ACRE. 
CHAP, certain of the princes of the country existed. 
. -y- -' These men were then living as hostages, in 
*' Djezzar sat in the upper corner of the apartment : close to his 
hand was a four-barrelled piitol, very richly mounted ; behind him 
Avere two muskets, a sabre, and an axe; a silver spitting-cup was in 
his left hand ; and in another part of the room, a drinking-mug of 
wooii, made by himself, and always kept in the apartment : the ceil- 
ing was ornamented with landscape-painting of his own invention. 
The Divan (the part raised a few inches above the floor) was covered 
with a thin common carpet; the other part of the chamber with a 
mat. Djezzar leans on a low crutch, placed under his right arm, 
which he said he had always used instead of the fine downy cushions 
of the rich and indolent. He was dressed in an old darned pelisse, 
with blue cloth trowsers, in the Turkish style ; and a red shawl on his 
head as a turban. He remarked, that he was sleeping when we fired 
our salute ; that he had been rather unwell; that the report of the 
guns awoke him, and that the grateful sound had revived him frona 
his indisposition. 
" Djezzar may be between seventy and eighty years of age : he has 
lost the greater part of his teeth, has a respectable grey beard, and a 
prominent nose ; and though, when he smiles, he may impose upon 
one the appearance of good-nature, the ordinary cast of his counte- 
nance, with his wrinkled brow, sufficiently denotes his well-known 
familiarity with conspiracies and assassination. After taking our 
leave, we visited the fortifications of ^cre, towards the land, with the 
Dragoman of Djezzar ; who pointed out to us the position of the 
French camp, and the different points against which the attack was 
directed. The camp was in the plain, about two miles south-east 
from the town, extending itself, from the sea, as far as the remains of 
a church near the aqueduct which once conveyed water to Acre. Part 
of this building was destroyed by Buonaparte : that part which was 
near the town has been levelled by Djezzar since the departure of the 
French, that he might render the defences of his works as open and 
clear as possible. With the same view he has levelled most of the 
trees in the neighbourhood." {N. B. Here Col. Squire enters into a 
very detailed account of the fortifications of Acre. ^ 
" The Mosque, built by Djezzar about fifteen years ago, has a large 
dome, and both outside and within is wry richly ornamented. We 
observed 
