Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-06-22
EOMEAGN.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.


The following article on the subject oil
the pending difficulties between Russia
and Turkey, is from Bells Weekly Mes
senger of the 18th OF April.
Mar 6etveen Russia and Turkey.
A, there can now be little doubt thai
the long negotiation between these pow
ers will al length terminate IN war, and
as the war will perhaps be declared, and
| the manifesto be received III this coun-
try, in the course of the ensuing week,
we deem it a subject OF the first interest
TO examine into the actual position OF the
| Two armies; and what, under such posi-
| ions, and their absolute and immediate
consequences, must be the certain event
! of hostilltes
We must first premise, that all the &C
counts, as yet receive cd, agree In warrant
| ing The conclusion, that there can be
now no probable event but that OF lmme-
dia,e war and that the operations OF The
armies will commence, al the farthest,
about the middle OF this month. Inc
| Government dispatches were dated, as
we understand, The 5th or 9th OF March !;
| the 5h, we believe, and lett Constantine
| pie on the morning of the 9th. Al that
day, the uItmatnm had been rejected,
aud The dispatches were sent OFT 10 Paris,
London, and ST.. PetersLurgh, with this
intelligence. But, says morning paper
now before US, letters have been received
| from Odessa, dated the l4th, and there
is no mention Of the ultinatum being re-
ected. In the first place, we doubt the
fact /; not the receipt of the letters, but
the omission of all report OF the re jec-
ton OF the ultimatum. But, secondly,
the rejection OF the uillmalum was a
State act, on the h, the European des-
patches we've only sent off on the 5th, SO
that we can tejdiiy believe that this act
of rejection was not made public a. Con
cessary CONSEQUENCE, might no, reach
Odessa on he l4lh, Odessa being three
| hundred miles from CoDstan inoole.)-
| We conceive, therefore, that all The ac-
counts yet received agree IN justly ing
| the inference that war Is the inevitable
result OF the present state OF things; and
that, before the conc fusion OF the current
month, the first ba.,le vail be fought.
In work published some years since
| by Sir Robert W lison, ana enutlcd "A
sketch OF the Mlnary Power OF Russia"
the presen, posrion oil the Russians on
the Pruth is thus described, osnittlng on
ly some eAtravagant cplthets, into which
taste wrongly formed has hurried this
writer. "The Pruth is stream whcn
issues out OF the right bank OF the Da-
nube, or rather which pours itself into
that river, and which, therefore, inter-
cepts considerable portion OF country
belw cen its own banks and me banks OF
Danube. The Russian frontier, in the
Turkish war Of 1878, was pushed so lar
as the Pruth, and now continues along
that river to its confluence with the Da-
nube when this great Bulwark OF Aus
tria, and this main support to the Turk
ish frontier, rolls its stream mo the
Black Sea-" "In this POSITION" con-
linues the same author, who wrote The
notes for this book whilst travelling in
Turkey, Russia is distant only one
hundred miles from Transy lvania abou
two hundred and fifty miles from Con
stan.inoplc, with no Other impeachment
between them and Constan,inople, thar
the town of Rudschuok, on the Danube
which may be easily masqued; and thu
two provinces Of Wallachia and Media.
via, which are eftectually, only Russian
Provinces. Sir Robert then continues
I" Ii the Turks should be sufficiently all
surd to venture into war with Russia, i
is impossible but that Turkey must be
subdued. There is no chance OF safety
for the Ottoman Empire in any contes
with Russia, situated as the Empire now
is"
The main consideration however, is
that Russia not only presents an impe
netrable front, defying all the efforts o
the Turks, but that the Russian Empire
and the Russian positions extend rounc
the extremity of the Black Sea, so as &c
irnpend over the rear OF the Turks ant
to intercept, upon the very commence.
ment oil hostilties, the marching up, anc
the assembling of the Turks to recruit
and supply the armies. On the back Of
the Euxine Sea, the Russian Empire is
now extended into Armenia, and into the
immediate vicinity OF the city of Trebi.
sond, that is 10 say, about ninety miles
from the Euphrales, aud almost as neal