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there the same wealth and luxury among the Bayards, many 

 of whom in Wallachia are very well informed, and have given 

 their sons a fashionable foreign education. It must, however, 

 be remarked, that the Wallachian peasant is, like the Hunga- 

 rian one, a mere serf; whilst the Servian peasant is a freeman 

 with landed property. I may also add that, although the Ser- 

 vians have removed by various emigrations into Hungary, the 

 Bannat, and Syrmia, and even beyond FunfkircJien, they still 

 appear to entertain a national antipathy towards the natives of 

 these countries, although living in the same kingdom, and under 

 the same laws. 



The Turks subdued the Servians in 1389, and the Greeks 

 in 1473 : the former began their struggle for freedom' in 1804, 

 and the latter in 1801. The Greeks, from the commencement 

 of their war, received foreign assistance of all kinds, and they 

 now have a foreign king, and are pretty deeply in debt ; whilst 

 the Servians, who conducted their war almost entirely without 

 assistance, and at their own expense, have a government of 

 their own choosing, with very few of those foreigners, so nu- 

 merous in Greece, who, in many instances, probably attend less 

 to the interests of the country than to their own. It may be 

 added, that after a state of war, or at least of uncertainty, for 

 nearly twenty-five years, the Servian government has a good 

 deal of money in its treasury, and the country is in a quiet state, 

 and entirely free from robbers. These differences in the pre- 

 sent condition of the two countries arise from various causes, 

 as, for instance, the different character of the inhabitants ; for 

 the Servians are much less inclined to be turbulent, are less vain, 

 and come less into contact with other nations. Besides, although 

 the Servians have had severe wars to sustain at different parts, 

 Greece, from being so much surrounded by the sea, would have 

 been exposed to greater danger if her seamen had not been 

 superior to the Turks. In Servia, also, there was fortunately 

 only one single people, whilst the Greeks were mixed up with 

 the Albanians and other tribes. 



The Servian war of independence had its origin in the Ser- 

 vians being obliged to defend themselves against some rebels to 

 the government of Constantinople : when once in arms, they 

 remained so until they had gained their point, the Turkish 



