The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-11-20

Which quivcred round that Ghlcss brand;
His turban far behind him rolled,
And clcl in twain its hrmest fold" BYRON.
am an old man. have seen war, and have
seen peace | have seen sulans raised to the
throne, and have seen sulians sent to the dungeon
All this outvcd, for all this | regarded as the
course Of Nature But have seen the glory of
the Nlussulmans gone, and the empire ut the mer-
CIV of the Frank. Is this to be endured ?--ls this
to be believed But am the last of the lanlza-
rcs. That is enough. OF this body, which, with
all its faults was the strength of the empire, the
beginning of lis glory, and the end of lis dominion,
am the last living man.-What more can say :
am standing beside my grave. If live, ii Is on
" until shall have seen the last hour of Nahmoud
Then lie, the arrow come when it will, that turns
Solinan Agi into dust and ashes. ALA il allah
| was standing one evening on the edge OF the
Golden Horn, near the spot where Bairaclar made
his last stand, and was blown up;-may his bones
never be covered! and was looking at the caiqucs
of the Sultan as they passed from the seragllo to
his new palace on the Asatlc shore. hated the
man, but the scene was calculated TO so0lhe The
mind am no dcscrlber, but he who cannot leel
the beauty of Nature, cannot sufficiently hate hiu
who turns it into the tomb of empire. What has
Europe, or the world besides, to equal the scene
that lies before the gaze of the Mussulman every
day of his existence, from the shore of Constanl-
nople Before me rose the range Of the Aslhilc
hills, Il scene of mountain magniiiccncc whether
in the storm or the calm, throne of the thunder
or throne of the sunshine, in each alike throne,
At my feet lay the sea of Marmora, a sheet of
glass, an immense lake of laps lazn colorcd with
every light and tncture of the richest sky of the
world Left and right, spread the. enchancd gar
dcns of the Bosphorus, and the bold shores OF the
Dnrdanclles colOrcd with the vapors OF sunset, as
if they were hung with drapcrcs of cloth of gold.
While | was lost in admiration of this noble
spectacle, often as had seen it before heard
voices behind me. The times were troubled, and
ins,inc,ivcly laid my hand on my dagger. The
movement produced only low laugh and saw
Achmct Og lou and IIassan rophn, two agas of the
Ianzaries, and my intimate friends
Ella, Soliman,' said IIassan; 'you might spare
our honor the idea of our being assassins, for we
might have settled that question with yon half an
hour ago. We have been looking at You fully that
time, and wondering what you were doing with
your eyes, 1t was plain that you saw nothing OF
us
'ilc was looking Tor the prophets paradise,
said Achmct; and after a vision of the hourics,
it was only natural that he should not condcscend
to human visagcs. But come, we have something
10 90 lO-HluHl, HHu WV WANT N"U W bc WIN US
Your purpose, colonies I!
'The honor Of the corps
'Ilow is it implicated; Have any new insults
been offered to-day? | saw the Sultan return from
the mosque this sunset, and cross the water. But
he had the usual guard Of our corps.
Oglou, fierce aud muscular figure, and with Il
mind like his figure, started, and half unsheahng
his scimctar, cried lie is a slave of Mahmond.
Let us leave him.
waved my scimear above his head at the mo-
ment, and flung back the impnlatlon but lIussan
n,crposed. Oglou was Turcoman, and wild as
one Of his own wild horses. lIassan Tephnl was
an Ioniin, and graceful as one of the popIars OF his
cline This made all the difference between bu-
rying our weapons in each others hearts, aud
fighting with them side by side aS we did so soon.
The fact, friend Achmet, said the peacemakcr,
is, that Soliman Ag is poet, and thinks more oil
sunsets than the scraglio. lie hates Nlahmoud
but he hates him not half 50 much for his treason
against the laws Of the empire against the SawlS
and turbans of the Nloslcns. lie lives in the skies
while we walk on the ground and such as he is,
for al this we must have him with us
'Show me, ! exclaimed, just cause, and shall
show myself as ready to shed my blood in it, as II
there were neither pen nor poem in the world
Look on that spot where yon stand this mo-
ment, and doubt, if you can, the wrongs of th'
Janizarics, or their power to avenge them. In tina
fragment of tomb lie the remains of our enemy
the fragment of Baractcr--the rest was tossed tC
the noon Oglou proceeded gloomiIy, and in {
tone of sullcn triumph, as i he cXultcd IN the re
meubrancc:
1T is exactly eighteen years since that night
and it is as plain before me as if were hut yes
lcrday. Bairac,ar, fearless as lion, had deter
mined TO destroy the whole corps of the lanlzares
and had the madness to tell his mind. vii
make all their regiments, said he, like that whcl
was maasacrcd for lis muiiny against Sultan Otll
man, uhc sixiy-ilh Oda, of which, when Ms nani'
was daily called on the parade, colonel daily an
swcred; Let the voice Of that Oda perish, lie
the name of that Oda be cXtingulshed for ever.
The yzier made the attempt; he brought his SOO
new le,es from Scuiari. But the Janizarlcs ha'
determined otherwise. On the memorable 18th q
November. we beat our drums surrounded the sc
raro, and set the chambers of the vnler on fire
| myself Young as was, was among the foremost
I sent a carbinc load of bullets after him. as h
spranu from the easement into the gardens
Whether | wounded him or not is now past telling
But was close on when he flushed into 3aIul
hane. and closed the door. We then had him SALE
We knew. what he did not, that it had been turn
ed into our powder store the day before. w
heard him barrlcading himself within. We suffer
ed him to 20 on. We demanded whether he woul
or wonld not, swear fidelity to our corps. lie al
swcrcd by threatening TO shave our boards an
behcad our agas There was nothing more TO }
done. We threw torches upon the roof. set I'll
door on fire, and stood at distance with our mn
kels ready to bring down all who attempted TO g
: cape We heard the bowling of the vizirr and h
friends, as the fire began to reach them II d'd NJ
, last long A single explosion tore up the root
! the magazine, carrying the limbs and bodies OF !
I garrison into the mir. All that is left of the viz
J is now at your foot. We then marched Wi
4 drums heating, to the barracks of the new ievieS
] burned them, turned to cndcrs all who siald
them; and sho, all who attempted 10 come out.
] We had still four-apd-tweny hours lighting IN VI
$ streets TO finish the work but we finished II =; al
j with one half of the city in blaze, and the 9th
: half in our possession, brought the sultan to d
d senses. and sent him the head of his insolcnt &c
c craI, Cad Pasla, TO keep him in them