CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

Important queries. Evidence of decline. Reforms of Abdul

Medjid. Degeneracy of the Turks. Vice of intoxication

New military system. Russian war of 1828-9. Military

dress, organisation, &c. Results of the new system. Old

and modern Turkish cavalry. Bad riding. Cavalry review.

Want of good horses. Poverty of the Turkish people.

Turkish artillery, &c. . Military schools. Extensive cheat-

ing. Conscription and its sad effects. The Kurds. Decay

of all patriotism. The navy, &c. Falsehoods of European

newspapers. Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker. Naval school.

Medical school. Reschid Pasha's amalgamation. Turkish

atheism. How the Pashas live. The harem system. Turkish

ladies. Encampments. Depopulation of the empire. Opinions

of different travellers as to the actual condition of the empire.

Von Boehn. Misgovernment. Prophecies of the downfall of

Turkey
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Abuses.

BOOK II.

Custom-

Increase of crime. Frequency of fires.
house annoyances. Turkish censorship. Maximum prices.
Famines. Monopolies. Bishop Southgate. The Pasha of
Brusa, his council, oppression, and tyranny. Pashas and
Armenians. Despair of the people. Brutality of a chief of
police. Cruelty exercised against Christian rayahs. Value
of the Tanzimaut. Religious persecution. Value of European
protection. Turkish roads. Fiscal extortion. Farming the
revenue. How taxes are collected. Extreme poverty of
Turkish villages. Underground lodging. Monopolies.
Turkish reforms. Lord Palmerston's opinion. Mr. Cobden's

evidence. Vakouf property and its seizure and wasteful

expenditure by government. Total neglect of mosques, col-

leges, roads, fountains, bridges, &c. Degradation of religion.

Extirpation of the old Turkish aristocracy. The janissaries.

Imperial manufactories at Nicomedia, Heraclea, Beykos,

Zeitoun-Bournu, and Macri-Keui. English miners in the

service of the Sultan. Coal-beds, copper-mines, silver-mines,

&c. Monopolies again. Dr. Davis and the Sultan's model

farm. Wretched state of agriculture, and failure of every

attempt to improve it. The Hebrus, the port of Enos, and

Turkish engineering. English trade with Turkey, and how

to increase it

148-346

BOOK III.

Slavery and slave-markets of Constantinople. Active slave-

trade both in blacks and whites. Human beings cheaper than

horses. Slaves advertised for sale in the government news-

paper. Prevalence of forced abortion. Child-murder in the

Sultan's own family. Frightful story of Mihr-ou-Mah

Sultana and Ateya Sultana, sisters of the reigning Sultan. A

war with Russia, and revolution all over the continent of

Europe. Lord John Russell's work on the evil effects of the

establishment of the Turks in Europe. More religious per-

secution. Massacre of 10,000 Nestorian Christians. Mr.

Layard. Russian progress. Apology for Russia. False

alarm as to the views of Russia on India. Contemplated

government for Turkey. Greeks and Slaves. Proposed

solution of the Turkish question. Austria and her Slave

subjects. Turkish conversion to Christianity. The Bektash

and secret societies. Belief of the Turks in a Millennium and

the coming of our Saviour. Facility with which the poorer

Turks might be converted to our faith
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