"To my much-beloved wife and legitimate spouse, Lia Rachel Euphrosine

Ben-Lévy, milliner, of Constantinople, and dwelling there in the suburb

of Péra, First, a sum of four thousand five hundred francs, which I have

agreed by contract to pay her; Second, my house at Péra, in which she

dwells, with all the appendages and appurtenances thereof; and Third, a

sum of twelve thousand francs, to be distributed by her, as it may

please her, among the different children whom she has by me.

"Likewise, to my much-beloved wife and legitimate spouse, Sophia

Eudoxia, Countess of Monteclaro (whose maiden name is De Cornalis),

dwelling at Corfu: First, a sum of five hundred thousand francs, which I

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have agreed by contract to pay her; Second, the clock and the Dresden

china, which stand on my mantle-piece; Third, 'The Virgin,' by

Perugino, in my drawing-room at Férouzat.

"Likewise, to my much-beloved wife and legitimate spouse, Marie Gretchen

Van Cloth, dwelling at Amsterdam: First, a sum of twenty thousand

francs, which I have agreed by contract to pay her; Second, a sum of

sixty thousand francs, to be distributed by her, as it may please her,

among the different children whom she has by me; Third, my

dinner-service in Delph, known as No. 3; Fourth, a barrel-organ, set

with four of Haydn's symphonies.

"Likewise, to my much-beloved wife and legitimate spouse, Marie Louise

Antoinette Cora de La Pescade, dwelling at Les Grands Palmiers (Ile

Bourbon), my plantation upon which she lives, including the annexes of

Le Grand Morne.

"Likewise, to my much-beloved wife and legitimate spouse, Anita Josepha

Christina de Postero, dwelling at Cadiz: First, a sum of twelve thousand

francs; which I have agreed by contract to pay her; Second, my pardon

for her little adventure with my lieutenant Jean Bonaffé."

If some very precise person should seek to insinuate his criticisms upon

my uncle's matrimonial principles, my reply would be that

Barbassou-Pasha was a Turk and a Mussulman, and that consequently he can

only be praised for having so faithfully obeyed the Laws of the

Prophet--laws which permitted him to indulge in all this hymeneal luxury

without in the least degree outraging the social proprieties--and for

having in this matter piously fulfilled a religious duty, which his

premature death alone, so far as we can judge, has hindered him from

accomplishing with greater fervour. I trust that the God of the Faithful

will at least give him credit for his efforts.

Having said so much on behalf of a memory which is dear to me, and

having enumerated the chief clauses of the will, I may add in a few

words that, after the payment of my uncle's matrimonial donations, and

the various legacies to his "god-children," with those to his sailors in

addition, there remained for me about thirty-seven million francs.




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