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MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JULY <24, 1821.
No. 24.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
(on Tuesdays)
BY S. GRANT LAND if R. M. ORME,
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U3» Advertisements conspicuously inserted at
fhe customary rates.
FROM the NEW YORK AMERICAN.
Tile following spirited atul feeling com
ments on the Burning of the Public Build
ings at Washington, and the excuse given
for that disgraceful act of Barbarism by the
author of" A Narrative of the Campaigns ol
the British army at Washington,” extracts
from which have been published in most of
our papers, are taken from an article in the
Federal Gazette, the Editor of which states
that “ this excellent and just defence of the
conduct of our citizen soldiers, as eloquent
as it is disinterested, is from the pen of a gen
tleman who never was even a resident of the
United States, u. Ail since the conclusion of
the late war with Great Britain.
The apology offered lor this Vandal
act by the British “ narrator,” namely,
that a H ig of truce had been (ired upon,
& that Gen. Ross, who accompanied (he
flag, [strange occupation for the General
in Chief!] had a horse shot under him,
lias already been answered by Mr. Skin
ner, in a letter alike creditable to the
pood sense, honorable feelings, and good
taste of that gentleman. Hut as there
exists evidence from the mouth of the
British General, it may be adduced to do
away all doubt or cavil on this part of
the subject.
General Ross, in his official dispatch
to his government, dated, •‘ Tonant, in
the Patuxent, August 30th, 1814,” after
l iving rather an iuconsecutivc account
of the battle, says —
“ Having halted the army for a short
time, 1 determined to inarch upon Wash
ington, and reached that city at 8 o’clock
that night. Judging it of consequence
to complete the destruction of the Public
Buildings, with the least possible delay,
so that the army might retire without
loss of time, the fallowing buildings were
consumed : the Capitol, including the Se
riate House and House of Representatives,
iSyc. 4"C. 4'C.
There can be no mistake here—no
thing is left to doubt or uncertainty—the
General states distinctly, that he judged
it of consequence to destroy the public
buildings, and among those, the very
first lie mentions is the capitol, and then
Ife goes on to enumerate the President's
house, ire. ftc. $-c.—But as if resolved
not to leave the future historian a loop
to hang a doubt upon, respecting this ex
ecrable part of his exploit, he, having
given a list of the buildings thus consum
ed, immediately adds ;
“ The object of the expedition having
keen accomplished, I determined befo
any greater force of the enemy could be
assembled to withdraw the troops and
accordingly commenced retiring on the
night of the 25th.”
Thus it is clearly stated—without dis
guise—that the object of the expedition
was to burn the public buildings, inclu
ding those of a purely civil nature, such
as the Capitol, Senate House, House of
Representatives, President’s House, Li
brary, &.c. and having thus accomplished
the object of the Expedition, the army re
tired. There is not one word about a
Flag of truce, nor of having been tired
at, nor a single circumstance mentioned,
or distantly alluded to, as provocation or
apology for doing that which he avers it
was of consequence to complete and which
be as candidly declares was the object of
the expedition to accomplish—This story
of the Flag of truce was never heard of
—never thought of, till, at the close ol
seven years reflection, this “ narrator”
conjured it up to neutralize, if possible,
the indignant spirit so generally aroused
by the conflagrations at II ashington.—
There was no Flag of truce, therefore
there could not have been, as he asserts,
“ a direct bre ich of the lazv of Nations,”
in til ing upon what did not exist—I et
bad there been such violation of public
law, it would have found an example,
though not an apology, in the history of
British warfare, and, perhaps, in the his
tory of British war alone. Arnold, ly
ing before Quebec, sent a flag to the offi
cer in commi.’nd, when “Colonel Mac-
lean who comm-anded during the absence
of the Governor, not only refused to re
ceive the message, but ordered Ins men
to fire on the bearers." And again Ge
neral Carleton [the Governor] having
resumed the command, Montgomery sent
to summon the place by a flag, when “ the
Governor ordered his troops to fire on
the bearer.” [See the History of Inde
pendence, fcc- by Botta.] Here are ex
amples truly British, were such wanting,
or were such to be received as an c.x-
cQse for what is charged against the A-
mericans, dt Washington—but as the
charge is false, the British may be left
jo undisturbed possession of the exam
ple which their exploits in “ direct breach
of the law of nations” have consigned to
a parallel, till something more atrocious
still succeeds, and tlieu we wonder al
our not having taken a more extensive
view of the dark side of the human char
acter. Wc are shocked and indignant
oft reading of the burnings at Washing
ton, and conceive that scarcely more
could be executed in the rage of savage
devastation ; but if the destruction of
the capitol, the President's house, the
library, the printing ollices, &i archives,
excite so much indignation and disgust,
what will posterity say of the following
Vandalism ?
