A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . aichs ; but the un-sightly porch of the Seraglio did not furnish the magnificent epithet applied tothe Ottoman government, although being the entrance to the usual residence ofthe Sultan, it is called Sublime, The Porte (if it has any substantial existtence) is the palace of the Turkish Cabinet, but, more properly speaking, it isthe point of access and communication through which the decisions of thesupreme power pass and are promulgated. Mr. Thornton, p. 119, quotes
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . aichs ; but the un-sightly porch of the Seraglio did not furnish the magnificent epithet applied tothe Ottoman government, although being the entrance to the usual residence ofthe Sultan, it is called Sublime, The Porte (if it has any substantial existtence) is the palace of the Turkish Cabinet, but, more properly speaking, it isthe point of access and communication through which the decisions of thesupreme power pass and are promulgated. Mr. Thornton, p. 119, quotes Can-temir, as hinting that the Porte follows the person of the Sovereign; butalthough I find in that historian, that the governor of Babylon, Elkasib-Mirza,is ordered to be sent in irons to the Porte, it seems that the capital is alluded to;for Mehemmed-Pasha, who was dispatched to act against him, is said just after-wards to depart for Constantinople, to give an account of his proceedings; sothat Sultan Solyman the First was most probably at the Seraglio, and not in theprovinces.—Ottoman Hist. p. 209, Part I. book iFHia^sir ??/rm m
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