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DEAN MAHOMET.
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ſovereigns were the greateſt and moſt arbitrary Monarchs in the worid. Their orders, though ever ſo extravagant, were ſfubmiſſively obeyed and their mandates obſerved by the remoteſt nations. Their very names ſtruck terror into the hearts of their enemies; but ſo rapid has been the decline of their power, that the race of the great Tamerlane is now little reſpected ſince the days of Nizam Aimoulud. The royal tenure of the throne, is grown ſo inſecure, that the Mogul has been, of late years, depoſed at pleaſure, to make way for ſuch of his ſervants as could gain over the people, that great engine of power! to their cauſe. His authority, which
prevailed.