In the Navy Yard at Washington, a
monument of the purest marble, of clas
sic design, and exquisite workmanship,
had been erected by their surviving com
rades to the memory of some officers
who f<-H in the naval attack of the Ame
ricans on Tripoli. This monument, so
creditable to the arts—so beautiful in
its structure—so interesting in its nature
—so dear to friendship—dedicated by
youthful.heroes who survived, to youth
ful heroes who perished—this monument
which should at once have found its way
to the sympathies of a brave man, and
v. hieh a true soldier could scarcely con
template without a tear—this monument
so solemn, so consecrated, so sacred,
which seemed to have its very founda
tions in the finest affections of the heart
—this monument was attacked by the
British, and now you may read on its
southern side.
“ Mutilated by Britons,
On the 25th of August, 1814 !,”
Can the whole scope of that language
which is common in both nations—can
that language, so rich, so flowing, and
so energetic, furnish terms sufficiently
trong, to depict in appropriate colours,
the barbarism of this act ?—Jurists may
write, define, and promulgate national
law, but they will never say, that the
burning of the civil buildings or even of
the library in the Capitol of the United
States, equalled in atrocity S: heartless
ness the mutilation of this monument.
Had it been a pile commemorative of
some of the many American victories o-
ver the English themselves, such fact
might he offered, by folly or wounded
pride, in palliation ; but, when it. was in
record of a deed which Britons would
have been proud to emulate, and which
they did subsequently emulate at Algiers,
the shadow of an excuse did not present
it«elf. Are we then to assume, that it
sprang from rancor, the base ingredient
of little minds, or from a spirit of ven
geance, inspired by humiliations previ
ously inflicted by the arms of America ?
Had an expedition from the United States
made an incursion into England (and it
could have been easily effected) and
meeting with a monument erected to
some of her naval heroes, attacked and
mutilated that monument, what would
Jiave been the exclamations and the cur
ses of Englishmen ? IVJiat would have
ergetic measures ; and, impressed with
the maxim that a law to be perfect de
mands a penal sanction, & that the pun
ishment to be useful requires examples,
public, speedy and impartial, we have
therefore decreed as follows :
1. A Court Martial shall be created
with all the powers of a special council of
war.
2. This court shall execute rigorously
articles 4 and 6 of our decree of 31st
March against those who carry forbidden
arms, by condemning to capital punishment
as an assassin whoever shall he found with
these arms, & shall without delay execute
the sentence.
3. The director of police may autho
rise the search of houses at discretion. If
forbidden arms shall be found without le
gal permission the householder shall he
punished accordingly. If the collection
of arms and ammunition is such ns to give
room for suspecting a conspiracy, the
person of the inhabitant shall he seized,
and placed with his papers at the dispo
sition of the Court Martial.
4. The same court shall execute the
decree of March 28th against the Car
bonari
5. The object of the society of Car
bonari being the overthrow of all go
vernments, every one who after the pub
lication of this decree shall join that so
ciety or attend any of its meetings, shall
be punished with death, as guitly of high
treason.
6. All who, without being Carbonari,
shall be taken in actual meeting with a
view of overturning the public order,
shall likewise be punished with death.
7. The same court shall punish with
imprisonment of from three to ten years,
every person who, in town or country,
shall know of the place of a meeting of
the above description and shall not im
mediately disclose it.
8. Whoever, belonging to the said
meetings, moveJ by repentance, shall
discover to the police the members and
the projects of a conspiracy, shall be
pardoned, his name not disclosed nor en
tered on any register.
Signed in due form,
MARQUIS de CIRCILLO.”
[A measure more tyrannical in its ob
ject, more bloody in its provisions, or
more treacherous in its means of detecti
on has seldom disgraced human history.
