It was about this time, that is to say, at the commencement of 1821, that the revolution burst out in various parts of Greece and the isles.  Circumstances, certainly, were not unfavorable to the movement, as one portion of the Turkish army was employed in the war against Ali Pacha in Albania, and another part in the provinces north of the Danube.  The Greeks soon possessed themselves of the open country of the Morea, and drove their enemy into the fortresses.  Of these, that of Tripolitza, with the city, fell into their hands, in the course of the summer.  Having after these first movements obtained time to breathe, it became, of course, an early object to establish a government.  For this purpose delegates of the people assembled, under that name which describes the assembly in which we ourselves sit, that name which “freed the Atlantic,” a Congress.  A writer, who undertakes to render to the civilized world that service which was once performed by Edmund Burke, I mean the compiler of the English Annual Register, asks, by what authority this assembly could call itself a Congress.  Simply, Sir, by the same authority by which the people of the United States have given the same name to their own legislature.  We, at least, should be naturally inclined to think, not only as far as names, but things also, are concerned, that the Greeks could hardly have begun their revolution under better auspices; since they have endeavored to render applicable to themselves the general principles of our form of government, as well as its name.  This constitution went into operation at the commencement of the next year.  In the mean time, the war with Ali Pacha was ended, he having surrendered, and being afterwards assassinated, by an instance of treachery and perfidy, which, if it had happened elsewhere than under the government of the Turks, would have deserved notice.  The negotiation with Russia, too, took a turn unfavorable to the Greeks.  The great point upon which Russia insisted, beside the abandonment of the measure of searching vessels bound to the Black Sea, was, that the Porte should withdraw its armies from the neighborhood of the Russian frontiers; and the immediate consequence of this, when effected, was to add so much more to the disposable force ready to be employed against the Greeks.  These events seemed to have left the whole force of the Ottoman empire, at the commencement of 1822, in a condition to be employed against the Greek rebellion; and, accordingly, very many anticipated the immediate destruction of the cause.  The event, however, was ordered otherwise.  Where the greatest effort was made, it was met and defeated.  Entering the Morea with an army which seemed capable of bearing down all resistance, the Turks were nevertheless defeated and driven back, and pursued beyond the isthmus, within which, as far as it appears, from that time to the present, they have not been able to set their foot.