The Parga division was attacked in its march, and charged by a numerous body of Skipetars. Its destruction seemed imminent2, but instinct suddenly revealed to the ignorant mountaineers the one manoeuvre3 which might save them. They formed a square, placing old men, women, children, and cattle in the midst, and, protected by this military formation, entered Parga in full view of the cut-throats sent to pursue them.
Less fortunate was the Prevesa division, which, terrified by a sudden and unexpected attack, fled in disorder4 to a Greek convent called Zalongos. But the gate was soon broken down, and the unhappy Suliots massacred to the last man.
The women, whose tents had been pitched on the summit of a lofty rock, beheld5 the terrible carnage which destroyed their defenders6. Henceforth their only prospect7 was that of becoming the slaves of those who had just slaughtered8 their husbands and brothers. An heroic resolution spared them this infamy9; they joined hands, and chanting their national songs, moved in a solemn dance round the rocky platform. As the song ended, they uttered a prolonged and piercing cry, and cast themselves and their children down into the profound abyss beneath.
There were still some Suliots left in their country when Ali Pacha took possession of it. These were all taken and brought to Janina, and their sufferings were the first adornments of the festival made for the army. Every soldier’s imagination was racked for the discovery of new tortures, and the most original among them had the privilege of themselves carrying out their inventions.
There were some who, having had their noses and ears cut off, were compelled to eat them raw, dressed as a salad. One young man was scalped until the skin fell back upon his shoulders, then beaten round the court of the seraglio for the pacha’s entertainment, until at length a lance was run through his body and he was cast on the funeral pile. Many were boiled alive and their flesh then thrown to the dogs.
From this time the Cross has disappeared from the Selleid mountains, and the gentle prayer of Christ no longer wakes the echoes of Suli.
During the course of this war, and shortly after the death of Emineh, another dismal10 drama was enacted11 in the pacha’s family, whose active wickedness nothing seemed to weary. The scandalous libertinism12 of both father and sons had corrupted13 all around as well as themselves. This demoralisation brought bitter fruits for all alike: the subjects endured a terrible tyranny; the masters sowed among themselves distrust, discord14, and hatred15. The father wounded his two sons by turns in their tenderest affections, and the sons avenged17 themselves by abandoning their father in the hour of danger.
There was in Janina a woman named Euphrosyne, a niece of the archbishop, married to one of the richest Greek merchants, and noted18 for wit and beauty. She was already the mother of two children, when Mouktar became enamoured of her, and ordered her to come to his palace. The unhappy Euphrosyne, at once guessing his object, summoned a family council to decide what should be done. All agreed that there was no escape, and that her husband’s life was in danger, on account of the jealousy19 of his terrible rival. He fled the city that same night, and his wife surrendered herself to Mouktar, who, softened20 by her charms, soon sincerely loved her, and overwhelmed her with presents and favours. Things were in this position when Mouktar was obliged to depart on an important expedition.
Scarcely had he started before his wives complained to Ali that Euphrosyne usurped21 their rights and caused their husband to neglect them. Ali, who complained greatly of his sons’ extravagance, and regretted the money they squandered22, at once struck a blow which was both to enrich himself and increase the terror of his name.
One night he appeared by torchlight, accompanied by his guards, at Euphrosyne’s house. Knowing his cruelty and avarice23, she sought to disarm24 one by gratifying the other: she collected her money and jewels and laid them at Ali’s feet with a look of supplication25.
“These things are only my own property, which you restore,” said he, taking possession of the rich offering. “Can you give back the heart of Mouktar, which you have stolen?”
Euphrosyne besought26 him by his paternal27 feelings, for the sake of his son whose love had been her misfortune and was now her only crime, to spare a mother whose conduct had been otherwise irreproachable28. But her tears and pleadings produced no effect on Ali, who ordered her to be taken, loaded with fetters29 and covered with a piece of sackcloth, to the prison of the seraglio.
