dwell on such Facts and Alterations as are of a later Date, and confin'd within the Year 1949 and this present Time, which are worth your Curiosity; and which the Memoirs of my two Predecessors in this Post, which have fallen into my Hands, and my own Experience have given me a fuller Acquaintance with.
Your Lordship is no Stranger to the vast Alterations which the coming in of the Tartar Line has produc'd, and above all in Matters of Religion. For as the Mufties and all the Heads of their Clergy, have been still the Grand Seignior's Countrymen, as fearing to place natural Turks in so high a Trust, the Zeal to the Mahometan Religion and Discipline, has been thence greatly slacken'd, both in their Priests and People, which was anciently so hot and violent. By this means there succeeded in its stead a dead Palsy in their Faith, which has almost been destroyed betwixt Christianity and Deism. It is incredible, my Lord, what an Harvest Christian Missionaries and Jesuits have reap'd thereby among this People. For being disguis'd as Physicians, Mathematicians, Astrologers, nay, as Janizaries and Spahies, as well as under the appearances of all kinds of thebest
