Litchfield enquirer., 1832-03-01


 May 5.-Inquire where you will, the an- swer is, The city is desOlate. Around the Pasha four GeOrgians alone remain alive out of more than one hundred. The son of our MoOlah, who is dead, told me to-day that in the quarter where he lives not one is left they are all dead. Out of about eighteen ser- wants Shat Major Taylor left, and seapOys, fourteen are dead Two have now the plague [those two died, and two are well. Again. ot the Armenians, more than half are dead. An Armenian was with us to-day, who says there are not more than twenty seven men left in one hundred and thirty houses. how ever think that this is much more than the fact.
 At lillian, the modern Babylon (population lO,OOO,) there is scarcely a soul left, as Seyd lbrahim told me to-day, and the dogs and 'he wild beasts alone are there, feeding on the dead bodies. The Seyd lbrahim is one of the surviving servants of Major Taylor; but this man, though himself alive, is the only one of his family of fourteen-four brothers, their wives, his~owB, their children and his are all dead.
 For digging a grave they ask sum that equals in England E3, in consequence of which numbers have remained unburied about the streets: so that the Pasha has sent men, giving them sum equal to the above for eve ry one they will throw into the river.
 This is an anxious evening. Dear Ma ry Mrs. GrOves] is taken ill, nothing that would at any other time alarm; but now every little creates anxiety, yet her heart is reposing in the Lord with perfect peace, and waiting his will.
 8.-The Lord has this day manifested that the attack Ofmy wife is the plague, and of l onl ind kbnk our hearts are prostrate in the Lords hand as think the infection can have only come through me, I have little hope of escaping unless by the Lords especial intervention.- It is indeed an awful moment-the prospect of leaving lit;Ie family in such country at such time. Yet my wife's faith triumps O. yer these circumstances, and as she sweetly said to me to-day, the difference between a child of God and a worIding is not in death, but in the hope the one has. iD Jesus. while the other is without hope and without God in the world.
 9.-My wife is still alive, and not apparent ly worse than yesterday. All the conversa- ton of my dear dying wife for these twelve months past, but especially as our difficulties and trials increased, was on the peace she en- joyed in the Lord. Often and often she has said to me, Notwithstanding the disparity of every thing external, never in England en- jOyed that sweet sense of my Lords loving care that have enjoyed in Bagdad. And her assurance of her Lords love never forsOok her, even after she felt herself attacked by the plague.
 l1.-This night has been the most trying of my life. How hard for the soul to see the object of its largest and best grounded earth ly affection suffering without the power ofre- lief
 The plague has attacked two more of our household the schOOlmaster's wife, and our maidservant, and how far it will extend now, no one knows but He who guides it by his sovereign will.
 15.-My dearest wife has reached the light of another day. still quietly sinking without a sigh and without a grUan. have just heard that the streets begin again to be- crowded, shops here and there tO be opened, and the gardeners bringing things from without into the city.
 14.-This day dearest Mary's ransomed spirit took its seat among those who are dress ed in white, and her body was consigned to the earth that gave it birth. A dark heavy day to poor nature, hut still the Lord was the light and stay of it.
 l6.-I have heard to-day that the French Roman Catholic Archbp. of Babylon has been dead long time, and two of his priests. and the remaining two fled. The poor school masters wife is dying, and our servant, I trust, recovering. The rest of our household, within and without, all, thank God, continue in good health.
 MT. Kitts. very intelligent gentleman, who accompanied MT. Groves to Bagdad, in a let. ter dated June 24. gives the following account of new calamity which befel the city imme- diately after the cessation of the plague and the inundation.
 You are probably aware that before the plague commenced, we were expecting that Bagdad would be besieged by persons sent by the Sultan to depose the Pasha. All imme- diatc fear of this ceased when the plague came. for no one supposed that any would be mad enough to come whilst the plague was here; and had there been any such danger, the inundation soon rendered it impracticable.
 The plague had scarcely ceased and the waters subsided, before the Pacha of MOsal actually came as the representative of him of AleppO, who was stated 60 be advancing be- hind. and after much firing and tumult, on the evening of June 1 1, fine palace of the Pa sha was broken into, he was taken prisoner and consigned to the custody of Salah Beg, the only sur, ivOr of the family of the last Pa. sha, the rest having been put to death by the present captive. The next day the people, i. c. the mob, who had been active in the pre-. ceding transactions. set about pluudering.- Alter having been to the house of Mons. Da- vaust-a Frenchman in the service of the Pa ShA AnH Vr hnna fhov xvOuld hava E;llnI r.h.