The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

iIIEHOIR BY COUNT ATESSELRODE.

Besides the note to Prince Gortschakoff, given in
another column, there exists a memoir on the situa-
tion of Russia.; by Count. Nesse!rode, a paper not
strictly diplomatic, but composed for the use of the
Czar'srepresentatives at foreign courts, and designed
to give them the means of combating the prevalent.
belief that Russia is too much exhausted to carry ou
the war. Le Nord offers the subjoined analysis of
this memoir from the pen of its Berlin correspon-
dent :

A year ego Russia„ taken, sn to speak, by surprise,
could not dispose of all her forces. Her troops had not
then had time to take their stations along all her frnn-
tiers, from Archangel to the Black Sk-a and its Asiatic
corifiees. Neither had she been able to take an th,
iaterior all the measures necessary for resisting a fot-
miriable attack upon her sevsral extremities ; and
yet she has resisted. Russia now disposes of all her
troop= ; a rational levy has appeared as if by es-
chantinent, fully armed, mounters, and organised, for
the purpose of replacing the regular regiments, where
they were of secondary utility. The spirit of the nation
has Come to the assistance of the Government, not alone
in the equipment of this new and numerous military con•
tingent, but even in the means of transport for the troop,,
The loan that Russia contracted last year, notwith-
standing the interdict which her enemies thought fit to
lay upnu it not only in their own countries, but even in
the capita's of neutral countries, but nevertheless suc-
ceeded, and is now entirely paid up.
Her financial credit, that index of a nation's resources,
on the exchanges even of those very countries which are
waging war against her, has remained, so to sreak, un-
shakeable. At the commencement of the war Russia
might have feltsome trepidation respecting her commerce,
but now she sees that she is sufficient to herself. Th
blockade of her ports has not only failed to produce al
those results which might for en instant have been ap
prehended, but she has even been enabled thereby to a'-
certain the greatness of her own resources, as also the
rapid and marvellous progress made of late years by her
national manufactures. Her interior commerce has con-
siderably increased, and her foreign trade has opened for
itself a new outlet, which every day assumes vast di-
mensions.
Lastly, Russia has been tried by one of those mourn-
ful and sad events which, far from weakening the coun-
try, has in a manner reanimatad it with fresh ardour. A
change of reign has taken place ; a prince beloved and
regretted has disappeared, leaving to his son the sacred
inheritance, so resolutely accepted, of defending the
national honour, even to the last extremity. This in-
heritance has been in part shared also by the entire
nation, which, collected and united, has taken upon
itself the task of enabling its new sovereign to enter
into possession, and support the burthen of it, by sharing
with him also the weight of its responsibility. Russia
has done more ; nut merely bas she prepared to
resist, and permanently resist, but she has found the
possibility of carrying her arms abroad into the territory
of that enemy who first declared war against her, and
who is now, far more than herself, menaced and con-
miffed. Russia, its short, has now fallen back upon herself.
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resigned but resolute, until it may please her nemies to
snake to her such proposals of peace as she can subscribe
to without giving
the lie to her past history, and with-
out degrading herself for the future. If her extremities
Are attacked,' her heart is not, and its nature is such
that it will blunt the keenest.liales that may attempt to
pierce it.
If we bestow a glance at the csnsequences, which these
two years of war have had for the two great power;;
allied against the 11,1,Siall empire, we shall see that
a
Eng-
land has lost her red ,
e, her brilliant, and costly arm
r
naval prestige, her consideration at home and ahji.:)ad-;
c oernn
tp rsotamtiessemd ,e
statesmen;
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most
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r
of her Parliament, and sapped tte principle
national
freedom. was at all times so prouil—that of ofwhich
her
freedom. We see how she has doubled in two years
her income tax, increased the nunsher of her Ex-
chequer Bills, as likewise her • immense public debt, by
the heavy cbaraes of a new loan. In France, if
the present form of gnver-
*an
i apron
tacitly ent does not permit one to
vifherone's wishes or coraplailato or griefs,
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