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ruins of Carthage, take up his abode in that vast Necropolis of de- 
ported grandeur. 
In the third place, By the cession of the Turkish fortresses at. 
the southern foot of the Caucasus, and the coast of the Abcassian 
Tartars, and the cession of Poti at the mouth of the Phasis, the 
only fortress the sultan possessed in Mingrelia, will produce another 
important consequence,—the abolition of the Turkish slave trade,— 
one of those happy consummations ardently desired by the enlight- 
ened friends of humanity. From Circassia and Georgia the ha- 
rams of the Mohammedan sovereigns, and their wealthy subjects, 
had been replenished in every age with a crowd of captive beauties. 
From the same regions thousands of unhappy captives, taken in the 
wars which the rude mountaineers incessantly waged with each other, 
were sold by the barbarous captives to the Turks and Persians, to 
be disposed of in the bazaars of Constantineple, Erzeroom, Bag- 
dad and Cairo, Ispahan and Teheran. The continual demand for 
slaves, male and female, by the mussulmans of Turkey and Persia, 
encouraged and maintained a continual system of petty warfare 
ainidst the innumerable tribes of the Caucasus, in order to supply: 
the demand. The Russians, by their conquest of Georgia and Min- 
grelia, put an end to the traflic in that quarter. It is a well known 
fact, that the Mamelukes, sovereigns of Egypt, for more than six 
centuries were Circassian slaves, imported into that country by the 
Ayoubites sultans to recruit their armies, and that these slaves de- 
posed their masters, and divided the country amongst themselves ; 
and that their numbers have annually recruited by importations 
from the mouth of the Phasis, or the slave-market of Constantino- 
ple. It is also well known, that from the steppage of the slave 
trade in Mingrelia by the Russians, the Mameluke beys of Egypt 
could no longer, as formerly, keep up the number of their slaves 
by annual importations, and that the number and power of these 
lords of the soil of Egypt,. gradually diminished since that epoch ; 
and, amongst other causes, paved the way for their downfall and 
expulsion from that long misgoverned and miserable country. 
After the less of the Crimea, and the country north of the Koo-. 
ban, the Turks erected the fortress of Anapa, 30 versts (20 British 
miles) from the mouth of the Liman of the Kooban, and 80 versts, 
or 54 British miles, from Tmoularakan, the ancient Phanagoria, in 
_ 1784. By means of this new fortress, and a few other small forts be- 
tween this and the frontriers of Mingrelia, the Turks were enabled 
to maintain a communication with the Circassians, Abkazians, Les- 
gians, and other mussulman tribes in the Caucasus, who subsisted 
by plunder and robbery, and particularly by the sale of Russian 
subjects, whom they carried into slavery in the very midst of peace. 
By the treaty of Bucharest in 1812, Anapa and Poti were restored, 
aud the rest were promised to be restored, on condition that the 
garrisons should cease to support the banditti, and that no Russian 
should be sold as a slave in these forts ; but it was refused to deliver 
them all up without sufficient security that the conditions would be 
