The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-21
P. McKENNA, and others, Committee.
Fro,W the Boston Transcript.

ARRIVAL OF THE Protestant B1sHop IN PALEs-
TINE. JAM 81. The entry Of the Bishop of Pales-
tine into the city of David, marked by favora
Bile circumstances could possibly have been anci
pated~ by the most sangune friends of Protestant
missions IN the East.
On the MORNING of the Goth inst our little commu-
nifty was much excited by the arrival Of messenger |
from Jafa, with the intelligence that the British Con-
sui General and Bishop Alexander had arrived OFT
that port in steam frigate, and might be expected
in Jerusalem on the following day Mr.. Nicolay- |
sen highly respected and talented Holstein Danish
gentleman who is now clergyman OF the Church OF |
England, and the head of mission for promoting |
Christianity among the Jews at Jerusalem immedl- |
ately started to meet them The rencontre TOOK
place at Ramleh, the Ramah Of Scripture, (stll
considerable town. where the Bishop, the Consul
General, and numerous suite halted to pass the
night The Bishop took up his quarters at the house
of the American Consul, the weailhlest CHRISTIAN IN
the place. and the Consul General, with several Of
figars of the Devastation steam frgate alighted at
the Armenian Convent.
On the following day they made the entry into our
ancient capital, in procession which VIII be remem-
bered by those who it to the latest day OF their
lives When within FIVE miles of the gates they were
Joined by the few British and American residents on
horseback headed by Proconsul Johns, who is archl-
tee of the intended church, well Ioci,n enens
of Mr.. Young On approaching the town, the cav
aicade which already consisted of so or go persons
was swollen by the junction OF the Bey, second IN
command of the troops, who, accompanied by guard
of honor and the Janissares Of the Pacha, had been
sent to compliment Colonel Rose on his arrival while
all the loungers of Jerusalem turned out for the oc-
cason. Not the least interesting object of the throng
was Mrs. Alexander, the fair partner of the Right
Rev. Prelate. Being Sin that state In which ladies'
wish to be-" it had been considered by the physician
of the mission unadvisable for her to attempt the
Journey on horseback. Accordingly large later
wan or Oriental litter constructed which, sup
ported before and behind by stout mules, conveyed
Mrs alexander and the younger portion OF her fam
he oh, looI
from Jaa to Jerusalem The procession consisted OF
more than 100 persons on horseback.
The throng passed on, and the scene which ensued
at the Bethlehem gate, by which it entered the town.
battles all description on the one side were the grey
massive battlements and picturesque towers OF Jer
saleL--no mean specimen of the soidity with which
Sultan Sueyman fortified the conquests of his pre-
decessor Selim; and on the other the vale that
leads to Bethlehem, now rugged and now unduated
with all its light and shade softened in the approach
ing twilight while the dark and singularly and
unpeaked line of the mountains of Moab beyond the
Dead sea walled in the prospect. The wildly accou
tired and unearthly looking Bedouin irregulars who
had been playing the de|ereed, ana gamsollng roune
contented themselves with firing off their muskets
being now hemmed in by the motley thIong OF citizens
and Observation-Disclosures in their furred pelsse
and welfolded turbans, down to the filthy old Polish
Jew. in the last stage of wilful hydrophobia.
After acknowledging the presentation of arms a
the Bethlehem gate, the party moved on towards
the house of Mr.. Ncolayson, and Just the new
corners turned their heads to admire the Titan-lke
masonry of the tower of Hppicus, which dates from
the DAYS of Herod the Tetrarch the guns Numbered
forth the salute for the of the Courban Bairam
Thus, by an odd chance, the Protestant Bishop
made his public entry into one of the four holy
cities of Islam 1.-THE others Mecca, Medina, and
Damascus) on the occasion of one Of the creates
festivals of the Mahomedan religion. Colonel Rose
descended at the Spanish convent of Terra Santa
Dr. Alexander took up his quarters temporarily witt
Mr. Nicolayson his own residence, which is upor
the Pool OF Hezekia being as yet unfinished
On the 22d, Colonel Rose Dr. Alexander, and 9
large party ms, ected the intended site of the new
church It will be built upon the most elevated par
of the city, the body of the church will be gothic
and the towers in the style of mosque minarets
which aocords admirably both with the church itself
and with the other public edifces of the city, for
Gothic and Saracenio the twin daughters of the
byzantine STYLE The Bishops residence will be
Elizabethan The stone necessary for the edice
will be procured from the Mount of Olives.
In the afternoon of the some day Colonel Rose
presented Dr. Alexander to Tahir Pasha, who as
have understood, received him with great politeness
Of course it would be an illusion to suppose that
this reception proceeded from any sympathy with
the objects of the mission the part of the Turkish
On the Odd, the Bishop preached his Introductory
Sermon choosing for his text Isaiah, chapter IS,
and verse Is: tWh reas thou (alludng to Jerusa-
lem and the Jews) hath been forsaken and hated,
that no man went through thee, will make thee an
eternal exceilency, JOY of many generations" The
was to show that, although Jerusalem had endured,
and might still endure, much suffering in the fulfil
ment of inspired prophecy, nevertheless brighter
days at hand.
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