APPENDIX. 
No. I. 
PARTICULARS 
or THE 
REVOLUTION AT CONSTANTINOPLE 
IN THE YEAR 1807; 
WHICH ENOED IN 
The deposition of the Emperor SELIM III. 
Extracted from Mr. Walpole's Manuscript Journal. 
*' The Nizam Jedit, or, as it may be literally 
translated, the New System, had been insti- 
tuted by Selim, for the purpose chiefly of aug- 
menting the standing army, and disciplining 
it according to European tactics. The new- 
iciised troops in and near the capital amounted 
to about 14,000 men; and were quartered in 
the barracks of Scutari, and between Buyuc- 
der^ and Pera: in Asia there were not less 
than 60,000. They were maintained at great 
expense, and new and extraordinary taxes 
were levied to produce a fund for the support 
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