Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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imperial livery to be his own, indicated to Mr. Brown that he hadthe honor of being personally recognized, although he failed in theattempt to flatter Mr. Seward with the belief that he shared in thathonor. Being assured that the presence of Christians at the official ser-vices of the mosque would be popularly regarded as intrusive by theMoslems, it only remained for us to leave the ground as soon asthe imperial pageant had passed. We observed that not only theministers, but the military officers, and even our excellent friendMr. Brown, betrayed sentiments of awe and reverence during theprogress; while, on the other hand, the people of the baser sort,Turks as they are, manifested neither sympathy with the proces-sion, nor homage for the sovereign, but were as free and indifferentin their demeanor as a crowd of spectators at a military parade inthe United States. July 1st.—Mr. Seward has had a busy day. He has exchangedvisits with Server Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and acting
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CONSTANTINOPLE. 637 grand-vizier, in the place of Ali Pacha, who, long resisting, has atlast succumbed under an illness which it is feared will be fatal; alsowith Kiamil Pacha, president of the Council of State; and the Min-isters of Justice and Commerce, Cabruli Pacha and MounetazEffendi. He was received by these functionaries at their severaloffices in the Divan, and entertained there with very agreeable con-versation, and the customary offerings of coffee and chibouque. Theconversation did not go, however, beyond expressions compliment-ary to Mr. Seward, and highly appreciative of the United States.lie thought that Turkish politics, so deeply interwoven with thoseof European powers, are probably reserved by the ministers for thetreatment of the great statesman, Ali Pacha. The Divan is a large and spacious European structure, superiorto any public edifice of the same sort here, or to any that we haveseen throughout the East, though very inferior to the departmentbuildings at Washing

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