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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

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THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

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Robins and Sons, Printers,
Tooley Street, Southwark,

61-65

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AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION

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History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c.

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THE SULTAN OF TURKEY AND MAHMET ALI, PACHA OF EGYPT.

THE close resemblance which the manners, habits, and practices of the disciples of Mahomet, bear to the delineations in the Arabian Nights, warrants us in concluding, that the March of Intellect has not been so rapid in Turkey as in our own favoured isle, many centuries having elapsed without bearing on their tide the scum of barbarism. The following anecdote of the present Sultan of Turkey and Ali Pacha, (related by Lady Hester Stanhope, for many years a resident at Djouni,) will serve to illustrate these observations.

"The growing power of the Pacha of Egypt had long been the cause of uneasiness to the Sublime Porte. It was feared at Stambool, that Mahmet Ali would some day throw off the yoke of the successor to No. 168.-3d. S.

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the Caliphat. In vain the perfidious policy of the seraglio despatched Capidgi Bashis, armed with the bowstring and the dagger, to the capital of the Pyramids ;in vain its treacherous agents endeavoured by poison or stratagem, to rid the Porte of a dangerous rival. Mahmet Ali was too well warned by his spies at Constantinople of the toils which were spread around him, to suffer himself to fall into the snare.

At length the Sultan Mahmoud resolved upon adopting a scheme which should be so cleverly devised, and involved in such impenetrable secresy, that it was impossible it could fail of success. He had in the harem a beautiful Georgian slave, whose innocence and beauty fitted her, in the Sultan's eyes, for the atrocious act of

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