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ilaves he had found in the harems of the beys, and 

 practifed a thoufand other tricks of the like kind. 



It is eafy to imagine what fort of an impreffion thefe 

 proceedings muft have made upon the people. They 

 faw thaf the kapudan pafha, inftead of purfuing the 

 enemies, was only intent upon plundering the public,,* 

 and ftudying to opprefs them by every method he 

 could devife ; and found that they were infinitely 

 worfe lituated under their pretended deliverer, than 

 while they were fubjecl: to the beys. They now began 

 to confefs the truth of the proverb, that we rarely 

 know how to prize a benefit, till we have loft it. In 

 one moment there arofe a general revolution in the fen- 

 timents of the inhabitants of Cairo. They lamented' 

 the fate of the beys, and wilhed to fee them returned; 

 and the farewell they gave them in their hearts, rouzed 

 them againft the kapudan palha. They curfed both 

 him and thofe that had fent him. Weary of his ex- 

 torlions, they longed for the hour of his departure and 

 the return of the beys, that they might drive out the 

 commander appointed by him, who treated them with 

 incomparably more cruelty than the former. All which 

 in fadl did happen afterwards. 



On the nth. the Franks waited on the kapudan 

 pafha, and were tolerably well received. 



The Franks and the Venetian mercantile houfe Pini, 

 offered him two handfome prefents. 



On the 1 2th. the kapudan pafha demanded of the 

 French 50,000 pataches, and of Pini 6000, as a loan ; for 

 which he would give them fecurity : this however they 

 refufed to accept. In fael:, he reimburfed them the 

 whole fum within twenty days. 



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