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attack on the small fortress situated 
in the middle of the harbour. ‘Phey 
now abandoned all hope of being re- 
lieved by their fleet; nevertheless, they 
still expected that the army at Co- 
rinth would make another effort in 
their favour. In fact, partial attempts 
were. made ; but the presence of Capt. 
Colokotroni inspired his troops with 
such enthusiasm, that they all failed. 
Things being in this, state, on the 
12th of December last, Capt. Stcyko, 
who commanded before Napoli, hav- 
ing reason to suppose that the Pala- 
mede was negligently guarded, esca- 
Jaded it; and made himself master of 
this fortress with little opposition. 
The Tarks in the town, seeing them- 
selves at the mercy of the Greeks, 
proposed a capitulation; which se- 
cured to them a safe passage to 
Vurkey, but without any property, (an 
article which has becn-intringed, as it 
as certain they have embarked a con- 
Siderable quantity of money and 
jewels.) ‘These terms were liberally 
accepted by the Greeks,—I say /ibe- 
rally, because tiie Grecks, in posses- 
sion of the Palamede, could have 
exterminated, the Turks, without ex- 
posing a manof their own; or, if they 
had a repugnance to destroy the town, 
they had only to leave them to die of 
hunger,—a death which would soon 
have overtaken them, as all possibility 
of relief was excluded by the Joss of 
the Palamede; and who could say that 
the Turks did not deserve the utmost 
rigor of the laws of war, after having 
thus broken their capitulation? The 
Greeks daily supplied the town with 
_provisions ; and, so soon as the vessels 
were prepared for the reception of the 
Turks, the boats were sent to embark 
them. These unfortunate people, 
pressed by hunger and terror, rushed 
F down to the quay; and the force of the 
crowd was such, that the foremost 
were thrown into the sea, and several 
 enfeebled by discase, were trampled 
under foot. In this state of things, 
the Greek officers charged with the 
embarkation invited Capt. Hamilton, 
of his Britannic Majesty’s ship the 
‘Cambrian, to embark some of the 
_ ‘Turks, to which that officer willingly 
acceded, and received on-board 500 
of those people: it is unnecessary to 
=e add, that they were treated with the 
greatest humanity. The rest of the 
 inbabitants were embarked in Greck 
_ vessels; and they all sct sail on the 
Sth of January. 
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Napoti di Romania by the Grecks. 3: 
The Grecks have been: frequently 
and severely reproached with their 
inhumanity towards the 'Turks, always 
forgetting, that it was only the law of 
reprisal of which they made use; but, 
if this could not excuse them, (and it 
could not de so entirely,) it must be — 
recollected from what a condition the — 
Greeks were emerging,—that they 
were without a government, without 
laws, without organization. ; 
To the gencrous interference of the 
British commodore, Capt. Hamilton, 
we sec the Greeks almost in the same — 
measure indebted for the step they 
took from barbarism to civilization, as 
their prisoners of war, the Turks, were - 
for the generous protection granted 
them by him; whose exertions and — 
assistance facilitated the success of 
the Greek chiefs in stifling the rage of 
the numerous multitude that had _ 
flocked froin all quarters to Napoli for — 
revenge; and the example of the hu- 
manity of the Cambrian frigate made 
them the easier get over their struggle 
with a just hatred which they bore an — 
enemy, who had always so cruelly 
dealt with them; and, even on the 
present occasion, deserved their pity - 
the less, for having so shamefully — 
broken his capitulation. 
May we hope, that those who have 
judged unfavourably of the Greek re- 
volution, from the excesses which 
were committed in the first moments — 
of fermentation, wili recall that judg- 
ment, now that the cause no longer 
exists. May we hope, that all the 
friends of humanity will unite with 
one ‘voice in favour of this long op- 
pressed people; and that the English 
will not be found less prompt than the 
other nations of Europe, at the call of 
civilization and philanthropy. 
A PHILO-HELLENE, 
reece ; Jan. 16, 1823. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, i. 
N noticing Dr, Murray’s History 
of European Languages, &c. the 
Doctor is represented as saying, that, 
“‘at the time of the Jast Chincse em- 
bassy, Britain had not a man who — 
could officiate in it as an interpreter.” — 
This statement is not correct: Dr, 
Morrison, who is now at Canton, has 
translated the Seriptures into the — 
Chinese language ; and was with the 
embassy as the interpreter, bts 
‘Tuly 7, 1823. Ot 
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