The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-29

the memorial, in 1910, ! believe and
even TINS kindly act set wagginti sos
SIP evil tongue. 1t was charged that
the flerch king cared not a straw for
the memory of Saint Louis, but I'M
prove the opportunity to gain a first
foHt hold for the French in Tunis; ard
tina; the poor priests who sang masses
for the soul of the Crusader were real
~ monks militant, under pay, with
harness On their back beneath the cowl.
There is no city in the world more
strangely situated than Tunis.
Though called q port, it is not on the
sea, nor even on the gulf of the same
name. but lies at considerable distance
inallu, on @ narrow isthmus between
two large but shallow salt lakes. The
northern lagoon-called by the natives
Ell Bahira, meaning Little Sea- COM
municates with the Gulf of T'unis by an
artificial passage, at Goetta, on it's
| seward edge Goletta--a town of per-
| haps three thousand habitants-is the
real port, and it's name is a corruption
of the Arabic wards, Halk ell Oued, or
Throat of the Canal" The passage
from gulf to lake cuts the town into
I'ot tAC'ih'
tainirg the fort, battery and most of
the residences; the southern, the Beys
summer palace, the old seraglio, the ar
senal, custom house and prison. YES
sells are compelled to anchor in the
open roadstead, as there Is not suffi-
cient depth of water near the shore.
Tha boatmen, probably ex-Riff pirates,
or their descendants, used to have
| things all their own way and travellers
were quite at their mercy; but the
| French authorities have stopped all
that, ostensibly through the Bey and
| established a regular tariff for the row
| to shore-one and a half francs for each
passenger, for trunk or large satchel
| half franc extra; or for whole boat,
| nine francs Steam launches, belong
Ing to the Transatlantique company,
also ply between their vessels and the
shores.
Goletta, like Tunis, has been con-
structed entirely with the materials of
nearby Carthage. 1t is growing rap
idly to the northward, so that it has al
most reached the ancient city, the new
er quarter being in high favor with the
Tunisians In summer, on account of
sea- bathing. The climate is said to be
agreeable here the year around and the
famous baths are scattered for a mile
or more along shore. The fortress
which defends Goletta, built of huge
blocks of stone taken from the palaces
of Carthage, has been many times be-
sieged. Perhaps the most celebrate |
encounters in which 1t has figured were |
those haf wpar the arn1iac of Cha rlpc " !
of Spain, and Kheir-el-din, the Corsair
usurper, whom the Sultan Selim I. |
named Pacha. We have not space in |
the Journal and Courier to tell the sto-
ry though it reads like a tale of the
Arabian Nights, or one of Sir Walter
Scott's romances 1t is a tale of
treachery and bloodshed, of secret Pa
pal influences and outrages by Barba-
ry pirates. Mulai Mohammed, last
prince OF the BENZ Hafer dynasty
which had ruled this region for three
centuries, died in 1925, leaving many
sons by his numerous wives. One of
the youngest of these, named Mulai
Hassan, owing to the intrigues of his
mother, who it is said, poisoned his
father. succeeded to the throne, after
putting to death all the brothers who
opposed him. When Kheir-el-din
gained possession of Tunis with his
Corsair nordes, he proceeded to
strengthen its citadel and to fortify
regardless of expense, which
was borne by the Sultan. Meanwhile
Mulai Hassan, compelled to flee, had
invoked the aid Of CRADLES V. Before
that day numerous complaints had
0een brought to the emperor of the out
ages committed by Barbary pirates on
mis- subjects, both in Spain and Italy;
and the glory of Kidding the world of
his odious species of oppression in
luced the monarch to turn a willing
ear to the dethroned prince and to con-
dude treaty with him for the inva-
sion of Tunis. For this purpose he ,
rev contingents from every part of
lis empire-a Flemish fleet brought
)ody of German infantry; the galleys i,
# Naples and Sicily brought we'll :
rained bands of Italians; the Pope
endered all the assistance in his pow
r. the knights of Malta, sworn enc
MES Of the infidel, equipped an efficient
quadron; and the emperor himself en-
,arked at Barcelona with the flower of
he Spanish nobility and a considera-
lie fotilla from Portugal under COM
nand Of Don Luis, the empress broth l
r. Of course the half-savage Kheir- c
l. din could not compete with such a q
orce, though he called In all his Cor l
airs and twenty thousand Moorish S
orse and a mighty fleet of Turkish
alleys. Goletta was taken by assault
l July, of 1885, and the Emperor |
harles v became master of the situa- N
ion, as we'll as of Kheir-el din's fleet, /
rsenal and three hundred brass cam n
on which he found planted on the a
amparts. For three days Tunis was /
iven over to pillage by the Christians L
p, who murdered thirty thousand in a
del inha bitants and carried ten thou
and more off into slavery. Thus Mulai n
assam gained his throne, aided by the q
lost civilized nations Of the time, sur G
FUNDED by carnage and abhorred by y
Is subjects. He was obliged to sign a II
eaty, acknowledging that he held his Z
ngdom in fee to the crown of Spain, q
greeing to pay a very large sum for .
lie subsistence of the garrison at Go
tia, and every year to send twelve -
1rses and as many falcons to the en- III
,ror as a token Of vassalage. He also u
creed to free all Christian slaves in So
S dominion, grant perfect liberty OF
ligion and the exclusive hight of fish
Or for coral IN tho Sna MIA rdS and un-