Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-06-20

nc re eculiar idioms of the other ma.
tons nat reigned over Wa'lachia and
Moldyia-thesc taetsarc entirely ioun
ded pon history: many a research re-
mailing to be made about Lexicologi-
cala Grammatical details, but we may
al,eady affirm that the Waiiachian
Strings from the same common sou rec
as the French, Italian, Spanish
its harmony, grace, copiousness are no
disparagement to its other sisters derl-
we'd also from the Latin.
l shall quote but few facts--ln the
fifth century they said in the Waila.
chan language: lorna frate ltprn bro-
Their; they say moi we; roi you; lui he; lor
they; tn di thou hast; moi arens we have
f]c voia ia (fiat volontas tua;) noumeie
teu, thy name, SC. Are not these phra-
SEES like the French, Latin, Italian
I have noticed some words which prove
that the Latin spoken by the Roman
legions was not very classical; tor ex.
ample suffletal, soul is derived from suf
flatus, breath in Latin; but this word Is
not found in Pliny. Paimentur, the
earth, comes from Parimentum, floor,
a pavement paved With stone. ! think
it is form ofspeech peculiar to the Ro-
man Christians--parinthele nostrou'
our father; emperatsia, "a to thy KING
dom. These expressions were brought
by the Roman Legions-the word EN-.
pire was familiar to them, not the word
kingdom--they styled the Emperor Pa
rens miitum.
In 1919. as it has been observed, the
order of St. John of Jerusalem obtain.
ed the sovereignty over part OF Wall
lachia. but they were not invested with
a permanent possession. In 1886, the
pope sent latin missionaries into Wall
iachia; they however obtained no great
success-these two events DO not ex-
plain the Italianism found in the Wal
iachian language. We must 60 back to
the vulgar Latin of the age of Trojan;
this question is then interviewer with
the history of the Roman rustique lan-
guage, the fountain of the French, lta.
Ian and Spanish.
A people sprung of so remarkable a
mixture call themselves Roumounie or
Romans, and legal right intitles them
to that name, for an edict of Caracalla
gave to all the subjects of the empire
the title of Roman citizens, however
|, they are only known to their neighbors
under the name of vlach, pronounce
vIagh) which appears to bear in some
Slavonian dialect the Specification of
2astors-this nation which spreads in
Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary and Tran
sylvsnia, amounts TO about two millions
and a half Of which six to seven hundred
Thousand inhabit Wallachia. and three
| to four hundred thousand Moldavia -
Being subjects of the kingdoms of Bul.
| garia and Hungary, they formed aft ;
the death of Ladisiss, in 1890, an indie
pendent state whose first prince was
called Rodolphe the black-about the
year 1850 one of their colonies occupied
Moldavia, under the conduct of prince
named Dragosch-but in spite of the
help granted by Hungary and Poland
to these minor states, their existence
never came to any stability and the un-
fortunate battle of Mohacz in 1896, O.
/ bliged them to submit ultimately to
the Ottoman power-rhe Turks left
. them their interior regulation but
they obliged the despots OF Hospodars
(, There we're the Grecian and Slavonic
T! titles of princess to acknowledgement
selves as vassals to the porte-to pay an
annual tribute as we'll as Alright of in
| vestiture, to furnish auxiliary troops
and receive a Turkish garrison in sew.
eral strong places.
Such in gensrai, are the conditions
imposed upon vanquished foe by con-
querors but the geographical position
of -Dacia between the Ottoman empire
on one side, Hungary, Poland and Rus.
STA on the other, drew upon its unfortu-
nate people particular scoupge, from
which many other provinces in Turkey
escaped. At the CON nencementof the
campaign in the north, Wallachia and
| Moldavia are the rendezvous Of the
Turkish armies. In case Of defeat, the
Christian legions invade these provin-
ces. Provisions must be provided for
This double swarm of grasshoppers--
Thisis not all-Part of the Boyards or
Wallachian and Moldavian Lords side
with the masters whom they dread; o.
theirs favor the enemy through a;tach-
ment. Is peace concluded? Exi;es,
confiscation, and massacres are the In.
evitable consequences of these interior