The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-20 00:00:00

SUNDAY, OCTOBtalt 20, 1811.

FOLIi ICAL DI.sQUISITIOIV.

No. 186.
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The departure of Mr. 'CHottvrov for the taltic

has induced -a belief, or rather crea ed a report,
that neg ns l►ave been opened with Rns.ia,
and that a new coalition is forming in the North.
This, we have-no doubt, is erroneous. Unlike the
Editors of some of our prints, whose political creed
is founded on the contents of letters from A rholt,
and, therefore, generally changes with every mail.

Government is in possession of exact information
respecting the real 'means of those Powers, whose
'outward* show of strength and grandeur is calm,
Ltted to deceive the vulgar. Notwithstanding the
parnpoils accounts of the preparations of Russia on
• the palish frontiers,' and. of the number of her,
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troops, it is welt acquainted with her present
. **ealeresS, and would not, therefore, hurry her
into action, before she has had sufficient time
to recruit herself, and to come on nearly equal
terms with her antagonist to the field. There
was a season, and we then did not cease to raise our
warning voice, when, although still bleeding from
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the wounds received at Friedland, Russia might
have renewed an appeal to arms with strong pros-
pects of success. It was before her brave but un-
fortunate neighbour Austria had been laid prostrate
on the ground, and had sealed her degradation as
well as her future subserviency to France, by an lin-
mill:airs, union between the ancient blood of HAPs.
BCRG and the upstart HOUSE of NAPOT.T:ON. It was
before her own remaining force had been exhaust-
ed in a sanguinary and expensive contest on the
banks of the Danube, and before the strong holds of
Spain had fallen into the hands of its invaders. The
time in which reasonable hive plight be indulged is
now past, and to convince those who still fancy that
we ought to engage ALEXADER to ini.ll, our cause
at this particular moment, that such a measure
would only serve to hasten his ruin, me have
only to point- out the results of the wAr which
he has for several years been waging with a
Power long deemed in the last stage of national
decrepitude, hut which not only . still resists his
armies, but has lately compelled them
a considerable portion of the territory
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copied, and threatrens to turn the tide of victory
full against its late conquerors. The last advice,
from the banks of the Danube intorn us that the
Russians, who had penetrate.l beyond that aver far
into Bulgaria, and even menaced AdrianOple,duting
the campaigns of 1 809 and 1 810, have suddenly
adopted a n.,iretgade motion, cans ,d by their ina-
bility to pursue* their successes, and to 'secure their
fruits. The sieges of Rudscliuck, err \Varna, and
"or several other foitresyss on the right bank of the
Danube, had cost them a' large number of mer,
and a Considerableportion Of time. The importance
of these places, which gave to 'their ''possessiont
the ;hill command of tlie country, had-- induced
their gartisons to defend them jo the last
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extremity, and the Grand. Vizier to fight 'sego.
ral sanguinary battles for their relief. Triumphant
over these complicated difficulties, the Russians car-
ried every forrby storm with a -prodigioui loss on _
their side, auttailorivardt repaired and stiesigthessixt
• the works they had won. The blood thus shed, and
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the treasure thus spent, has been spilled and wasted
in vain. Unable to reinforce'her armies and to pay
its expences, Russia has abandoned whole pro.
vinces and those very -7 tortrescs,, the possession of
which facilitated and seemed to ensure the cenque.t
of the rest of the European dominions of the Ttnlo
ish empire..

The army of the Porte, long; compelled .to re-
main on the defensive in its camp at Sjitim!a
to protect Adrianople and 4he road to the capital,
has already re-occupied, not only Bessarabia and
Bulgaria, but re-crossed the Danube .in three
diflelent places, and established itself on the
left bank of that river: Rudscliudc purchased
at the expense of so nrAny liven, only che4:ked its
former masters two.
,Repeatedly 'stormed,
it was unable, in the opinion Of the-Russian Com-
mander, to sustain the. impetuosity—of its assailauts
any longer, 'and he, therefore,' evacuated it during
night, after blowing 41p part of- its fcrtiScations.
The ether strong glaceson the saint tine were also
forsaken, and no sooner hasi 'the
.tetreating•army
-sheltered itself behind• the:waters of the Danube,
than that- mighty :barrier :Nya; passed, and the, pro-
vinces declared' by an Ukase isstred in IRO9,- rr
.early in. It3lo, to befireter-united to; the Russian
were• saiccessfully
,inyaded by the Torkili
and once more became the desolated seat

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