What must be the state of the people to
render such a decree necessary ? or the
nature of a government w hich would a-
dopt such a law wilhuut necessity ?]
been the language of their presses ?—
Would not the Americans have been
painted as more barbarous than the sa
vages, who, untaught, and uagoverned,
range the Western wilderness of this
continent ? Is there an epithet of op
probrium that would not have been east
upon them with a lavish hand ?—Let
then the author of the narrative under
consideration, reflect on the fact I have
stated, and sink to the earth in slntnie—
let his countrymen reflect upon the foul
deeds attached to the history of their
campaigns in this country, and they will
see the wisdom of avoiding whatever
may lead to a comparison of their arms
with those of America.—The “narra
tive of an officer who served in the ex
pedition” may gratify the inflated arro
gance, and tickle the insatiate vanity of
the British natiou—it may administer
to England’s well known hatred of Ame
rica, and put money into the pockets of
its author, but with the world in gene
ral it seems Wetter calculated to bring
odium on both, than to shed a lustre on
either. No work could be more indis
creet—it has roused to life and action
feelings in American bosoms that time
had lulled to repose, and as this is but a
feeble exposure of its deformity, it? ego
tism and its falsehood will doubtless be
touched by many an abler hand—it will
have the withering merit of blasting the
cause it would sustain, for it will drag in
to noon day light before other nations,
those infamies which England should
wish to see entombed forever in the
grave of Ross.
TiVStEIGN*.
SLtory, and as to apology, they will not
be able to find one in justification of an
act that would disgrace a Cossack of the
Pon or an Arab of the desert.
There are atrocities which strike so
frrciblv on sensitive and honourable
Blinds,to be cop*idered incapable ot
FROM FRANCE.
New-York, June 30.
By the ship Bayard, capt. Van Dyck,
from Bordeaux, we received a file of
French papers to the 7th of May.
The following decree is offered to our
readers to show the condition of Naples.
* Ferdinand I. by the grace of God,
King of the Two Sicilies.
The fatherly intimations of our de
crees of the sslh and 31st of March last
against secret meetings, and, in favor of
a general disarming of the kingdom not
having produced the desired effect, which
shews the guilty designs of those who
disoba^, 3nd forces us to adopt more en-
New-York, July 4.
LATER FROM EUKOFE.
By the Atlantic, capt. Matlock, the edi
tors of the Mercantile Advertiser have
received Liverpool papers of the 30th,
and London papers to the evening ol the
28lli of May. Extra' Is follow.
Accounts from St. Helena to the 6th of
April had reached England. They sta
ted that Buonaparte was seriously ill,
that he had sent for Sir Hudson Low, the
governor, &. that Iris dissolution was not
expected to he fir distant. Lint two ves
sels have arrived in this country, which
touched at .St. Helena as late as the 15th
of April, and were both informed that
Buonaparte was well.
The London papers have also in large
capitals, positive accounts of the capture
of Lima, with some uf the particulars, re
ceived by a vessel which left Rio Janei
ro in the month of March. But the Ma
cedonian frigate, which left Rio the mid
dle of May, knew nothing of it.
Madrid, May 10.
Favourable accounts have just been
received from America, 't he Universal
announces that two deputies from Boli
var are expected, who must soon arrive,
as the despatch announcing their mission
set out but a few days before them.
The following particulars, which there
is reason to believe arc well founded, are
added :—
Bolivar lias signified, in a confiden
tial despatch, the basis of the proposed
treaty ; according to which,
1. The province of Caraccas shall
be entirely subject to the mother couib
try, and make part of the Spanish terri
lory.
“ 2. Bolivar shall be nominated Capt
General of that province, "as the only
man able to restrain the varies parties
which divide that country.
“3. He shall in consequence, make
his submission, take the oath to the Span
ish Constitution, and have the rank of
Lieutenant-General.
“ 4. The territory of the republic hf
Columbia shall be declared independent
its independence was to be recognised
by Spain ; and the two powers shall Send
to ea«h other diplomatic agents.
“ 5. This republic shall, however, be
attached to Spain by treaties of com
merce, so that the latter power shall lose
none of the commercial advantages which
it has hitherto derived from those pro
vinces.”
Madrid, May 18.
The session of the Cortes is to be pro
longed one month.
Irln, May 14.
The storm is beginning to threaten
General Morillo, Count Of Carthagena
A deputy has required an explanation
from the Minister at War, of his conduct
iu countersigning the appointment of an
individual to an office in Spain, who in
his quality of Captain-General of the Ca
raccas, was a resident there. A Go
vernment Journal says, that the laws of
the indies, which declare Viceroys and
Captains General should be resident in
their Governments, could not apply to
the Count of Carthagena, who was in
trusted with an extraordinary mission,
and invested with higher power* than
Viceroys. The official answer is mo
mently expected.
Paris, May 25.
Letters from Lnybach announce that
the Emperor of Russia left that city on
the 14ll> to return to St. Petersburg, pas
sing through Rada, in Hungary, & YVar-
saw. His Majesty the Emperor of Aus
tria also intended to leave Laybuch im
mediately, to return to Vienna.
