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RUSSIA.

Moo sowed for, the Jodie was about to soot up, but at
length the wife appeared sad was sworn.

Hannah Price hoe bees married to the Prisoner two years:
remembers Masao nod her husband coming home on the
Sunday morning; she was lying on the bed in her clothes:
her husband was exceeding drunk, and wanted to irk op
his clothes to leave the town; she silted sot permit him;
he Lad at this time a knife its Isis bash stod she was fearful
he would hurt hi:weir with it; in order to prevent this, she
tried in take the both from him; for which purpose she
took bold of the k•ift with one hand, and of the Prisoner's
whist .kith the other; whilst be was striving to get his wrist
at liberty, the knife wounded her in the side : is sure it leas
quite accidental, and that Its did not mean to hart !ter.
The Juno. them addressed dor Jury, and said he was
bound to tell them that they must acquit the Prisoner. The
wife had given her evidence like • very creditable and defeat
woman, and without any sportiest attempt improperly to
n her husband. Ile had told the Grand Jury, that in •
ase u here one perm, died from a wound inflicted by soother,
it would be necessary that malice should be proved to sus-
tain the charge of murder. In this cane, supposing the wo-
man had died from the wound, hr very much doubted whe-
ther it would have been even manslaughter; he thimeht it
would only have been accidental death. They must therefore
orquit the Prisoner; " mud 1 du hope and trust (said his-
Laid.hip) that he will yo home and become • good man;
end thirt, :Arise all things, he will avoid the beastly and also.
00000 rabic habit of drunkenness. This, Gentlemen, is the
mein cause of the (heiress wr hear so much of; persons in
the Prisoner's situation of life, going front ale.hunse to •k.
liiitts•—from gin-shop to gin shop—un the day that ought to
Iw sles,..toll to ri rest, spending their earnings, and (as
Itir woman bad jollity observed) leaving their wives and
fsmilie• half-pined at home. Ido hope that the Magistrates
of this moldy will exert themselves to suppress those wicked
pest., gin-shops and pot.horows."
The !sore then At-vatted the Prisoner, and the Junes
'shorted him to go home and he • gout butlimill, In cherish

loss *if.. and ',member that a sober life war the best thing
he could attend to.

The following letter rime-tired yesterday from St.
l'etershttrgh, exhtbas a ptettere of the present milt-
t.ory power of the Rus•isn empire, mot contains
some reflections upon the subject of a war hoween
the Power and Turkey :

" IT. PIKTERSDURGH. JULY 24.

" Whether the Emperor Alexander entertained
or not, Sines the last Treaty of Paris. previously to,
during, or after the Congress of Aii-la-Cliapelle,
and don's. of Carlelialid and Laybech, views of fu-
tore aggrandizement, or whether be was only de-
*noose of mowing the maintenance of peace by the
display of on iminetise military force ; it is at least
certain, that lie has been continually augmenting
the number of his regular troupe, and that by
Ins eystem of colonisation, he has evinced that lie
bud in new to instil a martial spirit into the entire
population of Rusaia.
" Russia contains about thirty:eight millions of
inhabitants ; that is to say, iiiiieteen millions of
miles. The object of coloilisation is, that there
'may be always two in a hundred reliable of bear-
ing arms, wHich, it all the Russian empire were
colonised. would give 380,000 men, exclusive of
the regular troupe. At present, the Emperor can
only draw, at the utmost, 250,000 turn ; besides,
the Russian Nobles. who are proprietors of tip-
:nen:re domains, and numerous inhabitants, are
opposed to his system, and do not introduce it in
their possessions, but think it sufficient to furnish
the men whom they are humid to du for the con-
tingent of the impenal troops.
" These troops at this moment amount to the
alarming number of 912,000 men, exclusively of
the colonisation-forcts, the permanent army of
Siberia (the number of which is not very lICCU..
geretylpiown), and the Polish army, which, in
tritb,...amounts only to twenty-five or thirty thou-
}l if men, and which the Russians hold is sovereign
CUll tempt.
" The 912.000 men et present enrolled tinder
the Vitriol's batmen.. are dieposed as follows:
Ten lora corps
Warmth,.
each consisting of Men.
54,000 and dispersed throughout the various
irt.t.ri
provinalL se Empire
The corps iee"Miller Prince de Wittgenstein,
enesaipid op the frontiers of Turkey
The corps d'arrneetif General Yerms ;toff, which was
thought destined to Piedmont, and which, at the
is ipiest, it is said, of the Emperor of Austria,
continues stationed on the frontiers of Silesia.— . 112,000
The imperial guard, eonsposed of 40.000 Wart. y
and 10,000 cavalry 50,000

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The permanent corps, of 54,000 men, which watches
Perlis
A corps d'Eliie of 14,000 grenadiers 14,000
And, finally, five corps of cavalry, each 10,01Mll men
strong

