A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . e, or Sultan-mother, has revenues, and a separateestablishment: her influence has in some reigns been considerableenough to be highly prejudicial to the interests of the empire;?such was the mother of Mustapha the First. In the first alliance of England and the Porte, there was aninterchange of presents and letters between Queen Elizabeth andthe Empress-Wife, as she was styled, of Amu rath the Third -(-?who possessed the importance always attached to the mother of th
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . e, or Sultan-mother, has revenues, and a separateestablishment: her influence has in some reigns been considerableenough to be highly prejudicial to the interests of the empire;?such was the mother of Mustapha the First. In the first alliance of England and the Porte, there was aninterchange of presents and letters between Queen Elizabeth andthe Empress-Wife, as she was styled, of Amu rath the Third -(-?who possessed the importance always attached to the mother of theheir apparent, and indeed to any Hasseki, or mother of a royal son,and continued to enjoy her dignity and power as Valide, in the reignof Mahomet the Third. The Queens of the harem have beencharged with the commission of every disgraceful violence; and theferocious ambition of one female, whose character has been ren-dered notorious by the pen which has represented it in the most * Voyage du Levant, lettre xiii. vol. ii. p. 20, edit. Paris, 1717. + See Ilakluyt, The English Voyages, &c. vol. ii. p. 311, edit.
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