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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



five to six hundred miiboobs 

 eacli. (A uiaboob is about seven 

 shillings.) 



A long succession of cofiins, 

 purposely kept back for some 

 hours, were carried close after 

 this (jueen's funeral, to protit by 

 the mass (much grander than 

 usual) that was to be performed 

 for her. Fiom the richness of 

 most of these coffins, they ap- 

 peared in the bright glare of the 

 sun, a line of burnished gold, too 

 dazzling for the sight. The castle 

 gates were for the first time 

 closed to-day^ allowiEg only a 

 partial admittance. Four people 

 who weie perfectly well in the 

 morning were taken ill there 

 yesterday afternoon ; they were 

 brought out of the castle last 

 ni^ht at ten, and died at mid- 

 night. Two of them went laving 

 mad, and they were all afflicted 

 with laige swellings on different 

 parts of the body when they 

 died. 



The symptoms of the phigue at 

 present are, that of the ])erson 

 being seized with a sort of stupor, 

 whicli immediately increases to 

 madness, and violent swellings 

 and excruciating pains in a few 

 hours terminated in death. 



The Bashaw expresses great 

 regret at the thought of the Chris- 

 tians shutting their houses so 

 soon, as the country is in so fa- 

 mished a state; for, he says, that 

 will declare it in a state of infec- 

 tion, and prevent the arrival of 

 grain. The Christians' houses 

 will, however, all be closed in 

 about a week, each one hiiing a 

 set of servants to remain with 

 them imprisoned till the plague 

 is over. Halls, windows and ter- 

 races are undei'going a scrutiny 



for a strict, and we fear, a long 

 quarantine. 'I'he terraces and 

 windows fronting the street are 

 to be secured from the servants, 

 and the halls pi'epared for a mode 

 of receiving ^vhat is wanted with 

 safety to the family. Shovilcl it 

 be necessary to change servants, 

 or to take in additional ones, it 

 can be done only on condition 

 that they relinquish the clothes 

 they have on ; go into a bath pre- 

 pared for them in a skiffar or hall 

 of the consular house; and sub- 

 mit to remain in one room a fort- 

 night to ascertain their not hav- 

 ing the plague. Many jars, con- 

 taining several pounds each, are 

 prepared \\ ith ingredients for fu- 

 migating the apartments, two- 

 thirds of which are bran, and t'le 

 rest equal parts of cam])hire, 

 myrrh and aloes. This peitume, 

 and small quantities of gunpow- 

 der, are burnt d;iily throughout 

 the houses. All animals and fowls 

 whatever are sent out of the 

 Christian houses, for fear of the 

 infection being communicated by 

 their hair or feathers. 



The present moment is the 

 most dangerous period of the dis- 

 order for the Christians. \\'hen 

 once the houses are shut, their 

 safety will depend greatly on the 

 strictness of the quarantine they 

 keep. No business is now trans- 

 acted but with a blaze of straw 

 kept burning between tl e person 

 admitted into the house and the 

 one he is speaking to. A friend 

 is adoutteil only into a matted 

 apartment, where he retires to 

 the farther end of the room to a 

 strav/ seat, which is not touched 

 after his departure till it is fumi- 

 gated. The keys of all the vvpys 

 into the house are kept by the 



master 



