After the Aga had settled himself at Oran, he sent a message to Hagi Ali, apprising him of his success, and that he had in his power the Bey and family, except the two eldest sons. The Dey's answer was that he might decapitate the Bey and his uncle too, and send both heads to him. He immediately arrested the treacherous uncle, who well deserved his fate, and beheaded him; and now, willing to show his bloody and barbarous nature, and with horrid cruelty, perpetrated the following shocking deeds in the execution of the poor Bey. At first, he brought out the Bey with his three infant children, and in his presence, opened their bellies, took out their hearts, roasted them, and made the unhappy father eat them, and placed their bodies before him, (the father.) " Secondly, he brought the two black slaves, who were constantly with the Bey, and obliged their master to impale them himself.
And after the stakes were raised up and fixed in the ground, with the two slaves upon them, he made the Bey sit down on a red-hot iron waiter and fastened each hand to one of the stakes; afterwards he took a hot iron pot and put it on his head; when this became cold he ordered him to be scalped, and gave him a pipe to smoke, and at last opened his side and took out his heart and all his intestines. And so the poor unfortunate Bey expired. He afterwards took off the whole skin of the Bey's head, filled it with straw, and sent it to the Dey. u This was once a custom among the Turks; hut thank Heaven, it is now done away.
All these horrible executions took place before the house where the wife of the unhappy Bey was. Any one who possesses human feelings, can judge what was the bitterness of such a dreadful impression on the senses of this inconsolable wife. There are no terms in which to express a proper sense of horror at the atrocities of this monster in human form, and as a reward for which, he was promoted to the agalik of Janizaries, and afterwards raised to the throne. " Then I wish to relate, as they were told to me, some of the horrid acts of Hagi Ali Pashaw, to show how both characters, the Dey and that of his x\ga, agreed one with the other.
At the palace, the government residence in the city of Algiers, the Dey is not allowed to keep any wife. The harem, or Dey's wives, are always kept in a separate palace out of town, where he visits them every Friday evening only. But Hagi Ali Pashaw had two women brought privately into the Government palace, and he had besides five Greek boys and four black slaves. After some time, when the two unfortunate women became pregnant, he took the first, opened her belly, took out the child, filled the poor mother with salt, and when she was dead, he took the body and cut it in pieces, salted it well, and put it into a jar. He took the other, and suspended her by the hair to the top of a room.
He wounded her body with small wounds, and put a basin under it to receive the blood; and so the poor woman was kept bleeding by drops, shut up in the room. He visited her at intervals, increasing the wounds till she was dead. He took her body, salted it, and preserved it in the same way as he did the first. After these unfortunate ladies were dispatched in this brutal manner, he took the poor Greek boys, one after the other, filled their mouths and noses with cotton, put them under some heavy mattresses, adding a great weight over them, till they were suffocated. He then cut their bodies in pieces, and put them into the private place.
He turned with the same horrid design towards the black slaves, one of whom was his confidant and assistant in all his horrid transactions. Having observed that his master had already killed two of his black brothers, perceived that his turn would come at last, and when his master went into the bath of the palace, he, (the slave,) was prepared to shut him up in the inner room, which is always kept extremely warm, and made a much greater fire than ordinary, until he was suffocated. On the next day, the perpetrator "came and apprised the Aga of the Janizaries, (the present Dey,) saying ' that he was sure his master would have killed him, and even now was not sure of his life.
But if they killed him, he should die with a full satisfaction of having obtained the revenge of his brothers, and of those innocent women and boys; and at the same time he had done a great service to the poor people of Algiers by killing such a bloody and atrocious tyrant as Hagi Ali Pashaw; ' and began to show the salted bodies of the two women, and gave a lull account of all the horrible and barbarous deeds of his master. This poor fellow was put to death by the present Dey. " These are some of the cruel and inhuman acts of the former Dey under whose order Omar Pashaw was an Aga of the Janizaries.