Eternity RPC Board
06-16-2018, 03:27 PM
January 4, 1780
John Montagu paciently observed the waving arms of Europe and Asia while the ship was approaching to the coast. As his own father did fifty years ago, he was about to meet the exotic realms of the Ottoman Empire - although in a less enjoyable setting, as he was doing so representing the Anglo-Frankish Commonwealth.
His political career, supported by the influence of his family (as his father was a member of the Commonwealth Council, retiring only in 1776) seemed ascending, elected to the General Assembly for first time at age 26, but it rather became stagnant after the death of Lord Protector Henry Fox, and specially since Lord Protector August FitzRoy appointed General William John Kerr as Lieutenant-governor of the Region of London - a position Montagu himself was rumoured as main candidate.
As bored as disappointed, Montagu did not hesitate when he was proposed to accept leading a delegation to the Ottoman Empire, although it was not clear which could be expected of that declining empire, and how this travel was supposed to improve his own personal interests.
John Montagu paciently observed the waving arms of Europe and Asia while the ship was approaching to the coast. As his own father did fifty years ago, he was about to meet the exotic realms of the Ottoman Empire - although in a less enjoyable setting, as he was doing so representing the Anglo-Frankish Commonwealth.
His political career, supported by the influence of his family (as his father was a member of the Commonwealth Council, retiring only in 1776) seemed ascending, elected to the General Assembly for first time at age 26, but it rather became stagnant after the death of Lord Protector Henry Fox, and specially since Lord Protector August FitzRoy appointed General William John Kerr as Lieutenant-governor of the Region of London - a position Montagu himself was rumoured as main candidate.
As bored as disappointed, Montagu did not hesitate when he was proposed to accept leading a delegation to the Ottoman Empire, although it was not clear which could be expected of that declining empire, and how this travel was supposed to improve his own personal interests.