126 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Sept. 



" To the Defenders of the Court' 

 try, in the Years 1813, 18 14-, 

 and 1815. 



•' Now that monuments to the 

 fallen heroes have been erected 

 on the remarkable fields of battle, 

 it is my wish to erect also a mo- 

 nument of iron, in the capital of 

 the kingdom, to my faithful 

 people, and in particular to all 

 those who shared in the struggle 

 for liberty and right, as a common 

 acknowledgment of generous de- 

 votion to their King and country. 

 The first stone of the foundation 

 has been this day laid. The 

 solemnity of this act was heigh- 

 tened by the presence of my 

 august friend and ally, his Ma- 

 jesty the emperor of Russia. In 

 the space of a year this monu- 

 ment will be completed, an ho- 

 nourable recollection for the 

 valiant combatants of the memo- 

 rable period, and a serious warn- 

 ing to the youth of the kingdom 

 to emulate them in valour, and 

 in true attachment to their king 

 and country. 



" Frederick William." 



" Berlin, Sept. 19." 



" Kexjo-palace, Sept. 20. 



" The Queen has not slept 

 quite so well last night as in the 

 two preceding ones. The symp- 

 toms of her Majesty's complaint 

 are much the same as those of 

 yesterday. 



(Signed) " F. Millman, 

 " H. Halfobd." 



22. Vienna, — From Turkey 



The 13th of August was a day 

 of terror for Constantinople. 

 The fermentation and dissatisfac- 

 tion which have prevailed for 

 some time among the people, 



were raised to the highest pitch 

 by the late events in Siwas ( Se- 

 basti), by which some families 

 of the Janissaries had suffered ; 

 and by the late promotion of the 

 Aga, who was hated by that dan- 

 gerous soldiery ; and the citizens 

 were already living in anxious 

 terror of the near explosion of 

 acts of violence, which was an- 

 nounced by several placards ; 

 when early in the morning of 

 that day a fire broke out in the 

 house of the former Kuscha 

 Baschi, Lieutenant of the Police, 

 and spreading with the rapidity 

 of lightning, turned the gloomy 

 expectations into certainty. The 

 fire raged the whole day through, 

 and till past midnight, and pre- 

 sented a most dreadful spectacle 

 of the destruction of several quar- 

 ters of the city. Some thousand 

 houses, two Christian churches, 

 and two small mosques, were 

 laid in ashes. The presence of 

 the Sultan and of all the Minis- 

 ters, indeed, animated the zeal 

 of the persons employed in ex- 

 tinguishing the flames; but the 

 narrowness of the sti-eets in that 

 closely-built quarter of the city, 

 the heat and fatigues of the day, 

 increased by the smoke, impeded 

 the attempts to save the houses, 

 and delayed assistance. Mean* 

 time the commotion among the 

 people became more and more 

 alarming, and the fears of the 

 tumult increased. 



It is affirmed, that in the pla* 

 cards the instigators demanded 

 the deposition of the Grand Vi- 

 zier, of the High Admiral, the 

 removal of the favourite, Halet 

 Effendi, of the Dharabhana 

 Emini, Abdurrahman Bey, and 



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