Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-12-09
THE WAR IN THE cRIMEA.

! We find the annexed letter from Paris in th
New York Times 1t wears an air Of probability
and, if the alleged facts respecting the condition
things at Sebastopol be true, it opens chapter il
prospect terrible to look at.
i PARIS, NOVEMBER 1854
Before the embarkation of the troops at Varna it vii
be remembered, council of held The first pro-
posal submitted the advance of the Allied troops
through the Danuban provinces the lines of the Pruth
the English troops to occupy the Dobrudscha having the
Black Sea on their right flank and Ismail in front
the Turkish army to form the centre while the French
corps farmse wheeled round to face the RRssian
centre at Jassy Hating upon the Muscoyite frontier
appeal might be made the Czar before crossing
the Pruh and performing the Of invasion If forced
10 battle in the open fields of Bessaraba it pre-
sued that Russia would be defeated The Allied troops
would then proceed upon ODESSA where Osten Sackens
force was stationed the base of action for the
ing army. Here the fleet which should accompany the
Allied army aoag the coast would o-operate with Ii in
receive their feinforccmens previously adsnnce
upon Perekop This isthmus considered the key to
all future action Here the Russians would have made
determined stand 1t was proposed to land portion
of troops and guns in the Crmea together with the whole
of the marines, with large force of blue jackets This
force would be landed as near as practicable to the
isthmus at the moment when the Allied troops entered it
from the northern end BY this means the defences Of
the Russians, of whatever nature they might be- being
attacked in front and rear must have yielded In pos
session Of this shmus, all reinforcement cut off from
any form, either by Investment assault that be
considered expedient.
Such the matured advice proposed by the corps Of
French engineers to whose opinion Lord Raglan leaned
The Marshal st. Arnaud, whose temper had been in
famed by the attacks of the English and French journals
upon the inaction Of the armies determined upon
coup de main Odessa but mercantile city, and its
capture feat of arms; blow must be struck at
the power Of military Russia and the public voice de-
manded the attack of Sebastopol
The English corps Of engineers pronounced in favor Of
the Marsha plan 1t was furthermore urged that Aus
tr;a was still in doubtful attitude and it would be
highly mprudent, by advancing the Pruth to place
the Allied troops between the Austrian and Russian
forces.
The Emperor Nicholas, whose object was to induce
the Allied army to embark at for Sebastopol had
privately assened that Austria should occupy the Prn
cpates, and withdrew his troops hastily, that the
Turkish forces should keep him in check
The French and English camps were filed with Russian
deserters and SPIES whose real mission to spread the
report Of the with which Sebasopol might be at
tackled from the land side.
We know the result Of this fatal step. The armies
embarked and have been caught in trap 1t found
impossible to invest Sebastopol and its decnces the
land side that Of detached FORTS the least formidable in
appearance known to be the most difficult Of attack
The English engineers made their first report that the
town could not hold out week. The French corps de
genie having reviewed it, declared it to be mpregnable
if carried by assault it would cost 80 coo men.
Such is the present attitude Of affairs 1850 men
have fallen among the Allied troops since they landed in
the Crmea The town is reported ready for assault but
also known that fart and every street s undermined
All the have been transferred to the north side Of
the harbor and when the besegrs shall have driven the
of the beseged fooby foot the waters edge
they will plunge into the harbor and at the
the great mine under the whole city and its forts viii be
sprung, reducing Sebastopol instantaneousy
OF ruins.
This is the uncture at which it expected that Men
sfkof with his entire force, viii fall upor the Ae
army.
The resume of this complicated attitude was admirably
expressed by French Colonel Of Engineers who had
completed Standing up in his srrups,
he threw look the city and bay beneath then hak-
ing his head with smile, he turned to his Officers and
said: "7hat rogue, ST. Aynaad; ~hat lucky dog! lie Is
lind Il,