. The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny. llyrian Kingdom by Napo-leon and his other territorial formations in Polandput a strain upon the relations between Russia andFrance. That aggravation increased when Napoleon,who had married Marie Louise, daughter of theAustrian Emperor, lent his influence toward the at-tainment of the Hapsburg designs on the Balkanlands. The Servians, realising by the campaign of 1809that they could not entirely count upon Russia,made endeavours to approach Austria and , understanding the serious blunder she hadcommitted by neglecting the
. The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny. llyrian Kingdom by Napo-leon and his other territorial formations in Polandput a strain upon the relations between Russia andFrance. That aggravation increased when Napoleon,who had married Marie Louise, daughter of theAustrian Emperor, lent his influence toward the at-tainment of the Hapsburg designs on the Balkanlands. The Servians, realising by the campaign of 1809that they could not entirely count upon Russia,made endeavours to approach Austria and , understanding the serious blunder she hadcommitted by neglecting the Serbs, sought meansto reassure them and began to prepare to give themactive military support in their coming campaign. The National Assembly met in its annual sessionin 1809, at Christmas, in Belgrade, where the Senatehad its seat. The opposition party headed by JacobNenadovich called the Government to account forthe catastrophe of Nish, and the President of theSenate and the commander of the third division,Miloye Petrovich, both belonging to the Kara-. n OJ WAR FROM 1809 TO 1813 653 George party, were bitterly blamed for the tragedyof Kamenitza. Nenadovich, with a following of sixhundred members of the National Assembly, wasin a majority. Kara-George, unable to defend theactions of his friend Mladen Milovanovich againstthe charges of weakness and inefficiency, took thecourse of proposing that the Assembly, which hadthe nomination of the Senate or Government, shouldre-elect the Senate with his enemy Nenadovich asits president. During the same session the Assemblyresolved to ask the Russian headquarters in Vallachiafor a more effective co-operation in the coming cam-paign of 1810. Nenadovich, as President of the Senate, proposedto the Assembly to nominate men of his own partyas envoys for that purpose. His nominations wereconfirmed and the mission despatched. Those en-voys, on arriving in Vallachia, made it their privatebusiness in addition to the fulfilment of their mis-sion t
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