MR GLADSTONE DECLARED TO BE A LOW BULGARIAN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2775, 5 January 1878, Page 2

MR GLADSTONE DECLARED TO BE A LOW BULGARIAN.

A good deal of amusement was caused in England by the publication in the London Times of a biography of the Sight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, as it' ap- , peared in the Zaman, the organ of the Salonica Government. It is very significant of the love Turks bear the denouncer of the Bulgarian atrocities, and likewise the amount of reliance that can be placed on the Turkish press in matters where theirprejudices mjeme^m^' "Gladstone, the disturber, who is m England.the declared enemy of.Oitomans and still more'of the rerigion of Islam; .who for many years -has *""■ vr all sorts of false charges against Islamiam and the Mussulmans; who, while we are fighting the Russians, the Moldavjan*,--■VVallacliiaiij, Montenegrins, Bujgariani^.. and Herzegovinians, one coming^on ■ftjtaf the other, seeks publicly' to raise against us Servia arid Greece, has among other motives for hia rondact brie J which naturally drags .him^into, .I*ls gravest crimes and the most, abject turpitude. This motive ; i» GJ^stone,, (Uoufh honored and generally * known in the world, even. among* the English -as 4 t%;v ; Englishman, is in reality alfolgarian, who " usurped the name of an Englishman. i> order to become a somebody.; f Accot^fc to the biographical notices which have reached us concerning him* Gladstone waa - born in 1796,, the offspring of the head* ■ long" passion (the 'Original-fosra 1 deftnfejft translation) of a Bulgarian named Denfi-f tri, the servant of a pijr bierchaiitMciedK Nestori, living in the. village of TJchavra, in .the canton jpf JCusteijdH. ! XJp, io. the ago of 16 years he assisted, his' ft&'^f in the business of pijj -.Ikeepinf, but ; then,, r .impelled...bj.l his '"pervwai 7 nature, he betrayed (here again.! have .tof leave the original) the pig merchant's! daughter, who was between 12_and 14 years old, and being in consequence unable U^ remain-io» tMe^village, healed to jServia ' and* entered * the -service^ *of a ':" mayor," or Servian pig merchant. Subsequently' goi^g: for Ebtidon in the company of the pigs, which his master sent there for~sale, ho anehej^ 'and having succeeded in earning foa broad rr-vpj do:; not; kAOJL how —he wanted' to past' himself off for an Englishman,/,;and ;for r , j -thi§ purpose he changed his' Bulgarian" name of Grozadin ,to;< Gladstone ; 8 and,., .numbed by fortune, was, able to acquire great influence and importance in England until he attained the position of Prime Minis* terl 'Gladstone is so destitute op vjrtqß and humanity .thai he worships gonL more than the . Messiah,. ; and,fpr. r gold is capable of 'slandering ! the) - Hoi j jVirgin. The Ottoman Government once offered him a salary of C^SO,OGQ if he would come and re-organise its,financial system, but on . its 1 subsequently rejecting bis services) the lust of theigold, which had not gone into; his/puwe,;jsijned to the instincts of the, Bolgfijuuif^has made him perpetrate all tHe infamies'whieh one. knows, and which he still continue! to perpetrate 5 against 1 ligion and Government. 1 'Hisgluttony for gold makes .Gladstone r look7 fellow. [According to those^who know him, he is of middling, height, <,with -a, iyellow; : ftpe, wearing closely cut whiskers ithfL, European style, and, as a sign of'his Satanic -spirit,-his— forcaead-and upper, forehead .are ..bar*,;, his , eviL. temper has made his hair<fail off, so tbair from a distance he might be taken for quite bald. He his a long'nose; a/long, face; *•♦•. , very ugly mouth, as the words he uttftt I indieateV and when he shut*, hi* /BWUtn : two front teeth are seen protruding be* fond the lower'lip a 'deeiaiette' (sic), n one word, he has a strange physiognomy." ■ ' " •'■ ••:•■/ It should be mentioned that a vendor of pigs (the most unclean of animals ia a ■ Mahoinedan's view) is the most despicable lof all creatures.^ 1 '-'■''■' -1-' '■"■ -■:-i---*i' s£