THE HISTORY of the TURKISH, OR OTTOMAN EMPIRE, FROM ITS FOUNDATION IN 1300, TO THE PEACE OF BELGRADE IN 1740. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN HISTORICAL DISCOURSE ON MAHOMET AND HIS SUCCESSORS. TRANSLATED from the FRENCH of MIGNOT, By A. HA W KIN S, Esq. QUIDQUID DELIRANT REGES, PLECTUNTUR ACHIVI. HORAT. 1. Epift. 2. VOL. IV. EXETER PRINTED AND SOLD BY R. THORN. SOLD ALSO BY J. STOCKDALE, Piccadilly, and Meffrs. SCATCHERD MDCCLXXXVII. 10-22 THE HISTORY OF THE Turkifh, or Ottoman Empire, From its Foundation in 1300, to the Peace of A CH MET TWENTY-FIRST REIGN. II. Heg.1102, & 1103. Vifit of to his bro.. homet. THE HE firft action of Achmet II. after having J.C. 1691 girded on the sword of Othman and received the oaths of the great officers of the empire, was to go and visit Mahomet IV, in his prifon. The Achmet II. new emperor found this feeble prince greatly ther Materrified. The wifhes of fome of his old fervants, who had been defirous of putting Mustapha his eldest fon on the throne, had reached his ears: Mahomet knew likewife that they had talked of reftoring him the empire; and as on a fimilar occafion he had attempted to put his brothers to death, by a return on himself he expected death VOL. IV. 1789 4 B. for |