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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54705	The present state of Tangier in a letter to His Grace the lord chancellor of Ireland and one of the lords justices there : to which is added the present state of Algiers.	Philips, George, 1599?-1696.; Philips, George, 1599?-1696. Present state of Algiers.	1676 (1676)	Wing P2027A; ESTC R26210	24,647	138

Algiers So having been two years in the Camp he returned in great triumph accompanied with all the popular applauses imaginable But all this could not secure him from the secret conspiracy of his Kia who having had the sweetness and benefit of the pay in his absence made a faction against him murdering him in the Bettistan or Market-place in the year 1642. Since which time though they have received the Bashaws sent by the Grand Seignior yet have they never admitted them to sit in the Divan or to meddle with Publick Affairs but they have been muzled receiving only their ancient allowance the extraordinary Revenues being wholly taken away so that this place being not of so great profit as was formerly it has not been so greedily sought for at the Ottomans Porte witness this present Bashaw called Ismael who has lived here now near fifteen years After the said Rebellion there has been a person chosen out of and by the Divan to sit over the pay and had the Title of Governour To his care was committed the receipt and payment of all money brought into the Publick and his presence required at the pay of the Souldiers which is every two months Thirteen persons have succeeded in this Office of which but one is found to have died in his bed the other having been poisoned or murthered by some means or other The last that served in that Office was Ally Aga who was cut in pieces by the Souldiers in the year 1672. after their Ships were burnt in Bugia When the said Ally Aga came to the Government the Divan consisted of Bulga-Bashaws Geo-Bashaws and Youde-Bashaws in all above one thousand Persons besides that the Souldiers would come into the Divan upon any Foreign Affair that was to be debated so that it was a rabble of people and a confused multitude until he found a way to reduce them to forty eight of each quality beforementioned viz. 144 persons in all whereof himself was the head The day that he was murthered all the Souldiers were in Arms in great confusion some that were of his party fled and escaped others were kill'd in the Streets and in their Houses the Bashaw then brought out the Grand Seigniors Bandera and made Burgone That all Souldiers should come under it which they readily submitted to so that it was believed the Bashaw would be brought into the Kings House or place of Judicature and the former Authority of his Predecessors not only restored but also the Keys of the Cassale given him when in the middle of the tumult a bolder fellow than the rest cry'd out to bring in Mahomet Raise Treig formerly Admiral Present Government but at that time in disgrace this cry was seconded by all the Sea-faring people and in less than half an hour it was determined to fetch Treig to the Kings House The Old Man knew not whether they came to Kill or to Crown him But so soon as he came there he was given to understand that they had chosen him Governour which he obstinately refused until some that had occasioned his coming thither cryed Father Will you let us suffer by your Humility Upon which he made a bold speech to the Souldiers telling them If they gave the Government into his hands he would be absolute and no ways controuled by the Divan whose Counsel he would willingly adhere unto but the Decisive Vote should be left to him They unwilling to refuse him any thing at that time did above all this deliver unto him the Keys of the Cassale never before in the possession of one man but kept by Eighty Bulga-Bashaws that attended there by turns Eighty every week going up and exchanging the other Eighty and so they proclaimed him by the Name of Dey making him Superintendent over all the Militia by Sea and Land Director of the Cadees and Head of the Divan To his assistance they joined Babba Hassan The Divan is reduced by this Governour to 24 Yeo-Bashaws 24 Bulga-Bashaws 24 You-Bashaws in all 72. one that married his daughter a stout Turk and well learned in the Mahometan Law to his charge is committed all Receipts and Payments so that he hath the same Office former Governours had he is intituled the Dey's Lieutenant and General of the Army without the City he acts in all respects with as absolute power as the Dey himself and neither of them makes use of the Divan for any thing but trifling affairs The Aga. THere is also an Aga or Lord Mayor of the City exchanged every two months This Office is taken gradually as will be seen in the manner of the Militia He is attended by eight Grand Chomes and several other Officers hath Drums and Trumpets and other Musick allowed him and twelve thousand Doubles to defray the charges of his Agaship He is the second person in the Divan Caya or Kia and hath a Kia that acts like a Chamberlain of the City and decides all Differences that happen between one Inhabitant and another unless it be some criminal cause and then he carries them to the Deye or a cause in Law about the Title of Houses and then he sends to the Caddee who is to determine the matter gratis All other Places of Trust Civil as well as Military are wholly in the disposal of the Deye or his Lieutenant Bobba Hassan who so well understand each other in the Government that hitherto nothing has been contradicted which one hath proposed or acted The City consists of divers sorts of people as I. Cololies Cololies or the Sons of Turks born there which for the most part are brought up to Handicraft-Trades for since the time of Maharam Bashaw which was in the year 1625. the Cololi made a conspiracy against the Government and seized on the Cassale and blew it up wherein was by estimation five hundred Barrels of Powder hoping by this means to bring the Government into their hands but they were presently overcome and it was then decreed that none of the Cololies should ever be capable of any Publick Office by Land for the future yet they are continued in pay and may rise to forty Dobles per month according to their merits II. Jews THe Jews whereof there are two sorts the Natives consisting of thirteen thousand Families which for the most part are Handicraft-men and Brokers the other Christian Jews so called because they are bred up in Spain Portugal and Italy and go habited like the people of the Country from whence they came these are for the most part Merchants and cunning fellows above the rest III. Tagareens THe Tagareens are banished Moors from Andalusia of which there is about eight hundred Families they are the principal people that deal in Slaves and are great Armadores to fit out Ships against the Christians being for the most part very rich IV. Jerbeenes THe Jerbeenes so called from the Isle Jerbis near Tunis these are all Merchants or Pedlars and may be about three hundred Families besides