The victors were now no longer satisfie

Therefore, when Soliman, on the intimation that no further supplies would be granted him, begged for a safe retreat, it was promised to him, indeed, and also a safeguard: but scarcely had he (on the 7th of March, 1807), with his two hundred Janissaries, and with the different families who had joined him, gone a few hours’ march, when he was attacked from an ambuscade. The safeguard, instead of defending him, made common cause with his assailants : and out of his whole party not one escaped.

The massacre immediately extended to Belgrade. For two days the Turks, who had endeavoured to conceal themselves, were sought out and slaughtered. They who still survived on the third day, chiefly beggars, were sent to Widdin. Some turned Christians. By the booty of these bloody days, Mladen, Miloje, Kncs Sima Marko- witsch, Wule Ilitsch, and others, became rich. In such fearful acts of cruelty did their hatred against the Turks vent itself: hatred long suppressed, but strengthened by mutual animosities, and by the war; and at last thus fiercely bursting forth.

Kto Servian song commemorates this sanguinary retaliation on the Turks. The old Ivneses shook their heads and said, “ it was not well done: they would have to atone for it! ” But they said this secretly, lest they might be considered as siding with the Turks: which would have endangered their own lives.

Their younger countrymen, however, urged on by the fortunate issue of these events, hastened, on the contrary, to prosecute the war still further, as though nothing extraordinary had occurred.

In February, Schabaz yielded, after experiencing similar horrors.

Kara George then attacked Uschize with the army of the Schumadia. After the Turks had released themselves from their treaty with the Servians, they had raised fortifications round the town; and to take these was the first object of the assailants. It was here that IMilosch Obrenowitsch first distinguished himself; receiving, however, a dangerous wound in his breast. Uschize is, after Belgrade, the most populous town of the Pachalic; and it was no slight advantage to the Servians that in June, 1807, it fell into their hands. This time they did not again entrust it to the Turks.

The victors were now no longer satisfied with the territory which had formerly belonged to them.

Jacob had, without trouble, taken possession of the districts Jadar and Radjewina, which already formed, as it were, a part of the country; and he left nothing untried to throw Bosnia, on the further side of the Drina, into a state of insurrection. In the first instance, he sent two deputies thither, who issued proclamations. But lie had not selected proper men for this purpose: one of them was a robber, addicted to drinking, who was attacked and killed while in a state of intoxication ; the other was a monk, who, being thus left alone, would not place his life in jeopardy. Jacob then sent over a few armed men, who succeeded so far as to excite some of the villages to insurrection, after having killed a collector of the Haradsch; but, on the first arrival of the Turks, order was restored.