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tution of the turkifh empire is, how few able men it 

 has to produce, and how much even the little good 

 they might be in a capacity to effect, is prevented by 

 the cabals that reign in the feraglio. 



The kapudan pallia has for a long time part flood in 

 high reputation with the politicians of foreign countries, 

 among whom he is considered as the fupport of the 

 crefcent, and beheld as a bold and intrepid warrior. 

 How little he anfwers to thefe ideas, the prefent ac- 

 curate journal of his segyptian campaign will fhew. It 

 is written by his phyfician, who never quitted him for 

 a moment during the whole of it, (as may be feen 

 from the notes of the perfon of whom I received it) 

 in the kalian language, of which the following is an 

 exact tranflation. It will be thence feen, that this re- 

 nowned idol of the Turks made it his grand aim to 

 plunder both friends and foes ; that the kapudan pafha 

 never led on his troops himfelf againft the beys; that 

 he could have deftroyed them, and neglected to do it; 

 that he did not humble them by his arms, which ab- 

 folutely obtained no advantage over them ; but that 

 they fubmitted merely from a defire of being in fome 

 degree reconciled with the turkifh emperor, which 

 arofe from the veneration they entertained for the pro- 

 phet and founder of that religion of which they ac- 

 knowledge the fultan to be the head : as being fare, 

 that, after his departure, they ihould live at their eafe, 

 in the country, under the femblance of an imaginary 

 dependency, as before they had always done. If then 

 this kapudan pallia, fo trumpeted forth for a great 

 man, appears fo little in a juft ftatement of that expe- 

 dition which has been much mifreprefented in the 



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