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exhausted, miserable, oppressed state, wish from 

 the bottom of his heart, that any sacrifice were 

 made to improve the condition of the unfortunate 

 inhabitants of Albania. 



We often hear it asserted with the greatest 

 gravity, that Turkey may yet be regenerated ; it 

 is even hinted sometimes that the Greeks are to 

 blame for the disagreement between them and 

 their masters; and persons who have never seen any 

 thing of Turkish manners and customs, will talk of 

 the amalgamation of the Turkish and Greek po- 

 pulations as a sure means of consolidating the 

 Turkish empire. It appears never to have entered 

 the heads of persons who entertain these chime- 

 rical notions, that the Turks and Greeks are two 

 distinct races, differing from each other in every 

 respect, but more particularly in manners, customs, 

 religion, and language ; that a Turk never learns 

 to speak Greek, and that both populations abhor 

 and detest each other more, if possible, than even 

 their relative positions, that of master and slave, 

 would lead us to suppose. 



I should not at all wonder if my reader is not 

 aware, that in the Turkish dominions the Greeks, 

 that is, the aborigines of the country, professing 



