Upon The Emir’S Reiterated
Applications, The Prisoners Were At Last Liberated.
When Ibrahim Pasha removed to Damascus, he procured the Pashalik of
Aleppo for his son Mohammed Pasha, a man who possesses in a high degree
the qualification so necessary in a delegate of the Porte, of
understanding how to plunder his subjects.
The chief of a Sherif family,
Ibn Hassan Aga Khalas (who has since entered into the corps of the
Janissaries, and is now one of their principal men), was the first who
resolved to oppose open force to his measures; he engaged at first only
seven or eight other families to join him, and it was with this feeble
force that the rebellion broke out which put an end to the Pasha’s
government. The confederates began by knocking down the Pasha’s men in
the streets wherever they met them, Janissaries soon assembled from all
quarters to join Hassan’s party; and between two or three hundred Deli
Bashi or regular troops of the Pasha were massacred in the night in
their own habitations, to which the rebels found access from the
neighbouring terraces or flat roofs. Still the Pasha’s troops would have
subdued the insurgents had it not been for the desperate bravery of
Hassan Aga. After several months daily fighting in the streets, in which
the Pasha’s troops had thrown up entrenchments, want of food began to be
sensibly felt in the part of the city which his adherents occupied near
the Serai, a very spacious building now in ruins.
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