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mained for a long time undecided. 

 The unfortunate King of Saxony, 

 immediately after he had learned 

 this transfer of the occupation of 

 his country, published a declaration 

 expressing his " lively feelings of 

 grief" at the event, asserting his 

 inviolable right to be reinstated in 

 his royal authority, and positively 

 affirming that he would never con- 

 sent to the cession of the states 

 inherited from his ancestors, or 

 accept any indemnity or equivalent 

 that might be offered to him. 



Of the other public events in 

 Europe during this year, we find 

 none that is of importance to 

 record, unless an occurrence on the 

 barbarous confines of Turkey be of 

 that description. It was mention- 

 ed, in the history of 1812, that 

 in the treaty of Peace between the 

 Russian and Ottoman Courts, it 

 was agreed on the part of the latter, 

 that the revolted Servians should 

 receive a full amnesty, and that the 

 Turkish fortresses erected in their 

 country should be demolished, and 



the garrisons withdrawn. These 

 conditions, it is said, were vio- 

 lated The most arbitrary and op- 

 pressive extortions were practised 

 on the Servians, whose patience 

 being exhausted, they resisted some 

 of these exactions by force of arms. 

 A rigorous order for disarming all 

 the Christians was then issued, 

 which was eluded by the conceal- 

 ment of arms ; and the Txirkish 

 spahis and beys being let loose 

 upon the people, such severities 

 ensued, that a partial rebellion 

 was the result. The ringleaders 

 were seized, many of them were 

 put to death, and with true Turk- 

 ish cruelty, forty-two Servians 

 were exhibited impaled at Belgrade 

 on October 29 and 30. The Ser- 

 vians retaliated early in November 

 by massacring all the Turks who 

 fell in their way, and plundering 

 their property. The pashaw then 

 obtained a reinforcement of 5,000 

 men from Bosnia, and a sanguin- 

 ary war was raging in that quarter 

 at' the close of the year. 



