Star.
London, England, 1829-10-05 00:00:00

The Russians have done just as they liked with the
Toks..whik our. hero. princeolictater or Europe, and universal
genius, ,bas been whistling on his weekly way between Dowsing-
street And Windsor. or hutting his great soul with the capes and
calm of Wiley regiment in "the blue uniform, with pistols and
bludgeons to match." or with little episodical visits to Doncaster,
&e. A corporal of thesmards could have done as much in the
dose. and England may rejoice that she ponewes a premier who
readers her at least no object of alarm to the most pacific hen.roost
from nvgite to Moscow.
The Czar. is. a meager of another kind. Milk orders, and
tlbbeasmand bottoms. the mutant belt of boys. and old men past
their needmiteadittge, were glittering io the eyes of the British
navy. at ono foe, the purpose of holding forth the wily Muscovite
as a.distributor of honours. sad no doubt for the purpose of that
happy:enrolee which it has produced—a confusion too that acted
as a capital tab to the whale while the northern harpooner was
waiting his mentent ; be sends down his battalions on the road to
the Seraglio. breaks op the Torit's new tangled tactics. sends the
Cossacks in full cry after the pashas, coteries every turban of them.
and halts at last only to give the Sultan time to throw sway his
his scimitar sod beg for his life.
in the. mean time, where h.the Magnifico, who rides co the
seek of Mr. Peel, and says to Copley," Thou an my wash-pot,
sad oar Fitzgerald I throw off toy shoe?" He sits in the solem-
nity of a platter mandarin in a shop window. with the same cam-
plumes smile foe ever on his east-hoe countenance. and the same
happy tranquillity in his frame—" the world goes es well." writ-
ten in every line of his physiognomy," and as long as I can keep my
place, it may go which way it What Sultan Maimed will
say of this magnificent sobsteoleney is amber question. He may
complain when a Turittbrew off his hereditary indolence, it was
rather unlucky that the Englishman should have learned nothing
from hint but his taste for opium. We wish that Mahatma would
write a book—he would be as well employed as If be had been
scribbling notes to Mr. Curtis, and other black cloaked and pious
correspondents of his Grace. What so animated account must he
not give of the benefits of the alliance of England ! First, a knot of
notorious banditti amen his subjects, bribed by the money of his
notorious enemy, break out Into rebellion ;*the banditti are hanged,
routed. and beaten into mire in the first month, and there they
must have remained, but for whole—why, his dearest, oldest.
most devoted, and magnanimous ally. The Whip declare that
Greece is all one Marathon or Thermopylae ; that poets, orators,
and indescribable geniuses are running to seed io every corner of
this den of thieves; and that a national subscription, national
ascots, and national levies, are the true national offering, from a
people who have been flogged from five years old to twenty, into
turning, ileripides into noosense.—The Turks sent out horse sod
foot ; they find their ally in the front of the enemy's line : they
sent out tint ; they find tbsmselves battled by their ally, their
ships buret, their coasts left bare.' their commerce torn up by the
roots; and they are consoled .by seeing the Russian bear hugging
the British lag. The Russians pour down upon their fields; a
Scot follows, supplies the march with men and muskets, batters
their fens shout their ears, and block, up the Bosphorus; and
where is the ally all the whilel—auguanknously. with his hands
!obis pockets, lolling In his easy chair, and reading the Court
Martial upon a Sir Something. Codringtea, spoor devil, whom one
miaistryeuresd into a cat's paw. sad another. into a screen. We
may not essilyamosive the wield/4M the Mussuktan mostathies
while those paragraphs are nuking from his Imperial pea How-
ever he.will have little eke to.do in Wore, and unless betakes'
constable's pole, and moods. the " mat blue oviform" in the Dew
gendatinerio.k• may as well writs his memoirs for the benefit of
posterity.
