Several young Greeks at Constantinople have lately been detected
in intrigues with Turkish ladies ; and the delinquents of both sexes have been hanged, and then thrown into the Bosphorus. It is said that
the godly among the Mussulmans are quite astounded at the frequency
of these love affairs. After narrating the fate of one pair of lovers, the correspondent of the Post adds— Rut the gallows in Turkey, as at Venice, have ever proved but poor instru- ments in scaring the fair front letting Heaven see the pranks they dare sot
show their husbands.' On the very day the above.mentioned lovers met with
their untimely and unkindly fate, two other fair delinquents woe surprised by the police. One of the parties met with the same kind of exposure as Mars and Venus before the Gods of Olympus,—with this immaterial difference, that,
instead of being secured under the invisible net of the wily Vulcan, as the god and the frail goddess were, the Hanoum and Greek were entrapped within the
latiieed windows of a carriage, and brought before the Cash. As she happened to be the wife of a man of rank, the Magistrate, out of consideration for the feelings of her relatives, directed her execution and her lover's to be secret. Of
the Greek youth it is known, that, born of respectable parents, he had, in order
to gratify the passion his mistress's charms had kindled in his breast, betakes himself to the device of entering her husband's service in the capacity of
coachman. The history of the other unlucky pair I have not yet learned. It
need hardly be added, that, in consequence of these detections, the jealousy of the Moslems has increased most fiercely, and that the price of eunuchs has tri- pled within a week at the slave-market. The police has issued a filirroan or- dering every woman to be back to her house by the tenth hour—that is,.tr hours before sunset ; and as of late Turkish ladies had awakened much suspicion by the sudden taste they had taken to shopping at Pars and Galata, the owners of these magazine have been warned not to admit within their doors Turkish women of any desciiption, nor to expose themselves, by counteryention to thu order, to be nailed through the ear to the entrance of their premises."
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