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Abdallah ibn Saoud, Chief of the Wahabees. 



dallah. But the Ottoman divan were implacable. 

 Mercy is no attribute either of the religion or the 

 policy of the Turks ; and, after being paraded over 

 the city for three days, the unhappy chief, with his 

 two companions in misfortune, his secretary and 

 treasurer, were beheaded (December 19, 1818) in the 

 public square of St Sophia. The pasha and his son 



