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s seat with darkness, and of his kingdocn V with dismay under the fifth vial, there reignod over all the Turkish domioiona, exceptiofj' Egypt, which also is beyond her proper provi a perfect calm, the like of which you shall hardlf find for such a length of time in cdl the history of that active and restless scourge of Uod. But sooner had tlie fiRh vial fulfilled its course, there broke out in several parta of Turkey, about tlie same time, powerful insurrections both ia Europe and in Asia, whereof some were put dowsj^l with great bloodshed^ and others continue untiJ^" tbiaday* That weakness of resources, and ebb of power, now» for the lirst time, began to be mada ;nea oca/fl rdlf ■ It uoM tbaiM bout V IV.] TH£ DEriMO UP OW THE KUf llltATK*. tOlS manifest, by her inability to put dovm the iD«ur* rection of one of bcr provinces, wliicli Imtli now for nearly ten years defied her whole undivided strength. At the dote of the war which preceded the thirty years calm, she was able Locont<rt}d in Open field with all tbe power of Russia; and m the war infLinediately preceding, she had the better part [AgaiDtit all the powers of the EoipiTc : but now &ho 18 so exhausted as not to bo able to put down the inaurrcctioii of one aiogle province, and that the leA&t of her territories, hardly amounting to a hundredth part of her widely^i^pread dominion* Not that the Greeks have approved themselves either wise in council, or prudent in action, or magnaBimous in spirit; for in all respects they arc a people unworthy of their airca,— covetous, cniel, envious, and reve^ngefiil, always divided amongst themselves ; but, all mean and ignoble a^a Ihey are, and without any efficient help from their would'be patriotic friends, if avarice would permit them to help and not spoW, you do behold them able to 9tcm and turn back all ttie waters in the Btigbty Knphrates, which heretofore overwhelmed and bore back half the powers of the wnrld, and which liud, juNt before tlieculm^ contended with the mightiest kingdom of the world. But tbtBis only one sign of the ebbing of the waters of Euphrates, which hath been given in these latter times: for while Greece, hkc a giilf. ia swallowing up the armies ofTurkey, the Sultan, himself infected with the spirit of innovation ^ml military improTement, turns inm8elfaQ:&in«t that which had been theri|^bt hand of the kingdom, by inhumanly butchering those soldiers who for three hundred years had maintained the glory of her arms against the king- 10l4 THi: Darivo vp or th£ fupmmatis. [JX