The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-03 00:00:00

IBIt A HIM PACHA.

The following sketch is of Ibrahim Pacha, the con-
queror of Missolonghi. We quote it from a French
Paper which guarantees its authenticity :
In stature Ibrahim is somewhat below mediocrity, his move-
ments approach a little to the grotesque, his deportment announces
nothing grave or distinguished. At first sight there appears about
him a character of mildness and gaiety which surprises you. Con-
ceive to yourself a small face and little grey eyes, all vivacity and
even cheerfulness ; a mouth for ever smiling, and features always
open and animated.

Notwithstanding premature wrinkles which furrow his temples,
and a hollowness about the exterior *ogle of his eye, his appear-
ance, still youthful, forms a striking contrast to his age—now
thirty-seven. There is nothing about him announcing superior
or even remarkable qualities. He is said to have been cruel to
ferocity from his very ►earliest infancy, and his life proves it ; but
I would defy a Lavater to distinguish in his countenance that feature
by which it shall he ►nd►cated. I have seen him at a moment of ir-
ritation, and I can affirm that he has not the look of an homicide.
Hie dress is simple, and h►e is only to be distinguished by the
suite of officers who accompany him. In the camp his life is re-
gular and abstemious, he smokes and drinks coffee for ever. His
tent is exceedingly simple, and in no way distinguished from that
of other chiefs.

Befo►e we proceed to speak of his character, it is important to
observe, that the sou of Mahomet is affected by an intermittent
disease of the brain, whose effects manifest themselves in convul-
sive motions and loud cries. It is asserted, and with probability,
that after an attack he preserves for some time an invincible ta-
citurnity, and that then he is no longer the slime man ; hie errors,
say they, are the effects of an imagination he cannot restrain.
Ibrahi►u is as illiterate as his father, he has besides been con-
tinually led away from all serious application by a foridneas for
women, which he cannot restrain, and to which the ►malady
which torments him is Attributed. He does not want for pene-
tration, and will always hold his authority over those who are
about him►, because ha despises them, and is singularly dis-
trustful.

DlED.—After a very abort illness, at six o'clock
on Tuesday Morning last, Edward Milne, Esq., of Manchester;
and about seven in the evening of the same day, his brother,
William Milne, Esq., in consequence of a paralytic attack, the
immediate cause of which appeared to be the last sight he had
just taken of his brother Edward's corpse. It shocked his feeling
mind so much, that on leaving the room he exhibited marks of
confusion, and became evidently paralysed ; lie however recovered
a tittle, but very soon afterwards relapsed and expired. Im-
mediately after Edward's death, William wrote to his brother
in London a very affecting letter, expresivo of his distress at the
awful event ; and the same post which brought William's letter,
brought one also from his brother Oswald, announcing William's
death. The grief occasioned to their surviving brothers, sisters,
and friend*, by so awful and unexpected visitation, is beyond de-
scription, and will affect the strongest.—“ In the midst of life we
are in death l"

! a mop there ! a mop !
Very strange, very !—not five minutes ago that very man was
laughing at another fur looking pale, "a few ;" and every step was
a jump, as he trod the deck, with a—a—excuse me.--" lia‘rnt
you better go below ?" said our Captain.—"
—what should I go below for ?" Below !—what fur?
said I, as a boy crept near me
with a bucket of water. " How do you feel now ?" said the
Captain to a gentleman at my side, who, when we ruse from the
table, Lad never been sick in his life—at sea. " Feel !—how
should I feel? I hope you don't suppose that I-11 He hull no
time to finish the sentence ; for a sailor passed him with his
tongue in his cheek, and a " elewgh" of the eye towards a peril-
elder spot, where the mop bad been. I laughed, and catching his
Manner as near as I could, went on with what I supposed he was
going to "I' '—‘` Feel !—how should I feel ? I hope you don't
suppose that I_-.that I--that lamto he affected by this ?—why,
sir, I have been aboard a steam-boat, when the whole deck was
covered with sick I
bad to hold a prettywoman's head for her while she—while she
Panl4—(it was very true, by the way)—and
—while she was looking overboard
as 1---as I—as I 11° now !"
said 1, turning away as 1 spoke—(l do not give the very words
here ; I only give what I recollect of the incident)—as Ido now,"
said 11, turning away
abruptly, and catching a tope in a devil of
a hurry, and carrying the imitation a little further, by the by,
than I desired."— Ytinkee Notions.