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Turks not forty Hours, before they expire. The Turks are not puniflied 

 Pubiick, in Publick, like other Offenders ; but are, out of Refpe6t to their 

 Chara6ters, fent to the Houfe of the ^ga, where, according to 

 the QuaUty of the Mifdemeanour, they are baftinadoed or 

 ftrangled. Out of Modefty Hkewife to the Sex, when the Women 

 offend, they are not expofed to the Populace, but fent to fome 

 Private Houfe of Correction; or, if the Crime is Capital, they 

 are then tyed up in a Sack, carried out into the Sea, and 

 drowned '. The weftern Moors ftill ufe the barbarous Punifli- 

 ment of fawing afunder the TranfgrelTor. For which Pur- 

 pofe they prepare two Boards, of the fame Length and Breadth 

 with the unfortunate Perfon, and having tyed him betwixt 

 them , they proceed to the Execution , by beginning at the 

 Head. I am informed that Kardmafij, a Perfon of the Firft 

 Rank in that Country, who had formerly been AmbaiTador at 

 the Br'ittjh Court, and was well known to the Gentlemen of 

 our Navy and Garrifon of Gihr altar, fuffered lately in this 

 Manner. For it may be very juftly obferved, with Regard 

 to the Punifhments of thefe Countries, that there is little or 

 no Regard had to the Quality of the Offender. Sometimes 

 indeed a pecuniary Mulct will Hop the Courfe of Juftice, but if 

 •the Crime is flagrant, no other Atonement is to be made for it, 

 than to fubmit to the Punilhment which the TranfgrelTion is 

 thought to deferve. 

 Of their AUi- The Naval Force of this Regency, which, for two Centuries, 

 hath been, at one Time or other, a Terror to all the Trading 

 Nations oiChriftendom, was taken Notice of in the Defcription 

 oi Algiers. With Relation therefore to ChriftianYnncts, this 

 Government hath Alliance with Us, the Fre'/zc/:?, the 2)///c/j, and 

 the Swedes. Great Application hath been often made by the Tort, 

 in behalf of the Emperors Subjects; though all their Inter- 

 ceflions haNT'e hitherto proved ineffectual, notwithftanding the 

 .Alger'ines acknowledge themfelves to be the VafTals of the 

 Grand Senior, and, as fuch, Ihould be intirely devoted to his 



I Tacitus (De Morib. Germ.) takes Notice of This, as a Punifliment among the Germans. 

 Diftinaio p&narum, ex delilio. Proditores & transfugas arboribus fafpendtint , ignavos & mbelles 

 & corpore Infames, cam ac palude, bijeHa infuper crate. The like Puniniment is mentioned 

 by Platitus. Coqui abftulertint, comprebendite, vincite, verberate, in Puteiim condite. Aiilul. 

 Aft. 2. Sc. y. V. 21. Furca & Fojfa Aag. I^ptte ani) gallotuCS, in antiqiiis privilegijs figni- 

 ficat jurifdiHiortem puniendi fures : fc. viros fufpendio, foeminas fubmerfione — quod & in Scotia 

 hodie obfervatum inteUigo. See Spehnan's GlofTary in the Word Ftirca Sec. where he quotes 

 aninftance of this Pimifhinent, out of the Monuments of the Church of Rochejler. 



Orders 



a?jces -with 



Chriflian 



Prhices. 



