The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-30 00:00:00

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Another apposite Paper, which retails all these
puerilities; and which; we seriously belieVe, see,
nOthing'. in diem .that is not extremely probable,'
addS,'" from her own sources Of inforniation," and
continues to repeat it from day to day, that Russia
herself is now about "- to undertake the conqnest of
thanks to the graiimiscondua of
his ,tvlajesty's INlini.sterS, may be apeedily e1fe6.10."
The -mode. is this. ".Dispatch •60,4900 men from
4stracan to A.strabat;' here they will find..tWo mil-
hos o.cne)s,- Wlaieth may be purchased for- as many
r'peitltids; (twenty shillings. being thO'stated price of
camel at that place) 'mount the 'troops. on these,
and"—the business is thine! Thus, in consequence
of the:lamentable dismissal of Lord. GRENVILLE,
Illdkt: is loSt to this Country forever! Calcutta, it
may be urged; is still at some distance front Astra,
bat ; and Russian :Artnies.do not usually travel with
a Military chest of two 'millions sterling. No mat-
ter i ". our Readers may rely on. the 'accuracy of our
stitesnents !"
- politicians of the Continent, howeVer, who,
'study these ".statemehts," with- equal . profit and
.1)(th-severance, and commonly return them to the
original projeclors, throu.4ll the alembie of
German stupidity, venture to question it, and give
a more infallible Plan of their own. India, for India
is the only object of which they can think or-speak)
is not to- be conquered by Russia alone, but 'by
Russia and France in conjunaien.. Sixty theasand
men, they could see, though the Scribes of Oppo-
sition could not, were somewhat too many for Russia
to spare, even in her present flourishing condition
they therefore.content themselves with taking only
40,0°0 from her, and. call upon France for the re-
mainder.
As. it is necessary for the troops of the latter
Power, to march as expeditionsly as peisible, the
former is kindly entrusted with the charge of. pro-
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viding a sufficient quantity.of artillery, amtuunition,,
&cI. for both ! " The French will 'take with them
neither cannon nor horses; they will proceed to
Zarozum, a distance of 1300 miles, Innbark on the
Volga, 'and reach Astracan,.after a 'navigation of
300 miles down that River, about two months and
a half from their leaving the Vistula." This plea-
sant Expedittou only requires a march of twenty.
five rnilesa day, for seventy days in succession ! In
the fir" forests of Russia, and the desert heaths of Si -
`.beria, they are to had magazines of provisions ready
dressed at • every step; and
,on. the Vistula, • where
'nettling is to be' seen but a few miserable rafts or
beats of wood, thirty thou Sand men are to be era-
. barked without the Joss of an hour!, Certainly,. a;
twelvemonth would not beserlieleat ,to colle4 craft
to carry halt' the uumber.
Were it not that India is supposed to be our only
Vtilnerable part., .and that kdread of its.. being in.
vaded is sedulously and artfully, instilled in weak
Minds by our .enernies, beth abroad and'a(home,
dread, of which, we lame% to r,y, more item one
instance has fallen under our2oe.n observationj.we,
slieUld not waste a moruent en. the repetition. and
exposure of sueltegregious follies; novi, howeverit ;
seems a—part of our duty to enter a little itirtber
into the question, were it only for the sake ,of quiet-
iug the aPprehensioniolthose who have been so in.
sidiotksly disturbed, and putting the questi-po of din
invasion' at rest for* ever. We shall therefore-re-..,
sume thissubjeet on Monday.