...notion of hi» consequence and authority, as a messenger belonging to the Sultan. Аs all those men are employed by the first magistrates in the country,...their power, they conceive to be so. As carriers of despatches, their power and authority wherever they go, is undisputed ; and they can compel a supply...

...are as it were the nks of communication between them, they think themselves of great importance to the state, while the great men, whose business they are employed in, make them feel the weight of their authority, and treat them with the greatest contempt. Hence they become so habitually servile...