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

MDCCLXXXVII.

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TRANSLATOR's PREFACE.

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THE English language, which can boast an hiftory of almost every nation, poffeffes not a complete one of the Turks. Among the many excellent hiftorians of the present day, it is surprising that not one of them has employed his pen on the fubject of this extenfive empire. In order to fill up the chaẩm, I have ventured to give a tranflation of a history by abbot Mignot, which, for ftyle, authorities, and arrangement, is univerfally allowed to be the best that has made its appearance in any language. The accefs which the author had to the king of France's repofitory of foreign affairs, through favor of the duke of Choifeul, furnished him with the most authentic and interesting accounts of the Ottomans, and which must neceffarily confer on his history a fuperiority over every other that has yet been published. The valuable memoirs

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