Extract from a report of the English consul of Levant Company, 3 May 1821
“The emigration of the Greek inhabitants, or rather precipitate flight of vast numbers of them for their personal safety from this place, has left a vacuum generally felt by all. Trade has become entirely paralysed for the moment. But I expect when the panic which has seized them subsides, and they learn the forbearance of the Turks they will return, to procure that subsistence which can only be found in this place by persons of their description.”
Clogg, R., “Smyrna in 1821: Documents from the Levant Company Archives in the Public Record Office”, Μικρασιατικά Χρονικά 15 (1972), p. 321.