AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 43.8 GREEK REVOLUTION. BY SAMUEL G. HOWE, M. D. LATE, SURGEON IN CHIEF TO THE GREEK FLEET. and who That marks the fire still sparkling in each eye, And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their father's heritage. Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza LXX NEW.YORK : WHITE, GALLAHER & WHITE. HARVARD Southern District of New-York, 35, BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 2nd day of August, A. D. 1828, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samue! G. Howe, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. By Samuel G. Howe, M. D., late Surgeon in Chief to the Greek Fleet. and who That marks the fire still sparkling in each eye, Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza LXXV.” In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." FRED. J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. ΤΟ MATTHEW CAREY AND EDWARD EVERETT, ESQUIRES, THE GENEROUS AND UNTIRING PHILHELLENES, THIS SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR GRECIAN INDEPENDENCE, IS INSCRIBED AS A MARK OF FRIENDSHIP AND RESPECT BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. To the Author's friends, who know that he has been obliged to draw up this Sketch of the Greek Revolution, within the last five months, and amid other occupations, no apology is necessary for presenting it, in its present imperfect state; or for the numerous faults and inelegancies in style and composition, which must necessarily have crept into a work, so hastily finished. But to the Public, such an apology is necessary. The Author had hoped leisurely to digest the mass of historical information concerning the Revolution, which he had collected during three years' service in Greece; to combine with it, statistical accounts, remarks on the soil, climate, produc tions, and geographical and commercial advantages of that country; with observations on the religion, language, manners and customs, virtues and vices, of the Modern Greeks; in such a way, as to form a volume that should contain both inte. -resting, and useful information. But since his return to America, the Author has been called upon (unexpectedly) to devote the principal part of his time, to the advancement of the cause of Philhellenism here, and suddenly to return to Greece; in whose service, it has been the height of his ambition, to perform a part useful to her, and honourable to himself. Necessity therefore, obliges him to throw his book before the American public, without claiming for it the name of a HISTORY; it is what it professes to be, merely a SKETCH. The information may be depended upon; but it is not all that is wanting. He may appear to have dwelt much upon the characters of the principal Greeks; but he flatters himself, that the authenticity may apologise for this; as he has not ventured to speak of any, whom he has not known personally. The names of mat by distinguished Greeks, and the character and actions of |