The Press.
London, England, 1855-04-21 00:00:00

EXPEDITION TO THE EAST.

The Moniteur on Monday published the promised
article, descriptive of the recent negotiations at
Vienna, and the principles on which the French
Government had instructed its plenipotentiary to
treat. The foil ,wing are the pa-sages of most im-
portance in the document. Tracing the rise and
pr..gress of the Russian system of aggression, he
cites the instructions given by the Emperor Alexan-
der to Admiral Tichakoff as long since as 1812 :
Russia, hating to struggle against France united to
Austria, defined her invading policy much more precisely
by the object she pursued and by the means which she
employed. The plan of that policy is a revelation in
itself. We borrow it from an authentic document recently
published in the memoirs of a statesman, Admiral
Tichakoff, to whom the Emperor Alixander gave the fol•
lowing instructions under date of April 19, 1812:

" The astute conduct of Austria, which has just allied
itself with France, obliges Russia to employ every means
in its power to disconcert the hostile intentions of those
two powers. The most important is to turn to our account
the military genius of the Slavonic people, as Servia,
Bosnia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Illyria. who,
once armed and under military organisation, would co-
operate powerfully with our operations. The Hungarians,
dissadstied with the proceedings of their actual Govern-
merit, offer to us also an excellent means for alarming
Austria, for making a diversion to her hostile ideas, and,
consequently, fur weakening her resources. All these
tribes united to our regular troops would form a very im-
posing militia, not only to provide against the hostile in-
tentions of Austria, but to effect a marked diversion on the
right wing of the French possessions, and to give us a sure
means of striking a blow iu the direction of Nisei' or
Sophia. The object of the diversion against France must
be to occupy Bosnia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and to direct their
militia upon the most important points of the Adriatic,
more especially on Trieste, Fiume, liocca-ditattare, so as
to establish ,tliere, according to opportunity, relations with
the English fleet, and to make every effort to fan into a
flame the discontent in the Tyrol and Switzerland, and to
act in common with those brave populations disaatiatied
with their actual Government. Yon must employ every
possible mean, to exhort the slave populations, to bring
them to serve our object. For example, you wan promise
them independence, the erection of a slave kingdom, pecu-
niary rewards for the most influential men among them,
decorations and suitable titles for the chiefs and troops.
Finally, you may add to those means any other you may
deem expedient to gain them over most conformable to
actual circumstances."

Such were the views of Russia as far back as Iml2, not
only against France. but against Austria. This incendiary
plan could not have left the archives of St. Petersburg at
a more fitting pigment to show to Europe, and especis.ly
to the Cabinet of Vienna, the immense interest that evety
one must have to put finally a barrier to a policy *big h
completely jitat;fied by its means and oltjects the foresigt.t,
of the Emperor Napoleon 1. If the heirs of Peter the
Great should ever dominate at Constantinople by the
Black Sea, Austria surrounded, embraced on all sides by
the powerful arm of Russia, would be at the mercy of an
enterprise such as the daring mind of the Emperor Alezan•
der had conceived. Hungary, open to ite action by the
Lieaube, would be gnu up to all the minitamsatts of its