Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ster for foreign affairs,who has approached by land with similar precaution. The doors are closed, and theconference commences. When the affair is arranged, the diplomatists separate, and thekiosk is abandoned, and closed up till another mysterious affair renders another myste-rious conference at this place necessary. This attempt at concealment is highlycharacteristic of the court and the people; but it is altogether defeated. The pryingjealousy of the ministers of the European powers resident at Constantinople, is conti-n
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ster for foreign affairs,who has approached by land with similar precaution. The doors are closed, and theconference commences. When the affair is arranged, the diplomatists separate, and thekiosk is abandoned, and closed up till another mysterious affair renders another myste-rious conference at this place necessary. This attempt at concealment is highlycharacteristic of the court and the people; but it is altogether defeated. The pryingjealousy of the ministers of the European powers resident at Constantinople, is conti-nually on the alert: the chief dragoman of one mission makes a daily report to hisambassador of what every other is doing, or about to do: he visits the bureaus of thePorte, and worms out the most secret intentions; and while the principals are shut upat Babec, as they suppose, unknown to all the world, the tattling dragomans are everywhere disclosing the subject they are discussing, and the conference at Babec is no moresecret than the news of a public - lis J : :.;i_. ;« 7-
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