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Foreign News: Syria

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Day
21
Month
July
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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TliR finllowing have come ib hand throngh n private letter, of the butcherings that have rucently taken place in Syria: "A civil war, nd one of extermimtion, rcipns at ihis moment in the mountains beIween tho Omsesand the Christians, and durmg the last fil'teen days the horrorp we have soen per'petmted ar'diïnd us are dreadful. On tvery side tht sounds of baUle are heard, ai d nrtthiug ia seen btit lire and flnme! housos, villnges on dmrches, and convenís being re'cip.ocally o prey lo the flames. At the motnent I vvrite (May 17) we have before us the appaliing speclacJe of no leso thafl '!even villages, nnd a number of Maronite churcfies an(i convenís i"n flames, nnd what is 'vorse, wben the'Cliris-tinns are victorioiis, they enier the Druse villaget?, putting to the edgfe of the Bword) men, worneri and cliildron; :he Druse folliiwing ihe example when they are yictorious . All the tk worms of both partiss, the (o!e support of the Syrian populaüon, have been burued. The convenís of the Maronit.es and Cathoücs have been burned, and the bodies uf .their priest6, aft er deaih have been burned by the Drtii-ei. É?ery horror Í8 praci'Sed c'n their enemies - f-r exnmple, to kill b'yfa'rnïrie, mapsnc.-e, and a thousand oiher acts óf barbarism momemtarily cominittéd. The Christiana at the coniuiencement were victonous over their enemies: but our Paa, who is out wilh hie rei. uiar troops, as soon hs he perceives the Christialia victoriou?, poinïs hiu nrtillery agaiit l htm, loaded with g rape, nnd cotnpelf tliis ui)for túnate sect ró lake to flight. The Drtises immediately enter inlo their villages, sacking thoni, burmnjj tlier houaes,jroud9. &ic. I c'o uot doubt but the Pasha has eecrot orders from his G Vvernment to destroy and ruin the Cinis'ians eiitirolyvor he could not so openly ;rd nnd apsist their enemie. "The Omnticism of the Turks on tl.e coast is dfii'y bccoming nioreand more visible andsve are menuced by a terrible revolution. ín iSaida they rose to Wassácre all the Christians: but ihankshp to tome European shipscf-vvar. :i'nd lo Reíchild Pasha, who left suddenly íor the place of distiirbance- a cnlm. perhnps momcntary, has sucteeded. Here, in Bfirout', a riáing also took place a few dajü ago, lo put the Clnistians to death; bul thnnks, to the energy of the consuls?, and tome of the Turkish proprietor's, a cairo iias Micceeded. "At this nionienh, wjt!i the help "óf om glasscF, we 6ee unfó túnate fugitiva Chrisliaiií - vvonien and children, to the iiun.ber o! S000 or 7000, on the coat-t. Two ehips ol war oïie Frenct) and ono Austrinn, and five or six rirnnll vessels, cliqrtered by t!te mercaii' tile body, hnve sailed ló coliect and ave ihem f'rom th'e dreadlul death whfch waits them hom famine. I do uot know wbat so many pobpie '.vill oo here to live; or whut we all shall do, Irom the great existinjj 6carcity ol water, wlièti the population of óurbity ttill be augtnenled by Í5O0 or 000 sbuls. "Tliis, yon niuy rely on it, is na exngcrationiïUonot kno'.V h'ow European Powers tolérate such aboiliinations. or the fanaliciem of t!:e barbariaue, nnd remuin inactive, when u handful of troops, of any. Christlah nation, would stiffiice to canee thrir iii'solence to ccase, umi brng therii tó a proper ssiJbe of reason. "AJÁr 20.- Fire ahd battla comicue to reign vvilh debtructtve violenee on a!J tildes around u, nnd the news we have at this moment is, tfiat the Chrislians have been obliged lo fire on the regul.tr troops, Vhich places us in n very nlarminsir position, as we fear alution o{' the Turks ogamsl all.the Christians, hik! ue are now uil prepared, weapo in hand, lo (i iVijd oiir Jiuutes and the livcs of oitr Jariiilius. Yesterdoy the Pa6ha wrotb to tbc cciistiiiir body thut it was ifopogsible for him lo reeohcile the ho-dije partiet- ahd de'matided u.--siat:infq i'rum tlitru. }ut wbat cni) the C Usii.'b do betweer: two balions eqtially stiipid, iiuran', faiiatical and superstitjous? Our city is ulready :ul] of unfortuiiatu mountaineere, of the Cliristiens' tnjwomen and children, dying of hunger, whom the Cunsulb lers are constraiued to sppport ia cvmmoD crbarify." '

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