Star.
London, England, 1829-01-13 00:00:00

TUESDAY "EV.eNING, JANUARY 13, 1829.

soldiers? Some considerations on the interior of Russia,
and some intrigues at Court, which ate not yet
so•nen to Europe, will explain the sec.et of thisehoiee.
Since the time when Peter the Great, wishing to put
-the Itubsian civilisation in a forcing-house, collected,
around him all the adventurers of Europe, there has
been formed at the Russian Court a faction, which has
'been almost always in favour, and which may be
Called the foteian faction. Its object has always;
been to introduce int.i Russia the manners of Southern
Europe, aad en incoherent civilisation which is not
ado ted by the people. It has inspirited the despotisin
of Germany, that is ready enough to allow its subjects
.to hare material wealth, but proscribes intellectual
fiche., and stops then, at th.e I rontiei s. All the foi eignei s
irrho have inhabited Russia have t possessed the Jibe-
sal principles which Colonel L. Harpe taught his pupil.,
'This pasty almost Ls our vine en.operated d. thtoning
sPaal I. wh-,se .11ascoviteisw checked their plans.; it
reigned under Alexander, and it only lost ground for a
monient when the Muscovite patriotism compelled the
&sperm in 1812 to sake the command of the army from
Bcclay de *folly, and bestow it on the brutal. and ,vio-
lent Kutusof. It has since then tarn its revenge. At t,,e
last Prejan was itcaused Gen Vermitlof sob.. aupessed d
because he was beloved by the Russians, and his reputa-
tion was Offensive to them. It profited by the careless-
ness of Constantine tngive Rus,ia a ma ter of its choice.
Its triumph here was bloody. Tae Muscovites protested ,
against this Court revolution, by the insurrection at the
Square of Isaac, imputed, like all other,po, ular corn,
gnawing, to-Carbonarism, but of which the object as
to restore that to Constantine by the 6w .rd. wino had
been taken from him by inuigue. Constantine. is,, in
fact, the only opponent the fireign faction has found in
the Russian Royal Stagily. He has preserved his old
national customs, knows the name. of every grenadier
in his army. and is the idol of the *Russian solattr,
whom he reminds of Sowalof. Time has not yet wholiy,
removed the veil which covers the ab itC4titin 01 the
Prince. It has been merely Tema, krd that Al zanier,
by giving. the Crown to his iect-nd brother Nich
restored a statute of Peter the Great, which peitmta
theCsars to cho .se for a successor -whom- they pima,
being a lide,,t,ber of the reigning Family, It is also '
kno,in that the E'opress Mother, a Gm M4ll. Princets,
took the inostactivepart,in the-c fentlyarrangementay
whence it is ctincluled that Nicholas was placed .41 111
Throne by an salismenee-which is not ?Muscovite. an
elevation cutll44lrwf no auppott but iii the Courts ci
Eat npe, . and -in :the party which repre.err s • than in
Ruts i. This patty and the Forei,gt • Courts do not-1
wish to enter . blew the- war with Tegkey..•.-They saw
that it was ivispoirett,, anstuncertain,ns its.inaevthit •
would derange the Mateo poi snsh disperse shoe' host
teamants of the Holy Alliance. On the cor-tiaiyetbe
Russian nett a looked wi.h all the impatient el'
long -cherish.ed hope fo- the news of the Deihbe
being passed. The wish of the R.issians was something
to stratify their ambition; beside,,• the tribute at
IiOUOOO men stationed in their c.erips on the trot tier*
inu.t be amused. The young Emperor leased the ie.,
nun of scenes like that of the Square cf Isaac mole than
the pacific remonstrances of the Cabinets; and stimu-
lated by public oi Won, and perhip. by .otne c-
oons of the designs of-Catheritie, sesolv-s1 to in Cal
*he oldsbanner of the Crusade.. Bit its inlhmilig the
impul e (shire t pinion,. lie did not go heaitily Kish
it. • His natural attachment to t'.ose who hal b. en un-
-. •
slanc v
rved

hitsteir aiipleu.a at his ekvatiol, acid his 444 4 •
trust of the Muscovites, mtde him, tin:relive, whin he
begin the .eoute.t, c e for the comp; ind f the
army tnme wham the nat‘onal voice would not have
placed Or this situation. 11: bet r i ell this high °dice
on men talo,se names sound 111 -.tn a Rus-iaii
Kitty of the stye: ioi cotnai.mis w ere given to G:a 01.!
mud team to Frenchmen. There *At no l l tce
atiai.gemerit ei her for the old Generals tf Kutosigt..
stied in twi nty battles; nnr for the old and opulei4
families of Russia. the Soltckofs. D ilgormikis, and
N aischkins, who Were alio.• est to languish in idleness
in their Paris hotels.- or eir Italian villas. As for
Constantine, • itti his brave 4nd devoted Polish army,
'ne was only occupied in reviewing his troops at At •
sa we N:chol4i, in commencing a coolest. for intere.t
.eac u ively ~Russian,
.only *allowed the Russians t t play
a *mini...part, and. began the campaign wart an army
breathing war, but which %lid not live it, chiefs. Toe
influence of this staie nt things has lieekvery comide, bile
tin the ailing of the eaMpaign.—Coursrke Francais.