^o A Relation of the ChapIV. 



like a Cloifter ', and 'tis under that Gallery which is on the right hand, that the J*, 

 uizarks have their. ftation, while the Divan is fitting. 



CtunriUiys- The Council fits, ordinarily, four days in the week, which days are anfwerable to 

 t\\C Saturday, Sunday, Munday, and Tuesday of the Cbriftians. 



Caufts foon du Jufiice is there exactly adminittred to any one that defires it, and for what caufc 

 tided. foever it be, fo, as that the differing Parties have no need either of Proctors or Ad- 



vocates names not known in Turkey, and the Perfons concerned are to lay open their 

 Cafes themfelvcs. There is no talk of delays, or putting off from one time to ano- 

 ther •, people lhall notlanguifh in expectation, but the bufinefs is decided immediate- 

 ly, what nature foever it may be of. 



1U Reafons of Though this Cuftom be very commendable, yet can it not be fo well praclis'd 



that Expediti- amongit Cbrifiians, becaufe they fiand upon the property of what they have, and that 



§n of Jufiice. [ s deriv'd by Inheritance from fomc to ethers, and the litigious partitions of them do 



many -times engage the- Proprietors thereof in long Suits of Law. 'Tis quite other- 



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that it is a perpetual Circulation : and their Children, asl told you in the beginning 

 of this Dilcourfe, are brought up to the Seraglio, to be educated there, and that with- 

 out any hope of ever fucceeding their Parents, either in their Eltatcs, or Employ- 

 ments. The Ottoman Monarchy has always obferv'd this fubtle Policy, not to permit 

 that any Family ihould aggrandize it (elf, and be powerful from Father to Son : but 

 they bring it down, as foon as they have rais'd it up, and timely enough deprive 

 than of the means whereby they might create Faftions,to the diiiurbance Of the State. 

 Thence it comes, that, 4>efides the Royal Family of the Ottomans, they know not what 

 Gentility, and antiquity of Extraction means \ there's no emulation upon that (core, 

 and Charges and Dignities are beftow'd anfwerably to the Merit of the Perfon, with- 

 out any confideration of his Extraction. Nay, it fometimes happens, that the Prin- 

 cipal Miniftere of the Empire, are the Sons of Cow-keepers, as was omRuit.m, ci 

 Grand yizir, who made fo much noife under the Reign of Svlyman. And fo, being 

 not any way oHtg'd to their birth, they acknowledge their Fortunes to be the reward 

 of their Education. 



B«t\to return Jot the wknktfftration of Jufiice amongft the Tttrkj. Thofc who make 

 the Law their profeflion, and arc kx>k'd upon as the Clergy or Mahomet, leave no place 

 for (hits at Law ■■> every one knows his priviledges, and what belongs to the function 

 of his Charge, and there arife no differences among them, becaufe all things are per- 

 fectly well regulated. 



In like manner, the people are ignorant what pleading fignifies. There's no occafton 

 for publick Notaries, in order to Matrimonial contracts i There's no great fums given 

 with a daughter } and the jewels and cloaths which fhe can get out of her Fathers houfe, 

 are all the^portion (he brings to her Husband. And this, in few words, is the reaion 

 that the Turkj can put an expeditious end to all their affairs, without giving any tole- . 

 ration to that pettifogging, which, among Chriftians, proves the mine of fo many 

 People. 



The Officers, who fit in the Vivan are, firft, the Grand Vizir, the Lieutenan t- Gene- 

 ral of the whole Empire, who is Prefident of it, and reprefents the Grand Seignor's 

 Perfon ■■> Then the fix other Vizirs \ Then the Cadilefqucrs of Romania and Natalia, 

 who are the Judges and Intendants of the Armies > Then the three Tefterdarspv Trca- 

 furers-General •, Then the Nijfangibacba, the Lord Chaneellour , And the NetangLysho 

 is as 'twere the Secretary of State, with (bme Clerks, or Notaries. All thefe Officers 

 come into the Dizwi-Hall, at four in the Morning, and continue there till noon, to ad- 

 minifter Jufiice. The Cbiaoux-bacbi has his ftation at the Gate, with a troop of thofe 

 that arc under his charge, to execute the Grand Vizir s Orders, and has a filver-rod in 

 his hand, as a badge of his Authority. 



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