Since The Removal Of Mohammed Pasha The Porte Has Continued To Nominate
His Successors; But The Name Of Pasha Of Aleppo Is Now Nothing More Than
A Vain Title.
His first successor was Alla eddin Pasha, a near relation
of Sultan Selim:
Then Waledin Pasha, Othman [p.653] Pasha Darukly,
Ibrahim Pasha, a third time, and the present governor Seruri Mohammed
Pasha. Except the last, who is now in the Grand Vizir’s camp near
Constantinople they have all resided at Aleppo, but they occupied the
Serai more like state prisoners than governors. They never were able to
carry the most trifling orders into effect, without feeing in some way
or other the chiefs of the Ja[n]issaries to grant their consent.
The corps of Janissaries, or the Odjak of Aleppo, was formerly divided,
as in other Turkish towns, into companies or Ortas, but since the time
of their getting into power, they have ceased to submit to any regular
discipline: they form a disorderly body of from three to four thousand
men, and daily increase their strength and number by recruits from the
Sherifs. Those who possess the greatest riches, and whose family and
friends are the most numerous, are looked upon as their chiefs, though
they are unable to exercise any kind of discipline. Of these chiefs
there are at present six principal ones, who have succeeded in sharing
the most lucrative branches of the revenue, and what seems almost
incredible, they have for the last six years preserved harmony amongst
themselves; Hadji Ibrahim Ibn Herbely is at this moment the richest and
most potent of them all.
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