[Valuelist-users] Tion from the ports of the

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 Emperor, that, if he did not change his conduct very soon, he would
begin a war with him, and such a war as he had neither seen nor read of
before. When the Rais reported this to the Emperor Soliman, he enquired
what kind of war an admiral could wage against him; some one of the 460
divan observed, that he would destroy the ports on the coast; adding,
that it would cost a certain large sum of money to effect that
destruction. Upon which the Emperor exclaimed, that, for half that
amount, he would himself destroy all these ports.--This affair happened
in September, 1798. There is a prophecy in Barbary, that, from time
immemorial, has been generally credited by the inhabitants. It has been
transmitted to them by some fakeer, that the land of the M