If it were certain that there was no hope for the unhappy Euphrosyne, one trusted that she might at least be the only victim. But Ali, professing30 to follow the advice of some severe reformers who wished to restore decent morality, arrested at the same time fifteen ladies belonging to the best Christian31 families in Janina. A Wallachian, named Nicholas Janco, took the opportunity to denounce his own wife, who was on the point of becoming a mother, as guilty of adultery, and handed her also over to the pacha. These unfortunate women were brought before Ali to undergo a trial of which a sentence of death was the foregone conclusion. They were then confined in a dungeon32, where they spent two days of misery33. The third night, the executioners appeared to conduct them to the lake where they were to perish. Euphrosyne, too exhausted34 to endure to the end, expired by the way, and when she was flung with the rest into the dark waters, her soul had already escaped from its earthly tenement35. Her body was found the next day, and was buried in the cemetery36 of the monastery37 of Saints-Anargyres, where her tomb, covered with white iris38 and sheltered by a wild olive tree, is yet shown.
Mouktar was returning from his expedition when a courier from his brother Veli brought him a letter informing him of these events. He opened it. “Euphrosyne!” he cried, and, seizing one of his pistols, fired it at the messenger, who fell dead at his feet,—“Euphrosyne, behold39 thy first victim!” Springing on his horse, he galloped40 towards Janina. His guards followed at a distance, and the inhabitants of all the villages he passed fled at his approach. He paid no attention to them, but rode till his horse fell dead by the lake which had engulfed41 Euphrosyne, and then, taking a boat, he went to hide his grief and rage in his own palace.
Ali, caring little for passion which evaporated in tears and cries, sent an order to Mouktar to appear before him at once. “He will not kill you,” he remarked to his messenger, with a bitter smile. And, in fact, the man who a moment before was furiously raging and storming against his father, as if overwhelmed by this imperious message, calmed down, and obeyed.
“Come hither, Mouktar,” said the pacha, extending his murderous hand to be kissed as soon as his son appeared. “I shall take no notice of your anger, but in future never forget that a man who braves public opinion as I do fears nothing in the world. You can go now; when your troops have rested from their march, you can come and ask for orders. Go, remember what I have said.”
Mouktar retired42 as submissively as if he had just received pardon for some serious crime, and found no better consolation43 than to spend the night with Veli in drinking and debauchery. But a day was to come when the brothers, alike outraged44 by their father, would plot and carry out a terrible vengeance45.
However, the Porte began to take umbrage46 at the continual aggrandisement of the Pacha of Janina. Not daring openly to attack so formidable a vassal47, the sultan sought by underhand means to diminish his power, and under the pretext48 that Ali was becoming too old for the labour of so many offices, the government of Thessaly was withdrawn49 from him, but, to show that this was not done in enmity, the province was entrusted51 to his nephew, Elmas Bey, son of Suleiman and Chainitza.
Chainitza, fully52 as ambitious as her brother, could not contain her delight at the idea of governing in the name of her son, who was weak and gentle in character and accustomed to obey her implicitly53. She asked her brother’s permission to go to Trikala to be present at the installation, and obtained it, to everybody’s astonishment54; for no one could imagine that Ali would peacefully renounce55 so important a government as that of Thessaly. However, he dissembled so skilfully56 that everyone was deceived by his apparent resignation, and applauded his magnanimity, when he provided his sister with a brilliant escort to conduct her to the capital of the province of which he had just been deprived in favour of his nephew. He sent letters of congratulation to the latter as well as magnificent presents, among them a splendid pelisse of black fox, which had cost more than a hundred thousand francs of Western money. He requested Elmas Bey to honour him by wearing this robe on the day when the sultan’s envoy57 should present him with the firman of investiture, and Chainitza herself was charged to deliver both gifts and messages.
Chainitza arrived safely at Trikala, and faithfully delivered the messages with which she had been entrusted. When the ceremony she so ardently58 desired took place, she herself took charge of all the arrangements. Elmas, wearing the black fox pelisse, was proclaimed, and acknowledged as Governor of Thessaly in her presence. “My son is pacha!” she cried in the delirium59 of joy. “My son is pacha! and my nephews will die of envy!” But her triumph was not to be of long duration. A few days after his installation, Elmas began to feel strangely languid. Continual lethargy, convulsive sneezing, feverish60 eyes, soon betokened61 a serious illness. Ali’s gift had accomplished62 its purpose. The pelisse, carefully impregnated with smallpox63 germs taken from a young girl suffering from this malady64, had conveyed the dreaded65 disease to the new pacha, who, not having been inoculated67, died in a few days.
