Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

EXECUTION
Of State Criminals of High Rank at Constantinople.

Extract of a letter from a respectable firm, dated Constantinople, October, 1819.

"On the 16th, the two elder Duzoglies were beheaded at the Seraglio gates, and two others, a brother and a cousin, hung at the door of one of their country houses on the Bosphorus. Inclosed you have a translation of the charges brought against them by the government. On the 17th, the head of Apturaman Bey, (late director of the Mint) who had been sent into exile with a pension of 30,000 piastres, was brought to town and placed by the two first mentioned, where they remained three days.

"On the 23d, another of the Duzoglies, who had been absent on account of bad health, was brought in, and of course placed in confinement. Nothing has yet been done with respect to the other parties implicated; but there can be no doubt that as soon as everything is confessed and recovered, to which it is said they have been forced by torture, the same fate is reserved for them all.

Translation of the writing placed by the side of the corpse of Kirkor Duzoglie, beheaded before the Great Gate of the Seraglio, called Baba Hamayun, on Saturday, the 26th of the Moon Zilkande, answering to the 16th October, 1819.

"By the negligence and misconduct of the Superintendents of the Imperial Mint, for the last three or four years, those who are hereafter named, turning their office to their private profit, and to give scope to their innate perfidy, have appropriated to themselves more than 20,000 purses of money; for which they have thus constituted themselves debtors, and have consumed that sum in building houses upon the canal and in the city, and on various other objects of luxury and ostentation; thus dilapidating the Ottoman Treasury.

"Besides what they have permitted at their own residence, they have caused chapels to be erected in the houses of persons who belonged to them; and bringing to them Catholic priests, they have had the audacity to exercise publicly the false religion even within the capital of the Ottoman Empire. It is then one of the Duzoglies named Kirkor, that traitor punished with death well merited, whose miserable corpse this is.

"N. B. The writing placed by the side of the corpse of Serkis, second son of the family Duzoglie, is exactly conformable to the above.

"Constantinople, October 25, 1819."