Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-09-10


que, one OF his wives, and generally the favoure,
shampoolng his feet with her soft fingers, and per-
forming this operation for hours together. This
acc"unted one OF the greatest luxnes of the arau;
ana an opium cater assured me, the most deli .htiul
oi hsrsVorics was agluiny himself slanipocei by
thc Iark eyed honis OF Paradise"
11rs'st Judges and Courts 81 Justice.-TLcro are
several courts where the plaintiff any bring his
NJ option, and he has always tins great advantage
ulat he gives the first bri5c; in short, the TURKS
tam the Judge commonly do the lawycs.-
the grecn-turbaned people, descendants of the Pro-
phet, are called Enirs. or NoblvnicE. They have u
court 81 their own, the Naieb Eup, wherein ihcy
only can DC tried.
lnbnying houses lands, The hagget or title
deeds. require 10 he well examined the Deputy Of
tho Judges is OH the alert 10 find flaw, and TO-
mcnt lawsuit. For few pias,r res you can get wit
nesscs 10 swear any thing, and for higher price YOU
may get yonr adversary dccoycd into coffee house,
treated with opium and Intoxicating tobacco, and
mace To admit circumstances fatal tn his Cause
Christian witnesses admitted against Turks;
but christians, by heavy bribes-pcrjurcd MoSlcm
tcstimonics-may sometimes succeed. When the
party has been too poor to buy over the Judges I
have seen admirable method tried. OF worrying
the Judge into "a yorahle decision. Women, friends
OF The hiisious aupcr crowd the court gather round
The bench. upbra:d tho Judge and abuse him for lis
Venaity. Far means are tried 10 get rid of them.
but they are not TO be appeased; they know their
female privileges and that dare 10 use them
roughiyi their Glamour is dcsfening the Judge gets
bothered, anil eventually, Is forced 10 decide the cause
this should he fab INTO the hands OF Justice 4
great source ofrichcs To the Turks is form Of lii
cation, visc on Jews ond Christians, called wants
Hundreds of Moslems live by il; it practiscd chief
y on the most atlucnt Rayhs, and they are never
moment secure from eSiortion leaving street door
open a; night. taking odlie coin even for n paras
less or more than usual, wearing yellow slippers
stead OF black. talking TO q Turkish women after
dark, or to Greek woman at uav time, in the pur-
hens OF San Dlmi,ri, any ofrhesc frivolous char
ges. the 'nirtu,nte Christian may be torn out of
's och' carries before Cad, and may account him
s.i very lucky he escape basiinudo, atthc cost Of
Iuu or even 1000 piastrcs. OF capital punishmc,!ts
therearc many varie,iesthc Turks are only refined
IN crrey and it Is curious fact, that their only OPP.
ptcaticn OF chemistry is 70 tue composition of moi
sons, many OF which we totally ignornn, OF in
EUROPE The murdero,se Ingredients are often en-
pbyed to dispose of State criminals whose station
renders ~c1ery OF Importance Ia the government
So1fednes the poison ia conveyed into coffee sou,
i'll sherI1t.
had opportunity Of seeing thu spec,ly ef;s,, NJ
poisoned coffee on an Egyptian mcrchant--hc died
eeven hours after lis adrnnst ratun in rratfl TOR
turc. lmpaing is rare, and reserved for highway
robbery; the last time heard Of it's hcinr prac,iscd
was OH highwayman in Walachia-a stake was
thrust through his BODY and il was sci I'M for cyb
ton. The bowstring saw inflicted in Cnnes on an
ALBANIAN soldier, who spat woman in the street
from coffee house window The operation was
very summary; the pa,lid wretch was tried in the
morning; OF the nature OF his sentence he was io-
norant till he was seized by two stronr fellows.
hurried into n court yard of the house, and en-
nelly at sunset. gun WAS fired, the moose was
slpPed over bis face, short thick stick passed
through the back of his neck on the rome and
this was twisted round and round till he was
strangled The bastinado is the chastscment visited
on petty larceny (which is q crime, however unfrc-
qnent IN Turkey0 on Drunkenness, refusal of paving
tribute, taxes, &c. and sometimes 1t is emoiovcd on
Rayahus. to extort confession oftkcir wealth There
are also various methods Of nictino the bas,ipndo
lne soies OF the feet with the thong of the hide of
The hippopotamus, called combash; this | have seen
la'd on 0y TWO men, one on each side Of tie poor
wretch, who is placed on his back and kept dow nv
man sitting on his breast; the legs are pcneraIly
Streaming with blood after the borrid punishment;
rom ninety to two hundred sripcs are commonly civ
en- but Tor great crimes five hundred arc inflicted
ana for still greater. Thousand; THE number is al
ways fatal Another very common mode Of has
t'nadoing is with thick long stats OVER the sto-
mach, ribs, aud loins; end the barbarous practice
generally mains the man for life Women for lcvtv
OF conduct receive milder sort of the bastinado on
'her Dack, but they take 10 be well enyeloned
ana seldom get more than from twelve to twenty
oo"s; as this Ia fact very little known, and the
punishment always in private, I doubt If anv Frank
has seen, or even heard Of the crcups,a uce: brt
once heard the woman cries in the Cads house and
sa" her come out writing covered with blood A
Levanune was with al the time; and AS he knc,r
the CadI, got him to inquire il il was q cemn,on
practice to bastinado femhes He snid II was cnro.
mon enough hfthey never got many stripes The sack
liz the doom of those unfortunate women VINO hovo
been detected in adultery; and, fear too often of
those on whom the suspicion has fallen.
90 not mean TO say that such horrors are of every
nay occurrence; on the contrary, taking every thing
INTO account, it is only wonderful that more murders
OF TINS description are not committed neither have
husbands the legal right Of consienipg their women to
mo Bosphorus, without consulting tho Cad on tho
proPrIety OF so doing; and they s,bsian,atc Inv
Witnesses, the fact ofthcir disbonour but every one
who Knows Constnntnopc must be aware that wit
nesses may be hired in every coffee house, and Ie
must ecc on what feeble tenure Turkish woman,
holds her life.
atpnled the hryemo ola young Gspj in Constan,nople
"hefe hao 1equeni opportunities of sesIng descre
frequently dned with him IN company with DIR. PeTousal
French hnktm he had seruple about exbinr HE wives
hey attended on us at table IN Alexandria lived opposite
the house OF an old mosem, in the Turkish quarters the street
80 narrow that the loudnes o the errmel in mis- aem was
a nu'sance to mc and my neighbors."
bVrngn Fun'stUeHf' Burmau punshmens severe and
cruel The lowest ~ the srae imprisonment and feiters the
nnIPI ol The 1or variug according circumstances or
one pair 10 nine Llcn follow mulcs Gogging rnwIaion
contemplation 20 the perpetual slavery Of the temples and va
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