The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-22 00:00:00

RUSSIA AINID TURKEY.

ST. PET ER$ J ut.Y 21—Whether die
Emperor ALEXANDER entertained or not, since
the last treaty of Parisi previously to, during, or
after the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, and those
of Carlsbad and Lay Bach, Views of future ag,
grandizement, or whether he was only desirous
of insuring the maintenance of peace by the dis-
play 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 colonization, he has evinced that he
had it in view to instill a martial- spirit into the
entire population of Russia. -
Russia contains about thirty-eight millions of inhabitant%;
that is to say,. nineteen millions of males. The object of CO"
onization is, that there may be always two in a .hundred caps.'
ble of bearing arms, which, if all the Russian empire were
colonized, would give 3130,000 men, exclusive of the regular
troops. At present, the Emperor can only draw, at the utmoOt.
250,000 men; besides the Russian Nobles, Who are proprietor
of immense domains, and numerous inhabitants, are oppose 4
to his system, and do not introduce it in their fossessions, but
think it" sufficient to furniSh the Men whom' they are bound to
do for the contingent of the Imperiaf troops. These truu?*
at this moment amount to the alarming number of 912,04
Men, eXclusively of the colonization ,forces, 'the permanent
army of Siberia (the number of whfeh is not very accuratelf
known) and the Polish army, which, in truth, amounts only to
twenty-five or thirty thousand men, and which the Russians
hold in sovereign contempt.

The 912,000 men at present enrolled under the Russian 11,1:'
ners, ate disposed as follows
Ten infantry corps d'arrnee, each consisting'ofll4oo
men; and dispersed throughout the various provinces
of the Empire • • • • • • •
The c*.l.S_d'arinee under Prince de-Wittgenstein,
encampc4 on the frontiers of Turkey • • . 0'2,04
The corps d'arm4e of 'General Yen-nanofr,which was
thought destined to Piedmont, and which, at the re-
quest, it is said, of the Emperor of Austria, continues
stationed on the frontiers of Silesia . . 0 112
. The Imperial Guard, composed 'of 40,000 infantry
and 10,000 cavalry
The permanent corps of 54,000 men, which- watches
Persia .
~
A corps d'elite of 14,000 grenadiers . . . 14,07
And, finally, five corps of cavalry, each 10,000 men
strong

. 540,000

&0,060

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Making an aggregate force of . 912,00
It may be imagined that with such a show of strength, th 3
Continental Powers bordering on Russia have no inclination for
a' rupture with her, and that it is not by those Powers, whop'
territories would be immediately occupied by the Russian troolp+•.
that any opposition could be made to the aggrautlizeme3t a'
Russia in the Turkish States. If the Turks, bv. the rcsalt
of the events of a war, .should 'be driven out of Europe, 04
confined to Asia, it would be the complete 'destruction 0f
Ismalism ; the sect of Ali would very soon be the only
hometan sect, and the Persians would do that for the -I`ouq
in Asia, which Russia would have accomplished for ti 4
Turks of Europe. One thing :which it is important to
re-
mark, is,' that this immense Russian army is, or would '6ol'
be, useless, if Riissia only aimed at Turkey, and if she had
-to fortify' herself against the Great Powers ; for Russia, 111
her wars with the Porte, never employed more than fifty
sixty thousand men: She requires a much less force in the Po'
sent day, as Turkey has suffered so much by the eigorous
fence or the attacks of 'the Greeks on land, and especially °/
sea. What induced a belief that war would. take place, and ti-"'c
the rupture was threatening on the p;•;rt of the Porte, was, tha,
the Emperor Alexander required of the Grand Vizier an aril);
for the conduct shewn to his Ambassador; threatening, at
',l
same time, to advance his troops if he had not-satisfactiont-satisfaction in e 7
interval, of eight days, and the eight days' elapsed without ,t-
required satisfaction being given. Whether motives of
dente—the desire, at least apparent, of only acting in eonec;,,
with his Allies--or perhaps the heat of the season, may ldth
have restrained the ardour of the Russian troops on the rrb
bank of the Pruth—war does not to us appear the less inesa7t
ble, and the months of September, October, Novelobcr-
in that bcoeru'n:tu'rv. If th e the
emuset Russiansfavou ra favourable forrch up
carryingn i,o-
andit is in that quarter that they would begin, it will not
..bs
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by skirting the borders of the l3lack Sea (not that the P'"'
sage of the Pruth, the Dniester, and the Danube can be ,at-
tended with great difficulty), but they will in the first 02""'
i?snt ar. h ictsi L
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penetrate by Yassy. They have calculated that" it will 00,17.
take them twenty-three days' march to reach Constantir.oPe,
.
and they then conceive that the. corps of Yernianott;
biped with some Austrian troops, would occupy W:1110'"-
and Moldavia. ,

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 'August 21.
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BULLION'.

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' BIATIIS.
Monday, in. Upper Grosvenor-street, the Lady of LieutellOt'
Colonel Sir Guy Campbell, Bait., of a daughter.
On Sunday last the Lady of the non. and Rev. \Vm.
of a son.
On the ljth inst., at Brightlinasea, Essex, the Lady of Georie,
Beaz:.ley, 'Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 20th inst., 'at Ashteed, Surray, Ec'mural Lo 4i
:
Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, to Hester, eldest daughter of GO'
Smati, Esq., his Majesty's Chief Justice of the 'Maur-law:.
On the 20th inst., at Bath, by Rev. Mr. ka„v, 09"
SeOtt Gibb, Esq., of the Royal Artillery, to R-Lonsay .761 r
daughter of the late Colonel Cooper. , Gs
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restertlay;. the 21st inst.;, at *Valthamstow, by the
.to•'„e.
Hughes, Joseph Collyer, Esq., of Queen-square, to An';,o;
youngest daughter of Robert Rarehall,
_Esq., of Walthill'd°
qbately, the Rev. Janis Jo'hire, of Barton Stacey, Hants,
Frances, of the late Captain heaty ue• re the
Royal Royal Artillery.

DIED.
On Sunday, the 19th inst., at llammersrnivh, Ann, the
of Thoinas Smith, Lsq., of New j;ridg►e•stieet.

On ihe 16th inst., Lydia, wife ofoMr. GeV'. 'Loeb, of Carl'!.
berwell-grove, Surrey, a4,,ed.112.
oer 0
On ,Sundgy lest, at mothers, zu!'
's, Bromley, Kent, .0
long and severe!,lr. john Blueke, of the Sceretar:
Office, t helseh College.
In the wreck of the Earl packet, oil' Liverpool, Tl-e's.
9th instant, Priscilla,.. wife of 111 r. William Yates, of 1:4-`10
street, formerly of Canterbury-row, Newington; aged 46 ;
El:za, the eldest daughter 9 of Mrs. Milner, of Nelson-FclTlde.
formerly of Chelsea. Thelon of these ladies is sinceretV 011''•,00
s2tvedly lamenttd ; they have br'.en prematurely torn *on •
bosom of their famili,A wit.h !thous 69 passengers.
On Tuesday sennigl;t, at Smnsea, rte d 26; J. D.
Es. of blwydcoen, in the county of Car-11'410th, and of
College, Oxford.

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