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PRINCE MICHAEL SUTZO 
considered one of the first boyars of the principality. About 
the same time that a Greek prince succeeded to the unfortunate 
voivode of that name in Valachia, one of the same nation as¬ 
sumed the reins of government here at Yassy. The name of 
this person was Nicholas Mavrocordato. His father had been 
state-interpreter at the Ottoman court; and by his ambitious 
intrigues, first introduced the system of educating Greek nobles 
in the Fannar of Constantinople for the government of these 
provinces. From that time the princes, or hospodars, (first 
called by the latter title by the Russians, from their word gospodin 
or lord,) have been appointed by beratt , the imperial diploma 
of the Sultan. Slaves to the Porte, it may be believed that the 
people, under such nominal sovereigns, could only be more op¬ 
pressed ; and not until Russia interfered by right of conquest in 
behalf of the groaning natives, were either prince or people 
secure of their property or lives a moment. The hospodars not 
only hold the rank of princes themselves, but their sons j but in 
the next generation it ceases. A wise regulation, which, (like 
our own with regard to the sons of the younger branches of our 
highest nobility,) replaces them in the degree of common 
gentry, instead of multiplying portionless titles without end; so 
often a matter of distress, and therefore of infinite regret, in other 
countries of Europe. 
The present hospodar of Moldavia has only been appointed 
a very few months, and is of the same family with his highness 
of Valachia. This prince is called Michael Gregoire Sutzo. 
He is a young man, not more than two-and-thirty, extremely 
handsome, and elegant in his manners. He speaks French with 
admirable fluency, and, I understand, has a well-stored mind, 
in many respects honourable to his Greek original. Mons. de 
