Star.
London, England, 1817-09-09 00:00:00

C/LRNY GEORGAS.

tltoll TNt LITtRAZY GAZZTTL,
Georres Petrowich, bens ko• wn by the name of
Czerny-Geo• grit. that is to say Black George, was
born of a noble Servian family, in the neighbourhood
of Belgrade. Belem he had attained the age of man-
hood, he w4s une day met by a Turk, who with an
imperious air ordered him to stand out of his way, at
the same time declaring that be would blow out his
brains. Czerny. Georges, how: ver, prevented him
from putting this threat into execution, and by the
discharge ef a pistol immediately laid him d ad on
the ground. To avoid the dangerous consequences
of this affair, he took refuge in Transylvania, and
entered the military service of Austria, in which be
quickly obtained the rank of non.commissioned officer.
His Cartain having ordered him to be punished,
Caerny-Georges challrnged and killed him. He
then returned to Servia. where, at the age of twenty-
five, he became the chief of one of those bands of
malcontents which infest every part of the Turkish
dominions, who pride themselves upon the title of
kleptai, or brigand, and whom the non-Mussulman
Population consider as their avengers and liberators.
Czerny Georges, encamped in the thick forests,
waged war against the Turks with unheard-of
cruelty s he spared neither age nor sex, and extended
his ravages throughout the whole province of Servia.
The Turks having, by way Of retaliation, condemned
twenty-six of the principal Servians to death, the
father of Czerny-Georges, shocked at so many hor-
rors, determined to abandon the banners of his son,
whom he had previously joined. The old man even
threatened to deliver up the whole troop to the power-
of the Turks, unless they immediately consented to
relinquish the useleu contest. Czerny conjured hint
to alter his resolution; but the old man persisted and
'cc out for Belgrade. His son followed him. Having
armed at the Servian outposts, he threw himielf on
his knees and again entreated that his father would
not betray his country; but finding him infiexible, he
drew out a pistol, fired it, and thus became the mur-
derer of his parent.
The Servians still continued to augment the band
of Caerny-Georges. Emboldened by the numerous
advantages he bad obtained, this chief at length sal-
lied from his forests, besieged Belgrade, and on the
Ist of December, 1806, forced that important fortress
.

to surrender. Being proclaimed Generalissimo of
his nation, he governed it with unlimited power.
The principal Nobles and Ecclesiastics, under the
presidency of the Archbishop, formed a kind of Se.
nate, or Synod, which assembled at Semendriah, and
which claimed the right of t itemising the sovereignty.
But Catrny Georges annulled the acts of the assem-
bly, and declared by a decree, that during his lite
no one should rise above him ; that he was sufficient
in himself, anu stood in no need of advi►ers. In 1807
he ordered % ne of his brothers to be hanged for some
trifling want ut respect towards him.
The conquest of Servia was accompanied by the
massacre of the Turks; no mercy was sbewn even to

those who voluntarily surrenderedihemselves. Cserny-
Georges being attacked by an army of 50,000 Min-
-. schuss, valiantly, defended the banks of the Mo.
rave; and had ho possessed the means of obtaining
fortis* officen to discipline the intrepid Servians, he
might perhaps have reestablished the kingdom of
Servs*, which, under Stephen 111. resisted the Men-
gel:, and under Stephen Damian included Bulimia,
Macedonia, and Bosnia. In 1387, Sonia, though
tributary to the Turks still retained its national
Princes, who assumed the title of despots; in 1463
they were succeded by a Turkish Pasha. Their house
beeline extinct in 13(0.—Cearny-Creorges was tall
andviell made ; but his appearance was agetbet '
"age and displeasing, owing to the disproportionate
length of his countenance, his small and sunken eyes,
bald forehead, and his singular method of wearing
his hair gathered together is one enormous tress,
which hung down upon his shoulders. His violent
spirit was marked by an exterior of Boldness and
apathy ; he sometimes passed whole hours without
uttering a single syllable, and he neither knew how
to mid nor write. lie never resorted to the diver-
sion of huntini above once during the year. He was
then ac:ompanied by from three to four hundred
Pandours, who assisted him in waging a deadly war
against the wolves, foxes, deer, and wild goats which
-inhabit the forests of futile but uncultivated Servia.
• The entire produce of his hunting was .publicly sold
for his own profit. He also sought to augment his
patrimony by confiscajocs.
At the Treaty of Peace i.t 1812. Raids proVided
for the interests of Servia. That province was ac-
knowledged to be a vassal and tributary of the Porte.
Czerney Georges retired to Russia ; and lived at Lis-
a:muff in Bouarabia. His return to Servia in dis-
guise, his discovery, and execution have been re-
cently stated.