The grief of Chainitza at her son’s death displayed itself in sobs68, threats, and curses, but, not knowing whom to blame for her misfortune, she hastened to leave the scene of it, and returned to Janina, to mingle69 her tears with those of her brother. She found Ali apparently70 in such depths of grief, that instead of suspecting, she was actually tempted71 to pity him, and this seeming sympathy soothed72 her distress73, aided by the caresses74 of her second son, Aden Bey. Ali, thoughtful of his own interests, took care to send one of his own officers to Trikala, to administer justice in the place of his deceased nephew, and the Porte, seeing that all attempts against him only caused misfortune, consented to his resuming the government of Thessaly.
This climax75 roused the suspicions of many persons. But the public voice, already discussing the causes of the death of Elinas, was stifled76 by the thunder of the cannon77, which, from the ramparts of Janina, announced to Epirus the birth of another son to Ali, Salik Bey, whose mother was a Georgian slave.
Fortune, seemingly always ready both to crown Ali’s crimes with success and to fulfil his wishes, had yet in reserve a more precious gift than any of the others, that of a good and beautiful wife; who should replace, and even efface78 the memory of the beloved Emineh.
The Porte, while sending to Ali the firman which restored to him the government of Thessaly, ordered him to seek out and destroy a society of coiners who dwelt within his jurisdiction79. Ali, delighted to, prove his zeal80 by a service which cost nothing but bloodshed; at once set his spies to work, and having discovered the abode81 of the gang, set out for the place attended by a strong escort. It was a village called Plikivitza.
Having arrived in the evening, he spent the night in taking measures to prevent escape, and at break of day attacked the village suddenly with his whole force. The coiners were seized in the act. Ali immediately ordered the chief to be hung at his own door and the whole population to be massacred. Suddenly a young girl of great beauty made her way through the tumult82 and sought refuge at his feet. Ali, astonished, asked who she was. She answered with a look of mingled83 innocence84 and terror, kissing his hands, which she bathed with tears, and said:
“O my lord! I implore85 thee to intercede86 with the terrible vizier Ali for my mother and brothers. My father is dead, behold where he hangs at the door of our cottage! But we have done nothing to rouse the anger of our dreadful master. My mother is a poor woman who never offended anyone, and we are only weak children. Save us from him!”
Touched in spite of himself, the pacha took the girl in his arms, and answered her with a gentle smile.
“Thou hast come to the wrong man, child: I am this terrible vizier.”
“Oh no, no! you are good, you will be our good lord.”
“Well, be comforted, my child, and show me thy mother and thy brothers; they shall be spared. Thou hast saved their lives.”
And as she knelt at his feet, overcome with joy, he raised her and asked her name.
“Basilessa,” she replied.
And he collected the members of her family, and gave orders for them to be sent to Janina in company with the maiden88, who repaid his mercy with boundless89 love and devotion.
Let us mention one trait of gratitude90 shown by Ali at the end of this expedition, and his record of good deeds is then closed. Compelled by a storm to take refuge in a miserable91 hamlet, he inquired its name, and on hearing it appeared surprised and thoughtful, as if trying to recall lost memories. Suddenly he asked if a woman named Nouza dwelt in the village, and was told there was an old infirm woman of that name in great poverty. He ordered her to be brought before him. She came and prostrated92 herself in terror. Ali raised her kindly93.
“Dost thou not know me?” he asked.
“Have mercy, great Vizier,” answered the poor woman, who, having nothing to lose but her life, imagined that even that would be taken from her.
“I see,” said the pacha, “that if thou knowest me, thou dost not really recognise me.”
The woman looked at him wonderingly, not understanding his words in the least.
“Dost thou remember,” continued Ali, “that forty years ago a young man asked for shelter from the foes94 who pursued him? Without inquiring his name or standing1, thou didst hide him in thy humble95 house, and dressed his wounds, and shared thy scanty96 food with him, and when he was able to go forward thou didst stand on thy threshold to wish him good luck and success. Thy wishes were heard, for the young man was Ali Tepeleni, and I who speak am he!”
