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

e ell her from the crowd of ignorant being,
with whom she was obliged to associate
ne education of her son became the onl,
/, oDlect OF her cares and occupations ano
her eonnsels, joined to those Of Sultan Sc.
, illii' who evlnced a strong Partially for the
growing prince, prepared INN for the I'M
poftant duties of the throne. Since the
commencement of his reign, the wisdom
} ana soundness of his mothers politics have
peen rendered apparent. According to
law, not only was she enabled, as Sultan
Faliday, (Emperor's mother) to appear i'll
puDlc with perfect freedom, but also to
take direct part in the deliberations of
tne DiVan on every important occasion,
through the person of her own chancellor,
who has seat in it. Mahmoud, however,
seems TO possess too naughty and fiery a
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and he had become too much attached to
oeilm's views, not to make their accom-
pilshment paramount to all considerations
as to the inlquity of the measures to which
he had determined to recnr for that pur-
pose. The principles of the system, which
ne IN consequence adopted, and has since
pursued, may indeed be considered, in
some measure, applicable to the temper
and habits Of his people; but, generally
speaking, a policy tending to the diminu-
ton and destruction of the population Of an
empire. to say nothing of the natural odium
1t necessarily eXcites, must be locked upon
as calculated to defeat its own object.
shall not here specify the number of Janis
saries, who, it is asserted by all well in
formed persons residing at Constantinople,
have gradually disappeared through mys-
ferrous means, from 1903 to 1924. Suffice
1T to say, that it is not less than the amount
OF population in one of the second-rate
Kingdoms of Germany And if the waters
OF the Bosphorus were, by some miraculous
operation, suddenly withdrawn, the heaps
OF human bones which they perhaps still
serve to conceal, would fill one with horror
and amazement.
If the humiliation of the corps of Janis
saries be ultimately effected through the
physical destruction of the people who COM
pose it, it remains to be seen whether the
facilities afforded by such removal OF OPP
position are likely to ensure the full exc
cution of the Sultan's plan. 1t can only be
deluded and short sighted government
who would seek strength by diminishing
the number Of its subjects.
Among the few of Sultan Mahmoud's
confidential servants who are known to
have exercised any influence over his meas
ures, the keeper of the seals, Halett Efien
di, has made himself the most conspicuous.
This man had acquired refinement and
suavity in his manners, and the art of Civ
inr a fascinating nnu~-z- -,
wnIcn iiIiitio Iiilfl pass as an accomplished
gentleman even in the most fashionable SG-
tons of Paris, in which capital he had resid-
ed some years as furkish Ambassador
But, says the Greek proverb, A Turk is
always a Turk, do what you will with
him. and so Halett Effendi proved him
self to the utmost extent, when he after
wards found the means of governing his
country through his artfill intrigues. The
butcherles, committed at Constantinople
soon after the breaking out Of the Greek
Instruction among the most innocent and
peaceable Of the Greek inhabitants, are
vel. known to have arisen from his nsti-
| cations; and many other acts of cruelty,
and of private persecution, owe their ORR
gin to the same source. Loud complaints
commenced at last against him, but remain
ed for q time UNDECIDED and the immedi-
ate patronage of the Sultan still encourage
ed him in a career of ubiquitous measures,
for which he was considered personally
responsible. The increasing power Of his
enemies became at last too great to be
withstood, and, when joined by the clamor
of the Janissaries, his fall became ineVlta-
BILE. The Sultan protected him to the last
with the whole weight of his authority, but
when he found his own life to be endan-
gered by this obstinacy, he caused his ia
vorite to be oxiled to some place in Asia
Minor, where he was soon after beheaded.
Thus ended, in 1922, the life of Halett
EfenGi, whose name viii form an epoch
in the annals of Turkish history, and whose
ultimate fate is striking instance of the
insecurity of Turkish power.
In his manner of living, Sultan Mahmoud
is said never to surpass the bounds of mod
GRAFTON. He rides a good deal on horse
back, and makes frequent aquatic excur-
sions, landing at some one of his numerous
kioSkS, which border or crown the heights
of the Bosphorian shores, in the gardens Of
which he amuses himself great portion OF
/, the day by firing with afife-piece at tar
!, get. He has raised barrier between HIM
, self and his subjects, which renders imprac-
, ticable all personal intercourse with hin
beyond few favored individuals and he
is only officially accessible on Fridays
: whilst he is riding in state to the mosque
J On this occasion petitions are presented t
him, and taken by the chief of his eunuchs
(who also acts as minister of his household
{ riding next to him. 1t seldom happens tina
he reads any of them but when he hap
pens to do SO, and is struck with any ipjus
ticc therein complained Of. he is quick il
granting redress. He takes an essentia
part in the direction of public affairs, ant
! often desccnds so far into trihing details
f which relate to his internal government
/ that great number of things are done b!
+ him, without the participation or knowl
: edge of his ministers to whose respective
? departments they may Immediately belong
J In 1912, having Judged it expedient that
> late Vizier, exiled to Cyprus, should be pu
: to death, and wishing to spare the feeling
) of one of his ministers, who was the Vizler'
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