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fied with the blameless conduct of the superiors of the place : on the following day , therefore , all the clergy assembled , according to the orders of the Muhassil , who , having placed a large number of foot-guards on all the stairs of the palace in which they
had met , gave the command for a general massacre , even in the ^ ^ esence of the holy father . That venerable man , full of the courage resulting from hopeless misfortune and from the hatred of tyranny , addressed the impious governor in these terms : — 44 what crime can you accuse the
hapless victims whose blood you seek to shed ? If after obtaining from us unlimited sacrifices ; if after reducing us to the most distressing indigence ; if after stripping our temples of their most precious ornaments ; if after compelling me to contribute to all the
necessities of the government , by heavy exactions from my poor children , your fury is still insatiable , on me let your wrath be turned , on my head alone let your vengeance fall , and spare , oh ! spare the blood of these innocent men ! Forget not / ' continued he , ' * that there exists a God who beholds the actions of man , and
who judges with rigid equity !"The barbarian , interrupting him , replied , ** Never has my heart been more engaged in a work appointed for me ; and I lament , profane wretch , that I cannot in this place , and at this moment , before your eyes , subject every Christian to the same fate . I
trusty at least , that not one of these dogs that are present will escape me . " The massacre then began , and the sainted hierarch stood , with paternal tenderness , commending his beloved sons to the mercy of the Eternal .
Various questions were afterwards addressed to the Archbishop , which he disdained to answer ; but he declared that he had been guilty of no fault except a too invariable fidelity to the Sultan , whom too late he
appreciated , and who / had never merited the homage he had paid him . Then with deep anxiety for the salvation of those over whom he had watched , he humbl y implored for them the mercy
° f God ; and he prayed earnestly that the history of these calamitous events "right rightl y impress -the heart 6 f * Very monarch whb worshiped the true God .
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After \ the murder of his : innocent children , the holy father himself was led away to be sacrificed ^ whilst resigning his soul into the hands of his Creator . This horrid crime caused
the most profound grief in-every Christian breast . In the mean time , the Turks abandoned themselves to all sorts of debauchery , and committed the most detestable crimes . The
Christians who had escaped the carnage and taken refuge in their churches , found not their altars that inviolable asylum which religion , even amongst the least civilized of the human race , has always made them : those altars ,
so often sanctified by the most august mysteries , were denied by every act of the most brutal obscurity . Small is the number of those who escaped the fury of the barbarians ; e ^ en the European Consuls were obliged to take refuge on board their ships .
buck were the scenes which passed in our isle on that fatal day ; and such the scenes daily passing in some part of our country . The memory of our calamities will descend to the latest times , inspiring just and implacable hatred of the cursed race of
Mussulmans ; and all the Christian world will pay the tribute of commiseration to those illustrious victims who fell in the cause of their religion and their country . These fearful events took place on the 9 th of July , 1821 .
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Sir , York , July 4 , 1823 . YOUR correspondent Mr . Luccock [ pp . 286—292 ] has taken occasion , from a remarkable incident in Mrs . Cappe's Memoirs , to present your readers with some observations on what has been called a particular Providence ;—a subject on which he
thinks the amiable and excellent author had formed very erroneous opinions . The same passage has-suggested a similar train of thought to , a writer in another valuable periodical work , the "Inquirer , " whose remarks
upon it closely resemble those of your correspondent . As it appears to me , notwithstanding the objections which have been urged with ; such minuteness and vlriety of detail . by , these writers , that Mra . Cappe * s argi * mfent iscorrfect ahd philosophical , and her application
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Mr . W . Turner * s * Reply to €€ Remarks on a Particular Providenoe . " 399
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1823, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1786/page/31/
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