Private letters from Spain state that
Merino lias been taken ; his own ac
complices delivered him to General Em-
pecinado.
The accounts from Constantinople and
Bucharest for some days past are in
volved in obscurity.
it is said that the whole of the Morea
now in arms. At Patras, the tire
which was set to the city, continued to
rage for more than four days ; and while
the cross was hoisted as the sign of in
dependence, the Greeks slaughtered the
Turks wherever they could meet them.
The unfortunate refugees, at the houses
of the European Consuls, were every in
stant in terror lest they should be drag
ged forth. At last, after six days of the
greatest confusion, Archbishop Gerveaux,
a man endowed with great firmness, and
well known for his patriotism and intelli
gence, who had left the town on the 30th
March, returned on the night of the Cth
April, as Protector ofthe Greek popula
tion, and enemy of the tyrant Turks.—
Immediately on his arrival the following
Proclamation was published throughout
the city:—“Respect totheConsuls, Assis
tance to Christians—Death to the Turks!”
On the 7th, news was received that tlie
Castle of Lepanto (Lesser Dardanelles)
was attacked by the Insurgents. On the
8th, it vvas reported that a Caloycr, na
med Grogoras, had seize,I on the isthmus
of Corinth, and that lie occupied it at
the head of a corps of 6000 Christians,
Greeks, and Albanians. Natiple di Ro-
mana is also very hard pressed by the
Christian population at Argos. , The
Mainotes at the same time issuing from
Elewlhero-Laconia, commanded by capt.
Colocothron, Ex-Major in the Russian
service, & capt. Pozzomita, have seized
in Laconia, on Misista and Bordonni.—
In Massenis, a column under the orders
of the Capitanacln, a very ancient family,
is in military occupation of Cularaathon.”
Accounts from Constantinople, dated
the 10th ult. state, that the Grand Vizier
is deposed, and Benduli Pashaw appoint
ed his successor. A letter from Con
stantino;,Ic, of April 25, gives a dreadful
picture ,.f the state oFthat capital. Th
nsurrection ofthe Archipelago is confir
med ; the Porte is particularly alarmed al
that in Candia.
A letter from Cattora, ofthe 1st May,
tales, that the whole Pcleponuesus has
thrown off the Turkish yoke, and that
there has been a bloody battle near Ain-
pli, between the Greeks it the Turks, in
which both parties fought with desperate
valour ; the Greeks were completely
victorious ; their loss amounted to 800
inert, and that ofthe Turks 6,000.
Extract of a letter dated Trieste, May
II “ By a vessel from Constantinople
we have intelligence from thence to the
27th ult. Many ofthe principal Greeks
in the city have been arrested and put to
death. Among them were the Patriarch
and four Bishops, w ho were executed on
the 23d, before the Greek Church, by
order ofthe Turkish goverffnumt. News
had been received, that the insurgents of
VVallachia and Moldavia are hopeless of
all support from Russia, and, knowing
also that the intiigues ofthe partisans in
the capital had wholly failed, were lay
ing down their arms and acquiescing
quietly in the yoke they had attempted
to shake off. In the Morea, on the con
trary, rebellion was in full activity,
though little fear was entertained of its
ultimate reduction.”
Letters from Petersburg!! confirm the
reports of extraordinary movements in
the Russf.m armies, which are concen
trating on different points. The Impe
rial guard has definitively left thatcapi-
t;d, and marched towards the frontiers.
London, May 28.
IVp regret to perceive, by a proclamation
issued hy the Lotif Justices ol Ireland, (in
the absence of nwExcellency the Lord Lieu
tenant,) that the* baVony of Galinoy, in the
coutlty of Kilkenny, and the barony of Lp-
per Ossory^ih the Queen’s CJounty, are near ■
ly in a btate approaching-to rebellion ; so
much so, that the peace preservation act has
been put in force iu those districts.
Government has lately detected a most
extraordinary fraud. Sovereigns to a great
extent have bee!) counterfeited, by coating
platina with gold, the specific gravity of tin-
two metals being nearly equal. In melting
down some sovereigns, the platina was de
tected at the bottom of the cr'uciliks.
Liverpool, May 20.
