if the arch-chancellor, with his Fanariote and Nappist* adherents, himself a Fanariote and Nappist, continues to stay there and to lacerate the bosom of our beautiful country.

Athens, June 7, 1836.

It is not long since I returned hither from a journey which I made through the provinces of Acarnania and Etolia, wishing to see with my own eyes the true state of those countries.

I conceive it to be a sacred duty which I owe to my country, to inform you of every thing, and to designate to you the first promoters of the late insurrection. According to my own observation, and according to the events, this movement has been excited by the Nappists and Mavrocordatoites. You know that Nicholas Mavromati went to Acarnania, under the pretext of family affairs, towards the end of November last. M. Sicilianos also went to Calussa, with the formal intention of pushing forward the insurrectionary movement. They were in connection with the Nappists and the Mavrocordatoites of this place (Athens), of whom Zaïmi has been the centre, and still remains so since his return here. M. Sicilianos traversed, during four months, the whole of Acarnania, where he made many partizans, united himself with the Maghina and Iscos families, and returned with Mavromati to Zante, after having excited many people to rebellion. From this island, he sent, through the hands of the brother of Malami, four hundred okas of powder, to the address of Dimozelio, and promised, as I understand, a great deal more.

The insurrection broke out about the end of January. Some days before, M. Mavromati and J. Karapanaki had left for Xeromeron. The former, repulsed from Prevesa, went to Leucadia. The latter, a cousin-german of Maghina, was at Arta, for the purpose of expediting from thence munitions of war to the insurgents.

Dimozelio, with the cousin of N. Zelio, Soter Stratos, Nicolas

* Nappist is the nickname for the Capodistrians.

Stratos, Nicolas Zervas, with his brother Christos, the two brothers Malami, Jean Bairactar, and Perles, showed themselves the chiefs of the insurgents. But the Capitani, Iscos, Staïkos, Bozzaris, and Macris, although having an understanding with the others, kept prudently in the back-ground, under the pretext of arranging their domestic affairs, but in reality to observe, beforehand, the turn that the movement would take.

The plan of the insurgents was, first, to take possession of the fortresses of Missolonghi and Lepanto, being already in collusion with the garrison commanded by Bozzaris, Macris, Zoggas, Panatuloas, and other Souliotes. A body of two thousand men had already arrived before Missolonghi on the 1st of February, besides four hundred men under the command of Tialion, Zerberi, and Gula, all comrades of the Makrys of High Zygos, who repaired thither on the part of Kuritide, and directed their steps to Lepanto. But the former, as well as the latter, completely failed; for, at the same time, not only the troops of the Government came to occupy Missolonghi, but Pharmakakis and Granassis declared themselves, at Lepanto, for the Government, to the great astonishment of their comrades, who, being in the minority, have not been able to keep their promise of coming to the assistance of the besiegers, and opening to them the gates of the fortress.

Missolonghi was besieged during a month, and the province of Lepanto was occupied by the insurgents.

Hardly a month afterwards, the Government found itself compelled to order two thousand Greek combatants to go to meet the rebels. They required fifteen days to prepare, and in this interval the insurrection gained the whole of Acarnania; and it would have extended much further, if the Government had not demeaned itself, even to flattery, in promising the rank of Colonel to Iscos, besides the decoration of the Sauveur. The acceptance of these offers on the part of this chief was regarded as an act of treason by the others, who, indignant thereat, demanded pardon of the Government, and obtained it. The Chiefs of Acarnania and Etolia took the same step, and the remainder of the insurgents, amounting to scarcely two hundred men, retired to Valtos, where

they united with the brigands, to the number of a thousand men, and formed their camp at Baritade, towards the 18th of March.

The Royal troops, coming from the side of Eastern and Western Greece, under the orders of Captains Zavellas, Grivas, and Mamouris, encamped there the 19th and 20th of March: one part at Arapi, on the side of Karavassera, and the other at Callidromi. Zavellas, at the head of eight hundred men, would have been defeated, if Grivas and Mamouris had not arrived in time to deliver him from the danger, and to repulse together the brigands, pursuing them to the bridge of Tatarne, and taking possession even of Baritade.

The brigands took refuge after the battle at Xarakia and Antifloro. Being defeated there also, and finally at the convent of Aretha, close to the frontiers of the kingdom, where, on the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th of April, they were so closely surrounded, they crossed the frontiers, having left on the spot many dead and prisoners. Amongst the former are found the brothers Balami, Christos Zervas, and Rupakias. Many others of inferior note have been wounded, and amongst the latter, Dimozelios. trosamis and Malassiovas, two chiefs of brigands, have been made prisoners, as well as Gerolami of Acarnania, and others who were immediately sent to the council of war at Missolonghi.

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During the course of this war, George Karapanaki of Arta, in union with the Turkish governor of this latter town, furnished provisions and munitions to the rebels. Tullias Goggos and Semkas offered them asylum and protection; the former to the family of Stratos and to Dimozelios, and the latter to the brigands who traversed the bridge of Koraki to go to Agrapha. As to Nicolas Zervas, he is gone, they say, to Jannina, and has been well received there by the Pacha. Meantime, Oriental Greece is not entirely delivered from the brigands, because they begin to reappear again on that side.

All these insurrectionary movements proceed no doubt from invisible causes, and tend to higher results; but you may easily conceive how injurious they are to our country.

The Nappists, the Mavrocordatoites, and the Turks, are eager to

slake their thirst with the blood of the Greeks, and to annihilate, if they can, our poor country: and I hope you will readily believe me if I tell you, from what I have learned in Acarnania, that two thousand Albanians are ready to make an irruption into Greece, and to unite with the banditti already there. Knowing the intentions and sentiments of those who move every thing, you will not be at all surprised.

But, after all this, Messrs. Zaimi and Maghina are taking the greatest pains to prove that they have no hand in it, and to attribute the cause of the insurrection to Coletti. The people, however, are not to be duped, and the government is well acquainted with the rights of the matter. The connexion of Coletti with Acarnania is well known: and all those who have been the instigators of the insurrection, and all those who have taken part in it, as well as the chiefs, are assuredly not friends of Coletti's.

Meanwhile, what is the government about? Instead of changing the direction, taking the course of the nation, that is to say, the constitutional direction, it continues to proceed as before, without object and without assurance; and I greatly fear that the enemies of the country may seize this fresh occasion to reduce the country to the brink of ruin - for, though the affairs of Acarnania are for the moment tranquillized, it is not said that the troubles may not break out again and even with greater violence

a moment which I fear is but too near at hand, from what I myself have seen on the spot.

END OF VOL III.

LONDON:

F. SHOBERL, JUN., LEICESTER STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.