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of them. The advanced price of tobacco, and 
other articles of luxury or necessity; the 
prohibition of the exportation of corn; the 
jealousy of the Janissaries at the increase of 
such a body of soldiers as the new troops, 
who, as they imagined, were raised to check 
and controul them; — these and other causes 
excited complaint and discontent on every side. 
In the year 1806, while I was at Constantinople, 
the new troops and Janissaries met in frequent 
battle in the vicinity of the capital. Victory 
decided at length for the latter ; and the Porte 
was obliged to raise the Colonel of the Janis- 
saries to the post of Grand Vizier. Peace 
however was not restored ; the Janissaries 
still considered the troops of the Nizam Jedit 
with suspicion and hatred, as the destined 
means of effecting a reform in their own body. 
The enemies of the Government did not hesitate 
to point out the deposition of the Emperor, 
as the only method by which the discontents 
and murmurs of the people might be quieted. 
They called him the 'Jirst InfideV {bir Giaour). 
They said, that as he had been seven years 
on the throne, and had not given an heir to it, 
he ought, according to the laws and religion 
of his country, to descend from it. The Sultan- 
mother, the Messalina of Constantinople, with 
her lover, YussufF Aga, attached herself to 
