Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-11-20
From he National A3voeate.
PROPOSED RESTORATION OF
THE JEWS.

THE JEWS.
The Gazette of Spires, tie
readers, that the house of Rothchilds
has recently received proposals. frsm
the Sublime Porte for q loan 10 q con.
sidsrshie amount, and an offer o. the
entire Of Palestine as a security for the
payment. In consequence, adds the
paper, a confidential agent has beeo
despatched by that hoose 20 C~onstapti-
Dople. to examine into the validity OF
she pledge offered by the Turkish Ca.
biDet.
REMARKS.
Ar the first glance of the above, we
were inclined TO believe, that it wss In
ten led as q satire upon the prevailing
custom of raising loans for different ma.
tioDs, and uoon Any security by the
Rotbchilds and other bankers of great
capital, but upon a nearer view of the
subject, the proposition may be suppos.
ed by some to embrace higher and
more important objec,s, and may DO
seized upon by those, whose religious
impressions and readings dwell with
conidence and security on the r~estors-
tion of the Jews. We have. therefore,
derermined TO bestow a few thoughts
upon the report. which embraces q sub.
iect mover without interest.
IL would not be surprising, if the
grand seignor was to aceepes loan from
she Rothchilds, neither would il asto.
snish Ne, if he was TO offer the Holy
Land as security, but uader that go-
verDment which is q government Of re-.
ligion. il would be impossible for the
Sultan to offer a guarantee to the trans.
fer. or % alienate any part Of the Tar.
kish territory W. have see how diff
Gcult it has been to bring over 'he di-
van TO consent for Q transfer of Wslls.
ehia aud Moldavis provinces not &C.
sually Tarkish, but only recognised as
such, by the appointment OF Hospodars.
We have seen q powerful Russian ar
my on its march to ConstaDtinople, and
nothing, but the threatened dismembers
ment of the empire induced tie Tur.
kish government to consent to the
transfer of two very enimportant pro.
vioces-nay. even now, two years since
treaty was signed aud the Cossacks
fell back from the Danube, the divan
.still refuses TO surrender them. Let Us
Imagine the difficulties, therefore, Of
sany peaeeable transfer OF Palestine.
Taere are three mosques which all
Mnssolmen hold most sacred. the one
at Mecca, the other at Medina, and the
shird the mosque OF the Caiiph Omar
at Jerusalem. To each Of these pill.
.grims annually resort, and Jerusalem
Is considered by the Turks as the third
holy city. The tombs ofthe patriarchs,
and of our mothers as the descendants
of Ishmsel. are 10 their possession and
kept with the utmost generation
There is no transfer OF tho laud of Ca
naan that the sultan can make. that will
be respected by the Turks. He may
take q loan and give q deed but its va
lid,ty will neves be recognized by the
MussulmsD. they never will consent to
allow these Jews to govern 10 the Holy
Lsod. and any %peaeeable attempt of that
patu-e, will be the signal of q geoerai
massacre Of the chosen people. The
land Of Canaan 10 to be recovered by
the sword. not acquired by the purse
strings.
Apart from the insurtnoHntable reii-
gious obstacles to the transfer o Pales.
tine, there are great political consIdera.
lions operating sgsinstsuch q transfer.
Ifthe grand seignOr would aceept q loan
and fulfil the conditions OF 1t. the Bril-
tish government, not the Rothchilds,
stands ready TO loan double the sun res
CURED. Place the strip of country
from the Alleppo to the Nile. in the
oowsr of the British, and the complete
dismember ment of the Tarkish EN-
pira will follow. The Bri'ish would
never check the views of Russia upon
Persia, and the commerce OF the East
indies. They would hold, asa key. the
.Sle and the Red Sea, and Turkey,
with Greece OF one eide, and the En-.
glish 90 the Other side against her, and
Russia 10 CoDstsn,inople would not be
able to hold out long. Thus we per.
seivs that religion aud policy unite a.
saiost such . measure. Turkey is a
@osernmeDt Of public opinion, and the
.soyereign dare not resist its mandates
-Eyen admitting that the sultan did
transfer the Holy Land to the Jews, the
Eeypiians, the Wechsbites, the wan.
dering Arabs. and the Tartar hordes,
would be of more annoyance TO them,