PLATE XXXVIII.
PRIVATE SECRETARY
TO THE GRAND SEIGNIOR.
T he excessive indolence of the Turks is well known ; and where
every person.who can afford it, has his secretary and other domestics,
that he might not be compelled to exert himself, it .is no t to be supposed;
that the Grand Seignior himself should be deficient in these
attendants; in fact there is hardly a purpose inf-life, for which his
has not an officer, appointed, , Of these officers»the present one is by-
no means unimportant, as from the knowledge he possesses of what
passes in the inferior, he must of course be of experienced' fidelity :
and he certainly possesses the marks of secrecy and reserve.