The old woman stood overwhelmed with astonishment. She departed calling down blessings97 on the pasha, who assured her a pension of fifteen hundred francs for the rest of her days.
But these two good actions are only flashes of light illuminating98 the dark horizon of Ali’s life for a brief moment. Returned to Janina, he resumed his tyranny, his intrigues100, and cruelty. Not content with the vast territory which owned his sway, he again invaded that of his neighbours on every pretext. Phocis, Mtolia, Acarnania, were by turns occupied by his troops, the country ravaged101, and the inhabitants decimated. At the same time he compelled Ibrahim Pacha to surrender his last remaining daughter, and give her in marriage to his nephew, Aden Bey, the son of Chainitza. This new alliance with a family he had so often attacked and despoiled102 gave him fresh arms against it, whether by being enabled better to watch the pasha’s sons, or to entice104 them into some snare105 with greater ease.
Whilst he thus married his nephew, he did not neglect the advancement106 of his sons. By the aid of the French Ambassador, whom he had convinced of his devotion to the Emperor Napoleon, he succeeded in getting the pachalik of Morea bestowed107 on Veli, and that of Lepanto on Mouktar. But as in placing his sons in these exalted108 positions his only aim was to aggrandise and consolidate109 his own power, he himself ordered their retinues110, giving them officers of his own choosing. When they departed to their governments, he kept their wives, their children, and even their furniture as pledges, saying that they ought not to be encumbered111 with domestic establishments in time of war, Turkey just then being at open war with England. He also made use of this opportunity to get rid of people who displeased112 him, among others, of a certain Ismail Pacho Bey, who had been alternately both tool and enemy, whom he made secretary to his son Veli, professedly as a pledge of reconciliation114 and favour, but really in order to despoil103 him more easily of the considerable property which he possessed115 at Janina. Pacho was not deceived, and showed his resentment116 openly. “The wretch117 banishes118 me,” he cried, pointing out Ali, who was sitting at a window in the palace, “he sends me away in order to rob me; but I will avenge16 myself whatever happens, and I shall die content if I can procure119 his destruction at the price of my own.”
Continually increasing his power, Ali endeavoured to consolidate it permanently120. He had entered by degrees into secret negotiations121 with all the great powers of Europe, hoping in the end to make himself independent, and to obtain recognition as Prince of Greece. A mysterious and unforeseen incident betrayed this to the Porte, and furnished actual proofs of his treason in letters confirmed by Ali’s own seal. The Sultan Selim immediately, sent to Janina a “kapidgi-bachi,” or plenipotentiary, to examine into the case and try the delinquent122.
Arrived at Janina, this officer placed before Ali the proofs of his understanding with the enemies of the State. Ali was not strong enough to throw off the mask, and yet could not deny such overwhelming evidence. He determined123 to obtain time.
“No wonder,” said he, “that I appear guilty in the eyes of His Highness. This seal is, certainly mine, I cannot deny it; but the writing is not that of my secretaries, and the seal must have been obtained and used to sign these guilty letters in order to ruin me. I pray you to grant me a few days in order to clear up this iniquitous124 mystery, which compromises me in the eyes of my master the sultan and of all good Mahommedans. May Allah grant me the means of proving my innocence, which is as pure as the rays of the sun, although everything seems against me!”
After this conference, Ali, pretending to be engaged in a secret inquiry125, considered how he could legally escape from this predicament. He spent some days in making plans which were given up as soon as formed, until his fertile genius at length suggested a means of getting clear of one of the greatest difficulties in which he had ever found himself. Sending for a Greek whom he had often employed, he addressed him thus:
“Thou knowest I have always shown thee favour, and the day is arrived when thy fortune shall be made. Henceforth thou shalt be as my son, thy children shall be as mine, my house shall be thy home, and in return for my benefits I require one small service. This accursed kapidgi-bachi has come hither bringing certain papers signed with my seal, intending to use them to my discredit126, and thus to extort127 money from me. Of money I have already given too much, and I intend this time to escape without being plundered128 except for the sake of a good servant like thee. Therefore, my son, thou shalt go before the tribunal when I tell thee, and declare before this kapidgi-bachi and the cadi that thou hast written these letters attributed to me, and that thou didst seal them with my seal, in order to give them due weight and importance.”
