_m their arms, and tossed him in the air, 
repeating certain phrases. Each of the guests 
terwards underwent the same ceremony. 
The next singular oceurrence was, that on 
_ the health of the teri opiates at CAR 
stantinople being given the captain, he 
a ded Ph flea ete do for 
him. Instantly a Russian officer, and near- 
ly twenty of the crew, jum ped from the 
~ cabin window into the sea, with their clothes 
on. The stern ladders were the only re- 
‘source they had to get on board again; and 
on their entering the cabin with their wet 
clothes, they danced round the captain, occa- 
‘sionally prostrating themselves at his feet. 
On our going on shore, the greater part of 
the barge’s crew threw themselves into the 
‘water, and swam by her side until we reach- 
ed the beach. A few piastres distribnted 
-r¢iee them were, ‘as 1 apprehend, con- 
- sidered by them a sufheient recompense tor 
to which they had subjected 
the ducking 
themselves.” 
A Turk who had assaulted one of the 
English mission, and, attempted to mur- 
der him, was condemned to. be behead- 
ed; the sentence being. mitigated. at 
Lord Elgin’s intercession, he received 
fifty strokes of the bastinado on the soles 
of his feet, and was sentenced’to twenty 
years imprisonment inthe’ college of 
i Pera, to learn the Arabic language. 
After a long residence in the. vicinity 
of Constantinople; the English .were 
sent to join the Turkish army at Jaffa... 
—* Wefound the Turkish, troops encamp- 
¢; im the- most confused and irregular man- 
ner, without any order in the positions they 
occupied, each individual having pitched his 
tent on the spot which was most agreeable 
‘to his ‘inclination: The’ only ‘regulation 
‘that scemed to border somewhat om system 
wwas, that each Pacha, or military governor, 
was surrounded by his own men. ‘The ea- 
¢ampment was ona white sandy soil; and I 
observed a considerable number of tents con- 
verted into cook’s shops, While “others were 
set aside for the sale of various’ commodities, 
nip ae coffee and tobacco, of which, 
mong the Turks, there is a great and’con- 
tant consumption. 
“¢ The situation which had been chosen 
' of ignorance and imprudence on the 
art of those. who had been entrusted with 
ie marking out of the ground : being placed 
to leeward of the’ town, the sea breeze, 
which constantly prevailed during the day 
time, distributed to every part of it the pus 
il noxious effluvia which the streets of 
ffa produced. ‘The tenis were absolutel 
ed among the abodes of the dead ; an 
ne bodies of those who had been interred 
a in general so Me sept | covered over 
by the casth, thas the pustid exhalations 
WITTMAN’S TRAVELS IN TURKEY, &c. 
“random in every direction, endan 
Jives of all those who were within their 
for the camp manifested an ineredible de- 
6y 
which were thus generated were intolemble 
to the passenger, and must have been as 
baneful as disgusting to thesg who were 
constantly exposed to them. To complete 
the horrors of this scene of filth and depra- 
vity, the carcasses of dead animals, such as 
camels, horses, and asses, were scattered in 
great abundance among the tenis, to corrupt 
and moulder away, without giving thesmal- 
lest concern, or apparently ofiering any kind 
of molestation to the Turkish soldiery. 
«« The departure of ttoops from the Turk 
ish encampment was, as well aa their arrival, 
customarily announced by the discharge of 
muskets loaded with balls, whieh, flying at 
ed the 
reach. This practice of firing with bullets, 
which is followed in every ‘lurkish camp, 
was itideed become so frequent, that we 
were under constant apprehensions of being 
shot. Our tents were repeatedly pierced by 
the balls ; and one of our men, an armouref, 
was, while at work in our camp, wounded 
in. the shoulder by a musquei-ball. The 
Turkish solders, who furnish their own am- 
‘munition at all times, except on the day of 
battle, when it is’ provided for them, con- 
ecive they have a right to amuse themselves 
in this manner at their private expence.” 
Here Dr. Wittman relates the tale of 
the massacre at Jaffa; a fact which we 
would willingly disbelieve, ifthe evi- 
dence did not-appear irrefragable. We 
need not, transcribe. what.has already 
been placarded upon thé walls of every 
city in England. Yet it appears “to us 
that Dr. Wittman’s testimony is of little 
weight: Ihave seen the skeletons; he 
says: but how_are they distinguished 
from the skeletons of men slain“in battle? 
Still less conclusive are the circumstances 
which he adduces, to prove that Bona. 
parte ordered his own sick soldiers to be 
poisoned. An individual was pointed 
out to him as having been the execution- 
er.of these diabolical commands. Is it 
to be believed that the French army, or 
that any army, would suffer.a man to 
exist in the same country with them- 
selves, who was known to have been the 
poisoner of their comrades? Or fs Dr. 
Wittman so ignorant of the nature 
evidence and of justice, as to admit ru- 
mour for proof, and condemn a man 
merely because he has been accused ? 
«« T introduce the following aneedote to 
evince, among other facts, the very unen- 
lightened condition of the Turks, without 
excepting even their principal men, in wnat- 
ever regards the sciences. General Koehler 
sas requested by the Grand Vizier to have 
a map of the world sketched out for hitn. 
This request having been complied wish, @ 
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