[33]. The word “Seraglio” is generally supposed in England to apply exclusively to a palace in which the Grand Signior’s women are kept. This idea, however, is erroneous; the Sultan’s residence in town is called “Seraglio.” His women, indeed, reside also within its walls, but their apartment is called “Harem.” The seraglio occupies the whole extent of ground on which the city of Byzantium stood, and is surrounded by the original Byzantine walls.
[34]. New military institution, explained in the Appendix, No. 5.
[35]. Mr. Adair.
[36]. Sir Arthur Paget had made a fruitless attempt in 1807.
[37]. Letter addressed by the Emperors Alexander and Napoleon to the King of Great Britain, dated at Erfurth, October, 1808, and official correspondence that followed it between the ministers of foreign affairs of the three sovereigns.—Official Papers published in 1809.
[38]. The same whose premature appointment in 1805 had partly given rise to the misunderstanding at Constantinople.
[39]. Corporals.
[40]. See the Appendix, No. 3.
[41]. See the Appendix, No. 4.
[42]. Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary, vol. iv. p. 199.