CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA. 
taken, and, being afterwards sent to Rhodes, chap. 
IV. 
was beheaded 2 . <. _ t _ > 
If it be now asked how the Russians have Conse- 
conducted themselves with regard to the Crimea, thec^- 0 
after the depravity, the cruelty, and the murders, twl.' 1 ' 0 
whereby it was obtained, the answer may be 
given in a few words. They have laid waste 
the country ; cut down the trees ; pulled down 
the houses; overthrown the sacred edifices of 
the natives, with all their public buildings ; 
destroyed the public aqueducts ; robbed the 
inhabitants ; insulted the Tahtars in their acts of 
public worship; torn up from the tombs the 
bodies of their ancestors, casting their relics 
upon dunghills, and feeding swine out of their 
coffins; annihilated all the monuments of an- 
tiquity; breaking up alike the sepulchres of 
Saints and Pagans, and scattering their ashes in 
(2) The Reader, having perused this narrative, will determine whe- 
ther there he any thing on the part of the French, respecting Spain, 
c 'iual to the atrocity of the Russians in getting possession of the Crimea. 
Mr. Eton, in his Survey of the Turkish Empire, p. 304, says, their 
ri ght to the Peninsula was sacred, and that “ the mouth is unholy 
which dares to arraign it." The representation Mr. E. has given, in 
many parts contradicts itself : for example, in p. 327, he witnessed the' 
expulsion of 7r,,000 Christians from the Crimea, by the Russians, 
a lmost all of whom perished, in consequence of their cruelty, iu the 
deserts of Nagay ; yet, iu p. 333, he says, “those who chose to remain,'” 
after the seizure of the Crimea, “ were left in the quiet possession of 
their property and their religion. 
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