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1822.) 
laws and institutions so superior in our 
island even to those of the capital. When 
the news of the invasion of the imprudent 
Samiots first spread in Scio, the principal 
inhabitants waited on the Pacha to ap- 
prize him of it—what was his answer? 
‘To send into the castle, as hostages, some 
more of these innocent men, and to traus- 
port all the provisions out of the city into 
the citadel, not leaving any whatever for 
the poor inhabitants of the city, who were 
80 numerous. A month after, when the 
Samiots landed, the Pacha sent some of the 
hostages, with several Turks, to prevail on 
the Samiots to evacuate the island; but 
they imprudently resolved to advance, and 
told these ministers.of peace that they 
would sooner put them to death than do 
so. The Pacha then shut himself up in 
the castle with the military, taking with 
him all the hostages. It was understood 
that a number of the peasantry had joined 
the Samiots; they were in a manner 
forced to it, being apprehensive of the 
Samicts themselves, aud they were only 
armed with sticks and staves. Eleven days 
after the Turkish fleet arrived at the 
island, and landed 15,000 soldiers, or rather 
assassins ; who, joined by the 3000 in the 
castle, being unable to attack and defeat 
the 3000 Samiots, used their weapons 
against the innocent and disarmed iuhabi- 
fants, and turned their fury against 
women and children, killing, burning, and 
taking in slavery all the inhabitants of the 
place. The men they slaughtered ; the 
women and children they brutally treated, 
and huddled together in ene of the large 
squares, which contained several hundred 
of the most respectableinhabitants. ‘They 
have not left a stone upon a stone—all de- 
Stroyed—all ruined, It would fill volumes 
to recount the different scenes of horror 
which the ruffians were guilty of: huma- 
nity sliudders at it. But this universal 
desolation had not yet satisfied the blood- 
thirsty followers of Mohammed : they had 
heaped upon their trembling and tender 
victims all the bitterness of their fanati- 
cismi—ninety-five men, the first of their 
nation both as to character and property, 
men who had always followed the paths of 
vectitude in their commercial transactions, 
whose relations were established in almost 
every known commercial city in the known 
world, men innocent of any machinations 
against the Torkish government, and who 
could not, even if they would, have been 
participators in the rising of the island, 
suice they had been fourteen months under 
the grasp of the Turkish Satrap. ‘Ten of 
these were at Constantinople, the remain- 
Lord Strangford made stre- 
nuous efforts to save them; neglected no 
remonstrances ; evinced the greatest ardour 
in the cause of suffering innocence, and 
thooght he had sueceeded in sheltering 
them from their impending fate, having 
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obtained a promise from the Porte that no 
harm should be done them, when it sud- 
denly gave orders for its execution: the 
ten in Constantinople were beheaded, and 
the eighty-five in Scio were hanged outside 
of the castle in that very square where so 
many of the slaves were placed, in sight of 
the Turkish fleet, who had their decks 
covered with Greek slaves. Oh, how the 
heart sickens at such refinement of cruelty, 
and turns with loathing and horror from 
that hell-born malice that could take de- 
light in deriding the mental agony of the 
innocent sufferers in this tragic scene! 
What a number of wives were forced to 
be spectators of the cruel death of the hus- 
bands of their affections ; to see, at the 
same time, their suckling babes torn from 
their breasts! Thus bereft at once of 
their support and hopes, many, driven to 
despair by this barbarous usage, threw 
themselves into the sea; others stabbed 
themselves, to prevent the loss of honour— 
to them worse than death, to which they 
were every moment exposed from the 
barbarians. 
“But, alas! let us draw a veil upon 
those who have thus sunk untimely into the 
grave; let us not harrow up your souls 
with the recitals of these atrocities; their 
suiferings are over, and their felicity, let 
us hope, begun. It is now time to turn 
your sympathy towards the unfortunate 
survivors of the general wreck: to call, 
dear countrymen, your attention to the 
miserable naked state of thousands of our 
Sciots, with which the markets here at 
Sinyrna and Scio are glutted. Picture to 
yourselves children of the tenderest age, 
till now nursed with the most delicate at- 
tention, now driven about with only a 
piece of cloth round their infantine limbs, 
without shoes or any other covering, hav- 
ing nothing to live upon but a piece of 
bread thrown to them by their inhuman 
keepers, ill-treated by them; sold from 
one to the other ; and all in this deplorable 
situation exposed to be brought up in the 
Mahometan religion, and lose sight of the 
precepts of our holy religion. We see all 
this: yet, alas! what can we do here, re- 
duced to three or four, who, if found out, 
would also be exterminated, without 
mercy? What we ould do, we have done: 
but how little, among so many claimants to 
our charity! You, brothers, friends, and 
countrymen, are iv the Capital of England, 
the centre of philauthrapy, who live among 
a people always famed for their generous 
feeling towards the unfortunate—for their 
dislike to tyranny, and their snpportyof the 
oppressed. Beg, pray, intreat, appeal ts 
their feclings, call upon them as Britons, as 
men, as fellow-beings. It is in the cause 
of humanity and religion, They cannot, 
will not, be deaf to your prayers and exer- 
tions. They will afford us, as far as lies in 
their power, the means of redeeming the 
captive, 
