Star.
London, England, 1829-07-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sllt,—Repot is emanating from the Russian Embassy
would rersiii.de us, th .t advantages of the most favour-
able and decisive nature have been secured to thelmperial
army by i:s victory of the 11th. Stich an event, so uni-
versally anticipated by all whose professional knowledge
has been directed to consider the operations of the
Turkish campaign, has doubtless been and will be
naturally attended with that train of successes which
victory, under a good General, rarely fails to snatch
from panic.

This fortunate easor of the Russian Eagle may
favour its flight far, and speedily lead to consequences
el such stupendous importance, that the mind fevers
with intense speculations inspired by the slightest con-
templation of the subject. The road to Constantinople
is at length open, and nothing but some prompt and
decisive movement of the Turkish force can preserve
that capital and the empire. Nay, the destinies of the
West of Europe may be at this moment hanging on
the issue of one single battle between a Muscovite and,
Turkish army! The bare suggestion precipitates the
mind into the most painful and humiliating reflections
on the conduct of those, whose false judgments and
supine policy—destitute of energy and foresight—could
thus leave the vital interests of our country dependent
on a probable contingency. Gracious HEAvEN, what
would have been the affliction of our former Ministers,
could their knowledge have anticipated these things !
Projects of Turkish conquest by Russia were by them
neither unknown nor unwatched. From Preen the First
to the present Czar, a seat on the Dardanelles has been
the constant object of unremitting struggle. Anxious
• to attain the advantages of a near and predominant
place among European States, she has been gradually
stretching to the Turkish frontier by the conquest of
horde after horde of its Cossack guardians, till the key
to that country fairly in her hands, exacted . eog ago
from our Cabinet the effectual interposition of some
permanent check.

Compelled, in order to obtain a vent for ;he ar oduce
of her unlovely climate, to erect herself into a trariiime
power, she transplanted her metropolis from Moscow
to the only spot on the shores of the Baltic that offered
any thing like an advantageous situation for a Capital:
and St. Petersburgh—built partly on piles and exposed
to inundation ; removed equally from the civilixedStates
of Europe, and Russia's own center ; ice-bound in
winter, and surrounded with an ungrateful soil—stands
to attest the necessity of gaining by force or cunning
a more favourable seat of Government. Under such
necessity,she judiciously selects the finest port of Europe'
which she would occupy even at the risk of her own ex-
istence. Now, what would result from the success of
such a scheme ?—a tremendous increase of population,
and capabilities overwhelming to the rest of Europe.
Strengthened with legions of Asiatic barbarians, she
would descend along the shores of the Mediterranean,
and, sweeping all before her, exclude us at will from
the commerce of its waters. We leave speculation on
her future progress there, to contemplate her means of
execution. With an army powerfully organised, and per-'I
fectly disciplined by its late wars with France—com-
manded by scientific leaders, and strengthened with a
brilliant cavalry, and well served artillery ; to-
gether with a commissariat improved from the bit-
ter experience of last campaign-3he has nothing
to contend against but an ill-equipped, ill-ordered
mob, incongruously composed of nations different
in language, habits, sympathies, and interests; im-
poverished by a long civil war, famine, and dis-
memberment of its most effective possessions. On the
other hand, we have strengthened her against Austria
by the improvident cession of Poland, and thereby
covered her frontier from the check of her neighbours,
adding to her force battalions of the best troops in
Europe, particularly increasing the regular cavalry she
wanted : and we have miserably paltered, Hee drivellers,
with Turkey and Greece, till exhausted and unfit for
contest they offer themselves au easy conquest to in-
vasion. The fleet that would have defended the Black
Sea we destroyed at Navarin ; and just treated and
trifled enough with Turkey and Greece to inflame ani-
mosities, and retard pacification. Had we acted with
spirit and humane policy at first, we should have pre-
served Turkey in her vigour, and promoted Greece in
her liberty—thus only, capable of becoming barriers
against the great objects of Russian ambition. How•
ever, let us now await the issue; time is about to pro-
duce some astounding birth.

II ILES.

ESSAM—In the Letter on the Turkish war, published on Saturday :
Paragraph 3, llue 20, for" battalions," read baitaita.
Par. 5, line 6, for " Foreow," read Yankow.
Par. 7, line 11, for " extinguished," read enlingled.

Accounts from Toulon, by the French mail this morn.
log, state that great energy is displayed there, in getting ready a
number of bomb vessels; and the fifth has been put into corn.
mission, called the Cyclope.
From Brussels, of the 29th June, we learn, that al-
though in time of profound peace, the Government has given orders
for the safety of the frontiers cm every point ; and they are going to
tepair and augment the fortifications of 111arsath, Charleroi, Na-
mar, Leige, Ithestrich, and Termonde.
They write from the frontiers of Russia, of the 15th
June, that they expect the Emperor of RUSSIA soon at St. Peters-
burgh. Three sail of the line, and several small vessels, are to be
launched at Cronstadt.

Quebec Papers to the 9th June, Montreal to the 11th
June, and New Brunswick to the 27th May, have been received
at the North and South American Coffee Mouse, but they do not
contain any information of consequence. The Quebec Papers state,
that his Excellency Sir James Kant will leave Quebec in about a
week on a tour up the country to Montreal, by land conveyance.
A Montreal Paper of the 10th Jane says, is We are
enabled to state, on unquestionable a4thority, that his Excellency
has given instructions to the Commissioners of the Crown Lands
to make arrangements for affording every facility to the Canadian
population who may be desirous of settling on the township lands."
Extract of a letter from the Havannah of the 28th
may: Nile British schooner Monkey, boarded upon the Bahama
banks the schooner Portrail, from Welmington, bound to Matan-
zas, abandoned by the Master and crew, supposing the Monkey to
be a pirate. The Monkey conducted hot safely into Matanzas,
where Captain Foster joined his vessel, having been picked up by
a ship and brought here. The Chillan cutter, with a mail, arrived
from Cadiz in 43 days. This day also arrived in another, General
BANA,DAS and suite of Officers; he is supposed to bring dispatches,
touching on a movement against Mexico.