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person of the present Monarch. Fanatical as well as despotic he lias no idea, 
but tliat of governing through the superstitious préjudices of bis people, at 
the same time tliat the disastrous expérience of his Reign and the instinctive 
jealousy of power liave tauglit him to mistrust the use of tliat only force, 
whicli custoin, growing out of the policy of his predecessors, has left at his 
immédiate disposai. He fears to employ and cannot get rid of the Janissaries. 
He is known to hâve a decided leaning towards the introduction of the 
Nizam-Dgedid, tliat new System of discipline, to which the Janissaries are 
so averse and which cost Sultan Selim his throne and his life. He is suspected 
of being on the watch for a favourable opportunity to repeat the attempt of 
it’s introduction, and to hâve gradually prepared the way for it’s adoption 
by a systematic removal of the leading opponents of the measure. In otlier 
respects the marked features of his policy are a continuai récurrence to 
ancient customs and an endeavour to revive the spirit and practice of those 
earlier times, when the moral and physical forces of the Empire were not in 
contradiction with each other, and the troops, who fouglit under the banner 
of Mahomet had to contend with Christians not yet formed into the disci- 
plined Battalions of the ninetienth Century. 
Combining the various measures of his reign and drawing a general 
conclusion from them I should say, that if the Sultan were able to wield with 
füll vigour the powers, which he has collected in one point, if his means, in 
short, were equal to his will, his force to his authority, the following results 
are those, which would more immediately appear; an increase of the direct 
action of the Governement upon the inhabitants of the provinces; a more 
complété detachment of the Empire from foreign connections; and a yet more 
vigorous enforcement of Turkish Supremacy over the Christian Subjects of 
the Porte. His disposition to accomplish the first of tliese objects has been 
proved by the total suppression of the authority of the Dcré-Beys , or land 
holders, who in many ports of Asia governed to a certain degree the popu- 
lation residing on their property and who had an immédiate interest in sparing 
the ressources of the Country. The kind of paternal sway, exercised by tliese 
powerful and half feudal lords, has been made to give way to the iron rules 
of Beys and Pashas, appointed, as in other parts of the Sultan’s dominions 
and holding office on such a tenure, as to make it impossible for them to be 
otherwise, than oppressive and rapacious. The conseciuence of the change 
are such, as it was easy to foresee, a neglected soil, a wasting population 
and that degree of discontent, which is almost ripe for a révolution. 
Applying tliese notions to the question of Greece, there is little difficulty 
in accounting for the manner, in which my proposais were received by the 
Sultan, or in comprehending the motives of that reserve, which has since 
