Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1828-07-02

THE SEAT OF WAR.-As it IS now
certain that war has been undertaken by
Russia against the Turks, 1t may not be
undressing to give some little detail con-
cerninu the countries in which it VIII be
carried on. and ofthe forces likely to be en-
Gagged in it. The Russian army, COM
manded by Count WHtgensteln, IS SAID to
amount to about l50. 600 men ofall arms
well disciplined, well provided, and burn
ling for the onset We find no account IN
our London papers of the precise situation
occupied by this army; nor does the proc
lamation ofthe commandments, which
we publish this evening, relieve cur dltl
culty-for it is merely dated from head
quarters, without stating where those are.
| We presume, however, that they are quar-
tered in Poland, in the vicinity of the Pruth,
which constitutes the Northwestern boun-
dairy of .HoIdaUia. The distance from this
position to Constantnople is about 300
miles. The Pruth, after separating, for
considerable space, Moldavia from Poland,
makes a turn to the South, and continues
Southerly course till it falls into the Dan
lube between Galatz and lsmael-and di-
yldes the principally of Moldavia, in its
length, into two almost equal parts. Both
Wallachia and MoIdavia are without Turk
ish garnsons, being governed by their own
/ Hospodars, who are tributaries ofthe Porte.
Wallachia is separated bythe Danube from
I Bulgaria, where properly the Turkish en-
pre- begins, and where the first Turkish
/ forces will probably be met The Russian
army will traverse the two principalites
without opposition in some fifteen days,
which will bring them to the Danube
/ This river viii be crossed, it is supposed,
between Hmskova and Rusclmck both
fortified places, which Will, if the object
be to proceed with all haste 10 CONSTANT
NOBLE. be masked--tor the Russians have
learned by experience not to lose time III
laying seige to Turkish fortreSses-and
the march be pushed forward to Shunula,
the position that commands the passes of
! Mount Hamus. and where the Turkish
force, amounting by computation to eighty
Thousand men, independently of thirty thou
sand scattered along the fortresses on the
banks of the Danube, are concentrated.
/ Here then must be the battle. The Inyad-
ers, with their left resting on the Gulf of
Varna, accessible TO their feet from Sc
vastopool in the Cumea, distant about
! three hundred miles, and therefore assured
iof supplies and sucCour Of all sort, will
fight with every advantage. The Turks,
with the conviction that their position is
the key to the passes in the mountains,
which, once carried, opens the way to the
Capitol, and with the advantage Of intimate
knowledge of the passes, will, if animated
| by any thing like the pristine zeal Of the
Mahometans, and directed by even a mod
( erate degree Of skill in the art of war. be
enabled to make desperate defence We
do not believe, however, that it can avail
against the superior number and discipline
of the Russians. This one battle will,
probably, decide the campaign. Either
the Grand Signor, on learning his defeat,
will agree to terms of unconditional sub
mission, or, animated by despair, defend
his capitol to the last, and either fall with
bis throne, or pass over into ASIA, and
thence renew the war Our own belief is,
that, at the moment we are writing these
remarks, the Russian STANDARD is floating
from the Severn Towers, and that the
! Northern Aufocrat. like another Colossus.
bestrides Europe, from the Gulf of Fin
land to the Sea Of Alarmora.