Such is the plain unvarnished account of the late transactions in Servia, in which the true character of Russian policy, and the means by which it is carried out, have been unveiled before the eyes of Europe in a manner sufficient to enlighten those which are not closed in wilful blindness. "Europe has been apprised, if she wishes to be so," (says the _Journal des Debats_,) "that there is in the East, independent of Turkey, a point of resistance against the encroachments of Russia;" and this _great fact_ derives double value from that point being found in one of those Slavic populations which it is the grand object and aim of Russia to unite under her iron sceptre. But (in the eloquent language of Mr Paget) "we knew that if Europe did awake, the progress of Russia was stopped; we knew that her gigantic power would crumble away, and nothing remain but the hatred of the world, of the injustice and cruelty by which it had been raised." F. H. _Servia, the Youngest Member of the European Family; or, a Residence in Belgrade, and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the Years 1843 and 1844._ By ANDREW ARCHIBALD PATON, Esq., Author of the "Modern Syrians." FOOTNOTES: [1] This was the explanation actually given by Develuz, our consul at Adrianople, of his exaggerated account of the strength of Diebitsch's army, at the moment when Diebitsch's best hope was, that he might effect his retreat across the Balkan with the shattered and debilitated remnant of his troops! Yet on this authority the Sultan was recommended to yield at discretion, and the treaty of Adrianople was signed! [2] The present Prince, on public occasions, always wears the fez with an aigrette of diamonds, as a recognition of the suzerainte of the Porte; his predecessor, Michel Obrenovich, gave great offence by wearing a cocked hat. [3] The old Emperor, Francis of Austria, when a Russian general was to be presented, would say, "Now bring in the northern firmament, and all its stars." [4] Sokol must here be a slip of the pen for Szoko. Sokol, the birth-place of the famous Mohammed Sokolli, vizier of Soliman the Magnificent and his two successors, is in the heart of Bosnia, near Gradachatz. [5] In the supplement to the _Biographie Universelle_, vol. lxi., a strange tale is told, that Czerni George was a native of Nanci, who fled in his youth to Servia--but this is a mere romance. [6] Lamartine (_Voyage en Orient_) and other writers represent Kara George as having died in confinement in an Austrian fortress, soon after his flight in 1813-an error which has probably arisen from a confusion between his fate and that of Alexander Hypsilantis, who headed the insurrection in Walachia in 1821, and died in Mongatz, after three years' imprisonment. [7] These firmans, with the _hatti-shereef_ of 1838, &c., were printed and laid before the House of Commons in May 1843.