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VII. 
effectual guardians of the Hobj Sepulchre, This 
served, indeed, as a prelude to a request that 
we would also intercede for them with the 
Governor, by representing to him, that any ill 
usage offered to Christians would be resented 
by the British nation \ We rendered them all 
the service in our power, and they were very 
thankful. 
Manufac- Friday, July 10. — This mornings our room 
tures of 1 • 1 V T T 1 • • 
j.-rumiem. was filled With Armenians and Jeivs, bringing 
for sale the only produce of the Jerusalem 
manufactures ; heads, crosses, shells, Sec. The 
(l) They have since made a similar application to Mons. De 
Cluiteauhriand ; and it appears, from his narrative, that they hold 
nearly the same language to all comers. ** They thought themselves 
saved," says he, " by the presenee of one single Frenchman." {See 
Travels, vol.l.p.SSl. Land. ISM.) They had paid the Turkish 
Governor, the preceding year, 60,000 piastres; nor has there ever yet 
been an instance of their having refused to comply with his demands- 
Still Mons. De Chdteaicb7ia7id mamtaias that they are ''' very poor." 
Admitting the injustice of the robberies committed upon them by the 
Turks, the mere fact of the booty so often obtained affords proof to the 
contrary. We believed them to be very rich. The attention and 
hospitality we experienced in this Convent demand the fullest acknow- 
ledgment. Whether their situation with regard to Djezzar Pasha, or 
the services we rendered them by our remonstrances with the 
Governor, was the cause of their refusing any remuneration from us, we 
did not learn. We could not prevail upon them to accept of payment 
for our board and lodging. Yet while we acknowledge this bounty^ 
we should deem a statement of their poverty unjustifiable, knowing it 
to be false. 
