F t ATE XXXIII.
A Y O U N G P R I N C E ,
HEIR TO THE. THRONE,
M inorities are unknown in the Turkish government; in which
also; the Safie. law is in full force. Neither sons, under a certain
age, nor daughters, are raised to th e throneè l f the Sultan dies
before his son has attained a proper age, hisbrother, t^nsapesf
relation, assumes the government, to the exclusion o f his own
Sparing, who are then usually condemned to pass the remainder of
their, lives in confinement; unless they by chance afterwards aseend
the .throne. Thiswas-tbecpewitb the last Sultan, Abdul-hamed,
who, on the death of-his brother Mustapha III, ia; 1775, was transferred
from, a prison to the throne to the exchtsion of Ms nephew,
now the reigning Sultan. Abdul-hamed, however, was more
liberal in his, treatment of his nephew; and he both sufiered him to
be at liberty, and superintended his education. And Selim 1 ^ '
repays bis uaclé’s kindness, rinee-bis accession, by a-sirailap treat-
ment of ■ his two sons, who were both minors at the death of their
fatKr>r ; This p k te is a portrait o f one <$ t8WB* who will succeed,
to the throne, if the present Sultan has no sons, or leaves them
minors.