■io TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 



vantage of their tardinefs, had rendered the firft and great 

 fcheme impoffible, 



Carlo Rozetti, a Venetian merchant, a young man of 

 capacity and intrigue, had for fome years governed the Bey 

 abfolutely. Had fuch a man been on board the fleet with 

 a commiflion, after receiving inftructions from Peterfburgh, , 

 the Ottoman empire in. Egypt was at an end. 



The Bey, with all his good fe'nfe and underflanding, was 

 Hill a mamaluke, and had the principles of a Have, . Three 

 men of different religions pofTefTed his confidence and go- 

 verned his councils all at a time. The one was a Greek, 

 the other a Jew, and the third an Egyptian Copht, his fecre- 

 tary. It would have required a great deal of difcernment : 

 and penetration to have determined which of thefe was the, 

 moft worthlefs, or moll likely to betray him, . 



The fecretary, whofe name was Rifk, had the addrefs to 

 iupplant the other two at the time they thought themfelves 

 at the pinnacle of their glory ; over-awing every Turk, and' 

 robbing every Chriflian, the Greek was bammed from Egypt,- ; 

 and the Jew baflinadoed to death. Such is the tenure of; 

 Egyptian miniilers. 



Risk profeffed aflrology, and the Bey, like all other Turk's, ., 

 believed in it. implicitely, and to this folly he faerificed his 

 own good underflanding ; and Rifle,, probably in pay to Con-. 

 ftantinople, led him from one. wild fcheme to another, tilh 

 he undid, hinw-by the liars. 



