gg CONSTANTINOPLE. 
cfiAP. who are employed to read to them for their 
- ■■ amusement. 
Nor is the search after Greek manuscripts so 
unsuccessful as persons are apt to imagine. 
By employing, an intelligent Greek priest, we 
had an opportunity of examining a great variety 
of volumes, brought irom the Isle of Princes, 
and from the private libraries of Greek princes 
resident at the Phcmar\ It is true, many of 
(i) Greeks cf the Phanar. 
*^ There are six Greek families of inore note than the rest, who 
live at Phandr, a distrirt in the nortlicrn part of the city, near the 
ieay their names are, Ipsilandi, JMoroozi, Cairiindchi, Soozo, Hand- 
Vzerli, and Mavroeordato. These liave either aspired to, or obtained 
in their turns, the situation of Hospodar, or Prince, of Walaehia, 
and Moldavia. In 1806, the Porte \vas persuaded, by the French, to 
believe that Ipsilandi and Moroozi, the Hospodars of the two pro- 
vinces, were in the interest of Russia ; and in the month of September 
of that year, they were removed ; Soozo and CallimAchi being; 
appointed in their room, by the interference of Sebastiaui, the French 
ambassador. Moroozi, on his recal, came back to Constantinople ; 
but Ipsilandi went to Russia, and thus brought on his family the 
vengeance of the Porte. His fatl)er, aged seventy-four, who had been 
four times Prince of Walaehia, was beheaded January the 25tb, 1807, 
while I was at Constantinople. Among the articles of accusation 
brought against him, it was alleged, that he had fomented the 
rebellion of the Servians; and that, at the time when the troops of 
the Nizam Jedit were about to march against the Janissaries of 
Adrianople, he bad given intimation of this, through Mustapha 
Bairactar, a chief in the northern provinces of Turkey, to the Janis- 
saries, who had accordingly prepared themselves for the designs of 
the Porte. 
•* The only persons in the Turkish empire w ho could in any way 
promote 
