The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-12-19

the Pasha of the Island, ordering him on the
part of the Sultan, to assist the Capigee il
the execution of this commission. The bust
ness was soon done, and the Pasha address
ed to the Porte an official account of it
which, coming by a sea conveyance, arriv-
ed at Constantinople before the Capigee
who had landed at Satalia, and was return
ing on horseback. On the receipt of this
despatch, the Grand Vizier and the other
ministers were filed with CONSERVATION =
and as the nature of its contents required
that the Sultan should be informed Of them
Immediately, they made up their minds for
the worst, should the Sovereign's wrath not
be directed to the perpetrator of what APP
peared to them an unauthorized act The
Grand vizjer approached tremblingly to
ms great relief was told not to trouble
himself about it. He was left to guess at
the truth.
One OF the most important objects which
attracted Sultan Mahmoud's attention, soon
after his accession to the throne, and which
seemed to him to call loudly for a thorough
reform, was the existence Of some remains
OF teudal system in certain provinces of
the empire. It was only, however, when
he had freed himself from the shackle Of
the war against Russia, that he felt at lib
erty to undertake the destruction of feudal-
ism, work hitherto looked upon by him as
being attended with great difficulty, and
which only appeared practicable during
time Of peace with foreign states After
several years labor, and happily for him,
before the breaking out of the Greek in
surrectlon, his exertions were crowned with
complete success, and the extensive dis
trlcts lately under the paternai and peace
able authority of the Deuebeys, or tributary
princes, were converted into PdshGLicS, or
military governments, commanded by Pash-
as OF three tails. lie has thus substituted
tof those who possessed the real means of
being useful to him in all his troubles and
dlfhceltles, and whose very existence inter-
ested them in supporting his government
on all occasions, Il set of mercenary agents,
strangers to the people, over whom they
are sent to rule with absolute sway who
are actnated By no consideration but the
qualification of their own avarice, and ex-
ercise, therefore, q system OF oppression
and plumber, equally ruinous to the peas
ant and to the state and who, frequently,
after having amassed wealth through their
believe they have become suffi-
dependent of the Porte, and raise the stand
ard Of revolt against the imperial authori-
ty; thus involving the empire in perpetual
trouble and confusion, and breeding all
kinds of discomfort in every part it, with
Themselves tie But such IS the strange iStai
ty which seems to attend the fate of this
government, that it seems to labor
with unr emitting asgiduity at its own de-
stTuction; and such must infallihly continue
to he the case, so long as the interests and
passions of one individual are acted upon
wAhout the slightest reference to general
good. 1t is almost needless to deduce
from these observations, the rapid decline
of the Ottoman empire, which recent
commotion has shaken to its foundations.
No event could have held up TO clearer
light the state of its degeneracy, than its
mpotent and long contention with hand
ful of people, against whom all the national
strength and resources have, during now
more than four years, been employed in
vain. The contest for freedom, Justly en-
tered into by the Greeks, has moreover
served to show, that upon the industry of
this people alone had hitherto depended
the pecuniary resources of the Turkish
government, whose finances are now reduc-
ed to that impoverished state which neces-
states recourse to the last alternative of
all barbarous governments--the progressive
diminution in the intrinsic value of the
national coin.
In 1920 the plaster in Turkey was equal
TO nine English pence it Is now worth
four, and there is every local prospect gifts
continuing to fall. To what end such a
state of things viii lead, very few years
must determine.