The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-08-21
From the London News.

lCONSTANTlNOPLE: THE POWER
OF RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, ENGLANA
&c.- There are two periods in the year,
during which the approach 10 Constants
nople, from Rsssia, ~ invested with diff
culties sufficient V detor the most en,er-
prlsing sp,sl from the attempt; viz. thu
winter and the summer. In the iormep
season, The Russians have hitherto consi-
dvged on inyaslon as hopeless proJects
and in the lslsfr, such is the dry and hurn-
ing nature oi yAe coil, that The whole eonn-
try would seellito be blasted with sierliity,
es by design.. Tho mlider intinepco vf
spring, b, ~ ich oil these teriprs are inlti-
gated, must have passed by, Tor the prGa-
ent year, before any essential approaches
had beon made by the Russians IN the di-
rection Of the Ottoman capital. And yes
IL is only the work OF a few weeks briet
fighting 10 occupy all the country between
the Danube and the passes OF the Balkin.
The Russians have not opened the cam
paicn with any spirit that would appear 10
contemplate an open dush on Constantine
Iple. They ought, ere tins. had such been
their views. To have beer engaged IN some
severe skrmishing with their hercest foesy
the mountain cavalry IN The dehlos oi Tho
| Balkan. IL 10 no summers WORK TO COM
bat these, hereditary soldiers, who contraes
TO hghl on their own farms, as The leo slhI-
pie OF their own inhentancri and who ara
al home nmd their nativ. fastnesstsi WIN
death and danger mounting garrison ON
the bulwurks Of Mid and desoiate nature
| The tumultuury campaigns, when me
race OF people that inhubn these regions
wage against their enemles, are such ss
strike mere terror than the steady ana
regulated movements oil disciplined ioieoi
because the country IL as pecuiiar as mo
conflict; and all calculation is ooined az 10
what ground the enemy may % ehsouh-
Tered on--in vbat force--whethcr IN the
from, or in the rear, &c. In situations o.
this description, n powerful army may be
DESTROYED IN detail, without even coming
,o n regular cnaeu ement; and hilherto.
sucb has been the difficulties attending
npy advance towards Constuntinople, uar
we have no instance Of it's military occh-
patton by an enemy amid tho conflicts OK
many centuries. We're IL not Tor theso
difficulties, and the sipgpldrly bold and t',-
rious impetuosty OF which the lurk'sh
troops are susceptible, tho patient perse-
yerng. and phlegmatc character o' mo
Russ an military would long ago have nc.
duced the proud Slamboul and displaceu
The Crescent by the Cross on tbe lowers
of ST. Sophia, Russa comprises 2sih OF
| the entire Globe; and whenever she shalt
avail hnrself oliho coas,s of the Black fSeas
~ promote unreslficied commercial in'er-
course in the l.oysni, she will becomr mo'o
| formidable 10 Great Britain than Bona
partc ever was in the meridian OF his paSs
Yer. She mcnaces at this Time 'be Last
Md the West: and though there ~ q
p.arded tone Of moderation IN all her uoai-
ipgs. we never find her making peaca
without demanding money, with when 10
indemNty herself for the past; and ierflto-
~ in pos,ession in Zee as security Tor tho
future. hnd yet the very name VI ms ma
tion two ceslurles ago was as u were un-
known. Licle better thnn one century
ogo. Russia DID not approach even 'o ~
Black Sea; and now she is mistress OF mo
greater part Of IT, while IN the Norm sAo
has equally encroAchod on the BaltIc,c-
The great secret of ihis uniform success
is that she possesses Ntle TO tempt 'hp cu-
pidlty of other conquerys. Bonapar'e on
iy sought TO drive her byck into Asa;nnd
elevate Poland into n so,t Of waichtower
on her frontiers. She bastbo caphclty tn
renew n physical force, Tor any dehh"o
otlest, TO an almost unlimited extent; ana
this power, supported by rare const"ney
ofpurposo, through victory ana ,nroueh oc-
feat, bas always brought her 10 wihhen
in tue end. She is in ,ha, stage OF exls'
: ,enco us o nation, which possesses 'he N'g,
or Of barbarisID without it's wcakhess' anu
thus constitutes that peculiar moIai posi.
ton in which knowledge may oe oeau
beaten by ignorance. kpssin luo'Vs Wv.
population IN Europe, Poland hsIa n"o
America. ,t about sixty millions; her army
| in time of pencell! al 70O.n0O. md IN n
period of war. at eleven hundred thousand
fighting men: and 4o6 armed ships inc
! latter. beyond about dozen vessels, gre
9 con,emptiLle force 10 oil that makes reu'
= naval power; ard if England were 70 raw,
herself. after a similar manner. inS'edu or
> naming a thousand vessels of wnr' Sho
might name treble the number. The pop
uiatiop of Turkey is sboat 40 millions; oue
in certain portions of her territory every
man is a soldier when called, upon an"
hence the fact. that on Dny serious Hen".''
sbe would muster million OF mrp WIN
Is perhaps less difficulty than any other n"'ion
IN Europe. The greatest danger 70 wnlcn
- she is subirc, ~ mUiiny and inSopor",na-
lion. n Snitan's head " cut off, and doos
is onened TO negotia,ion! The Iopu'uuoA
of Franc, cannot be quoted higher 'noi.
sbon, thirty three millions, including her
}. Colonies, as We have those Of Russia; ana
: her army IN time OF wsr OF 32o,WO Austria
- gives her war establishment of troops ~
- high NJ $4,000; and Prussia about half q
: million. The REGULATION Of The world. un'
:, der The dominion of England. is not less
: than one hundred aud forty millions: being
:. nearly equal to that which u under the
y yw sy of all the other posers Of Europe, vel
;. our war establishment of troops. including