The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-08-20
Siege OF Sebastopol.
IMPORTANT VIEWS or TIE FRENCH EMPER n.
From the New Yofk Times.

'D PdoHsh uH sl's ScCohu PaGe Oh ihls
mornings Tines, very interesting ex.
tract from an article ia the Edinburg Re
view, giving clear and reliable statemen
of the progr s. OF the siege thus FAR, and
the revcrses which have been encouner
The article, with The pictorial plans " hct
accompany 1t, will give The reader muct
clearer and better idea Of the war IN the
Ctimea tn, can be Oh aimed from auy 9th
er source.
We have also received through a pri.
vate channel | tier from Paris, contain
ing very interesting statement, from higl
and reliabe authority, of the views of the
Emperor Napoleon, concerning the siege
of Sebastopol and the Ctmean campaign
These visws were expressed in the course
Of conversation with the writer OF the let
ter: and even those who may not be pre-
pared 20 credt their imperial origin, will
ooncede tha they are sufficiently striking
to be worthy OF attention.
The following is the letter:
PANS, July 1855. Public sentiment,
generally, bo'h in France and England, is
inclined to look upon the siege of Sebas,o,
pol as substantially failure, and the c in
paign in lie Crinea as d mis- axe
The Emperor does not at all concur 10
this view Of the subject. He expresses
his opinion very freely ia oonyers ton with
his intimate friends. and maintains hat The
Allies are marching steadily towards a
complete victory over Russi4. In one
conversation with an English officer, held
IN my presence, the Emperor spoke sub
s.antally as fol ows:
"Taere never has been q siege Of Sebas
topol, COR The first step TO constitute a SIC e
is inves ,ment. Tie Russian army has
been posted in extended lire between Sim
phcrpool and Sch lstopol, Is centre being
movable at one time concentrated on
lnkermarn and at another on Baksi serai
The Iishl Wing Of the force rests on Sc.
bastopol, as the right wing OF the English
troops at Waterloo rested on iIougoumont
THE Ang' o French army has nj been
large enough TO extend lis lines so as to
cupied an enlrenthed position opposite
their right wing at SeblstopoI; and while
we have been attacking not besieging
this post, We have been constantly out
fianked by the Russian left. If there has
been siege at al, il is the Anglo Fren, b
army that has been besIe1ed.
"Iackaow1sdge The tactics n tie Crineon
campaign 70 be my owh projection, and
confess myself SAT- pei manly IN lie re
sults The people Of Franc and England
W mt feat of aru.s, and perhaps he peo-
pie Of America would applaud another
Smolen>ki and Moskoaa Ne! France in
1918 crossed the arid scopes aai deadly
SHOWS OF Russia. will now make Rus
>ia traverse h:r own r.iIdtraesscs 10 meet
Ii GA the ioliier. There is not a man
who enters lie Crimea that has no. under
gone all we suffered in Il c retreat from
Moscow There is not regiment that
arrives at Perekop that i not dtclmated
Whole battalions have been engnlphed -
t c Russian loss, &C ,ording TO their own
Innate, rendered to the Emperor NJ no
a last December, amounted 20 hc3 hun :
d.ed and SERENITY housGnd The allied
t.oops at that time had not lbs. ne-tenth
o. that figure. | am content TO protract
tn ,trugglc in the Guinea n these terms. ;"
On another occasion he observed
"a Russian army is not recruited with
facili " Men can De had not, soldiers =
The Russian peasantry require from tvs 0
to three years exercise a! drill before they
are fl for the ranks. We have nearly tx
tlrpated the elite Of their forces those
which tie Car has token many years 10
create. England and France, on the con
trary, grow stronger as the struggle pro-
ceeds; our peasantry in a few weeks be
come staunch troops, and the fire of war,
which burn, slowly at first among our
population, increases with reverse"
Again, tie Emperor OBJ. er,ed
:" 1t would be folly to infiict merely a
wound upon Russia, from which Sue would
soon recover. Let us rather establish a
running sore in her side, from which her
strength will run out Sebasiopol is
/ draining er system. Tn, uture will
Judge my tactics, bur tie people are loo
small 10 see far around them"
Its confidently stated that Louis Napo-
leon in person will command in the forth
coming campaign in MoldAyia and Rus
sian Poland The new levy Of lac, GOO
IS destined for Mts feld If action and wii
supercede The .3ustr,aa a, my Of occupation
The objec, Of this campaign will be tn,
erection Of a Polish Republic comprising
Volhynla, Poland and Bessarabia. II
case + ussla dissents, an advance made b,
an Anglo French army upon her els Rhen
ish provinces and the Balic feet, vii
keep her IN check; while Lombardy ant
Hungary are moved up 20 block the inter
ference of Austria The end of all th
will be an empire Of republics. Turke,