According to a census taken at Rome, the present
population of that capital is 131,3.56 l in 1816 it was
Dolt 128.981.
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EiIiTOEICAL ACCOUNT OF TUE BATTLE OF WATER-
LOO...-Wc are requested to state, that Mr. COLEUEN
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to the Duke of WELLINGTON. This last Part is em-
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whilee the French Cuirusiers are attacking the English hollow-
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of
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FROM GERMAN PAPERS.

The following i% the Memorial of Baron Von Mau-
mum: to t"'r Dlet. to which we lately alluded :

" Huse FIDI aAL Assasssze (—Ties latb Article of the Gee-
man Federal Act e tahlisises as It were an universal system of
political rights for Germans, as by its provisions every German
is allowed to acquire. and to possess landed property in every
one of the Federal States of Germany. whoever possesses this
major right, In virtue of the solemn contract of all the German
Princes. may certainly (if he is a man. unquestionably entitled
to legal privileges) lay claim to the minor right of Suing his ,
residence in another German State, under the protection of and
yielding obedience to the laws. This right was so strongly felt
by the high authors of the German Federal Act, that they could
not even contemplate the possibility of such a violation of all per-
sonal bber.y, and, therefore, they did not conceive tt necessary
in their Act to lay down any particular protection for rights held
sacred among all civilized nations. How much these sacred
rights have however been violated by the Government of Baden,
toward, a father whose eldest son fell in the struggle fee the
freedom of Germany, and who wished tomake the necessary
arrangements for est.btishing his wood son In a German Units
iter.i,y—inwards a German who wished to enjoy the society of
' men distinguished in the Literature of Lis country, and to avail
himself 4 the advantages which an University library afforded
for a literary undertaking—is proved by the documetos Nos. I 1
to 4. which accompany this Memorial My Ilk is well known.
If ever I have erred, my opinion has never been Influenced by
urewOrhy motives, but always guided by sincere conviction
My public language in the Assembly of the states of Wurtemberg
was tke result of this conviction. and I conscientiously discharged
what I considered to be the dui I owed to the.people as one
of their Repre-entatives elected ender the Laws of the Land. I
Has the steeds( of such a dory become a crime in Germany?—
If the mere words " according to special circumstances; are to
authorise the separation of a father frouthis child (for if my sees
had already reached Heidelberg, drool, my treatment hays been
direrent f j the man of cultivated Iliad from the instructive so.
dole of tainted men, and boot all public niesos of improvement,
there is at once an end to all personal freelom In Germany. and
it will be vseku to carr e into execution the provisions of the fe-
' demi act. by the formation of itepre.entative Constitutions. if
the dienifiedboldoess of those chosen under the laws to be Re-
presentatives of the People, can oily be rewarded with calamity
and persecution. I am not unacquainted with history, but I
have never heard of such attacks having hitherto been made on
personal liberty, but in a revolutionary state of things. But,
thrall Goo I neither the Grand Duchy of Baden, nor any other
German territory is in such a condition. I have immediately
obeyed the commands which I received ; but I consider it due to
my own honour. and to the comas° welfare, to make known a
proceeding which wound. so deeply the rights of every German.
the High Federal Assentloy is part called en to protect
these sacred right.. and preserve the previsions of
the act of federation. Be,ont its high jedgment.seat. I can alone,
tla.r‘•fore, come to post out this violation of law and junk*.
May I be the live, who ha. to complain of any such act of injus-
tice having beets exercised t,,wards him.
((Signed)
" CUaISTIAn. Baron VON MAIISZNIBACII.
" malting as die Mayne, August I,
FROM THE RHINE.

