ISBN: 9781130819687

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 518 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 518 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: . . . Arnouts. The Turks, accompanied by the Albanians, are ferocious-looting fellows, but showed the white feather when brought to the point against the mountaineers; hardy in every sense, and more than a match in the art of war for their more Northern rulers. On the 17th instant, a party of regular Turkish troops, on their way to this place from Damascus, about fifty in number, were attacked at a kahn called Hussein by the Druses, and beaten; the Tarts throwing down their arms, and taking to a precipitate flight. The whole population along the coast is actuated but by one resolution, that of throwing off the yoke of their new rulers; and every preparation possible for a coming struggle is showing itselfThe Turks are also preparing; but to the Syrians their efforts appear futile. The English and American families living in the mountain, reached Beyrout with the greatest difficulty, and that after having obtained the taroi of the Druse chiefs. The Malta Times of the 5th instant says, that a precautionary naval force was to be stationed on the coast of Syria; the Indus having already taken its departure from Malta. Letters from Alexandria to the 24th announce that the viceroy had abolished the tax upon slaves, whieh is mentioned as a step towards their emt cipation. The Nile had risen above the standard, and inundated the village of Balucco. --CMl G British Merchants Address. --A lithographed address has been sent to us, by A British Merchant, to the People of England, and more particularly to the Inhabitants of Liverpool, recommending that, as a tribute to God in return for the triumphs vouchsafed in China, the opium-trade should be slopped, by prohibiting the production of the drug in India; and th. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<