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London, England, 1822-04-06 00:00:00

GERWAN'TA PERIL

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statilitt, watttCH 24.
A thoolic occowit• have been at !cog! II received,
verpecting the tragical trod of Alt 'Prretba. The fol.
hiring are the ',amen-tars of this revarritable event,
which are derived from trod atiffierrity, but differ
'in some respects Irons the uccornts said to have
been officially pubriffial by 'the Porte in Bel-
rade and Constantinople. We see from them
.thiat the cunning 'Ali woe indeed deeeived by
the Turks, but also, 'that front • revived sense
of the religious feelings of his youth, he wished
Its trearures to be in 'Melton& of the Musselmen,
rather than of the Greeks. The Suliota and Alba-
u.se had long promisee assistance and deliver-
trace (10112 the besieger, if he would share his trea-
sure with them: but Ali, who still preserved in his
heart a secret iirchnstion towards the adherents of
his own veligionoliougbt of reconciling himself, un-
perceivid by Me Turks, in which his wife Wasi-
bkia, who 'tad been pined over by Chnurschid
Peck' some mouths before, promised to assist him.
Arlie Sabots and Albanese. it is well known, cnn.
Illtided an agreement with Chourschid Patchy in the
month uflinuery, who promised them as a reward of
the:r desertion of Ali • part of his tressum. They
writ induced to this by the proofs, of Alt's pet filly; but
front this molar'', Ali was irretrievably ruined, and
nothing remained for him, but either to surrender
by rapitulatiori or to kill himself. The cunning
prevailed upon him to enter into negocia.
two wish Cliourschid, the result of which was, that
Chuursclild swore on the Koran, and by his beard,
in case Ali surrendered to spare his life. Ali fell
into the snare and surrendered to his adversary,
who treated him in a friendly manner, sad suffered
hini quietly to retire into the summer palter, in
she Lake of „loannina. Several days after Mehmet
Paella, the second Commander of the Turkish
army, probably secretly commissioned by Chows-
clad, visited Ali here, sod endeavoured by eirry
means hr could devise to provoke the anger of the old
synod. lie übused hint se a traitor to Islamism,
suit in his face, and when Ali attempted to resist,
be stabbed him under the protection of 26 Turks,
who rushed into the room on a signal being given,
and then murdered All's attendants. Only his wife,
Wrsilikia, was spared. Thus the Turks, by their
mama tactics, have rid themselves of this monster,
whom they could conquer in the field; bnt
we know, ton, that Ales spirit was lowerea.by age (lie
was 84 }eon oldj, otherwise he would have been
aware of the snare laid for him, for the aunals of
tyrants can produce no monster equal to him in con-
wog, artifice, and cruelty. The Circumstances ex-
. plain, too, the contradictions in the accounts first
published respecting Alt's death. It is pretty certain
. Chourschid, immediately after the surrender
cf his. adversary by capitidatioo, gee orders to
I).norsi his assassination, and made use of Mehmet
Paella for this purpose, in order not in violate the
Iviler of the oath he lied taken. Hence Cbourschad
(*used the news of Alt's execution to be spread at
the same Lillie with that of his surrender, and

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