey upon the carease. 
In p. 57, we have further illustrations 
of this state of things. 
“The troops of the Pacha of Scutari, that 
retired-from Missolonghi, have been refused 
provisions by the Albanians, and haye Jost 
many men in fighting to obtain them. Sili- 
dar Poda has reyolted against Omer Pacha, 
declaring that he will acknowledge none 
but Ismael-Bey, the grandson of Ali Pacha, 
as goyernor of Albania. Aga Mouhourdar, 
another iufluential chief, bas also declared 
for Ismael Bey.. Omer Pacha has quitted 
Prevesa to attack these two. chiefs, and 
that place and Arta are left defenceless. In 
a word, the-Albanians are engaged in a 
civil-war.fayourable to Greece; and the 
Pacha of Scutari will not be tempted to 
make another.journey to Missolonghi,”’ 
The -Xlith letter: mtzoduces-1us_. to 
Prince Mavrocordato, whom Colonel S. 
‘found surrounded with: military-chiefs, 
primates, “and © others;?* and:-develops 
‘Coloxel Stanhope’s views of thedeside- 
rata for the fital’ success of Grecian 
diberation. °°" Bee SH MUG 701 
Greece; in 1823, and 1824. 
and said that we had detived the Bréat fea- 
tures of our military systém from the Gree 
and Romans; and T regretted ‘that ‘While 
they preserved) the heroic: spirit of itheir an- 
céstors, they neglected ito: eultivate: that 
system of close co-opefation which distin~ 
guished their phalanxes, iand)gave them 
such a decided superiority over-their foreign 
enemies. I then adverted tothe /\establish-, 
ment of .a free press, of posts, of hospitals, 
of schools, &c. . 1 endeavoured: to, repre-; 
sent the fatal effects, of the disunion which 
prevails in the government, and which in-, 
jures public credit, commerce, and all ami-, 
cable eonnexions, and is calculated: to excite 
the ambition and to promote, the success. of 
their enemies. I ‘strongly urged) the. ner 
cessity of attacking Patras, the Castles, and 
Lepanto, the conquest of which would se- 
cure the Morea, deprivethe enemy.of the 
Gulph, and -probably. put the Turkish fleet 
in their possession, ‘The,means, which.I 
proposed for their, adoption ..were.these, 
namely, 1,000 irregulars, a corps of five 
German artillery-men;isix twelve or €igh- 
teen pounders, two bombs, and Patry,:,vithy 
‘his infernal fires.”?! fy 0 danas’ off? 
Nor. does Colonel. S. neglects the “op- 
poriunity here or elsewhere of.eyincing 
how completely he regards. Mr,,Bens 
tham, not only: as “ the very chiefest, of 
the apostles” of liberty, but as the wri- 
ter whose pen, if the issues of it can but 
be freely diffused through the medium 
of translation among. the;.people..of 
Greece, is to be as potent for theix,eman= 
cipation as arms and loans and Pagry’s 
infernal fires.” We find hiny according- 
ly in Letter XV, &c. &c. full of‘activity 
in establishing the press, arranging’and 
urging to publication the Greek Chroni 
cle, which was to be commenced on the 
first day of the year 1824, and re dered 
the organ both in Greek, and jac 
the Bentham priaciples of constitutiona 
liberty. In the same letter; however, 
in which he states that “ Messolonghi-is 
quiet, and Mavrocordato, the» primates 
and the people, are well disposedito fur- 
ther good measures,” he likewise adds 
“© Jn the Morea I am informed that little 
or nothing can’ be done ;, but of this I am 
by no means conyinced. . “* Nous verrons 
The administration of the police is i ce 
hands of the Primates and t bee ie 
rather justice exists not atvall. ’'Feuda' 
prevails in all its wilderness.” *” Jorisg 
-Golonel §.’s solicitude abor 1 aes 
as the following extract will she s 
gles with eyery thing ‘And wi sl 
censure this,2 Who does ot ive 
that when the two great interests OP po- 
litical, freedom _and_ national ‘i . 
ence, .aré, concentrated in one 
280 4) (M10 3 
“ T then spoke of a coustitutional force, 
