Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-11-21
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tFror The london Political Examiner, ofsepi.2i)
Military aud Poiiticm Poes, of Rmssiq.
4" ia, frGm TIA, nsrk how far they row, we go,
For All ihise ~ wr0it'' aI;l loss ofhio"d."
tive ltal not happened to have seen the
work, nuw acknowledged BY Sir r. Wilson. Oh
H. first appearance, we should have coniectur-
rn 'hai It was IN some way calculated 10 direct
Tho pnbhC a tert,on To traits, which the ruling
faction is interested in concealing from the
people. The character ofthe supposed author
was Immediately attacked in the most yiru.
lent manner by the mirNterial writer's hi,
discretion, his motives, his style, his arrange
msnt-every thing hut lis facts his arm
mcnts, and his conclusions. was arraisued
and condemned. OF the matter of the work
they have prudenily steered ciCaT-so that but
iOrthe tiile--and even that ;,ey generally o.
nit to ment0n--thcir readers could not have
imagined the subject, mach less the object Of
the work.
.fgie object Of his pamphlet is to show. that
The continental policy OF this country has in
creased the power OF Russia to an .. tent Ian
geroES 70 iiltsindcpendence of the Continental
Nations, an; most Formidable TO ourselves :;
amt that cur losses OF blood in thv field oil trea.
sure IN suiEidIes, and of character in treaties .
have only had the effect o. raising M a state
more destructive 10 the balance Of power i'm
Europe, from territorial extent from the mum.
bfrS and character of its population and ar
mics, tro, itsSecuriiies against foreign inyasi.
on, iroUitS facilities Ofaygression aud from, lis
P' '''iFi~ W biSt 1doCs france could
been. 1t It had uot Deen crippled by the attacks
Of The allies
For The lature, his object is TO show, that the
course dictated by natural Justice, aud the
risiIlS OF independent nations aud that which
j. pointed ont bN political eNpedieacv now
happen u be the same aud that unless France
be &C. established as an independent power, and
be lett NJ liberty 10 choose a government snit-
cd 70 us interests, and calculated 10 render it,
self respectable, by being secure OF the good
NgIShpS OF the DeODla. there is M efa 70 mr.
bable combination OF states capable Of resist.
ing the Entertainments Of the Northern En-,
pure. AS our limits are narrow, we shall net
follow the arrangement OF the author, but
shall FIRST call our readers 10 consider the ra-
pil increase, and present state Of the Russian
power.
The population Of Russia in I722 was only
) miilions-in l712 it was l6-in i7S2h was
- miliiOnS-iH i796lt was SS, aud i'll 1906 IL was
81 miiliOns Of these 81 millions, Is millions
lid been acquired in Little Russia, the Swe-
dish. Polish aud Turkish provinces-an i'm.
crease Of which there is no example in the per-
nldneat acquIsllnas OF any other power. The
81. petersburg Almanac for 1903 makes the
popni ton j. millions. Since that period A.
icNander has added TO his empire one hundred
aud n'nety-threc thousand eight hundred geo.
graphical square miles an extent of surface
egiiA! to that of Spain and far exceeding that
Of tie whole British Isles. These acquisitions
jHcin,le the Dnchy OF Warsaw, Finland
eOrsia, aud BessaTabia, and contain many
niiiiiOus Ofinha5tan,S-sO that if we make due
az owauces as we'll for the natural increase of
SpUaiiOn in a country where the necessaries
~ life are in abundance, as tor this addition of
syuntry, we probably shall not iind 80 millions
too low an estimate Of the number Of the sub.
Jects OF Alexander.
If we examine tie lire of the Russian from.
tier as II stood in 1900, and a. il now stands
we shall find that ii is not merely by the nunIe-
Tical addition thai Russia has eXteaded its
power aud inluencc--We shall here follow the
words Of the author =
- IN the year 1890, Russia rested her rirbt
AaRk on the North Sea, bei frontier line, ira
yeIsing Russian Lapland, ran 30 miles in adj
vance OF tile White Sea, then covering the
province OF Ol0Hetz, approached the Lake La.
dosa within - miles, and fell upon the Gulf of
Finland at the distance of only one hundred and
fifteen mites iva direct line from Petersburgh ;
~ that Sweden not only commanded near Two
thirds Of tie northern coast Oftie Gulfof Fin
land, but ranged hefseiin view OF and at dis
.snce Of not more than thirty miles from the
port OF Reyel, situated ia the province Of 1.-Two
rit, wTestcd from her by Peter the Great, and
w!i.ch she might always hope to re- occupy, so
long as she preserved such centiguity.
The frontier Of Russia opposed to the
81 OTTER ltuc OF Pf1tssiG commenced near Me-
MEL, and reaching tire Niemen, between riisif
agI kovno, continued along that river as tar
as Srolno, wher il ran in southern direction
upOn tic Bug river, between Drogutchin and
ErestuDy lhcu descending to Wlodowa OF
along iiiat province until II reached The Dnies-
ter near Ckogtn, when IL followed the course OF
tliat river into the Black Sea"-P. 1874.
SIR Robert then takes yiew Of the present
line OF the Russian frontier -" The right still
rests on the Northera Ocean, but advancing 4
haadTs1 Qaf sirby miles, touches the frontier oil
Norway, and bends round lt for 100 miles, ue
~ Is reaches iige drawn dive north from ii,
IOrEeg, when Il dssconds on tbat river, AND
continues running parallel until II tails int,
fnIf & 4fIf % tnfNnlH fWfcraprf4Uw "A
through winch tbc Swed Is troops always pass
81 INTO FiRlasd hci where, from the severt,
OF hc climate aBi ile p0Seyiy Of The soil, uont
ciu move without pTcYogs sfTangcnenis."-
j. I35.
oa that side on witch size was formerly rmsi
expose 10 attacks, ~hich, fgOnrn not dat sc
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