Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-06

VI tHS gouhS NfICCh hoo oSSh NSSAN
on. He was led forth with his hands
tied behind him, and learned, among
the crowd, that during the night the
Turks had made great efforts to shake
his resolution; especially his former
master and patron, wealthy and war
like hey, at whose Indictment he had
turned Turk, about two years before.
He was deaf to every promise, every
alIurement. He had turned from the
offers of wealth, women, land, horses,
all the fondest objects Of his early, and
known ambition, with contempt. They
had finally tried the effect of torture, he
endured it. His cc9ltenance, indeed,
showed, from its extreme paleaess
what he had undergone; but though he
looked weak, he walked firm. 1t was
in the large open space before the
mosque of Hassan, that the expecting
multitude was collected to witness the
awful and cruel death to which, by Or
der of the Pacha, he was doomed. Ma
ny attempts had been made by his for
mer master 10 get the dreadful punish
ment changed for the quicker and mild
er one of beheading; but they had not
been attended with any success, for the
Pacha was cruel man, and bigot.
Gle was stripped naked; cloth a
round his loins was the only covering
that concealed any part ofanaked frame
which might have furnished perfect
model of manly beauty, for the imita.
lion of admiring sculptors.
81 looked upon his form Of life, and
glory. Was it indeed to die!-and
thus!-and so young!
"The dark executioners threw him
down on his belly, upon the sand, and
with razor they gashed deepwo
for the impaling stake. Before they
had time with their ready paste to
staunch the flowing blood, dozen
Greeks, wounded and beaten as they
did so, had broken into the still circle,
and dipped their handkerchiefs in the
stream, to them so naturally sainted;
but the Turkish guard instantly threw
buckets of water all about to wash UP
the precious flow, and many Of his
countrymen were driven back with the
blows of slaves and sabres, disappoint-
eddy.
"It was long and pointed stake
they now brought, thick as mans
arm, and they thrust it into his writhing
body far, yet nowhere out; they had fix
ed stay upon it to prevent this. And
now, with barbarous yell from all a.
round, il was raised aloft in the air,
then planted firmly in the earth.
ooh. God-it is dreadful passage
to the tomb. 1t was very horrible
his moans-his quivering lps-his eyes
up-turned in agony. The sweat that
stood upon his forehead-his call upon
the name of Christ; repeated oft with
that fevor of belief, which showed a
mourning, penitent, imploring heart.
"Three hours he hung piteous
spectacle, and there came close to the
stake man of great age, with white
hairs, and feeble steps, and learning on
yelled woman. The Turk struck the
elder, and would have driven him
back,
It" Il am his father said the old man,
do not strike me, without it be to kill
then, welcome. ! am his father, let
me look upon my dying child; and this
his wife: suffer us, pray
"Then the captain of that Turkish
guard was moved, and bespoke kind to
them, and asked them for one minute
only to turn aside, and he gave the sig
nal to despatch him; SO they took their
malIets and knocked off from the stake
the transverse stick; and it pierced and
broke through his white breast, and he
bowed his head upon it, and died with
aloud (and Is sounded happy sigh.
notwithstanding all the agony
sympathy and shuddering,s shrinking
terror, with which had witnessed this
dreadful sceae-although / had )kthe
night before that l had fear lexen of
the sword of the executioner, yet now,
strange revolution Of feeling! my every
nerve vas strung up to like sacrifice.
l rap forward-I called aloud, that
there wss no God, but God, but that
The Mo- was the son Of God, and
Mahos alying prophet' I cIasped
the imt6 Big ,ake, and askedto be its
second victim. The crowd would have
DESTROYED me on the spot, but for the
guardswhile here l stood wound up to
the sacffice, aud awaiting the sentence
of the JudseJwho was in the mosque OF
Hassan, andto whom some OF the
crowd had run, demanding my imme-
diate execution-unthought OF at the
| moment; unexpected-not seen even
since / left AIexandria,-at lightning
speed advancing ] saw and knew the
noble Malek."
Malek (his friend) saves his life, but
he is conl "a for months in the prison
| for lu6SJ 81 He escapes, goes to IN.
dia, and alter 8 ,solitary life in one OF
the Maldive Islands, returns to Eng,
land, repeutsut and unknown.