Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-30

Engiishman. But, if you find that the French
and English avoid the plague entirely by seclu-
sion, your religion does not forbid you to do SO
also.
G. r. I've should be reckoned cowardly
if we did. A Musselman piques himself on his
courage.
Eugishman. you find the French and
English deficient in courage at Navarino?
e. X. T.-Ah, your advantage there was ow-
ing to treachery and the great superiority Of your
force.
Engishman. -But you do not refuse medicine
in other diseasesS
Allah has permitted that other diseases should
yield to medicine; but the plague does not.
Englshman.-Why don't YOU try whether the
plague would pass by secluded Turk, as well
as secluded Frank
g. II. 1.-THE example OF you infidels is Just
the thing which true believer avoids: we would
else show disbelief in the Providence of Allah.
Englishman. -Pray, may take the liberty to
ask If you were not once Christian Yourself?
G. X. T.--Yes, was, and am So still, though
wear the habit and adopt the customs of Turk.
took part 10 the rebellion Of the Greeks against
the Turks, aud printed a Greek newspaper at
Athens. We differed in opinion, aud split into
two sects, and fought against each other. The
Turks touk advantage Of cur dissentions and sub
dued US; was very Ill used by the other sect,
who put Me in solitary prison, and took away
my papers.
Eng!ishman. What was the mighty ground
of dispute that led 10 such civil war and subuga.
ton 0f Your country
6 z ri then thought on it depended my
going to Heaven or He'll The dogma of one sect
was that the Church was always right, of the 9th
err that the Church was never wrong.
Fnglishman How did you come to assume
the Turkish habits and customs?
&. r. 1.-The Mutt and Mahomedan Priest.
hood became alarmed at Mahmoud's attempts to
put down the Jannssaries, and adopt newspapers,
and also at the imitation Of the customs of the
Franks by Ali Pacha in Egypt, and IN order to
preserve their revenues and ascendancy, they
conceived the idea of setting up a Greek news
paper at ConstanIin0ple, under their secret IN
iluence, to keep up dsscnton among the Greeks,
by violently embracing those old d0gmas which
were most akin to the Jewish notions from which
Mahomet borrowed part Of the koran. The
dissention of the Greeks was the strength Of the
Mahomedan priestly ascendancy, and great pub
lie cndowments, and the propagation Of our
Greek fanatiCism, which the priests worked upon
in rousing the Ignorant Moslem populace to fol-
low the standard of the Prophet. which you know
is pair of the Prophets old trowsers hoisted on
the end OF pole.
Englishman. $50 you act under disguise.
G. r. Tt am not known to have any con-
Germ in this newspaper,and draw on the Greeks
of my sect, to support their interest IN Greece,
and levy contributions on the MahOmedan Ec-
clesastical Establishments. to maintain dissen-
ton among their spiritual enemies. | receive
douceurs also from the mOunIebank dancing Der
y;eh for Mil thai f.afC ard AIT in
custom to them.
EnsIlshman. why don't you avoid the
plague as we dos
g. r. Tt do; but must not seem to do
it, or else should be denounced by the priests,
and by the shopkeepers of the bazars, and coffee
house keepers, where the people 90 to take coffee
and opium aud hear story tellers.
Eaglishman. did not think Of that
G. r. T.-Why don't you see, that if the
people would shut themselves up as the French
and English do, or run into the country, nobody
would 20 20 the Bazars or Coffee houses. and
Mosques. or dancing Deryishes, great injury
would arise to trade; and those who subsist by
daily employment would be thrown on the pub
ic or the wealthy for sustenance?
Enslishman. you think lying for the be-
nefi, of trade is a very moral and religious prac-
tce in Turkey
g. X. T.-Do yop English never tell hes for
Your own interest in matters Of business. have
heard some English Proverbs that sound very
much like such thing. Proverbs are the moral
maxims of people. A Tur', rinstance, knows
from experience how much the safety of all who
undertake journeys through deserts depends on
a sound horse; and hence it is point of honor,
never to misrepresent the soundness of horse.
Is it SO in England?
Enylishman.-I must confess that when horse
flesh is concerned, an Enslishnan always ex-
poets lying truth never.
G X. T-Do Englishmen transfer without
counting labelled bags Of coin:
Englishman.
G. r. ibid not your British merchants use
forged documents whenever they found it for the
benefit OF trade, and artists advertise them for
sale?
Englishman.-I believe It was SO during Per-
cival's time. i.
G. X. T Would an English newspaper pub.
lish lie for money, especially it it was for the
advantage of trade. or fell in with the interest or
prejudices Of powerful personss 4
Enslishman. -Umpb. stse
@. r. T--WQad doctor certify, to please