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degree of vigour. Pressed as the 

 Divan were by the Russians, they 

 yet sent troops to Syria against 

 the powerful sect of the Waugha- 

 bites, who had renounced all 

 fealty and obedience to the eldest 

 son of the prophet. The Waugha- 

 bites betook themselves to piracy, 

 as well as rapine and conquest on 

 land. In April, 1810, an expedi- 

 tion was fitted out to the Persian 

 Gulph against the Waughabitc 

 pirates, by the English govern- 

 ment at Bombay. 



War was carried on between 

 the Turks and Servians with va- 

 rious success. But the advantage, 

 on the whole, was greatly on the 

 side of the Servians. 



The infatuation of the Turks 

 and Russians in continuing a 

 bloody war against each other, in 

 1810, would scarcely appear cre- 

 dible to posterity, if there were 

 not similar instances of infatua- 

 tion in history, both ancient and 

 modern. Their whole faculties 

 seemed to be absorbed in mutual 

 hostility and rage. They seem 

 never so mucli as once to have 

 bestowed a serious thought on the 

 tremendous power that hovered 

 over them, ready to pounce on 

 one or both, whenever sufficiently 

 debilitated by their mad conflicts. 

 But the party most biameable, and 

 the maddest too, was, beyond a 

 doubt^ the Russians. 



