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24 parent. Justice is blind, it is the power of God on earth, it has no regard to father or son, God and and our neighbours right are above the ties of nature, you had offended against the laws of justice, you deceived this punishment, you would in the end received it from some other, I am sorry it was your fate to have received it from me my conscience would not suffer me to act otherwise: behave better for the future and instead of blaming, pity my being reduced to so cruel a necessity." This done, he mounted his horse again, and then continued his journey, amidst" the acclamations and praises of the whole city, for so extraordinary a piece of justice; report of which being made to the Sublime Porte, the Sultan raised him to the post of Cady, from whence by degrees, he rose to the dignity of Mufti, who is the head of both religion and law among the Turks Were our dealers in small weights to be dealt with according to the Turkish law, the poor might not be so much imposed upon as they are now