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women, and affords them protection, in 
whatever places they may reside, or be. 
We, the true believers and successors, 
feel it our duty to protect the Christian 
subject, while he continues to discharge 
the duties of a subject. This conven¬ 
tion shall not be violated, except by 
their own fault, in attempting to with¬ 
draw from obedience and submission. 
Protection shall be equally afforded to 
their churches, lands in the country, to 
the places of their pilgrimage within the 
city and without, viz. to the Church 
Ramane (Holy Sepulchre) to Bethle¬ 
hem, the birth-place of Jesus, to the 
great church in the cavern ; also to the 
three gates towards the south, the north, 
and the west. The same privileges to 
be extended to other Christians that 
frequent these places; to the Georgians 
and A byssiniaus, Nestorians, Jacobites, 
and others that are followers of the Pro¬ 
phet Jesus. 
The Christians are entitled to these 
benefits, as they were formerly honoured 
by the prophet with a document signed 
and sealed by himself, wherein he ex¬ 
horts us to shew them favour, and to 
grant them protection. In conformity 
to which, we, true believers, are dis¬ 
posed to act with benevolence towards 
them, in honour of him who recom¬ 
mended benevolence. 
They are to be exempted from the 
capitation tax, and from all imposts and 
tolls, throughout, all the territories and 
seas of tiie Moslems. On their enter¬ 
ing Ramane (the Holy Sepulchre) and 
in the rest of their pilgrimage, nothing 
is to be exacted from them. 
Such Christians as visit the Holy 
Sepulchre to lay down a silver diam 
and a half, for the patriarch. 
All true believers of both sexes, rich 
and poor, the Sultans and Chiefs not 
excepted, to yield obedience to these 
injunctions. 
Given in presence of all the disciples 
of the prophet. 
Abdallah, Osman, B. Afan, 
Saad, Abdor Rahman, Ibn Auf. 
Into whose hands soever this writing 
shall come, let them give credence to it, 
that the divine benediction may rest 
upon the prophet and his disciples. 
Let us praise God, Sovereign of the 
world, on whom we repose, as on the 
prophet our advocate : the 20th Ribuel, 
Ewel of the loth year of the Hegira. 
Whosoever reads this writing, and 
acts contrary, from this day to the day 
of the last judgment, contravenes the 
convention ot God, and of his well be¬ 
loved prophet. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . 
SIR, 
n many districts, complaints are ge¬ 
neral that they cannot get good 
water, and this large village of Totten¬ 
ham, never, until lately, could procure 
any, except from one spring ; but that 
proving a nuisance by the resort of so 
many persons to it, which occasioned 
contention and noise—the parish some 
time since sunk a well, and obtained 
an excellent, and continued supply of 
pure soft water. This is carried about 
and sold to the inhabitants; the poor, 
however, find it a heavy expence, and 
to the rich it is often unpleasant,—hut 
I have now the pleasure of informing 
you that several fine springs have been 
lately found by a new system of boring 
—which is performed in the simplest 
manner, bv the mere use of iron rods, 
forced into the earth by a windlass. 
The workmen (only three) in a few days 
get to a genuine spriug of pure water, 
fit for every purpose of life; after the 
water is found, they merely put tin 
pipes down the aperture, and it throws 
up a fine stream from four to five feet 
high. The parish, observing its utility, 
have, much to their credit, sunk one, 
which they have ornamented very pret¬ 
tily, with a bronze pillar, &c. The 
first that was formed gives a supply of 
twenty-nine gallons a minute. But 
the most important circumstance is the 
smallness of the expeuce. Several ar- 
tizans have agreed, and will agree to 
perform the work for from twenty to 
twenty-five pounds; from this state¬ 
ment it will immediately occur to you, 
how easily large neighbourhoods may 
be supplied with water.* 
Surely Sir, when we consider the 
disposition to monopoly and extortion, 
which all the water companies manifest, 
would it not be highly advantageous to 
landlords, who possess hundreds of 
small houses, for which they pay a large 
rent, to supply their tenants with water, 
by having one of these fountains ? 
Those trades, such as brewers, dyers, 
he. he. would for thirty or forty shil¬ 
lings a year, have a continual supply of 
this desirable article. 
Indeed, independently of the diffe- 
* We regret that our correspondent has 
omitted to mention the names and residence 
of the parties who performed this highly use¬ 
ful operation. We remember, a few years 
since, describing a patent for the same pur¬ 
pose, and we have often lamented that we 
heard nothing more of an invention, obviously 
so useful. renee 
