Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-28


ed ourselves through the crowd
that assembled itself more and
more to the place where they put
to sell the women. To every group
of women were many persons who
made to understand that they
wished to buy, but greater than all
other groups was one that gathered
itself round young woman half
nude, of fair skin and complexion,
who strove to shrink from the eyes
of the people surrounding to hide
within herself her shame, and who
was already desired Of many at high
price. To my surprise, beyond
expression, Sir s. R, of the
English embassy attache, presents
himself, in large voice, a buyer
Of the beautiful slave, and at the
same moment an official, whom !
recognize Of the Austrian embassy,
declares that he has obtained the
girl by fair purchase and demands
her for his employer, for whom he
is commissionaire. / demonstrate
with my companion, but he is of
the English, obstinate, and declares
be will not allow a woman SO beau
tiful to become a slave, he having
the intention to present to her her
freedom. For me, | do not believe
he will so easily leave her, and | fear
for his position at the embassy
should Milor, the Earl of c.,
hear of his subordinate's folly. He
continues to offer largely his money
against the Austrian who at the
end whispers to Us that he buys for
the Czarowitz. Fatal words! My
friend declares that he will give his
patrimony for the girl but that the
; Prince shall never succeed to OBJ
tain her. He RACES Of this; he
frightens the Austrian official, he
pays the money he has named, and
causes to be taken away the girl
The diary then goes on to deal with
other matters, but we learn further
on that Sir s. R-had the
girl conveyed to a cottage on the
Therapia side, where she lived
| making many English friends, ant
where not many years ago she ended
( her days. The young English at
, tache, yielding to the spell of tn,
! Albanian beauty, remained som,
! time in the Fast, and then, return
E ing to England, rose from one pos
to another, until he became em
basSador at Constantinople, whel
the fiery passion Of youth had soft
: ened down to an affectionate friend
: ship for the occupant of the cottag
!. among the trees at Therapia. Th
Y Englishman being named in afte
\ years for the embassy to 81
\ Petersburg, the prince, VIII
o had in the interval becom
4 the Gar, refused to Sc
/ him, and in consequence, during
s long series of years, the persons
e quarrel between the emperor an
! the diplomatist was fought over til
& shoulders of the Turk. In ever
e trifing wish, as in every seriou
V plan bearing upon the policy of til
e East, the Czar found the Tur
h guided by the advice of his Englis
!. rival, while the latter succeeded i
:. creating in Europe, and particu
J. larly in England, a sentiment Q
n jealousy and distrust toward Rus
= sia. Fretting under his continue
\ diplomatic failures, the Gar de
!. termined that by the conquest G
r Turkey, if no other means wer
! sufficient, should his influence a
Y Constantinople outweigh that 0
. the man he hated. 1t was thi
: that led to the proposition made b
Prince Menchikof in 1858, unde
!, !, cover Of the squabble about the key
: of the holy plaees, eFsnqating in tn
Climean war, the fall Of Segastopol
q the d0atb Of the Gar and the rt
4 cording Of the final triumph of tn
' former attache. Cpriously enough
e the Albanian girl, then an old lad
! well known to English travellers il
q the East, died on tho day OIL whicl
n the peace after the Crimean Wa
q was signed, and her body rests b,
! the waters Of the Bosphorus in
q tomb surmounted by cross place,
Q there by direction of her forme
n liberator and lover One child Q
r. the stolen love remains alive. II
q was an officer of the Turkish con
n tingent IN the Crimea, and nOl
! commands and Albanian corps op
e Grating on the Drina against tn
Russian general, Tchernayeff,