That the article in the Frankfort Journal, relating
to the arrest of Colonel Von Massenbach, has here,
as well as in all the rest of Germany, and even in
other countries, produced the greatest sensation, may'
be very easily supposed. It .may be proper, till we
shall receive further information respecting this id-
fair, to refrain from pronouncing any opinion on the
conduct of the Prossian Government, or on the guilt
or innocence of Colonel Von Massenbach. But surely
the account given by the Editor of the Frankfort
Joensal must be incorrect; for,—and on this subject
the public opinion is not divided,--this account com-
promises not merely the honour of the free town of
Frankfort, and the honour of the Prussian Govern-
ment, but it degrades the whole German nation,l
both in their own eyes and in the eyes of foreigners.
What I Could it be possible that die Milian Govern-
ment should order the arrest of a German citizen
and the seizure of his papers—and that in a German
free town, the very place where he wished to seek an'
asylum and legal protection from the Diet, against
the political persecutions which his bold but not il-
legal defence of the rights of the people of Wur-
temburg drew down upon him—that it should have
robbed him of his liberty, and dragged him like one
of the vilest criminals through Germany, not to take
his Wad before the ordinary tribunals, but to appear
before a Special Court of Commission, surely to at.
mod fir his toidutt—that is, to account for his con-
duct which is already known, and qui for any un-
known crimes. respecting the nature add commission
of which the Prussian Government could not obtain
sufficient evidence by an ordinary investigation ?
that the free German town of Frankfort should have
at once made itself the instrument of depriving of his
personal liberty a German, and not merely one man,
for without taking the worth or worthlessness of this
one man into consideration, where there is any feeling
for honour, justice, or liberty in a people, by such an
arbitrary and open violation of honour and justice,
committed by the Government against one citizen,
all are equally insulted ? Could it be possible that
this free town should have in this manner publicly
declared, that in the very walls guaranteed by the
German Federation, the civil free&m of a German
citizen can find no protection against the very first
demand of a foreign political Power ?—that it should
have violated in sq gross a manner the firmest foun-
dation of the free German towns, free German rights
and the public opinion ? Could it be possible, if the
proceedings known to the public have given occasion
to such measures, that the tree town of Frankfort
should have united itself with the Government of
Wurtemburg, which first persecuted M. Von Mas-
senbach, and now with the Prussian Government,
and. thus given foundation to the unhappy sus-
picion,
that the free and open language of M. Von
Massenbach in the cause of liberty and justice, and
perhaps also his bold warning against the preponde-
rance of Russia, albne drew down on him the prudew
tion of the German Governments? And all thit only
a few weeks before the time when the festival was to
be every where solemcized of the German man, who,
LT his tree and peblic imlence of liberty and justice,
vindicated and preterred for his country and tor Eu.
rope freedom of mind and political liberty, and M
soon after the title when the streams of blood, vo-
luntarily poured out by the German People, replaced
and again secured their Princes on their 'lshrones;
but not certainly to exchange domestic for foreign
oppression ; but to obtain the restoration of old Ger.
man rights, which was solemnly promised to them ?
Truly, whoever has at heart the cause of freedom
and justice, and whoever, like the writer of this, is
in any manner acquainted with the principles of the
political and criminal laws of the Germans, cannot
possibly give credence to this account. Snob a belief
would be arinjurious to Governments as to chines's.
It is therefore to be earnestly wished, that an official
correction of the article iu the Frankforulouroal,
clearing up au affair so injurious to the honour and
justice of the free town of Frankfort, the Prussian Go-

"ernment, and the whole German Nation, may be
laid before the public as soon as possible.

BERLIN, AUGUsf 27.
A society has formed itself here for obtaining and
securing the Liberty of the Press. There are to be
found in it not only several writers of celebrity, but
gloomily practical men. Attheir first meeting they
came to a resolution—ht, To afford such support to
M. filallinchrodt as may best enable him to succeed
in the process against him ; and-2dly, to deliver a
Memorial to the King on the melancholy conditi
of the Berlin newspapers. Several other resolutions
were agreed to, which merit the praise and approba-
tion of all true patriots.