A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . A STDTLTAKAo London Pul>Iished> by Ja/nes Cawtfwrn (24i(rAs/iiaSt>ret-/S/2. -?-.•:?•^ LETTER XLTV. S55 agreeable traits, has communicated itself to the whole succession offemale Sultans. But Roxalana and the mother of Mustapha arenot to cast a shade over all the Ottoman Princesses, any morethan Catharine of Medicis is to be given as a fair specimen of aFrench Queen*. The powerful females of the harem have beenallowed to possess in a superior degree a virtue
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . A STDTLTAKAo London Pul>Iished> by Ja/nes Cawtfwrn (24i(rAs/iiaSt>ret-/S/2. -?-.•:?•^ LETTER XLTV. S55 agreeable traits, has communicated itself to the whole succession offemale Sultans. But Roxalana and the mother of Mustapha arenot to cast a shade over all the Ottoman Princesses, any morethan Catharine of Medicis is to be given as a fair specimen of aFrench Queen*. The powerful females of the harem have beenallowed to possess in a superior degree a virtue which is of itselfthe characteristic of a noble and ingenuous mind—their early be-nefactors they never forget; and the rise of several great men ofthe Turkish empire has originated from the gratitude of a favou*rite, who did not fail to bear in mind the author of her introduc-tion to the Seraglio. The Valide, in the time of the late Selim,was presented to Sultan Mustapha his father at the age of nine,by Veli Effendi the Mufti; and when, in the reign of her son shewas all-powerful, she loaded with wealth Veli Vade,
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