But if this warymetrateethie Mussulman, and puts, an. mil to.
the foolery er- supposing that the Strathfieldsay dynasty is fit for.
saving any thing but its own shillings, it will furnish at least a new
grand tour for.outtravellers. Audio this we unegoivecotiy rejoice.
We have fur these tea years been sick of Italy; sod turned with
loathing from " orange Immo easinos,mid prima Jonas." Ger-
many is, ill' etrobibliopollet phase, an ab.olatia drug, and of course
bads !elide:ate-right to make any one sick who attempted to swal-
low any thing on the subject. His. Highness of Sao Cobourg
gees as far in the way of a German productive as any thing we
ever desire to see; and we could live for seer without a line on
sour trout and the beer•drinklag bruise of the Getman college.
But let our travellers-run over to Asia Minor; they will sow be
neither sacrificed nor cirounnised; desk passport will not come in
the shape of a dagger, nor their weltome.lo the sublime pilfering
of purse and perms by eosin.
The march of the Russians Is ha itself a fin piece of geography.
" General Paskewitch started from the western foot of Mount
Ararat, with a multitude of Armenians whom the Grand Seig.
Does. persecutions had made brave. Diadin is in his power. This
place is a miserable borough. with a fortress and towers, and which
commands the eastern stream of the Euphrates. whose MOM' IRO
between two rocky and steep banks. The Kurds, who occupy.
this country, being informed that the sultan had turned gismo. by
adoptitig the dress and customs of the Franks, ceased opposing the
Muscovites. The Armenian priests, who have there a beautiful*
church, came out to meet their deliverers. who crossed in this
place over the Euphrates on a very handsome bridge. In only tea
days they convoyed the district of Alagekqeord, a country situated
between the Coichkle, ea the N.B. Armenia, ou the East; Mesa-
petunia. on the &wit ; and Cappadocia, an the West. It was in
this region, which by tern belonged to Armenia amiCappedoels,
that the Russian General commenced the operations which Widen
to itreerown,
64 This town is bulk upon a hillock, crowned with a bastioned
castle, and lined with a few cannons ; the houses of the city are
stone built, with flit roofs made out of beams covered with earth.
Grass grows there, and 'burp, goon andmese, grasp in the metre
in
the city as they. would in a meadow.. Oa perceiving the John.
bitantsissolog from their dwelling-places. one might fancy they
Hecht dens ; bet it is not thecase, for there are very rich-Inman,
bezetias, and caravansaries, at KrUmusiv. The hammers almost,
all cevered with tenses which afford a patinae to melons ohm.
There are staircassa an both aides, so that when there is in impe-
diment in a street by means of a bridge thrown athwart it, the way
is sot interrupted.
" The number Mlle, Tirke who inhabit Enerestot amminteto
Shout fifty thousand families: 5,009 Armenian families and 10u
Greek families, There are 100 mosques, with domes covered with
lead. and crowned with gilt globes and crescents; and 10 Within-
below The learned people here pretend that their city was
rounded and_their vineyards platited'hy Noah. This, at least. is
one of the ttidkions spread by the monks- of Mount Arent, who
tell of a great many other prodigies.
The commercial relations between ffeserown and Costaten-
tinopk were established through the port of flabbiest!: upon the
Black Sea.
" The distance from Erzerom to Constantinople laden* bun -
dred geographical miles, Ma wraiths- Noe, which is equivalent to
thirty days march for ma.armp encumbered with baggage, and
marching eolyitioces froleagema.dae..
."Ilse mom inks s pcttcct state of cultivation as faro Pour-
toomifive loaves distant. Noncom is at about a leave sod one-
skir4 from the defile of•At-Initle, whisk, is, commootptienreolinfir
place of travelirre.wilso the comory As nee infested with bauslielL
'rhymed least.Poonoeso semushrs.for seven leagues 11016411 the
isoustulok emuktry is well wooded no, story passages occur.
aubPoifi4u kr.hini; and it is is the *VI same state it was iv the