Alioth

(Astron.) A star in the constellation Ursa Major, 412 of Mizar. It is the 3d star in the handle of the Dipper. A. is very nearly opposite Shedir in Ca iopeia, and at an equal distance from the pole. Ali Pacha, Vizier of Yanina, B. in Albania, 1744. His father, an Albanian chief, died of grief in consequence of being stripped of his territories; but his mother, who was remarkable for energy of character, spirited up ber son to a ume the conduct of her dependants and avenge his father. With this band he committed so many depredations, that the adjacent tribes took up arms in their own defence, and carried off his mother and sister, whom they treated with great cruelty. This roused the naturally implacable temper of Ali, and he vowed the extermination of the whole race. He raised a body of 2,000 men, a umed great authority, and wreaked his vengeance upon the Suliotes, whom he treated with the most horrible barbarity. During fifty years of constant warfare, he brought under his sway a wide extent of territory, which the Porte sanctioned his holding, with the title of Pacha. He received agents from foreign powers, and ultimately intrigued with England, France, and Ru ia. But the jealousy of the Porte was at length excited, and Ha an Pacha was sent to demand his head. On declaring his errand, Ali replied, "My head is not to be delivered up so easily," accompanying the words with a pistol-ball, which broke his opponent's thigh. He shot two men dead on the spot, but fell the same moment. His head was severed from his body, and sent to Constantinople, 1822. Lord Byron visited him in his fortre of Tepelen, and thus sings of him in his second canto of Childe Harold: "He pa ed bleak Pindus, A cher us i a's lake, And left the primal city of the land, And onward did his further journey take To greet Albania's chief, whose dread command Is lawle law." Al'ipee, a town of Hindostan, in Cochin. Exp . pepper and timber. Lat. 9° 30′ N.; lon. 76° 24' E.; pop . 13,000. Alipher'ia. ( Anc . Geog .) A town of Arcadia, situated on a lofty hill, 8 m. S. of Hereæ. It was taken from the Æleans during the Social War, by Philip, king of Macedon.