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angel of the nation, by the sense and talents he displayed 
in tranquillizing the fury of the conspirators. At length, 
after several engagements, the rebels came to terms with 
the bashaw, who, by the mediation of some European 
consuls, pledged his word not to punish any one. On 
this condition the rebels opened the gates of the city; 
but when the bashaw had entered, he caused several to 
be beheaded, regardless of the engagement he had con- 
tracted. 
This event had humbled the Turks in the island, and 
the Greeks have acquired an air of pride, and even of 
independence. The dragoman is still at Constanti- 
nople, and what I have seen of his deeds show him to 
be a man of judgment and parts. 
I have already observed that in spiritual concerns 
the archbishop of Cyprus is an independent patriarch. 
He has of course no relation with the patriarch of Con- 
stantinople. He only keeps up a connexion with the pa- 
triarch of Jerusalem, out of respect to the holy places, 
whose ministers possess some property in the island. The 
archbishop grants sees, and other ecclesiastical digni- 
ties and employments, on the presentation of the peo- 
ple; he likewise grants dispensations for marriages in 
prohibited cases. 
The archbishop, bishops, and other great dignitaries, 
must not be married; it is lawful for a simple secular 
priest to have a wife, provided he married before ordi- 
nation. If the wife dies he cannot take another. The 
present archbishop has been married, and has one son. 
The monks are forever bound to celibacy. The priests 
Wear caps of black felt; those who are married wear it 
•-of an angular shape; the unmarried and the monks, in 
