Note 153 — Chapter XXIII · FALL OF LORD BEACONSFIELD.
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Dr. Köller, a Church of England clergyman, employed by the Church Missionary Society in Constantinople, had engaged Ahmed Tewfik, a Mohammedan schoolmaster, to help him to translate the Scriptures into Turkish. Ahmed and the MSS. were seized, and the former adjudged worthy of death by the Sheik-ul-Islam. For three months Sir Henry Layard had vainly demanded his release, and the dismissal of the Minister of Police, Hafiz Pasha, from his post.