BAKTCHESERAI, 
put to death whomsoever they thought proper; 
took possession of the strong-holds, and prac- 
tised their usual excesses. The Tahtars, some 
by compulsion, others by entreaty, and a still 
greater number by terror, were driven from 
their country, and compelled to seek elsewhere 
a residence. The Khan returned to Karasubazar, 
where the Russian army was encamped : and 
there, in presence of the Russian troops, was 
persuaded to order his nobles to be stoned to 
death; his pretended allies feasting their eyes 
with the slaughter of men whom they had first 
induced to rebel against their sovereign, and 
afterwards caused to be butchered for having: 
complied with their desires. Thus the deluded 
Prince, and his still more deluded subjects, alike 
duped by designing miscreants whom they had 
allowed to take possession of their country, 
began at last to open their eyes, and en- 
deavoured to rid themselves of an alliance so 
fatal in its consequences. It was too late; the 
Khan was himself prisoner in the very centre 
of the Russian army. The rest of their conduct 
towards him exceeds in depravity all that had 
preceded. 
A proposal was made to him to resign the 
crown of the Crimea ; to quit the Peninsula ; 
and to attest, by his sign-manual, that the indi- 
