TO AND FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, IN THE YEARS 1827 AND 1828: OR PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY FROM VIENNA, THROUGH HUNGARY, AND FROM THAT CITY TO THE CAPITAL OF AUSTRIA, BY THE DARDANELLES, BY CAPT. CHARLES COLVILLE FRANKLAND, ROYAL NAVY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. DEDICATION. TO REAR-ADMIRAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD COLVILLE, OF CULROSS. MY DEAR LORD, PERMIT me to dedicate to you the following sheets, containing some part of three years' rambles upon the continents of Europe and Asia. They consist for the most part of a mere transcript of my Journal, unembellished by any attempts at authorship; and were originally composed solely for the amusement of my own domestic circle, and for the fireside of my more intimate friends. They will be found to be full of faults, and more particularly such as are almost inseparable from the familiar style of Journal writing. From such as these latter I should have found it difficult to free my humble pages, nor indeed could I have attempted so to do without totally altering the form of the manuscript, and divesting it of that character to which alone it pretends, namely, that of a "Personal Narrative," by which I understand a simple relation of what I myself saw, heard, and felt. To you, who have ever been my kind friend and patron, I again recommend my poor little book, mon premier né: treat it kindly; and while you excuse its faults yourself, deprecate in others those criticisms which I am but too conscious it deserves. Receive it, my dear Lord, as a proof of affection and regard, from Your dutiful Nephew, CHARLES COLVILLE FRANKLAND. London, February, 14, 1829. |