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doormats to destroy the improper haloes*, which the petition
addressed to your Mosher et Derail/ by M. Poisson has had oo
for Foods at Path.

Front the .Coastitutionnet.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jean 23.
piiving Inter =maim the Mewls' It was es the lids
that intellgesee Unwed of the battle et the 11th, and of the
losses et the Grand Visier ; sad it is no* known that the
said battle, which commeseed es the lOth, did set terminus
the evening of the nth, afternoon frightful cusage, for
no quarter was glees on the field of battle. It is also known
that the armed Ifimin -has soured with six thousand
cavalry as twelve Missend infantry. Min sews, which has been
*weed dullish the whole capital, does set cause a very great sae-
;sationAncasse it ls stated that the loss es the part of the Realms
Is very essalerable.
,Besides, the arrival of the Amismideri on
she Illth his owed a vary agreeable inversion, which has nearly
Obliterated ibe'retellicties of the events of the iltb. The Turks
*wady asionmes as,a tensility, the establishinsat of friendly rels-
Finis wkk Fitaletsd Tarlitsit and assert that the Reis Mu&
iellosig w temiltited very peril& istestions. Rat kis moder-
nised diet the , thrseglmat We whole affair
Mein iko the erliteliotafieler of the drasid!hlipise,
iiboussiodedikeediiiiii .iheireeteis my if *Ora.
ii i:+ reveriellllol2 422
essubitildi ditWailia.lll.raii7;gani

The attention of the world is now directed to the re-
forms of SULTAN MAHMOUD. A little more than a
century ago, the same attention was excited about the r:-
forms undertaken in Russia by the master-mind of dirt
age. ID illustration of this, we insert a few extract.; frogs
an English work, written Ly an eye-witness, and pub-
lished in 1739. " The march of intellect" in Russ
hullot been slow, if we consider the epitaph of PUMA
the GitEAT, which we extract from the wants work, to be
a true description of the people at that epoch. The pre-
judices of the Turks may have been as strong, but they
never wanted capacity, energy, and courage. Our first
extract shall show the turbulent disposition of the Rus-
sians, and how the Strelitzes—their Janissaries—were
all' improvement :
"Zlid to
ussovites were groat enemies to all innovations, and this
ship-building was a thing entirely new to them, who had never
seen s'ehip till his time • but, above alt, their being put to the ec
pease of it. and their being forced to send their sons to travel, were
looked wpm as most terrible acts et oppressing. and occasioned
great unnalsemes. which wete not a link fomented by the priests,
who took care to Insinuate among the people, that this would be a
great means of corrupting the young nobility in the principles of
their religion. Nay. they positively affirmed it to be contra, yto
the laws of Goo, who bad forbid the children of Israel to have any
contomeicatiun with the nation that were round about them, that
they might not partake of their idolatry. Not eves the envoys
sent to foreign Courts were allowed, in former times. to take their
own sons with them, and, as I have before mentioned, it was form
bid, spec pain of death, that soy Muscovite should go out of his
own cousin, without especial leave from the Csar or Patriarch. It
is as wonder that these people, with these conlbsed and narrow
salons, should murmur at the Czar's showing so great a regard to
strangers going daily to their houses, admitting them freely to his
lorifyilia•lis awl now preparing to leave his own country. He
hod likewise formed another project. which be had mentioned to
sense of Ms Boyars, and had actually employed a person about it ;
Ala was to make a 'Devisable canal between the Volga and Tamils,
by which he might convey previsions and materials for a fleet at
Asoo ;_ but dale desigoLas grand Bed useful as It was, some of
the Indolent and stupid Huaskes represented u a piece of impiety,
being, as they said. to turn the streams one way. which Providence
bail directed mother. The dreadful apprebonikini the people had
of the ill consequemes that would attend thole things, gave a
good opportunity to the &contested party among the Boyan, who
were still in the Princess Sophia's interest, to attempt something
that might give a turn to the affairs of State. and put the peers.
moot again in their owe bands. With *me views a conspiracy was
formed, whersie was agreed to lire some houses neer the Cu?.
palace, sad to assassinate him. whes,accankag to custom, be should
ewer out to assist In adoptable, the lames. That is. they were
to murder hint, to the very looms that be was showing the
tender regard be had for the lives of his subjects. They
resolved next to release the Princess Sophia out of risen,
and pet the crows se her head ; after which they were to regime
the &raises, who bad been removed from their posts, on account
iff the rebellion. headed by .Cotsvanski, at the time of the Csar
Tbsoilore's death; and mu they were to massacre all foreigners,
and the Nees new favourites, who, they imagined, put him open
them emrsordinary measures. Three great Lords, one Colonel of
the Don Cossacks, and several Mines of the Strolitses, were en-
gaged in this plot, which was to have been put in retention on the
ed February. 1697 ; but the very day before, two Carnes of the
Stratus, discoursi nag together, and being teach touched with a
roman, of moscience. resolved to discover the whole design.—
Accordingly they went. and threw themselves at kb Majesty's
feet, at the home of his favourite M. Le Fort. and made as ample
askesion of the whole business, and gave in the names of the
priocipal persons concerned in it. The Cur immediately rose
from, table, without discovering my surprise In his countename ;
and, taking only a few pawns with him, went himself and seised
on the chick ul the conspirasors, among whom be found one of his
own privy ansecil ; they were presently pm to the tenure, sod.
having coefessed their crimes, were seen after executed : each of
the criesinals bad hest his right arm and left kg est o(, then his
left arm and debt leg, and afterwards his heed severed from his
body, and stock with the rest on spikes at the top of a column
erected beelike purpose. in the great market-place, before Abe tales
of the castle, their legs and arm* bailing like trophies about the
mbar" sad their bodies left exposed in the asarket.place. withent
burial. till the frost broke, and then, to prevent their beingollenvive
by their stench to the inhabitants. they were lung into a pit,
among the caseated bodies of common thieves aid assiefactort.
Our next extract is calculated to point out the opposi-
tion which improvement is sure to meet, while bigotryhas
any influence among a people; and, in recording an his-
' torical fact, shows the deserved fate of all bigots : •

