The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-11-28

portuAity to attack the Russians, and tol
drive them from the Persian provinces,
which have been wrested from his Royal
Father, by craft, violence, and policy, as
well as by good fortune-(as, for exam |
pie, in 1912, when England assisted Rus
sia's ambitious views, because il was then
the interest of the cabinet OF ST. James
that the Russian army should be left at ease
upon its southern TANKS, so as the better
to resist the wanton encrOachments OF the
formidable, and hitherto almost irresistible
Napoleon) and, as he now deeply feels
his country's wrongs, it seems probable
that he, having heard Of the late rebellion
,at St. Petersburgh, by some circuitous
route, for the news of no such event would
be allowed to pass the Caucasus, at least
for time, and not then having been infor-
med of the apparent restoration oftranquil-
ity in the North, from such an authority as
he deemed authentic, thinking that the pro-
pitious moment had arrived for offensive
operations, once more resolved to trust his
cause to the force of arms, and has in real
| ity, made an Eruption into those provinces
which were once the property OF his pro-
genitors.
2dly. AS the Russian cabinent has al
ways evinced the strongest disposition to
strengthen and to extend its rans-Caucas-
sian possessions, and as General Yermolof1'
most ardently burns with the desire to give
demonstration ofthe overwhelming force
of the Russian army in that quarter, it may
be asked whether, upon some trifiing pre-
text, this cunning politician has not gladly
seized an occasion to talk of an Eruption
| of the I'ersines, so as to throw veil over
his real intentions, and to assign a plausi-
BILE reason for quarrel and another ex-
tention of the Russian territory Its pos
sible that some wandering dissatisfied Per-
slams, easily magnified into hordes by a
mind which wishes others to believe them
SO, without the knowledge of the Govern
ment may have been guilty of an indiscre-
ton, and have thus incurred General YER
moloff's apparent displeasure. While the
circumstances may be a source of sacred
Joy to him, it opens the way to Russian
aggrandizement.
Whichever Of these views may prove
correct, since the Russians have resolved
to "repel force by force" and that, unless
the Chief-perhaps some marauder-who
first viOlated the frontiers Of the Russian
territory, does not meet with exemplary
punishment within the dictated term of 5
days, Gen. Yermoloff was Immediately to
commence offensive operations, fear the
result will be highly Instantaneous to
Persia, which is unable to resist spirited
attack, and, consequently, may strengthen
the preposterous ideas of the Russians, with
respectgto the possibility ola successful ir-
ruption into India. 1t is well known that
under the reign Of that Prince of Madmen,
Paul, an army, in which were ten thousand
Konoks, was designed for the invasion of
J Hinansson but It is not so we'll known
that the same idea wasreviyed, in serious
earnest, in the time of the late autocrat, &
that many of his officers were, and
still are, sanguine, in the highest degree,
as to the result Indeed but few years
ago, although the ostensible object Of an
expedition, including number of Kozacks,
between the eastern shores of the Caspian
Sea, and the western frontiers of Eastern
Tartary, towards the Indus, was the dis
covery ola neso channel of commerce, its re-
al and secret motive was to examine the
route, and to ascertain the supplies of wood
and water, &c. which that route would
yield to large army. May the Russians
long have such innocent amusements! As
/ have said elsewhere, ''if Russia were e.
ven in possession of Persia, in my opinion,
she could only think Of such plan in or
der to find sepulchre for her troops. The
warm climate would sweep them off by
thousands aud tens Of thousands" as is pro-
we'd by the immense mortality of the troops
in Georgia. Besides, the genius, the wis.,
dom, the policy, and the enormous infu-
ence of the British Cabidet, aided by solid
gold, will always be able to call up armies
to resist the forces of Russia, were they
double what they are in reality, and in
whatever quarter of the globe they may be-
come the enemies of England. Our states
men and our heroes, who laid PROSTATE
the unparalleled power of the Emperor of
the French, may laugh, indeed, at the pre-
tensions of Russia, and pity her weakness.
Since the campaign of 1925, the self
conceit, the pride, and the ambition of her
natives, and especially of the officers ofthe
army, have become quite unbounded.
While with just feelings Of exultation. thew
loudly talk of Borodino, where Bonaparte
first learned that he had soldiers, and mott
Doors, to contend with, they seem altogeth-
er to forget Waterloo, or that it was the
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