The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-07-28


RUssrAS PoticY.-The Courier des Etah
Unis, the French paper at New York. con.
tains a document which is said to have
decended from Peter the Great, in relation
to the policy to be pursued BY the rulers ol
Russia in their intercourse with foreign ma
tions. We give it as curiosity Will It's
termination be as here pointed out!
|. To keep the Russian nation coatinu
ally in war, in order to maintain the spirit
of the army. To tolerate peace only as a
means of repairing the finances Of the
State.
II. To invite learned men Of other ma
tons to introduce the arts of peace and war
to the Empire.
III. To mix in all the quarrels OF Eu-
rope, and especially Germany.
Nv. To take Poland, by exciting jeal.
ousies, briblng partizans, and creating pre-.
texts for the admission of Russian army.
Ii the neighboring powers interpose diff.
eulties, to appease them temporarily by d.
yiding the country, until the time comes to
resume what we have given.
V. To get possession Of as much as pos
sible ofSweden; to provoke her to attack,
in order to have pretext for subjugating
her. To isolate her from Denmark, and to
stimulate rivuIries between the two.
vi. To take the wives of Russian prin-
ces from the princesses of Germany, in
order to ally her to our cause.
VII. To cultivate the alliance of Eng
land, for commercial aud marine purposes.
VIII. To extend increasingly our do
minion to the North, on the Baltic, and to
the South, on the Black Sea
TX. To get as near as possible to Con-
stantinople and the Indies; and with that
view, to excite constant wars with the
Turks and Persians; and re-esta ablish, il
possible, the ancient commerce of the Le-
want through Syria. Toreach the Indies
Once there, we can dispense with the gold
of England.
x. To eonciliate the alliance of Austria
and encourage her pretentions to the SOW.
reignty of Germany, but underhandedly
stimulate the jealousy of the princes. To
compel her to call in our aid, and exercise
over her kind Of protectorate.
XI. To induce the house of Austria to
chase the Turks from Europe; and neutral
ize her suspicious in regard to the conquest
of Constantinople by exciting war with
the older States of Europe, or else giving
her portion of the conquest, to be taken
bac k at later day.
XII. To endeavor to unite about Russia
all the Greek Church, scattered in Hunga-
ry and Poland, and to assume in regard to
them sacerdotal supremacy.
/ XIII. Sweden dismembered, Persia
conquered, Poland subjugated, Turkey ac-
quired, to propose to the Court Of Versailles
and then to the Court Of Vienna to divide
with them the Empire of the universe. Il
one Of the two accepts, to unite with her in
crushing the other.
XIV. If both refuse, to excite one a.
gainst the other, till both are exhausted
Then profting by the decisive moment,
Russia would pour down her troops upon
Germany, while two fleets parting from the
shores of Azof and the Port Of Archangel
loaded with Asiatic hordes, under the con.
voy of armed fleets from the Black Sea and
the Baltic advancing through the Mediterra.
mean and the Atlantic. would inundale
France on one side aud Germany on the
other; and these two conquered, the resi-
of Europe would pass, without striking 9
blow, under the yoke.