330 
bon, or other ports, is alfo abfolutely in 
many cafes unlimited. 
*< In provincial fituations likewife the af- 
fiftance given of late years, through the eftab- 
lithment of country banks, either dire&tly 
or indire€tly, to fteady people, farmers, and 
others, exceeds the experience of any former 
times. Two or three of thefe peuple, pof- 
feffed of little or nothing of their own, join 
ina bond on which they are allowed to draw, 
or are furnifhed with negotiable paper for the 
amount demanded, by which means they can 
buy their neighbour’s ftock, or keep their 
own, until markets are fo bare as to enable 
them to obtain their prices. 
“¢ The liberality of the Bank, fince the 
ftoprage of its payments in fpecie, has alfo 
very much accelerated the progre(s of this fy f- 
tem throughout the country ; forif 1am well 
informed, the extent of the accommodation 
Some Account of Paffwan Oglu, ar Pazman Oblu. 
[Noy. k 
it gives, is as ten to one a few years aga; and 
it is worthy of remark, that at the, period 
above alluded to, when a momentary check 
was given to the facility of difcount, and the 
circulation of paper, moft articlés of mier- 
chandize, particularly grain, experienced a fud- 
den and unufual depreciation inthe markets. 
‘© Though it is highly probable that the 
amount of paper in negotiable forms may by 
no means equal the wealth of the country, 
yet it is not an uncommon cafe, where it re- 
prefents ten or twenty times the capitals of 
thofe engaged in this kind of traffic ; their 
means, therefore, are multiplied in the fame 
proportion as js their ability to buy up or 
monopolize fuch commodities as would in the 
natural courfe of things be brought fairly to 
market. ”. “Waur"s, a6. 
‘© AGRICOLA.” 
©¢ Cornbill, OF. 16, 1800.” 


ANECDOTES -OF EMINENT PERSONS. 

Some ACCOUNT of PASSWAN OGLU, or 
PAZMAN OHLU. 
\SMAN, Pazman Ohlu’s grandfa- 
Y ther, had been in Philippolis, 
Acrianople, and Widdin, one of the 
watchmen who inthe large Turkihh chics 
are appointed to guard during night the 
warehoules of the merchants. He was 
poor: but his integrity acquired him the 
favour and efteem of his fuperiors. At 
the commencement of the war with Ruflia, 
in 1753, he entered into the army ; and 
fo diftinguifhed himfelf at an attack in the 
Kraina, that the Grand Vizier, as a re- 
ward for his valour, raifed him tothe rank 
of a Serdengets Hi-Agazt, or nobleman 
and Jand owner. Ofman continued with 
the army during the whole war ; and his 
fovereign, the Grand Signor, as a mark 
of his fatisfa€tion and favour, confeired 
upon him the lordfhip of Parabin, in Mol- 
davia, with allitsappurtenances. On his 
newly-acquired eflate he endeavoured by 
every means in his power to gain the af- 
fection and attachment of his fubje&s : he 
refided at Widdin, where a fon was born 
to him, named Omar Aga, to whom he 
gave a goo education, atter the Turkith 
manner. Omar Aga, as well as his fa- 
ther, enjoyed the favour of the Grand 
Sigror, who appointed him a Bafi- Aga, 
i. e. chief over feveral difiriéts. He had 
two fons: one of them was called Oiman, 
and has become famous by the name of 
Pazman Ohlu; the other, Ibrahim Beg, 
is at_prefent a merchant at Conitantino- 
ple, having beeo from early youth edu- 
cated for that pro‘effion.. Ofman, or Paz- 
man Onlu, i.e. Son of the Night-Watch- 

man, whom his father caufed to be in- 
firucted in different branches of know- 
ledge relating to politics, economics, and 
military affairs, refided at Widdin. In 
the year 1785, a quarrel evfued between 
him and his tather, who lived upon his ef- 
tates. Both raifed men in their refpec- 
tive poffeffions; and the fon made fre- 
uent and fucceisful attacks on the troops 
et his father. ‘The principal inhabitants 
of Widdin, however, interpofed ; and in ~ 
1788 the father was obliged to fubmit to 
the humiliation of fueing for peace. Con- 
cord being thus 1e-ettablithed betwixt 
them, they immediately joined their forces 
in Widdin, cver which city they after- 
wards exercifed a fovereign power inde- 
pendent of the Grand Signor; and from 
the whole diftri& either expelled by force, 
or, by politic and artful meafures endea- 
voured to frighten away all thofe who 
might have been able to oppofe them. 
“Jn 1788, the Serafkier Melek Mehmed 
Bafla was fent with an army of 12,000 
men againft thefe ufurpers; and the bal- 
fafhip of Widdin promifed him, if he 
fhould fucceed in driving them from that 
city, For three months the conteft con- 
tinued with various fuccefs, and in the 
many conflits that took place a great 
number of men fell on both fides: at lait, 
however, Olman aad his father, finding it 
impofiible to maintain themielves againit 
a regular army, fled with 600 of their ad- 
herents tothe Prince Mauroény in Wal- 
lachia. The prince received them under 
his proteétion, appointed them Bir Baffas, 
i.e. commanders of 1000 men, and fent 
the father, Omar, to refidg at Cfernetz, and 
| ~~~ Pazman 
