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                                   A

                          TOUR UP THE STRAITS,

                                  FROM

                               GIBRALTAR

                                   TO

                            CONSTANTINOPLE.


                                WITH THE

                   LEADING EVENTS IN THE PRESENT WAR

                              BETWEEN THE

                  AUSTRIANS, RUSSIANS, AND THE TURKS,

                                 TO THE

                     COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR 1789.


                        _By_ CAPTAIN SUTHERLAND,

                        OF THE 25^{TH} REGIMENT.


                                LONDON:
                        PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR;
        AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON, N^O 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.


                               M.DCC.XC.

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                                   TO

                          THE RIGHT HONORABLE

                          LADY LOUISA LENNOX,

                              THIS VOLUME

                                   IS

                      MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

                           BY HER LADYSHIP's

                             MOST OBLIGED,

                           MOST FAITHFUL, AND

                         MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,


                             D. SUTHERLAND.




                             INTRODUCTION.

The Commander in Chief of the garrison of Gibraltar having indulged the
Author of the following pages with leave of absence, he accepted an
invitation from an amiable Friend, to accompany him on a Voyage to the
Levant.

It was with the most heart-felt satisfaction, that he found himself
enabled to profit by so favorable an opportunity of visiting a country,
not only interesting from the precious remains of antiquity with which
it is still adorned, but from the critical state into which it was
thrown by the war already began, which threatened, sooner or later, to
involve in it many of the Powers of Europe, and to call forth the just
arm of Great Britain, to check the haughty usurpations of the ambitious
Court of Russia.

The Author's friends saw his happiness in embarking on such a Tour; and,
that they might, in some degree, partake of it, one of them insisted
that he should keep, and transmit him, a regular Journal.

This promise the Author readily gave, and faithfully observed.

The compliments paid to this little work, first gave him the idea of
appearing in print. Aware, however, that the ground he had travelled
over, had often been treated upon by much more able pens, he for some
time suppressed his hopes of becoming a candidate for fame in the
literary world: but, after the general encouragement he met, he would
have been guilty of injustice to himself, and of want of confidence in
his friends, had he any longer hesitated to appear before the Public.




                               CONTENTS.


                               LETTER I.

                                                                    Page

  _CEUTA--Goths and Saracens--Almeria--Rocks
  of Abibo_

                                                                       1

                               LETTER II.

  _Carthagena--War of the Succession_

                                                                      12

                              LETTER III.

  _Reception at Cagliari--Lucilla_

                                                                      24

                               LETTER IV.

  _Churches--Ball at the Palace--Trade,
  &c. of Sardinia_

                                                                      37

                               LETTER V.

  _Island of Capria--Tiberius--Malonia_

                                                                      46

                               LETTER VI.

  _Excursion to Baia_

                                                                      49

                              LETTER VII.

  _Mount Vesuvius--The Hermit--Bay of
  Naples_

                                                                      64

                              LETTER VIII.

  _Capo de Monte--Portici--Herculaneum--Pompeia_

                                                                      75

                               LETTER IX.

  _Casertta--St. Januarius--Opera--Government_

                                                                      86

                               LETTER X.

  _Visit to the King of Naples at Castello
  Mare--The Queen--Coast of Salerno--Pestum_

                                                                      97

                               LETTER XI.

  _Lipari Islands--Volcano of Strombolo_

                                                                     106

                              LETTER XII.

  _Messina--Earthquake--Scylla and Charybdis--Sir
  George Byng--Commodore
  Walton_

                                                                     112

                              LETTER XIII.

  _A fireball--Zante--Ithaca--Promontory
  of Leucate--Turks and Greeks_

                                                                     124

                              LETTER XIV.

  _Pirates--Milo--Paros--Attica--Sunium_

                                                                     139

                               LETTER XV.

  _Smyrna--Great Advantages to be derived
  from the Turkey Trade--Necessity of
  a regular Lazaretto in England_

                                                                     158

                              LETTER XVI.

  _Cause of the War--The Russian Minister
  is sent to the Seven Towers--Turkish
  Manifesto--Attempt on Kimbourn--A
  Russian Ship of sixty-four guns gives
  herself up to the Turks--Ambitious
  Views of the two Imperial Courts--The
  Interest of England greatly endangered
  by them--Necessity of our opposing
  the Empress_

                                                                     169

                             