Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER IV. The Franks. My Dear Friends :— There are only from ten to fifteen different Frank families in this city, belonging to, at least, eight different nations. There are four different Consulates, viz : the American, the English, the French, and the Russian. These Consuls act as agents for other nations in some cases. The American Consular Agent serves two or three other nations as agent, besides our own Government. He is a Ragusian, was appointed Consular Agent by the late Commodore Porter, who visited the city in the year 1832, and from that time to the present, he has performed the duties devolving on his office. Many Franks annually visit this city. At distant intervals there are some distinguished guests. They prefer, however, to travel incognito. A few of the foreign ambassadors at Constantinople have come hither. Some Franks come in quest of health, and for the purpose of using the mineral waters. But many come without any definite object in view. There are many fortune hunters in these ends of the earth ; and so far as my observation extends, many of them are of German extraction. At least more of this nation come to our door than from any other foreign nation. Somesolicit charity,— clothes, money, aud a few desire books. Some have found their graves here. A Mercantile Establishment existed here a few years since, the head of which was a Swiss gentleman, who spoke German. Of the various individuals connected with him from time to time, six have died—one only in this city—the five at other places. One poor German, a stranger, died here in a khan, (a kind of comfortless inn,) friendless and perhaps alone. After he was dead, it became known that he was a Protestant. Mr. S. was requested to go and perform the funeral services. Some porters, (when the servic...