146 . CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, and appretiated according to their due value. 
. ^^' . It remains, therefore, only to speak of the 
state of the empire upon its eastern side. Here 
the Pasha of Amaslra was growing daily more 
formidalle; so that the Porie, everywhere 
surrounded by enemies, like the scorpion 
encircled by fire, waited only the last act of 
despair to inflict a wound upon itself. This 
wound was afterwards given, in the dreadful 
disturbances that followed the establishment of 
the ISizami Djedid ' : but to the amazement of 
all those who were well acquainted with the 
internal state of the TurJdsh Empire, it has still 
survived ; and the most impotent of human 
beings, cooped up with his eunuchs and con- 
cubines in an old crazy hutch at the mouth of 
the Thracian Bosporus, still exercises a nominal 
jurisdiction over many millions of human beings, 
inhabiting the fairest and most fertile portion of 
the earth. 
Tersons ■ That many valuable antiquities may be 
throtrt of purchased in Constantinople, by making appli- 
tbe City, cation to persons who pay annually a sum 
of money for the privilege of collecting 
(l) See Mr. JValpole's account of the Revolution caused by the 
Nizami Djedid; in the Appendix (No. I.) to Vol. HI. of the Octavo 
Edition of these Travels. 
