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 l'JO ORIGIN OF THE WAll OF 1653 CHAP, frugal than the Government at home in using or ■ — engaging the power of the English Queen. He remained on the ground. Still, as before, he kept down the home dangers which threatened the Ottoman State. Still, as before, he obliged the Turks to deserve the goodwill of Europe ; but now, besides, with the arm of the iiesh, and no longer with the mere fencing of words, he was there to defend their capital from the gathered ra^e of the Czar. In truth, at this time he bore much of the weight of empire. Entrusted with the chief prerogative of kings, and living all his time at Therapia, close over the gates of the Bos- phorus, he seemed to stand guard against the North, and to answer for the safety of his charge.