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On the Ist of July the King’s 
Guards broke out into an insurrec- 
tion against the Constitutional autho- 
rities, Icft the palace, and encamped 
themselves near the city. For many 
days they kept Spain in alarm, and a 
corps of carabineers declared in their 
interest. The Bourbon papers in Pa- 
ris, the London Courier, New Times, 
and the servile press all over Europe, 
were filled with exultations; but on 
the 7th, when the Guards entered Ma- 
drid in arms, they were assailed, re- 
pulsed, and dispersed, by the militia, 
the National Guard, and the patriotic 
inhabitants ; and the triumph of the 
Constitution was complete, not only 
in Madrid, but in every part of Spain. 
Of the Royal Guard, 371 were killed 
and 710 wounded; and of the Consti- 
tutional troops, 58 were killed and 130 
wounded. 
GREECE. 
We introduce beneath an affecting 
appeal of the Greeks of Constantino- 
ple to all Christendom, in regard to 
the massacre and desolation of Scio, 
by the Turkish banditti under the Ca- 
pitan Pacha. We can add nothing to 
the narrative so well related, except 
that many accounts have reached the 
ports of the Mediterranean, proving 
that a more savage massacre never 
took plaee; that the women and chil- 
dren have been sold as slaves in the 
ports of Asia Minor; and that Scio is 
redueed to-a heap of ruins, from being 
one of the most flourishing islands in 
the world. 
The following Address from the 
Greeks at Constantinople to their 
brethren in London, will be read with 
deep emotion: 
* Constantinople, May 26, 1822. 
** Dear and beloved Brethren 
and Countrymen in London, 
“We doubt not that the news contained 
herein must have already reached you, 
and fallen like a thunderbolt on your 
hearts. What more dreadful than the 
knowledge that our illustrious and inno-~ 
‘cent countrymen, ten of them in prison 
here, and those in the Castle of Scio, 
ninety-five in all, universally esteemed and 
respected, chosen and held as hostages for 
more than a year past, at last without a 
single motive, without even the shadow of 
a personal accusation against them, have 
been barbarously executed. We at first 
deeply lamented the unmerited restraint 
put upon the persons of those now no 
more. ‘Their death, ignominions and 
cruel, in the first burst of grief, nearly 
paralysed our faculties; but these we look 
upon now as enjoying eternal and immuta- 
ble felicity. Our pity no longer is then 
_ Political Affairs in July. 
[Aug. 1, 
due; but it flows for those unfortunates 
who have survived, and who, henceforth, 
are doomed to have tyranny unexampled in 
history, and deprivations of every kind. 
Who can, without shuddering, read of the 
total ruin—the universal desolation of our 
famed and once-happy isle—the destruc- 
tion of all its inhabitants, nearly one hun- 
dred thousand, who, except a very few 
who almost miraculously escaped from 
those ill-fated shores, have fallen victims ta 
the sword, to fire. hunger, and slavery, that 
worst of all evils? Who can, without 
feelings of indignation, mantling their 
cheeks—withont execrating the perpe- 
trators of these horrid acts, behold a whole 
city lately so flourishing, now one heap of 
ruins; whole villages, innumerable coun- 
try-seats, a prey to the flames? Our 
celebrated school, library, ho«pital for the 
sick and for the Jepers, lazaret for those 
attacked with the plague, hundreds of 
churches richly adorned—all, all, one con- 
fused mass of smoking rubbish. Our 
island, lately so much frequented by Euro- 
peans, and more especially by English 
families of the first rank, will now have 
only their ashes to shew to the passing 
strangers. To afford an acme to our 
miseries, great numbers of respectable 
women, young people, and children of 
both sexes, have been sent off to different 
parts of Asia, as slaves; and the markets of 
this city and Smyrna are filled with women 
and young people of the first rank, and 
who have received the best education. 
What can be more dreadful than this. 
Happy! thrice happy those whom the steel 
of the assassin has snatched from scenes co 
harrowing to the feelings! How miserable 
those still suffered to exist—who see the 
sufferings, hear the cries and piteous ae- 
eents of their wives, children, and rela- 
tions; and are witnesses to the barbarous. 
treatment this devoted and. innocent peo- 
ple receive from the wretches who have 
them in their power! What can be laid to 
our charge? We poor Sciots, who from 
the beginning have remained faithfal, are 
rewarded with death and slavery! It is 
well known, as soon as the Porte heard of 
the insurrection in the Morea and sundry 
islands in the Archipelago, it sent here a 
Pacha with three tails, having with him 
about three thousand troops: the whole 
expenses of this garrison were defrayed by 
our island, which ia the course of about 
fourteen months paid more than 2,700,000 
piastres, each according to his means. 
Beside this, the sultan ordered a choice 
to be made of sixty of the most considera-= 
ble and respectable from our vountrymen, 
beginning with our Archbishop Plato, the 
elders, and other principal inhabitants. 
The motive in thus treating us Was no 
other than a mean spirit of envy and jea- 
lousy at the reputation for riches which 
some of us had acquired by an active life 
spent in commercial pursuits, and at the 
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