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dnomecl her to perpetual imprisonment. History relates, that before she 

 left his presence, and when his rage was at its highest pitch, he snatched 

 his own son, Mohammed, from her arras, dashed him with violence into 

 a deep marble fountain, and hastily ran out of the apartment. One of 

 the eunuchs, at the peril of his own life, took him out of the water, 

 and concealed him for a short time, xmtil the fury of the sultan was 

 somewhat abated. 



" The vessel in which we embarked was driven, by contrary winds, 

 towards the coast of Candia, and here we fell in with a Maltese galley ; 

 a dreadful engagement ensued between the two vessels : after the most 

 desperate struggle the Turks were overcome. The eunuch was killed 

 in the contest, and my unfortunate mother received a mortal wound in 

 her bosom whilst pressing me to her heart, and sheltering me from the 

 deadly bullets that were raining around us. The conquerors boarded 

 our vessel, and, elate with success, were on the point of putting every 

 individual to the sword, when the principal officer of the sultana snatch- 

 ing me from the last embrace of my parent, whose blood was triclding 

 down my face, raised me in his robust arms, and exhibiting me to the 

 IVIaltese captain, he exclaimed : " Spare, oh, spare us ! Your fortunes 

 are made ! Behold the son of the Sultan Ibrahim — he was going to 

 Mecca for the ceremony of circumcision !" These words produced a 

 magical effect. The captain instantly gave orders to spare the surviving 

 officers and crew. As individuals belonging to the sultana, and forming 

 the suite of the heir to the Ottoman emjiire, they wcic treated with all 

 possible respect by the enemy, and upon me, the utmost care and atten- 

 tion were lavished. The remains of my hapless mother, said to be only 

 a nurse to whose care I had been entrusted, were thrown unceremoni- 

 ously into the deep. On our arrival at Valetta great rejoicings took 

 place among the knights of Saint John of Jerusalem. I was removed, 

 with a part of the suite, to a country residence, some distance from the 

 city, where I led a secluded life for four years ; but I was treated by the 

 attendants who surrounded me as a prince of the Ottoman empire ; and, 

 even at this distant period of time, I well recollect, that the grand mas- 

 ter often visited and treated me with the kindness of a parent. This 

 excellent man, as well as the other knights, being fully persuaded that I 

 Avas heir to the throne of Turkey, shortly after my arrival, set the com- 

 mander of the Turkish vessel at liberty, and entrusted him with de- 

 spatches to Ibrahim : they offered to give up his son if he would, in 

 exchange for the precious booty, consent to deliver up to them the island 

 of Rhodes, which the Turks had taken from them in 1522, and of which 

 they had held possession since 1308, after the return of the knights from 

 Palestine. The commander, on his arrival at Stamboul, boldly repaired 

 to the seraglio, gained admittance to the presence of the sultan, and gave 

 the following statement: — 'He had been made a prisoner by the [Mal- 

 tese, — that having been instrumental in preserving the life of the grand 

 master from the stiletto of an assassin, the grateful christian had ordered 

 him to be set at liberty. During his residence, and almost at the time of 

 his arrival in IMalta, a vessel, containing a beautiful Russian lady and 

 her son, together with several Tiu-kish officers, had been captured by a 

 Maltese galley, and conveyed to Valetta. After his liberation he had 

 an opportunity of seeing this lady, who earnestly requested him, when 

 arriving at Stamboid, to see the sultan, and inform him that she was 

 Eudocia, who had been violently dragged from his shores. A Turkish 



