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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. HAWKIN S, Esq.

QUIDQUID DELIRANT REGES, PLECTUNTUR ACHIVI.

VOL. II.

EXETER PRINTED AND SOLD BY R. THORN.

SOLD ALSO BY

J. STOCKDALE, Piccadilly, and Meffrs. SCATCHERD
and WHITAKER, Ave-Maria-Lane, LONDON.

MDCCLXXXVII.

THÈ

HISTORY

OF THE

Turkish, or Ottoman Empire,

From its Foundation in 1300, to the Peace of
BELGRADE in 1740.

SOLY MAN I.

T

(Continued from the first volume.)

& 1537.

& 944.

HE emperor remained fome time in J.C.1536, peace in his capital; but his bad fuc- Heg. 943, cefs, only increased his ambition. Difcontented with the expeditions to Afia and Africa, he meditated to make himself amends for them in Europe. Francis I. king of France, folicited fuccours from him against his rival Charles V. Latibeg, the new grand vizier and brother-in-law to the emperor (for Solyman always gave his sisters in marriage to his minifters), fitted out a powerful fleet to ravage the coafts of Italy and Spain; but the conclufion of a truce

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