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Christians were obliged to yield to the ardent and zealous followers 
of Mohammed. 
Low as the power of the Turkish empire is now fallen, I do not ex- 
pect that the Wahabee will completely prevail against it, unless, by 
a communication with Europeans, they obtain supplies of arms and 
ammunition, and, with them, learn a proportion of European disci- 
pline. I consider Arabia, however, as lost for ever to the Sultaun ; 
and, consequently, that he has ceased to be the head of the Mussul- 
maun religion. The order of Mohammed, that his followers should, 
once in their lives, visit Mecca, can no longer be performed. The 
sacred city has heard the din of hostile arms, and is in possession of 
a Prince who denies to Mohammed that veneration which he has 
received for twelve hundred years. His descendants will soon cease 
to reign ; and although the Koran may be revered for a longer pe- 
riod throughout a portion of Asia, the mighty fabric of Islamism 
must be considered as having passed away, from the moment that 
Suud entered Mecca on the ^7th of April, 1803. 
