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Charles H, the Bewitched, a
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Shakspeare's Historical Plays.
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The Conversasione on the Lite-
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A war between this country and Russia, in all pro-
bability, cannot be long deferred. The strong feeling
excited among the British people by the barbarous
conduct of that power towards Poland, and by her
restless, encroaching spirit, together with the attitude
of our Government at the present moment may deter
the AUTOCMAT from taking any immediate step to
provoke a war,; but he only waits his time. He has
sufficient grounds: for quarrel with England in Turkey,
Persia, and even Spain ; and should we, by some un-
foreseen calamity, come into collision with the United
States or France, no rational being can suppose that
lie would for a moment delay carrying his ambitious
designs into effect. Russia is a power which can be
restrained within its boundaries only by force. The spirit
and construction of the army, the eagerness of
-the great chiefs to extend Russian dominion
to the East and the South, would, independent of the
.ambition of the Sovereign, impel him forward ; and
were the Emperor NICHOLAS to slacken his pace,
-they would soon find means to sacrifice him, as they
have sacrificed some of his predecessors. It becomes
this country, therefore, to consider whether it is not
better to meet this spirit of conquest boldly, than
allow it to encroach peaceably on her interests, as it
has done for the last twenty years. During that
period she has never been at rest. She has been
engaged in one endless system of intrigue to extend
her territory, with little hindrance from either Tory or
Whig Governments. The treaty of Adrianople pro-
claimed, to our cost, what object she had in view
when she employed her agents to stir up the
Greeks against the Turks. By exciting divisions
among the Persian Princes, she has been equally
successful in the East. She is playing the same
game at present, with the Pacha of EGYPT, and the
Sublime Porte, and nothing but our active and deter-
mined interference will prevent both in Turkey and in
Persia the most disastrous results. War, at all times,
is a dreadful alternative, and nothing but necessity and
a good cause will justify it. It is the duty of this
country, however, to be prepared for the worst, as
thereby alone she can preserve peace or meet the
danger with effect. Fear alone will operate on these
barbarous and meddling intruders. The public know
what calamities Russia has caused in Poland—they
know also the cruelties inflicted on the Greeks
by the Turks, and excited by the intrigues of Russia ;
and in the following extract from Mr. FRAZER'S
" Journey from Constantinople to Tehran," they will
form some idea of the sufferings which the Persians
endure in consequence of those civil wars which the
Russians are so anxious to excite among their neigh-
bours. The miseries of Poland almost sink into the
shade I
" Old men and women, in the most abject states of want,
and wretchedness, and sickness, pressed upon us at every step,
beseeching for relief in the name of all the Imauns ; but what
seas that—what was all the misery of manhood, or even of age,
to the sufferings of withering childhood and helpless infancy ?
The way was actually strewed with creatures that could not,
many of them, be more than from three to four years old • not
standing or sitting by the way
side, but grovelling the
dust and dirt, naked, like the
vermin vv e were treading under
foot. Living skeletons they were,more like the starved
young of animals than human creatures. There they lay
strewed in the very
gPoltheS, so. that you could scarcely help
trampling on them •
petitions, with their 'little hal7f29q. and sending forth piteous
bread ! others silent, lying oeuencii,?d
.voices, for help—for.
symptoms of life by the sobs that dead thii:os, or only giving
from their little breasts, or the shudders"old now and then issue
their wasted frames. Some sat listless of pain that shook
on which
and. motionlers, with
ball-closed eyes, and countenances oe
seal ; while the which. death seemed
like lare from
already to have put his
the sunken: eyes of others, gave terrible eyWvi°o4-nce oft he pangs
these wretched
of hunger which gnawed them. Man
little creatures could not, as I have said, be more
speak,
than from
three to four years ; yet, though hardly
able
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and left at that infantzne age, alone in the world, to ive or to
die—deprived, by accident or famine, of all relatives,
and want seemed to have sharpened their faculties to an astonish
ing degree of precocity, forfor food."
you heard them, squeaking out
,
sounds which conveyed a petition or ood
The benefits to mankind from an extension of the
dominion of Russia, may he inferred from the above
harrowing description of the miseries of the Persians.
The shadow of her standard has ever proved fatal to
the growth of civilization. Her only arts are those
which are destructive of human life. She can forge
the implements of death, but the knowledge which
ameliorates the moral and physical ills of humanity
is to for an object of fear and abhorrence. In the
06?-7-gition of a work just published by AIURRAY,
~,f fed " Progress and Present Position of
in the East," we find a passage which places
Ott.. clear light, the stealthy mode in which Russia
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