Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-02-09
FURTHER EXTRACTS.

Sudden Death ofthe Emperor .Aerandsr.-We
have to announce the death ofthe Emperor A
lexander Of Russia, who expired at Taganrog,
a town Of the Don Cossacs, on the Sea OF Azofi,
on the lst of Dec. The foreign Journals about
a month ago, announced that the Emperor was
indisposed, and his death is now attributed to
a disease in his leg. Considering the made
ouacv of such a cause to produce rapid death
TO a man of the Emperor's age and apparent
vipor OF constitution, and rejecting that the
public has not been surfeited by the bulletins
and publications Of coincidence, which are al
WAYS poured forth even upon the triAing indis-
~position of crowned heads, the death OF the
Emperor Alexander appears to us most sud-
den and unexpected, and has excited those sus-
picions which the sudden deaths Of Emperors
alw avs create in the public mind. These sus-
picions receive additional confirmation, from
the fact that, within the Leriod Of the last cen
Jury, the only period in which Russia has had
any thing approximating TO a civilized court,
or to a court history, Of FIVE Emperors, two
have persisted by assassination, accompanied
BY circumstances Of the most revolving cruelty.
We believe, that in the case oil the Emperor
Alexander's father, the scene in King Lear was
actually realized, and the eveso Of the King we're
trodden out by the heel ofhis murderer. 1t has
been generally received as a fact, that the En-
peror Alexander was in an adjoining room, and
heard the screams and struggles OF his father
Perhaps it was this knowledge OF the instability
of royal existence, that induced the late Empe-
ror Alexander to form and support the scheme
Of guarding thrones by the continuance OF the
Holy Alliance We believe that political spe-
c~ulations are as much expected from a public
writer upon the demise Of an Emperor, as pro-
phecies are expected at the hands OF IN alma
mack maker upon the occurrence OF an eclipse,
or the appearance OF a comet. The lnnumera-
Bile speculative opinions and prophetic dicia
which were put forth upon the execution OF
Louis XVI, upon the death OF the las, King Of
F.ance, and even upon the decease OF the late
King of England, may sufficiently show the
uncertainty and ~inulility of indulging in such
predictions. Happily, Kings are now so mach
within the influence Of public sentiment, or are
so completely within the vortex OF court IN
tripue, that their deaths occasion very little
public sensation, and frequently have no effect
upon public measures, The case may, per-
haps, be different under governments exclu-
sively regal, ike that Of Spain; but Russia is in
fact an aristocracy, and its Emperor must all
WAYS succumb to the wishes OF his MOBILES, or,
like the father and grandfather OF Alexander,
receive a violent death at their hands. III,
therefore, the late EmperOr's death has beer
natural, We must suppose that his measures
had Deen accordant TO the views Of the Court,
and no alteration of system can, therefore, be
expected from his decease; ii he has fallen like
his tore fathers, the greatest changes IN Russian
poicy must be expected. These changes must
devoive under two heads; first, the keystone OF
the Holy Alliance is the protection OF Crowned
Heads, a thorough impunityto Kings, and the
supper of the legitimate succession to thrones.
A question therefore arises, what part the
Me nbers Of the Alliance, and England In par
ticular, will take. upon the mode OF Alexan-
der's receiving his death, and whether, 1t that
death has been natural, the Alliance can, with
out an abandonment of its most essential prin-
ciples, permit in Russia any younger brother to
ascend the throne, to the prejudice OF the legll-
innate claimant Russia, by ~instigating the at
tack Upon Spain, had set the example OF foreign
interference with other Governments, which
NAV now be practiced upon herself. With res
pect to the external policy OF Russia, II can re-
late only to India or to Turkey, for her NORTH
ern and western boundaries are well determln-
ed, and, with the exception OF Poland, have
ceased since the acquisition OF Finland, IN 1915,
to form any objects oil solicltuoe OF amoi.io"
to the Russian Councils The designs OF Rus-
STA upon the East Indies, have been considered
of consequence by England, more in relationto
the unwieldy and unnatural state OF our posses
sions in the East. than with respect to any abb
solu,e efficiency of Russian power in that d.
r~ection. An attack upon Turkey by Russia
is by many considered desirable Its immedi-
ate elects would be 10 create a diversion in Ia
yor Of the Greeks, and lead to the establishing
of its freedom throughout the Greek %peninsu-
la and the adjaoen, Islands, consummation
deyoutly to be wished. The ultimate effects Of
such an attack, would be to put Russia in pos
session of Wallachia and Molda.ia, for the ne
,cessary jealousy Of Austria and Prussia, would
absolutely prevent any further acquisition 1t
has been the object Of Russia to acquire these
two provinces, in order to render the Danube,
instead of the Niester, the ancient Tyras, the
houndsrv of her southwestern empire The
acouisitiono Of the ancient Dacia, separated as
Il 3 b, almost impossible mountains, from the
east of the empire, would be OF no further adj
VANTAGE to Russia, than that of giving her the
command of a longer line Of the Danube than
she now derives from Ishmsel, the celebrated
conquest of Suwarrow. The death Of the En-