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THE DESIGNS or RUSSIA.

THE DESIGNS or RUSSIA.
+ There is a numerous party in Great
Britain, who would rejoice to see that
country enter It's solemn protest against
;he wm now raging between Russia and
( Turkey. Whatever might be the ostensi-
Die cause ofthis war, they regard it as hay
/ ing originated in the Unstable ambition of
Russia, which will never be satisfied till
/ il grasps within It's power all Europe and
the world. They maintain that the reto
of England would be sufficient TO arrest
/ the progress of invasion, and that such a
stand once taken, other Powers would I'M
medla,ely concur, and thus the disastrous
war be terminated. We doubt the cor
rectness Of the last opinion, and should
much sooner expect that the interference
| Of England would result in a general war
throughout Europe. The following re-
marks are extracted from a late number Of
I The London Times.
The war undertaken by Russia against
Turkey is not a subject on which we re-
/ ioice to mediate, butts Importance forces
I It on the attention ofmost Enghshuen, and
/ the perverse notions entertained by some
people, with regard to Its bearing upon the
/ interests Of the country and of Europe,
/ requires to be watched, if thev cannot be
corrected. No man at all acquainted with
/ Russian history or policy doubts that Con
stantiuOple has long been marked by the
statesmen Of st. Petersburg for their prey.
/ This desire has grown out of previous az
orandizements achieved by Russia during
| little more than half century, and every
step of her armies southwark has but serv-
ed 70 stimulate and encourage her to the
enterprise. Fresh argument springs con
venienuy out of recent conquest. As
Russia has extended her frontier south to-
wards the EuXine, and westward along the
shores of that sea towards the Danube, the
freedom Of one, and the command of the
other, become objects Of 'Just anxiety"
with q Power which, had she been forced
TO remain at a distance from them, would
have had no pretence for acting on any
such "anyiety.0 The freedom" of the
Euxine-which means, in certain quarters,
ITS independence of all control but that of
Russia-requires that the Bosphorus. the
Sen of Narm0ra, aud the Dardanelles,
should have the enjoyment Of equal Stree
DONG for they are so many padlocks on
the Euxine trade But of these various
locks the master-kcv is COnstantnoe.
So I'VE are told with great trankncss by a
Russian general Officer, it is impossible
to keep "a safe hold Of Constantnople.
without occupying Asia Minor also. Thus
by unwarrantable logic has itbcon proved
to us. that 70 secure a free vent for the ex-
ports of Odessa, Smyrna and Rhodes
must be held by Muscovitc garrisons :
Now it is not by any means criminal I'M
Russia 70 feel the above craving for mari
time conquest, nor would 1t be an offence
against the laws of nations in Great Britain
TO wish for the possession Of Copenhagen,
the Belt. and the Sound. But suppose
that, on one plea or another, she had trans
ported her whole army 10 Hanover. 6, then
moved It across the Elbe into Holstein.
and issued a manifesto declaring that she
would have securities" from the King of
Denmark tor the freedom" of the Baltic,
and indemnities for her expense IN support
inc the said demand Of securities by an
army which threatened Denmark with de-
strucuon. What, we ask, would be the
course of Russia under such circumstan
ces2 Would she listen to the following ar
gument for Preterring peace TO an armed
yindicahou Of her own interests, and of
those Of all the north Of Europe!
"Ifthe trade of the two countries Eng
land and DeUmark) with Russia be com
pared, that of England is OF much greater
Importance to Russia than Is that Of Den
mark" Therefore by all means let Eng
land subiugate Denmark, ''because it new
or can be worth the while of Russians TO
interrupt our peace with England, for the
sake Of ayerting some possible danger TO
our intercourse with Denmark"
A ludicrous disparagement of the effect
upon Great Britain, arising out OF con
quest of Turkey by the Russians, and in
the precise terms we have used above, has
been employed to dssuade the British
Government from being more than spec
tators ofthis portcnteous war. The whole
conflict. with lbs mcalculable results, Is
Looked nj m 90 other light but q possible
towards intcrrupting for time
our commercial intercourse with Turkey
In Europe. The command over the whole
eastern portion Of the Mediterranean Is
nothing-the addition of so much coast of
q maritime position and depot so impreg-
nable as that which embraces the entire
EuXlue TO the mouth of the Dardanelles,
is notbl1g-the consequent ascendancy
over Egypt nothing-the general aggran-