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AN
ACCOUNT
OF
THE PRINCIPALITIES
OF
WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA:
WITH
VARIOUS POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS
RELATING TO THEM.

By WILLIAM WILKINSON, Esq.
LATE BRITISH CONSUL RESIDENT AT BUKOREST.
Dobbiamo considerare queste due provincie, Wallachia e Moldavia a guisa di due nave in un mar’ tempestoso, dove-rare volte si gode la tranquilita e la calma.       Delchiaro—Revoluxione di Wallachia.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1820.
Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode,
Printers-Street, London.
iii

PREFACE.

Amongst the nations of Europe most givento letters, none have so largely contributedto the general list of publications, relatingto the condition and progress of the differentcountries of the world, as the English;and no travellers possess to the samedegree as they do the love of describingthem, however numerous the accounts thathave preceded the period of their own experimentalobservations. Their journals,nevertheless, hardly ever fail to createinterest, and the least share of novelty inform or matter induces the less travellingclass of their countrymen to read themwith pleasure.

Turkey and Egypt in particular havelong been favourite themes; and indeedthe Ottoman empire in every point ofview, whether topographical, historical,ivadministrative, religious, moral, political,military, or commercial, offers an inexhaustiblesubject for investigation, and anendless excitement to curiosity. No regularand minute description has, however,yet been undertaken of two of its most importantand curious provinces, those whichdivide the principal part of the ancient kingdomof Dacia, under the modern denominationof Wallachia and Moldavia, althoughin the renewed existence of Greek governmentsexercising most of the prerogativesof independency, in the struggles of twonations between a strong remnant of Dacianbarbarism and the influence of moderncivilisation, and in a country comprehendingwithin its own boundaries all the productiveresources which fall but separatelyto the share of other countries, sufficientmatter may be found to render them a subjectby no means unworthy of notice.

These considerations have encouragedme to write the following pages with theview of laying them before the public. Anofficial residence of some years in theprincipalities of Wallachia and Moldavia,afforded me the most ample opportunitiesvof observation on every thing they containmost interesting, and I have endeavouredto make an accurate and satisfactory descriptionof them. With regard to theirhistory, I have

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