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a (dade bullet was found in Woodage Afahel’s body firedat. 
him by you.”—“ Sir, faid I, itis very feldom amaninfuch 
a cafe as this can Faved the power of vindicating himfelf to 
conviction, but that I now happily can do. All the Greeks 
in the king’s army, their fons and families, all Mahometans, — 
who,have been in Arabia, India, or Egypt, ufe leaden bul- 
lets. The man who fhot Woodage Afahel is well known — 
to you. He is the king’s old cook, Sebaftos, a man paft fe- 
venty, who could not be able to kill a theep till fomebody 
firft tied its legs. He himfelf informed the king of what. 
he had done, ae brought witneffes in the ufual form, 
claiming a reward for his action, which he obtained. «It 
was faid that I, too, killed the man who carried the red 
flag of Theodorus at Serbraxos, though no leaden bullet, I 
believe, was found in him. A foldier picked up this flag” 
upon the field, and brought it to me. I paid him, indeed, 
for his pains; and, when I prefented the flag to the king, 
told him what | had feen, that the bearer of it had fallen 
by a fhot from Guebra Mafcal. I had not a gun in my 
hand all that day at Serbraxos, nor all that other day when 
Woodage Afahel was flain. I faw him pafs within lefs 
than ten yards where I was ftanding behind the king, in 
great health and fpirits, with two other attendants; but, 
fo far from firing at him, I was very anxious in my own | 
mind that he fhould get as fafely out of the campas he had 
gallantly, though imprudently, forced himfelfinto it. It is 
not a cuftom known in my country for officers to be em- 
ployed to pick out diftinguifhed men at fuch advantage, nor 
would it be confidered there as much better than murder: 
certainly no honour would accrue from it. But when means 
are neceflary to keep officers of the enemy at a proper dif. — 
. tance,, 
