The tenth siege (p. 28) ought to be the sixteenth, if, according to Bullardus, Constantinople was again besieged by the Arabs in the year 798; by the Bulgarians a second time, in 822; by the Sclaves in 895 (_vide_ Abulfarage, A.H. 282); by the Bulgarians a third time, in 914; by Tornicius in 1048; and by the Venetians and French in 1204. _Note 5, p. 29._—_Báyazíd in the Iron Cage._ The truth of this story has been often questioned by European writers; but it is so generally recorded by the most authentic Turkish historians, that there seems no reason to doubt it any longer. _Note 6, p. 35._—_Abd-ur-ruúf Zindání._ This personage, who was buried at the prison-gate at Adrianople, is the saint of the prisoners, as Ja’far Bábá is at the Bagnio at Constantinople. It was probably this Abd-ur-ruúf who furnished a Turkish poet with one of the best tales in Turkish literature. _Vide_ the German Annual “Minerva,” Leipzig 1814. _Note 7, p. 39._—_Sú-Kemerlí Mustafá Chelebí._ If Mustafá was three years old at the siege of Constantinople in 1453, he must have been fifty-four at the conquest of Cairo in 1517 (and not twenty-five as he is made to say), and consequently a hundred and thirteen years of age at the siege of Siget. _Note 8, p. 53._—_Falakah._ Falakah properly means the wooden block in which the feet of the culprit who receives the bastinado are confined. _Note 9, p. 54._—_Sheikh-ul-Islám or Muftí._ Sultán Mohammed II. was the first who gave precedence to the Muftí or head of the law over the two Kází-asker, or military judges of Rúmeilí and Anadolí. _Note 10, p. 110._—_Sultán Ahmed._ Sultán Ahmed was the fourteenth and not the sixteenth of the Ottoman Sultáns. There are no means of accounting for this mistake, as Suleimán Kánúní is the tenth Sultán by the unanimous consent of all historians. _Note 11, p. 123._—_Abáza’s speech._ This speech is remarkable as it attributes all the rebellions which shook the Ottoman empire after the death of Sultan Othmán II. to the mutinous spirit of the Janissaries, who, until the beginning of the present reign, baffled all the attempts of the Sultáns who attempted to subdue them. _Note 12, p. 126._—_Confession of faith._ “There is no God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet.” Abáza himself performed all the preliminaries for his execution, in the hope of preventing it by the appearance of resignation. _Note 13, p. 137._—_Káfíah, Jámí, &c._ This passage is interesting as giving a good account of the nature of the education received by the imperial pages, and of the books used by the professors in the colleges. It may be useful here to give a short notice of these works from Hájí Khalífah’s Bibliographical Dictionary:— _Káfíah_ is a celebrated Arabic grammar, by Ebn Hájeb. It has been printed at Rome, and two editions with a commentary have appeared at Constantinople.