The National Register.
London, England, 1821-08-26 00:00:00

Rlig.SlA AND

R. KEY.

Falrarl of a Idler (fated Sl.l'elerslwrgli July 24.
E' Whether the Emperor Alexander entertained or
not, since the last treaty of Paris, previously to,
during, or Mier the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle,
and those of Carlsbad and Laybach, views of future
aggrandizement, or whether he was only desirous of
insuring the maintenance of peace by the display of'
an immense military force, it is at least certain that
he has been continually augmenting the number
of his regular -troops, and that by his system of
o(donization he has evinced that he had a view to
instill a martial spirit into the entire population of
Russia.
" Russia contains about thirty-eight millions of
inhabitants; that is to say, nineteen millions of
males. The object of colonization is, that there
may be always two in a hundred capable of bearing
.arms, yhich, if all the Russian Empire were colo-
nixed, would give 380,000 men, exclusive of the
regular troops. Ai present the Emperor can only
draw at the utmost, 250,000 men ; besides, the
Ritrsian nobles, who are proprietors of immense do-
mains, and numerous inhabitants, are opposed to its
system, and (I() not introduce it in their possessions,
but think it sufficient to furnish the men they are
bound to do fur the contingent of the Imperial
troops.
The troops at this moment amount to the
alarming number of 912,000 men, exclusively of the
colonization forces, the permanent army of Siberia
the number of which is not accurately known), and
the Polish army, which, :It truth, amounts only to
25,000 or 30,000 men, and which the Russians
hold in sovereign contempt.
" The 912,000 men at present enrolled under
the Russian banners arc disposed as follows:-.-
Ten intantry corps d'armec, each consisting of 45,000
men, and dispersed throughout the various provinces
of the empire 540,000
The corps trarrnee under Prince de Wit}tenstein, en-
camped on the frontiers of Turkey .92,000
The corps d'annce of General Yermalott, which was
6 thonAht destined to Piedmont, and which, at the
E request, it is said, of the Emperor of Austria, con-
tinuai stationed on the frontiers of Silesia 112,000
The Imperial Guard, composed of 411,1551 infantry and
10,000 cavalry
The permanent corps of 54,000 men, which watches
Persia
A corps d'elite of 14,000 grenadiers 14,000
And, finally, five corps of cavalry, each 10,000 men
strong 30,000

Making an aggregate force of 912,090
" It may be imagined that with such a show of
strength the Continental .Powers bordering on Rus-
slit 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 any opposition could be made to the
aggrandizement of Russia in the Turkish States.—
If the Turks, by the result of the events of a war,
should be driven out of Europe, and confined to
Asia, it would be the complete destruction of Is-
lamism ; the sect of Ali would very soon be the
only Mahometan sect, and the Persians would do
that for the Turks in Assia which Russia would have
accomplished for the Turks of Europe. One thing,
which it is important to remark, is, that this im-
mense Rusaian army is, or would soon be 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
more than 50,000 or 60,000 men. She requires a
much less force in the present day, as Turkey has
sufkred so much by the vigorous defence or the
attacks of the Greeks on land, and especially by
sea. What induced a belief that war would take
place, and that the rupture was threatening on the
putt of the Porte, was, that the Emperor Alexander
required of the Grand Vizier an apology for the
conduct shown to his Ambassador; threatening, at
the same time, to advance his troops if he had not
satisfaction in the interval of eight days, and the
eight days elapsed without the required satisfaction
being given. Whether motives of prudence—the
desire, at least apparent, of only acting in concert
with his allies—or perhaps the best of the season,
may hitherto have restrained the ardour of the Rua.
shin troops on the right bank of the Truth, war
does not to us appear less inevitable, and the mouths
of September, October, November, and December,
are the most favourable thr carrying on hostilities in
that country. If the Russians march upon Con-
stantinople, and it is in that quarter that they would
begin, it will not be by skirting the borders of the
Black Sea (out that the passage of the Pruth, the
Dniester, and the Danube can be attended with
great difficulty), but they will, in the first place,
penetrate by Jassy. They have calculated th•tt it
will only take 23 days' march to reach Constantino-
ple, and they then conceive that the corps of Yer-
mato% combined with some Austri..n troops, would
occupy IValachia and Moldavia."

DUTCH AND GERHAN PAPERS.

FROM THE I)UNA.

JULY 18.0ur whole empire resounds with
chaaiiii mourning, at the same time with cries fur