Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-07-07
From the Connecticut CourGnt.

ryv xounIpAsLE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA.
Ina sketch Of the military and reliti
cal power Of Russia. in the year 1917,
Inscribed to the pen Of sir Robert Wilson,
the writer states, that since Alexander
came FIST to the throne, the population
OF Russia has risen by decrease OF popu
Ia,ion and acquisi'iou, from thirty sic to
Iortu t,vo millinns # people; that her
territory has been extended on almost g.
very side that her frontier is distant
only about two hundred and hfty mile
from Constantinople by water, and three
hundred BY land, in direct line I; that
Persia is at her feet that Russian ar.
my might sail from the Baltic through
an internal navigation from Petersburg
to Astrican. and landing on the southern
shore Of the Caspian, pitch their tents
within four hundred miles OF the Persian
rulf, from whence the voyage to the Br''
fish settlements 10 the East Indies, name.
y, to Bombay, is only from twenty Tour
to thirty days, 10 both monsoons and to
Madras but eight or ten days longer In
the s. w. monsoon that, from Kan.
schadka they have extended 20 the ncrth
west coast of America, where they have
made several establishments, and that
since the year 1873, the Russians have
descended the American coast, passed
= the Columbia river five hundred miles
and settled in Padoga, only thirty miles
from The Spanish establishments in Cal
ifcrnia.
The writer Of thi, sketch proceeds to
state that iu the year 1890. Russia had q
diposable army Of only fifty thousand
men In the year 1907, not more than
eighty thousand and in the year 1918.
only three hundred thousand on her whole
territory; whereas in 1917. she over
Swallowed both Asia and Europe By the
mass Of six hundred and forty thousand
men.
"The fact is," says the writer, that
Russia, after posting thirty thousand men
Of appropriate force. with artillery, &c
in Finland, eighty thousand on the from
tier Of GalIicia, sixty thousand in Mol
davia, thirty thousand on the frontier Of
Armenia. as many in Persia, and leaving
a reserve OF one hundred thousand men
to sustain these aruits, possesses still 4
disposab.e force Of above two hundred
thousand infantry, eighty thousand ca
yalry, and enc thousand two hundred
.uus better horsed for service than any
artillery or cavalry 10 the world ian
army, than which there is none more
brave, and with which no other can
march, starve, or suffer physical prira-
lions and natural ineleneneies. She
has moreover a population equal to the
sseded supply, ard to asreat portion OF
xhom he habits and sufferinss of war
are familiar, while no power in Europe
can raise, equip, or MAINTAIN their iorces'
With sach disdain Of the price OF blood"
The writer having combined nun.
Der Of the grand particulars With those
aforementioned, eIclaims," suehis Rus
STA ssch has been her gigantic growth
within short century"
DULY one century ago, or but little
more, Russia was composed Of Hordes
Of Doors and bartsrians, iand was very
little respected or noticed BY the other
nations Of Europe; perhaps now she is q
full match, If not an overmatch tor them,
all together. In poiat Of growth, no "a
tiou except Russia can bear any eompa'
hson with these q. States. To what a
pitch Of greatness may they not arrive
in ore cestury from the present time -
Bat God forbid that their greatness
should then consist. like that OF RassIa,
in myriads of infantry and cavalry, in
di.dain Of the price of hood. Be 1t
theirs. on the contrary to cultivate the
arts Of peace, and to exhibit shining ex-
ample Of truly christian morality.
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