The Litchfield County post., 1827-01-02


 army was headed by its favorite chief; thar noble old man, who was yet to be the more 1 than conqueror, the deliverer of Europe. The Russian Government was at last in sight of the realization of all its splendid dreams; and was pouring out its whole in- finite strength to take possession of the Mother City of the Eastern Empire. In a moment the whole assault was checked, even at the foot of the rampant. The French trnmpets sounded in the rear of { this confident and triumphant lioSf. A new invader had been urged against Russia ] A great work was to be done there tco.- The long arrear of Western blood and hlas- phemy was to be paid in the Russian des- erts, and it was paid with aterrible fuluess, beyond the power or the expectatio1 of man. But it stopped the ruinsthat hung over the empire of the Ottomans. The Russian armies were torn back from the prey, like hounds that had alreadyf}s;ened their fangs in it's palpitaing flesh, and been sent to hunt down still more savage and guiltier victim. The Turks, from almost broken and suppliant enemies, were instan- taneously raised into equals and allies, and by the treaty of 1912, were gladly reinsta- ted by Russia in every right and province lost by the sword. 1 All those are things out of the common course of earth. 1t is an extraordinary l thing to see a nation of barbarians fixed in a Christian land, and that too the most sa- cred, the most fondly revered by Christian feelings. It tis an extraordinary thing to see a nation utterly resisting the approach es of that brilliant and productive civil!za- tion which absolutely surrounds aud urges itself on tin every form; stubborn and more than iron mass, that lying in the very furnace to which the ancient ruggedncss of all the European barbarism had given way, yet refuses to be softened, or purified, or even to be warmed. It is an extraordiuGt- ry thing to see an empire, the old an. per- petual object of ambition to its greater l military neighbors, who have often combi- ned for its spoliation feeble in all it's parts, yet firm in it's whole-unable to ad- vance foot beyond it own boundaries, vet defying the advance of all others within them-wth rcbelious and mutinous 1 army, short-sighted and brutal policy, King, taken from the Seraglio, and min +istry gathered from the shambles and the streets yet making head against the disci- plined strength, the regular resources, ,alhc improved and combined policy, and the accomplished knowledge, military and min- isterial, that are 'to be found along the whole immense line of hostility openly or secretly arrayed against them. It isanex- traordinary thing to see Mahometanism preserved in portion of Europe, and pre- served in its original strictness, blindness and ferocity, when 1t has been superseded, or decayed in it's original seats, when as [, national religion, it has been !unsastained by any of those forms of privilege and emolument which seem necessary for the permanence of religion in the conflicting and worldly urgency ofhuman pursuits and professions; and even with a vast pro- portion of its productive subjects, nearly the entire of its tributaries, it's merchants, ! it's foreign agents, and its manufacturers, Christian. It is an extraordinary thing that. cruel and despotic Domination, over whose utter ruin every heart in Europe would exult--for which not voice would be raised, from one end of the earth to the other, to whose fall the most patriotic and enlightened philosophy looks as to life from the dead, to the restoration of Asia, to the recovery of the ,.loveliest region of the globe to knowledge, peace, and religion-- should Dc still undiminished, should cover thai glorious land, like the mass flung out from tho volcano, the fiery torrent, check cd indeed in it's headlong career, but there hardened into incorrigible rock, a huge and sullen heap of sterility, to be neither cul- tivated nor removed by the power of man.
 - IO De continued.
 @ *Gibbon. fSee Busbequius, &c.
 4See Cantemir,---' Decay of the Otto- man Empire"
 From the La Belle Assensblee.
 WEDDINGS;-BY A PARISH CLERK. f have seen, to be sure, many unwilling bridegrooms in my time. One, remeIi- bel, twas evidently brought to church through fear of the brothers of the bride They came, three of them to escort the lady, as fierce as dragoon officers and believe one of them was in the army flor he clalter- ed in with long spurs, and wore brave. pair of mustachois on his upper lip. The other two were stout athletic men, with an air of great resolution while the bride- groom was strong enough to have coped or,, n.,s, s,f +t,avx,