the land this shows how poor the population is every well informed knows also the national russia notwithstanding her valuable natural resources we have much more accounts of the expenses of the state than of its income for less secrecy is in the former than in the latter case we may safely say of the general condition of the that since the great from and turkey ceased there has been a great and continual increase of the national debt we should say of a private man under such circumstances that he stood on the verge of the annual expenses of russia amount to for the land forces for the of the interior for miscellaneous expenses attending the collection of the c for the of for the fleet for the private chest of the emperor for the expenses of the imperial for the mines and finally for the so called of public education which here is a subject of merriment these facts explain the continual increase of the national debt from the financial condition of the people it is plain that russia must borrow money not at home but abroad but as the condition ru ia die foreign money in the most recent times would not accommodate russia as before so in there would have been a sad financial crisis in the state if the price of grain had not been so high in and russia had not accidentally been able to send abroad large quantities of the millions which lent to louis in the last part of his reign and with which he hoped to prevent the tion he feared but which came at length from the necessity of the case � these millions only gave france more time to pay for the com she had received russia lent france money that she might buy bread of russia the money came back to russia in payment for the com and the emperor knew how in the and most brutal way to draw the gold and silver money from the hands of his subjects and put it into his own again in several provinces the government bought np paper money in great quantities so that there was an to in the stocks every man who had coin on hand sought to exchange it for paper money partly to escape the loss occasioned by the fall of the price of gold partly to gain by the increased value of paper money by and by it was not necessary for the crown to buy up paper money for the public had fallen into the trap and soon the millions which had come from abroad in hard money to pay for the corn were brought back to the of the state in this manner a forced circulation was given to the paper money which had been issued without and it was saved from all except what arose from while russia plainly showed how foolishly the people act when they � even in their internal traffic � use as if they were money for the knew how to save them from the loss occasioned by such a use and from the manifold of such a when attempts were made in europe to put down the efforts for freedom the russian emperor concealed the weakness of his very simply but by a process if possible yet more he forced for the magazines fixed the price of articles taken according to his own discretion paid a part of that in paper money gave a bond for another part and set off the balance to the account of future taxes not yet this action was in accordance with the private of � l c est he did not see that in spite of its convenience it must soon lead to the ruin of the ac or for deeds of this character have been done so long he th of los from history only what be wishes to learn and pride and whisper to the in the ear not � this man and the other did so and so and came to a bad end but � if they had bad our cunning and our power even in their case the end had been other and better spite of the example of america men in power will not believe that the people any where will at last enjoy freedom and sa they think they can put down the efforts and continually made for this end because they have succeeded hitherto as if the of the soldier � which is ih only reason why he himself as the blind tool of the � would never fall from his eyes these men their ears to all demands of liberty for the people knowing that every recognition of a right must be followed by the of individual man in short the best of them have faith in what they wish but he understanding of those men can never attain the wisdom which is higher than their faith but trust only to cunning certainly there are some men in power whose eyes have been quickened by the fear which an evil conscience has awakened but for the most part they are frivolous or selfish to to the saying � the ships will hold to as long as we are at the and after us let the flood come coming generations may see how wise they were the of russia cannot improve without the blessings of freedom the nation may go on in this rude violent way till the one pressure causes the counter pressure which throws every thing into and produces a national or a change of or some other change it seemed almost probable that the attempts to support against the would bring about this crisis in the war the demand of mankind for freedom became very plain it showed that though the hour for a general rising of the people of europe and for putting an end to all had not 