The Sultan, however, personally seems to have some fear as
to the effect of his "policy" in Macedonia upon public opinion both in Europe and America. He is, therefore, about to expel all correspondents on a charge of misrepresentation," and to discover, an American agent who will report that the charges against his government are "gross exaggerations." We are the more inclined to believe this story because the Sultan refused to allow British Military Attaches to accompany his army in Macedonia., and because his Embassies have evidently received instructions to educate the mind of Europe., The gentlemen entrusted with this work perform it with a will, but they are not very ' skilful. They lack literary courage in framing
their dimentis. They should affirm that all Turks are opposed to capital punishment, and that prisoners are only taken in order to ensure their being properly fed. They are starved by the insurgent Committees in order to embarrass the Turkish Treasury, and when they die on the way to prison it is from unaccustomed repletion. Ismail Pasha understood the business of "reporting" much better. He ordered a defaulting Chancellor of the Exchequer to be thrown into the Nile, and then announced that he had "died of drinking." He would not have lied for the world.