“ Good Cottons of all kinds Lave sold at
full prices this week, but inferior qualities j savage massacre of Christians which is
have barely maintained themselves. The go ing on in that citv. Thousands have
total sales ofthe week amount to about 5000
hags. Uplands at 8 1-2 to I Id; Orleans at 0
lo 12 l-2d j Alabama and Tennessee, 8 3-4
to 0 d-4d. The imports of the present year,
compared with the corresponding period of
the last, have fallen off' about 02,000 bags.
Good and line cottons are becoming scarce.
New-York, July 7.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By the fine fast sailing ship Cortes,
capt. Decost, which arrived yesterday
morning, the editors of the Mercantile
Advertiser have received Liverpool pa
pers to the Uth, and London to the 8th
of June. They furnish no intelligence
of importance. The Cortes came out
of Liverpool early on Monday morning,
11th of June, and brought uo papers uf
that day.
London,June 0.
It was confidently stated last night,
that Mr. Canning is about to return to
the Administration, as First Lord ofthe
Admiralty, w ith the privilege of forming
his own Board; and to make room for
tliis arrangement, Lord Melville is to be.
Secretary of State for the Home Depart
ment, Lord Sidmouth chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, & Mr. B. Bathurst,
President of the Board ofControul.
Letters from ull the grape growing
parts of France concur in stating, that
Incalculable damage has been done to the
vineyards hy the sharp frosts aud hail
storms at the close of the last month,
particularly on the nights ofthe 28th and
2'Jth. Several vineyards which promis
ed an abundant vintage are laid waste.
Madhid, May 24. * 1 *
Government appears decided to send
to America the two Infants, Don Carlos
and Don Francisco de Paulo, one for the
north and the other for the south pails
uf that country.
Government has granted an annual
pension of 1000 francs (4H. 13s Id) to
the Neapolitan General Pepe. Spain
welcomes the Neapolitan refugees, and
grants them pensions.
London,June 2.
SPANISH AMERICA.
A question of au interesting nature is
at present being agitated in Madrid, of
the nature and progress of which but
little has hitherto transpired. It is a
negotiation between Spam and those co
lonics which still acknowledge her su
premacy, for a better form of govern
ment than they have hitherto enjoyed.
We subjoin an extract from a letter, re
ceived yesterday from Madrid, on this
subject, written by one ofthe deputies
to the Spanish Cortes from Mexico, and
which contains the most correct as well
as the most recent information that has
been hitherto received of the progress
made in (he negotiation :—
“ MadrId, May 1 *1.
“ 1 have already informed you mat, on
the motion of Count Toreno, a special
commission has keen named, to propose
the means of terminating their differen
ces between Spain aud America. In
this commission I have the pleasure of
bearing a part, and am not without hope
of seeing its objects fulfilled. There
have been several private meetings of
the American deputies ; and ull agree in
the necessity of according distinct legis
latures to the trans-Atlantic dominions,
reserving the executive power to the
King, and rendering the administration
of justice independent. We have a
strong party among the deputies for the
home provinces who give us their sup
port ; but they require that the Infantas
of Spain should assume the regency of
Uie countries in question. A similar idea
is entertained by the Mexican deputies.
It is not going too far also to say that the
King and the ministers in some degree
espouse our cause. Those who have
held the high office of Viceroy and other
commands in America have been con
sulted ; and they accord in the general
expediency of granting our claim. Fe
lice, the minister for the ultra-marine
firov.inces, has had several interviews
with the King on the subject. Yesterday
all the ministers went up to communi
cate with him ; and we have the satis
faction of learning the expression of the
King's opinion, that the time is arrived
when the question may with propriety
tie entertained. Last night the commis
sion assembled for the first time. The
ministers wore present ; and eo impor
tant was the affair considered, that near
ly half the members of the Cortes at
tended, although a sitting of that assem
bly was then held. After much debate,
we, voted unanimously, as the first basis,
that there should be legislative bodies in
America. To-night the commission will
continue its sittings for the discussion of
the other basis, in which we trust to ex
perience a favourable result, though we
shall certainly have difficulties to encoun
ter.”
Loudon, June 6.
IVe this morning received Hamburgh
papers to the 1st inst. Their principal
contents relate to Turkey. The Porte,
it is said, intends to have two large ar
mies, one on the Danube and the other
iu Macedonia. Nothing certain seems to
be known of Ypsilanti. The accounts
from Constantinople all agree as to the
fallen victim* to the infuriate rage ofthe
Turks, who cut off the heads ofthe un
fortunate beings w ith the greatest Indif
ference. *
London, June 7. *,
Paris papers to the 5tli inst. have ar
rived. The energetic measures recent
ly adopted Ly the government, and the
assurance given in the cortss l»j M. Bar-
daxi, that no foreign power meant to
meddle in the affairs of Spain, have o-
peraled a very favourable change in the
state of the country, ahd nearly restor
ed it to tranquility. The iJtelligenc*
from Turkey is, a* usual, vague, contra
dictory, and destitute of authentic cha
racter. The Count Lavalette, whose
escape from prison when under sentence
of death, excited so much interest at
the time ariived iu Paris, on the 2d in
stant.
