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TURNER. "William Turner, Esquire, was attached iu 1812 to the staff of Sir Robert Listou, His Majesty's Ambassador to the Porto, who bad beeu despatched " to seeure and hasten the signature of peace between the Porte and Russia." Tint the treaty had been concluded, before the arrival of the Embassy, by Sir Stratford Canning, and Mr Turner soou obtained permission "tô change his offleial labours for the pleasures of travelling." He explored Greece and Albania, with the adjacent islands, and on February 20, 1815, again left Constantinople in a small Turkish vessel, ami sighted Cyprus on Marcii 22, travelled in Palestine, visited M. Sinai, and returned to Larnaca on October 3, sailing again on November 16 for Rhodes. His Journal of Ir Liston, and who received me with the greatest hospitality, and put me into a very neat room, where I soon forgot the fatigues of my voyage in a good bed, which was the more acceptable, 424 EXCERPTA CYPRIA.

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