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 22 AN INSTANCE OF base by my labour gained ſince my arrival here at Bagdad, and I hope your majeſty will pardon my ingratitude, upon account of the ſorrow it gives me to have committed it. The Caliph, who never intended to inflict any puniſhment upon Babekan, was very well pleaſed to ſee him in this diſpoſition; he therefore par- doned him: and being willing that Ibad and Sya- houk, for the pleaſure they had given him, ſhould feel the effects of his liberality, he caufed it to be publiſhed all over Bagdad, that if there were any women who would marry the two crump-brothers, he would give them each two thouſand pieces of gold. There were above twenty that were ready to embrace ſo conſiderable a fortune; but Ibad and Syahouk having choſen out of that number thoſe that they thought would fit them beſt, received of the Caliph twenty thouſand ſequins more, with which they traded in fellowſhip with Babekan; and theſe three brothers ſpent the reſt of their days in abundance of tranquility, under the pro- tection of the ſovereign commander of the faith- ful, who was ſo liberal to the porter, that he lived at his eaſe ever after, without having any occaſion for continuing his trade. AN IN S T A N C E OF TURKISH JUSTICE. A Grocer of the city of Smyrna, had a ſon, who, with the help of the little learning the country could afford, roſe to the poſt of naib, or deputy to the Cady, or mayor of the city, and as ſuch