A TURKISH GENEALOGY OF MR GLADSTONE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 14 February 1878, Page 4

A TURKISH GENEALOGY OF MR GLADSTONE.

A good deal of amusement was caused in JEogland by the publication in the London Times of a biography oCth^Bigbt-MoD. W. E. Gladstone, as it appeared in the Zaman, the organ of ; the Salonica Government. It is very significant of the love Turks bear to the denouncer of ihe Bulgarian atrocities, and likewise the amount of reliance that can be placed on the Turkish presa in matters where their prejudices are concerned.

" Gladstone, the disturber, who is in England the' declared enemy of Ottomans and, still more, of the religion of Islam; who for many years has been heaping up all sorts of false charges against lelamism and the Mussulmans ; who, while we are fighting the Russians* the Moldavains, Wallacbians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, and Herzegovinians, one coming on after the other, seek 3 publicly to raise against us Servia and Greece, has among other motives for his conduct oue which naturally drags him into the gravest crimes and the most abject turpitude. This motive is that Gladstone though honored aod generally known in the world, even among the English, as an Englishman, is in reality a Bulgarian who usurped the name of an Englishman in order to become somebody. According to the biographical notices which have rvacheJ as concerning him. Gladstone was born in 1796, the offspring of the headlong passion (the* original here defies literal traoslatioo) of a .Bulgarian named Detnitri, the servant of a pig merchant named Neßtori, living in the village of Tchavrn, in the canton of Kustetidi . Up to the age of 16 years he assisfteeJ bis father in the business of pig keeping, but then, impelled by his perverse nature, he betrayed (here again I have to leave the original) the pig-mer-chant's daughter, who was between 14 and 12 years old, and being in consequence unable to remain in the village, he fled to Servia and eutered the service, of a " mayor," or Servian pigmerchant. Subsequently, going to London in the company of the pige which his master sent there for sale, he anchored there, and having succeeded in earning his bread — we do Hot kuow how — he wanted to pass himself off for an Englishman, and for this purpose he changed his Bulgarian name of Grozadin to Gladstone; and, pushed by fortune, was able to acquire great influence and importance in England until he attained the position of Prime Minister. Gladstone is so destitute of virtue and humanity that he worships gold more than the Messiah, and for goid is capable of slandering the H >)y Virgin. The Ottoman Governm nt once offered him a salary ot £50,000 if he would com^ and rt-orgiinißtt its financial system, but, on its subsequently rejecting his services, the lust of the gold, which had not gone into bis purse, joined to the instincts of the Bulgarian, has made him perpetrate all the infamies which one knows, and which he still continues to perpetrate against the Mußsulmao religion and Government. His gluttooy for gold makes Gladstone look yellow. According to those who know him, he is of middling height, with a yellow face, wearing closely-cut whiskers in the European style, and, as a sign of his Satanic spirit, his forehead and upper forehead are bare; his evil temper has made bis hair fall off, co that from a distance he might be taken for quite bald. He has a long nose, a long face, and a very ugly mouth, as the words he utters indicate, and when he sbuts his mouth two front teeth are seen protruding beyond the lower lip a • decimetre ' (sic). In one word, he has a strange physiognomy."

It should be mentioned thai a vendor of pigs (the most unclean of animals in a Mahommedan's view) is the most despicable of all creatures.