Whilst the Czar was thus ea his trawls, ceocillaiing to himself
the affections of the greatest Powers of fforope, making oboe, va.
tints, sad learning ens for the impruvemest of his cooing, Intel.
Isaacs coming trequeetly to Moscow. that he was extremely
with what he met with is foreign countries, especially
pleased
; ant he was seeding a great amber of officers, artificers,
and all aorta of strangers among them ; and that he inteetled to
make great alteration in his own affairs as soon as he ClMlStiqUit,
the dimentented party, who were in the interest of the Priestess
II Na. mot a handle from thaw to infuse strong isolowles into
the tubas of the people, which were pea* feesmated iss Aerie*,
filet his. Majesty would subvert their holy religion ; and,: dy
Washy lartipiere among them, designed to oppress his nautili
aced Bite change the ancient establisiniest both is Church
gaff *Wm; upon which a conspiracy was farmed to declare the
throne weam, by his atnsect, to set bis sister free from her coo-
liseneesit. sad place her thereon I. his stead. The Strelitses ham
very well that they had loot the Cast's fewer, and about ski
tit seed of these, seat into winter quarters on the coolie's of
Litimania. about lye hundred miles from Moscow. had agreed' to
joiq the casimirators ;" and the better to colour their design, MO
were m nuke some. complaint cosiest:dog their pay, and mar, h
_away directly ; but the Beggary. appointed by the Czar at hit de-
parture, hearing of their motion, seat at brat several weak to
enderrour to pacify them by fair means. who offered them not
only all their present pay and arrears, but Mt months pay in advance;
and used ail mesas to prevail with them to return and non the
other forces, who were very sew, the time of the campaign draw:
IN Nor, to form an army against the Turks ; but they would
kite Moo proposals. they said, till they had been at Moscow to
its Omit kinds, from whom they had bees so long banished, and
welsh, Mewls, khan themselves what was become of the Curs
nut lknowing whether he was dead or alive. Upon bearing so ac-
mes of this ill success of the deputies, seat by the Regency, the
whale city was lea great COOMMISIISIB, many peruke of condi-
tion left Moscow. and retired into the ceentry, dreading whit
at& happen epos use approach sif done troops, and the revolt of
When ; sad hoeing seen the terrible havoc rod devastation chat
was made by these very &relitses in their rebellious bats flew years
before, to prevent any inotirreetion, and pet a stop to the dam
pis that were threatened, Gathers& Gordon was ordered to
aura against the mutineers with ha army, which had heed
many times le sake with Mtn, and which consisted of old
soldiery for the meet part, and foreign Olken. They Mae •
up with. at rebels about forty mils' from MoseoftroFar the
Jerusalem Monastery, from whew, the General ion, ;mow
isohleasesi,' who came out with him as naholieega, sod se-
veral slicers, to offer them Memorable setisfactem, if • thee
wield return to their duty ; bet they wry obstinately persisted ins
their Ent moieties of winks ta Memew, co %tow, as they pre-•
taudid,, whether the Csar was being pr dead ; and declared, dam it;
his Gem& led his army molest thetas, altheogb it war doable Mew
they would alto lit4ll.lnearde. Glottal Gordost; •
mettles this answer.. ordered some meow to be Fred wee thew
boob. to frighten tiva, and onnomood Awn to starrander; impts
tbe.dtot doled ere. the pima toot Ibis odinitaga wow.
lasi Om in tbsir and declared. that it wee a nvitokt
and die lb, dot kid no pews as hurt dos: wttiitiojild* awl
VII fee the Masa, of Gag and **tom Ulla* dolf' religiem.
I 1111. e. OM up with the Mai "bit d andlideida, tin robes Says

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