The unhappy Greek grew pale and strove to answer.
“What fearest thou, my son?” resumed Ali. “Speak, am I not thy good master? Thou wilt129 be sure of my lasting130 favour, and who is there to dread66 when I protect thee? Is it the kapidgi-bachi? he has no authority here. I have thrown twenty as good as he into the lake! If more is required to reassure131 thee, I swear by the Prophet, by my own and my sons’ heads, that no harm shall come to thee from him. Be ready, then, to do as I tell thee, and beware of mentioning this matter to anyone, in order that all may be accomplished according to our mutual132 wishes.”
More terrified by dread of the pacha, from whose wrath133 in case of refusal there was no chance of escape, than tempted by his promises, the Greek undertook the false swearing required. Ali, delighted, dismissed him with a thousand assurances of protection, and then requested the presence of the sultan’s envoy, to whom he said, with much emotion:
“I have at length unravelled134 the infernal plot laid against me; it is the work of a man in the pay of the implacable enemies of the Sublime135 Porte, and who is a Russian agent. He is in my power, and I have given him hopes of pardon on condition of full confession136. Will you then summon the cadi, the judges and ecclesiastics137 of the town, in order that they may hear the guilty man’s deposition138, and that the light of truth may purify their minds?”
The tribunal was soon assembled, and the trembling Greek appeared in the midst of a solemn silence. “Knowest thou this writing?” demanded the cadi.—“It is mine.”—“And this seal?”—“It is that of my master, Ali Pacha.”—“How does it come to be placed at the foot of these letters?”—“I did this by order of my chief, abusing the confidence of my master, who occasionally allowed me to use it to sign his orders.”—“It is enough: thou canst withdraw.”
Uneasy as to the success of his intrigue99, Ali was approaching the Hall of Justice. As he entered the court, the Greek, who had just finished his examination, threw himself at his feet, assuring him that all had gone well. “It is good,” said Ali; “thou shalt have thy reward.” Turning round, he made a sign to his guards, who had their orders, and who instantly seized the unhappy Greek, and, drowning his voice with their shouts, hung him in the courtyard. This execution finished, the pacha presented himself before the judges and inquired the result of their investigation139. He was answered by a burst of congratulation. “Well,” said he, “the guilty author of this plot aimed at me is no more; I ordered him to be hung without waiting to hear your decision. May all enemies of our glorious sultan perish even as he!”
A report of what had occurred was immediately drawn50 up, and, to assist matters still further, Ali sent the kapidgi-bachi a gift of fifty purses, which he accepted without difficulty, and also secured the favour of the Divan140 by considerable presents. The sultan, yielding to the advice of his councillors, appeared to have again received him into favour.
But Ali knew well that this appearance of sunshine was entirely141 deceptive142, and that Selim only professed113 to believe in his innocence until the day should arrive when the sultan could safely punish his treason. He sought therefore to compass the latter’s downfall, and made common cause with his enemies, both internal and external. A conspiracy143, hatched between the discontented pachas and the English agents, shortly broke out, and one day, when Ali was presiding at the artillery144 practice of some French gunners sent to Albania by the Governor of Illyria, a Tartar brought him news of the deposition of Selim, who was succeeded by his nephew Mustapha. Ali sprang up in delight, and publicly thanked Allah for this great good fortune. He really did profit by this change of rulers, but he profited yet more by a second revolution which caused the deaths both of Selim, whom the promoters wished to reestablish on the throne, and of Mustapha whose downfall they intended. Mahmoud II, who was next invested with the scimitar of Othman, came to the throne in troublous times, after much bloodshed, in the midst of great political upheavals145, and had neither the will nor the power to attack one of his most powerful vassals146. He received with evident satisfaction the million piastres which, at, his installation, Ali hastened to send as a proof of his devotion, assured the pacha of his favour, and confirmed both him and his sons in their offices and dignities. This fortunate change in his position brought Ali’s pride and audacity147 to a climax. Free from pressing anxiety, he determined to carry out a project which had been the dream of his life.
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