OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

away, than it again rose with fresh vigour and chap.more lively vegetation. When Tiinour, in every LXV 'sense, had evacuated Anatolia , he left the citieswithout a palace, a treasure, or a king. The .open country was overspread with hordes ofshepherds and robbers of Tartar or Turkman origin; the recent conquests of Bajazet were re-stored to the emirs, one of whom, in base re-venge, demolished his sepulchre; and his fivesons were eager, by civil discord, to consumethe remnant of their patrimony. I shall enume-rate their names in the order of their age andactions.' 1. It is doubtful, whether I relate the 1. Musta-story of the true Mustapha, or of an impostor, pha ’who personated that lost prince. He fought byhis father’s side in the battle of Angora: butwhen the captive sultan was permitted to in-quire for his children, Mousa alone could befound ; and the Turkish historians, the slaves ofthe triumphant faction, are persuaded that hisbrother was confounded among the slain. IfMustapha escaped from that disastrous field, hewas concealed twelve years from his friends andenemies, till he emerged in Thessaly, and washailed by a numerous party, as the son and suc-cessor of Bajazet. Ilis first defeat would havebeen his last, had not the true or false, Musta-pha been saved by the Greeks, and restored, af-ter the decease of his brother Mahomet, to liber-ty and empire. A degenerate mind seemed to

c The civil wars, from the death of Bajazet to that of Mustapha, arerelated according to the Turks, by Demetrius Cantemir p 58-82. Ofthe Greeks, Chalcondyles (1. iv and v), Phranza (1- i, c. 30-32), and Du-cas (c. 18-27), the last is the most copious and best informed.