The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-08
From the Boston Evening Bulletin.


 From the Boston Evening Bulletin.
 Turkish Commanders-We have gathered from various publications sundry memoirs of several distinguished chiefs now in the service l of the Sublime Porte. The most eminent of these is Hassein Pdch0, commander in chief of the Turkish army of the Danube, now en, trusted with the defence of Shumla. The ability with which he has maintained his pc- sltion against a vastly more numerous force, 1 must be acknowledged on all hands. This chief was born at Erzerum, and was placed among the Janizar'es in very early life. In this corps he continued to serve, and to be promoted until the memorable revolution in l 1926, at which period he had attained the rank of Aga, and had under his command one of the principal arsenals. Those who have read Dr. Walsh, will recollect that the Sultan had long entertained a desire to destroy the influence and power of the Janizaries and that, when thelr destruction was determined upon by consent of the Divan, when the sa : cred standard was unfurled, the barracks of this " military democracy were surrounded and the armed pnpuIace com.nenced It. bloody work of exterminating the whole bo- dy. consisting of some % or 3G. 900.
 At this juncturt. Hussein Pacha, percel,- ing their cause {" be utterly desperate, the whole populace. aud all those classes upon which the JaniZaries had depended for sup port, being turned against them. and their most staunch friends dismaycd and dsheart- ened, entered into solemn negotiation with l the Sultan. He might have committed ire parable mischief hy burning the arsenaIs and stores under h.s control; but he preferred to secure his own safety and his future advance ment, by seconding, in rather candestne manner, the views of the Sultan. He had been assured of the rank of PQch0 Of Itco 1 7'diis, if he would contrive to place the arse nal of Topeschis, which he commanded, into 1 the hands of the Imperial forces; and this he managed very adroitIy to accomplish.
 He manGu.red his own troops so as to get , defeated, part of whom were beheaded and ] thrown into the sea, and the residue banished to the coast of Asia. During all those move ments, the government officers did not once ] suspect him. and uniformly deemed him an enemy. The Grand Provost even went so far as to complain formally against him to the 1 Emperor, at a time when there was perfect understanding between the latter and the ] Aga. by which the accuser lost his life. Illus ] sein was subsequently, according to promise. compensated with the fur pelisse of a Pacha. The organization of the new levies was con ] fded to him; which he effected in a manner that secured the appreciation of the Sultan, who highly valued his talents as discipina- rian, and placed him at the head of his armies on the Danube.
 | Another of the principal Turkish Chiefs is Mehemet At, Viceroy of Egypt. He was born near Salonich in Macedonia, in 1762. and is of Turkish descent. He served as a Colonel of the Janizaries, at the period when Egypt was evacuated by the French; and 1 signallzed himself so greatly in the war be tween the Turks and Mamelukes, that he was selected by the former as their Chief; which act was ratified by the government, and fur ther honored by his appointment as Viceroy of Egypt and Arabia. In this capacity he has served, ever since, with the utmost fdel- ity; not only devoting himself to the inter- ests of his sovereign, but tO those of the coun- tries over which he has been selected to pre- side. In the course of his administration he ] has established an extensive intercourse with India by way of Egypt opened canal be- tween the Nile and Alexandria, erected large manufactories of gun-powder. salt petre, cannon, musketry, cotton, sugar, silk, &c. developed greatly the resources of the coun- try, and added vastly to its internal improve { ments.
 Mehemet Ali has also distinguished himself as liberal patron of learning and the arts.--- A superb library has been established under his direction, containing the most approved European scientific works--and he now maintains large school for the gratuitous education of the Turkish youth in the ele,
 ments of some of tho foreign languages, and
 in general science. A press has also been e
 rected by his order, for the publication of 2
 weekly newspaper in the Italian and Arabic
 languages, and for printing books in those
 and the Persian tongues. He has two sons
 one of them, Ismael, was the celebrated com
 mander in the conquest of Ethiopia; and thu
 other, Ibrahim, now about S6 years of age, il the same who recently commanded in thu
 MOrea. It was in the army of Ismael, tha the late George B. English served as Gene