Making au aggregate force 0f.... 912,04)0

" It may be imagined that with such a show of
strength, the Continents' Powers bordering on
Rows have no inclination for a rupture with her,
and that it is not by those Powers, whose territories
would be immediately occupied by the Russian
troops, that soy opposition could be made to the
isegrathzement of Hussite in the Turkish Shiites.
IF the 'Forks, by the result of the events of a
war, should be driven out of Europe, and con-
fined to Asia, it would be the complete de-
struction of bandit= ; the sect of Ali would
very soon be the only Mahometan sect, end the
Persians would do that for the Turks in Asia,
which Russia would have accomplished for the
Turks of Europe. One ding which it is impor-
tant to remark iv, that this immense Russian army
is, or would soon he, useless, if Russia only aimed
at Turkey, and if she had not to fortify herself
against the great Powers ; for Russia, in her wars
with the Porte, never employed inure than 40 or
60,000 meii. She requires a much less force in
the present day, as Turkey has suffered so much
by the vigorous defence or the attacks of the Omsk.
VII hind, soil especially by sea. What induced a
ieelsel that war would take plate, and that the rup-
ture was titivate ;; ;; goo the part of the Porte.was, that
the Emperor Alexander required of the Crowd
Vizier an apology for the conduct shewu to his
Ambassador ; doeatening, at the same time, to ad-
vo.:ce his troops if he had not satisfactiou in the
interval of eight days, and the eight days elapsed
sit hoot the requited satisfaction being giver.
Whether motives of prudence—the desire, at least
•oraresio, I.f only acting in convert with his Allies
tar perhaps the heat of the seasost„ may hitherto
have restrained the ardour of tio• Russian troops on
the right honk of the Prtith, war does not to us
aopear the less inevitable, :owl the mondial of
September, October, Noveruher, and December,
ore the must favourable for carrying on hostilities
is that country. If the Russians march upon
Coustssultuople, and it no iu that quarter tltitt they
would begin, it will not be by ..birth/ the borders
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of the Black Sea (not that the mileage of the
Prat!), the Dniester, and the Danube, can be at-
tended with great difficulty), but they will, in the
first place, penetrate by Yassy. They have calcu-
lated that it will only take them twenty-three days
march to reach Constantinople, and they then con-
ceive that the corps of Ye►ntaer6, combined with
some Austrian troops, would occupy Wallachia sad
Moldavia."

PARIS PAPERS.
PARIS, AUOVST 18.
Yesterday she King gave private audiences loth.. Marquis
de la Munrsaye, and the Marquis de Riviere. His Majesty
transseted busistesa with the Duke of Richelieu, and the
Minister fur Foreign Affairs.
It. is staled is several letters which we have received from
Italy, that the garrisons of the towns in Lower Italy being
thought iosufficient, the Austrian army will receive a further
reinforcement. Those troops observe the strictest discipline.
The gar►ison of Naples always encamps, at night, outside
the city; the cavalry has orders to be constantly in readi-
ness to mount. and the artillerymen are equally on the alert.
Numerous patrols constantly traverse the streets and the
surrounding country, ready to move wherever their presence
is required.—(Castifituflonnei.)
French Fusels.—Fivw per Cent. Consols, 87 I. 95 e. Bank
Actetnis, 1,547 f. 50 c.
VIENNA. AVIIIINT 8.
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It is the opinion of some peewees hero tholltisswis will
God herself alone in the field of battle ogniust theTerbs, and
that Austria will ronflne herself to the formation of • ~do*
of troops Ins the frontier to maintain he► nestrolilly. lathers.
with g►eater op/warmer: of probability, assert that, nrewith-
stooding Lord Walpole's mission to View's, our Coon will
sat separate ifs interests from limit of Rovisio. soil Prelude;
sod that. in she alternative of • rupture, the Cabinets of Prus-
sia and Austria would prefer keeping tM good terms with Rms.
sin. The Turks, in the prosecietiois of their foolish cruelties.
seemed pleased with übstrocting every channel of crincilio..
tioo. We have recent inielligence hum Crondoili, that the
Turkish troops of Wallachia have violated, the Austrian
irrritory. Carminari %WV*, who betrayed Ypeitooti this he
might evils joie the Turks, being apprehensive slot, not-
withstanding the merit of his late treachery, the Turks
might punish his former moll, sought asetty light, and
parsed the frontier, pursues' by the Turks, who willseel to
get him into their power.

In the course of his rapid flight, Rama soon arrived in
sight of Croriatadt, still pursued by the Turku, whose ar
proach spread thy slain, in that part of the eirstri utter-sl-
imy Wives, the Austria., Commenthit iminittted to the
Tor Ugh Commander that such conduct was • violation of
treaties, the latter replied, he would further violate them in
dragging rebels to puni4liment. whom he shouhl hasten to
dyliver up to the sword of legitimate suthurily. 11 is pro-
bable this excess of petulance will bring uu a prompt
de. Won.

Austria cannot suffer herself to he thus insulted with im-
punity ; her troops assembled in the Buck ovine, in Transylva-
nia, along the Danube, and upon all the eastern frolitieis of
the kingdom, are computed at this moment ■t 00,000 men;
but we learn they will be considerably reinforced, snag to raise
the number to 100.000. Hitherto the chief command has
been intrusted to Prince Lichtenstein, but it is said he will
be ►eplaccd by General Frirsiont. who, in that cams, will be
succeeded by General Alolir, at Naples; the Aii.tr)an army
in Italy, consisting nuts of neatly 100,000 men, it follows
that Austria Isms in active service show 200,000 mot, that
is, nearly the whuk desposalge army of the line.