A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . erchant at the courtof Calcutta, who mistook a pair of green spectacles, for a necessary precautionworn by those who approached Lord Minto, to ward oil the effulgence of hisLordships presence.—See Mrs. Grahams Journal. 906 LETTER XLVI1. head of all the Imperial firmans; and employs himself, as I haveseen, in this mechanical discharge of his duty in the Divan. Thatthe office requires some painful attention, may be seen by the an-nexed fac-simile of Sultan Mahmouds cyp
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . erchant at the courtof Calcutta, who mistook a pair of green spectacles, for a necessary precautionworn by those who approached Lord Minto, to ward oil the effulgence of hisLordships presence.—See Mrs. Grahams Journal. 906 LETTER XLVI1. head of all the Imperial firmans; and employs himself, as I haveseen, in this mechanical discharge of his duty in the Divan. Thatthe office requires some painful attention, may be seen by the an-nexed fac-simile of Sultan Mahmouds cypher, taken on a scaleone half less than that of the original, from our travelling is called Turre, but is properly the Khati-Sherif (which gives aname to the whole mandate or public edict), signifying the holycharacter, or Khati-Humayun, the sublime character, and no Turkwill touch it before he has ceremoniously kissed it with his mouthand forehead, and brushed away the dust from it with his learn from Cantemir, that it is held in reverence even afterthe death of the Emperor whose name it repiesents*.. Ottoman History, Parti. Bookiii. p. 160, of ? indals translation. LETTER XEV1T. 907 The act of writing the Sultans name, conveys therefore a sa-cred dignity, and it would be a sort of profanation to entrust itto common hands. In the same way, even the menial offices abouthis court are considered highly honourable, although they arenot, like the Lordships of the Bed-chamber at St. Jamess, by anymeans a sinecure. The Pasha of the Dardanelles, at a visit paidhim upon my return from Constantinople, learning that we hadbeen in the Seraglio, asked us how we liked the presence-eham-ber; and, on our reply, commended it highly, saying, that heought to know it well, having swept it out for fifteen years. Leaving the Ters-Hane-Emini, we proceeded, accompanied bysome of his officers, to examine the port. There were nine two-deckers, and one three-decker, laid up close t
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