The Litchfield County post., 1828-10-02

Jews around US, from which he had Ne Wey
20 protect himself. 1t had happened to
him, he said in the same place before, and
both he and the gentleman he travelled with
were attacked and were in great danger oil
being injured. This determined hostility
10 knowledge is, perhaps, the most extraor-
binary trait in the Turkish character, and
distinguishes them from every other nation
at the present day. 1t is hardly possible
to conceive people priding themselves on
being ignorant, and despiSing those who are
rot so. Nor is this confined to the rabble
of Kirklesi. There is number of Janniz-
aries attached to the palaces of the differ
ent missions at Constantinople, as gunUds of
honour, and they are in constant commune
cation with the inmates of the palaces.-
The only one ever heard of, who acquir-
ed a knowledge of the Frank language, was
Mustapha, and he was renegade, and did
it at the hazard of his life. The prejudice
is not less among the upper and educated
classes. The Turks, in their intercourse
with foreign nations, are always obliged to
use rayas as interpreters. The important
function of dragoman to the Porte was al
ways performed by Greeks till the late in
surrection and when the Turks thought
they no longer could confide in them, there
could not be found in the empire one, of
themselves. capable or willing to hold a
communication in foreign language, and
they were obliged to confer the situation ON
a Jew. They have since that, however,
established seminary for the instruction
of a few young Turks in different Frank
languages, that they may be able to under
take and discharge duty so important and
confidential, and no longer depend upon.the
suspicious fidelity ofstrangers. This tardy
and reluctant adoption of a measure SO in
dispensable, is a strong proof of the perth
Aaclty they adhere to ancient prejudices,
which no one but man of the energetick
character of the present Sultan could dare
oppose, or oppose with any effect
Other traits of character are thus anus
ingly mentioned: Mustapha the january,
was under the hands of barber; and DR..
w. observes-Here / had occasion to re-
mark the strange aptitude of Turk to diff
fer from Frank, even in his most trifiing
habits. The house next to the barber's
shop was in progress OF building, and there
was man writing down some inventory
All the persons l saw engaged were work
ing in manner opposite to our mode OF u
sage. The barber pushed the razor from
him; ours draws it to him; the carpenter
on the contrary drew the saw to him, for all
the teeth were set in-ours pushes it from
him for the teeth are set out; the mason sat
while he laid the stones ours always stands;
the scribe wrote on his HAND, 81 from right to
left-ours always writes on desk or table,
e. from left to right; but the most ridiculous
difference consists in the mode of buildinga
house.
We begin at the bottom and finish at the
top; this house was frame of wood, (which
the Turks,began at the top, and the upper
rooms were finished and inhabited, while
all below was like lantern. However alb
surd these minute may appear to you, they
are traits of Turkish character which with
other things'form striking peculiarly. 1t
is now more than four centuries since they
crossed the Hellespont, and transported
themselves from Asia to Europe during
all that time they had benin constant con-
tact with European manners, and at times,
even penetrated as far as Vienna, and SO
occupied the very centre Of Christendom.
Yet while all around them have been adj
vancing in the march Of improvement, hey
have stood still, and refused to move; and
with few exceptions they are the same pu-
Grille, prejudiced, stubborn race that left the
mountains of Asia. And SO indisposed are
they to amalgamate with us in any way tina,
they still preserve marked distinction in
the greatest as well as the minutest things
mot only in science and literature, but in
the movement of saw or razor.