2803 LE MONITEUR UNIVERSEL

LE MONITEUR UNIVERSEL

No. 178. Mercredi, 27 Juin 1827. Syros, 27 May. The remains of General Karaiskakis received their final honors last Sunday. We learn nothing of the fate of the Acropolis, the Greeks maintain that it has supplies for several months. Colonel Gordon must have arrived at Kythera destitute. Lord Cochrane left on a secret mission from Poros with the frigate Hellas, a steamer, a brig, and two other ships. He promised to return in eight days. The other ships in the fleet have been ordered to be ready to join him. Corfu, May 26. The letters we have received from Syros and the island of Aegina tell us that the news spread of the latest affairs in Attica have been exaggerated. It is true that the number of Turks slain is less than that of the Greeks, but in spite of all the advantages of the serascieri, the Greeks overturned all the advantageous positions he held on the sea side, and hold those which guard the mainland side. Kiutahis Pasha had eight transport vessels in the bay of Volos, intending to bring him supplies from Thessaly, but the indefatigable Colonel Heidegger, charged with cutting off Resit Pasha's communication with that province by sea and blockading the island of Evia , managed to take out four of these ships... ...The general Tsorts, at the head of the Moraites and other Greeks who follow his bayraki, guards the part of Attica on the eastern side, and his Rumeliotes still hold Eleonas... Also, quotation of the oath given by all the Rumeliot allies, chieftains and lads, after the death of the brave Karaiskakis: "We bear witness to God, and we swear by the Holy Trinity, to die with our weapons, and not to lay them down before the enemy is chased from the region where our fathers lived..." 2nd, p. 4. In French.