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London, England, 1826-08-23 00:00:00

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7ROM Tlit DAYND liIONDAY, AUGUST 21.-
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MILS SW ADDAMS= 11` THa SULTAN TO THE CADS or VoNsTANTINort.v,
AND ST WHICH THI DISSOLUTION OF TIM JANLIWANIES WAS DEOLARZIA.
EXCRLIANT ENIENDI,CA DI OV CONSTA N VINOPLZ.--
Every Mussulman knows that Islamism owes its main-
tenance to the mildness and purity of its principles, and
that the Mahometan power is indebted for its increase,
which embraces the East and the West, only to the vic-
torious armies of the believers, who are always ready to
combat the enemies of Mk Faith. The Musselmen,
those warriors who believe in one only GOD, being ne-
cessarily divided from the beginning into different
corps. The first institution of this Sublime Porte, which
may GOD preserve to the end of time ! was that of the
Odschak (corps) of the Janissaries.
14 But your Sublime Sovereign has remarked, that the
Janissaries, who had formerly gained so many victories,
and conquered so many countries by their courage in at-
tack, and above all by their blind obedience to the orders
of their master, had insensibly degenerated, and become
cowardly and mutinous : that these troops, in the wars
which have been carried on for this century past, have
despised the orders of their chiefs—have been seized
with consternation from the slightest causes—have
spread terror by false news—quitted their ranks, and
shamefully fled before the enemy, abandoning to then
the fortresses and provinces : that during this time the i
enemies of the faith, considering this degeneracy and
cowardice as equally to be attributed to all Musselmen,
did not cease daily to importune us with fresh preten li
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sions and demands. On the other hand, considering, that
the whole nation is bound by law to arm itself with the'
zeal of the faith, and to find means to resist, under the
auspices of religion, the enterprises of the enemy: that
it has convincingly shown in the late wars that the ene-
my owed his superiority only to the exercise to which
his troops had been accustomed ; that since the wars of
1202 (1787), attempts have been twice made to introduce
that exercise into the army : that the corps of the Janis-
saries has shewn itself unfavourable to the military ma-
nceuvres ; that it has disapproved, and always opposed
them ; and that several sovereigns, who deserve to live
as long as the world, have been the victims of the ob-
stinacy and ferocity of this corps.
" In this state of things a General Council has been
convoked in the palace, from which the decisions of the
law should emanate ; the august Viziers, the learned
Ulemas, the Bedschalsf (Ministers of State), and the
Chiefs of the Janissaries themselves, were summoned to
it. It was considered that the suspension of the Janis-
saties, who were an ancient corps, had never been
thought of; that, however, they had long since beenl
in the habit of sometimes obeying, and sometimes ez-
citing sedition, as their caprice dictated ; that they per-
sisted in their ignorance. Lastly, that the enemies,
whose eyes were always upon us, seeing our position,
Irskd conceived the idea of attacking us on all sides.
" The holy union of the laws having been convoked
in the Council, a noble Fetwa, the emanation of the
light of the law, and accompanied by a Hodschet (legal
document), signed by all the Members of the Council,
proclaimed the following decisiOn:
" With a view to revive the word of Gots, and to ren-
der vain the stratagems by which the infidels have ob-
tained their superiority, the Musselmen also on their side:
" 1. Shall arm themselves with the seal of the faith, and shall
submit to subordination.

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" 2. Shall learn the military nerdse, which is the only means of
resistance to be employed under present-circumstances; and lastly,
in order to obey the general wish and public voice of the nation,
the corps of Janissaries, without any change in its ancient statutes,
and without any infringement of its privileges, shall furnish a hun-
dred and fifty men from each company, to be incorporated with
the new exercised troops known by the name of Muallem Eskindief
(disciplined infantry)."

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