Hanover, May 18.
The King of England is expected td
arrive here an the 22d of August, by
wayofSpa and Humburg.
A private letter from Paris, in a morn
ing paper, states—“ There are many
vague rumours with respect to Naples
floating about here. It is said there
have been plots discovered—risings at
tempted—and several assassinations com
mitted, particularly in the Abruzzi„
where, it is said, the Austrian soldiers,
when found alone, Are hunted down likt
wolves, and shot or poinnrded.”
St. Petersburg, May 16.
Advices have been received from capt-
Billinghuuscn, who commands the ves
sel sent on a voyage of discovery to the
South Sea. In May, 1820, he was at*
Botany Bap. After sailing from Rio do
Janeiro, he had discovered, in south la
titude 50 degrees, three islands, which
were covered with snow and ice ; a vol
cano smoked in one of them. Capt. B.
saw no traces of a southern continent.
Did such an one exist, it wou|d, doubt
less, be covered with snow anti ice, and
be inaccessible.
Prom the Danube, May 21.
After long debates, it has been resolved
in the Divan, at Constantinople, to call
over a new and powerful Turkish army
from Asia to Europe. Strict orders have
accordingly been sent to several Pachas.
The Porte designs to have two large ar
mies ; one on the Danube, and the oth
er in Moldavia. Meantime all the dis
posable troops are assembling in Rome-
lia, whence they must advance over
Mount Hocmus to Bulgaria. The Janis
saries who are in and about Adrianopla
are to form the vanguard of this army.
The Janissaries in Constantinople are
speedily to inarch from that city. The
Russian Ambassador had frequent con*
ferences with the Minister of the Porte.
Ali Pacha of Janina has received o-
vertures of conciliation, and of being
restored to favour, if he will be conteat
with the provinces of Albania ; but it is
said be has declined to r.egociate tilt the
Turkish troops have evacuated Albania,
a proposal to which the Porte is not like*
ly to agree.
Czernowitz, May 11.
Families of fugitive Greeks daily arrive
here from Moldavia. We have about 80ft
houses here, and every inhabitant is eager to
shelter the fugitives—but we have no more
room. M. Real, the Austrian agent, ar
rived here on the 4tli, from Jassy—soon af
ter several Boyar families ofdislinction arriv
ed from tile same place. They offered a
high rent for a lew ill-furnished rooms—but
every house is full, and they must travel far
ther. ,
At Rudschuk, and, according to other,
accounts, at Silistria—and again, according
to others, at both places—The Turks have
passed the Danube, and it was feared they
would enter Jassy on the 8th. Terror pre
cedes them, for they unsparingly destroy
whatever is in their way. Of Ypsilanti wo
know nothing, certain. Sometimes he ia
said to have joined Ali of Janina—sometimes
to have gone to Bulgaria—then to have re
tired to the mountains of Transylvania—
then to have entrenched himself, with forty
thousand men at Bucharest.
The number of the Greeks murdered in
Coustanlino|rie amount to thousands. The
furious people cut off the heads of the vic
tims with the greatest indifference. Ten or
twelve fall upon one person, ill treat him, so
as to make him desperate, and when he is so
exhausted that he ran resist no longer, they
cry out to him “ nie bolzie” ((font be afraid),
and cut of his head. This “ nie bolzie" is
now the dreadful watchword in the Turk
ish Capital, which daily and hoary resounds
in all the streets inhabited by Greek Cftrisq
tians.
Laybach, May 12.
When the Congress separated, the fol
lowing Document was published in the
name of the Courts of Austria, Prussia
and Russia
“ DECLARATION.
Europe knows the motives, of tt>4
resolution taken by the Allied Sove
reigns, of extenguishiog conspiracies, St
putting an end to the troubles which
menaced that general peace, the rq-es-
tablishment of which cost so many efforts
and so many sacrifices.
“ At the very moment that their gene
rous determination was accomplished it
the kingdom of Naples, a Rebellion oft”
still more odious kind, if that were port,
aible, broke out iu Piedmont. ./■
“ Neither the ties which fir so