The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-05-17

their worldly substance, with the !,
serve of only the small .piitance necc
sary TO support the poor residue CT the.
days 10 Jerusalem, where they go 10 es-
pire. In the year 1916, witnessed The
embarkation of number of aged he
brews, on this last earthly pilgrimage,
on board of a vessel chartered express
ly for the purpose of transporting them
TO the coast OF Syria"
Dir. Shaler mentions, in his Sketches
Of Algiers, that, usually, Dey is MUIR
dered to make room for some more
fortunate adyenturer; bis smmediats.
friends and adherents perish, or ar.
Plundered and exiled; and the pubhs
business or tranquility is not intercept
ed beyond "a hours. The shortness Of
compensate for the mode Of change, j.
YET considerable advantage. En tbs
United States. the substitution Of one
President for another is not so SUNNI.
ry and irregular proceeding, but il j.
followed by a much longer interruption
Of the national business, as the history
of the present Congress testifes.
Such is the wretched condition Of the
inhabitants Of the kingdom Of Algieis,
tina; mild and equitable administration,
by d governor of a province, would be
regarded as an attempt al popularity
dangerous TO the general government
and, as experience has proved in seve-
raj instances, might cost the offender his
life. The maxim in Algiers is, that il
is better 20 punish an innocent person
than that criminal should escape
Hence guilt is always presumed, ii any
proof be allowed, il must be demonstrat-
ed in The amplest manner. The post of
a public executoner is deemed honor
able, and may lead to the highest Offices
of State; each public minister has one
attached TO his department.. A most inn
poriabt office is the Judge Of inheri-
tances." He does more than levy a tax
upon collateral inheritsnces he takes
the estates of all who die without legal
heirs he is cabinet minister.
The Dey or Bashaw gives audience,
seated on his throne, to all the officers
of his government at day light imnfedi-
ately after morning prayers. This is
The occasion which is generally chosen
for his deposition. As he rises from bis
throne, the conspirators rush forward,
seize him by his girdle, and either dese
patch him on the spot, or lead bin OFT TO
be strangled secuadem urtsm.-Tka
poor women Of his hdrem undergo tn.
same fate. 10 going 10 pay their official
respects to the Dey, the Foreign Coh-
suls sometimes find heaps Of human
carcasses in their Woodworking to
Mr.. Shaler, there is no city in the
world, where the police is more yigi-
liant and fewer private crimes are COM
mit,ed, than in Algiers. The Algerine
police do not take email bail, or olher-
wise procras!inate, or mince matters.
Mr.. Sbaler relates that an Algerine OF
HE acquaintance, a man of wealth and
distinction, who, in any civilized couE-
try, would be denominated gentle
man, being surprised, with several oIh-
ers, in a house of i'll fame at an undue
hour of the night, was taken, with HIS
companions, TO the quarters of the SUPER
intendent of the police, where screen haes-
bred bastinadoes were given TO each OF
them, without respite. Algiers is con-
sidered as one of the richest cities, in
specie and jewels, in the world. Some
families possess immense fortunes. The
public treasury which the late Dey
transferred 10 the citadel, when he
removed his residence tbither, was sup
posed to amount to nearly fifty millions
Of dollars.