The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-11-19
DisreiIanp.
Frsm the Lorasn I0Lncai Esar,iner Of SEP. "a.
MILITARY & POLITICAL POWER OF nussl 4

- uAi from tina! mark how tar they rove see.
"for all this waste Of wealth and loss of blood"
III we had DOT happened TO have seen Tho
work, now acknowledged by 81, r, Wilson,
| cn its FIRST appearance, We should s,ih have
! eonjeeiured that IL was in some way calculate
e. 20 diieet The public aiieniion 10 truths,
which The raing faction is Interested in con-
ecaiog from the people. The character of
| the supposed author was Immediately attotk X
cd in the most violent manner by the minis.
| to'id writers his direction, his motives, his
arraoee mco,,--evcry ,hing bu, his facts his
| Arguments, and his conclusion, Was arraign.
I'd add condemned. OF tho matter of tho
wesA, they have prudsntiy stsesed clcar.-so
that but ios the lite---and even ,ha, they
genefaily omit 10 meBuon--,heir readers
coold no, have imagined tho bubject, much
less the object Of tho work.
The objert Of his pamphlet is to show,
that the continental policy OF this county has
increased the power of Russia To an extent
dangerous to ,be independence of the con,i.
| mental Nations, and most ioi midable TO our.
selves snd that our losses Of blood in the
held, ot treasure IN subsides, und Of charac-
rer iE treMies, have only had the effect OF
raiNug up state more destructive to tho
balance Ct power in Europe, from terrio,ieul
its population and ortoios, from its securities
aBajnsl foreign Invasion, from its facilities Of
aggression, and from i,s principle Of increase,
Than Faancc could have been, If IL had not
been crippled by the allies.
For tho future, his object 10 10 show, thae
the course dictated by natural justice and
tho rights Of independent nations, and The.
which is pointed ou, by political expediency,
ho. h. m .nI ,ho.
France be recs.ablishrd as su inde pendent
power, and be left u, liberty 70 choose q gov-
ernmeht suited 10 its Interests and caleufat.
to render itse.f respectable, by being secure
OF lhe good wishes Of the people, there no
state, ~ probable combination Of states csps.
bic oil resisting The cneroac mcn,ss OF the
Northesh Empire. As our limits are nnr.
low, we snail not follow the Arrangement ot
the author, bot shall 6ss, call our Tssdc,s TO
consider the rapid incl case, and present state
Of tho Russian power
The population Of kussia in l773 was on
ly Ia millions--in i742 is was le--ln l783
IL was % miilions--in 1896 II wac Se, and IN
1906 i, was 4l millions. Or these ~ rnils
lions, i3 milioOs hSd been acquired in Liz.
lie Rn,siS, the Swedish Polish and Tutk,sn
ptovinccs--an inctcase of which there is no
example in tho permanen, scquisions oi apy
other power. The ST. Petersburg Almanac
for 1909 makes The population - millions.
Since that period Alexander has added 10 his
emriic one hundred and ninety thfes ihou.
sanf eight hundred geogi aphicsl suuasa
miles ao sxieW Of surface equal to that OF
spain, cad far exceeding tha, Of the. whole
OF The British isle. These acquisitions In.
cluds ,he Ducby OF Warsaw, Eind,snJ.
Georgia, ind Besssrsbis, md contain many
millions Of inh.bi,un,sI-so thar il We rpska
due allowance ss we'll ior the natural incrcs,e
oi population in a couo,ty whore the Deces.
saeics Of lie ave in abundance for ,bis sddi.
ion Of county, We probably shsll no, find so
millions TOO how nn esiimstc Of III: Bsmbcr
Of The subjec's OF Alexander.
If VIC exaninc The linc Of tho Russian
frontier os it sood in 1900, and ss it now
stsnds, we shall fad ihs, il is not moroly by
the numerical addition that Russia has es.
tended its power and influence shall
here follow tho words OF The authoi 49,
In tho year 1900, Russia rested her right
flank on the North Sea, her frontier line,
trssefSing Russian Lapland, ran so miles in
advance OF the White Sca-<then covering
the province Of Olone,z, approaching ths
Lake Ladoga within 20 miles, ond fell upoa
one hvndred and .f/teen nHles in o direct limo
from Pe,crsbutgh 50 that Sweden rot only
commanded near two thirds of the nothcrn
coast Of tho Gulf Of FindIsnd, but ranged
herself in view Of and at distance Of not
more than thirty miles from the port OF
Revcl, situated in the province Livonis,
wrcs'ed from her by Peter the Great, aud
which she nigh, always hope tore .oceupy,so
long as hbc preserved such con,iguity.
"This ffou,ier Of Russia opposed to the
frontier GUc OF PrnsHs commenced near
Mc,nel, und reaching the Nicmen between
Tilsitz and Kcvino, continued along that riv-
or as far as Giodno. whes IL ran in su,hern
direction upon The Bug river, between Drog.
utehin aud Brcs'Ii,oyj then descending TO
Wlodowa or the frontier Of Austrian CALI
cia, continued slong that province until il
reached the Dnies,er near Chofin, when fol.
Iovec the course Of that river into the Black
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