Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-04-28


ing that the Sultan's fleets were accustomed to
seek brilliant actions, and not TO compromise
their renown by miserable results. 1t was
with much difficulty that the Duke Of Enghein
could appease the anger Of the Mussulman. -
An intercepted letter from the Marquis del
Guasto, which promised relief TO the comman-
der ofthe citadel with great army, determined
The Turks TO raise the siege, and retreat; but
not before they had pillaged and burnt the town"
Two things strike US in this account. The
first is, that the ti Ach were compelled to sub
nit to the Turks so far as to allow them to de-
s,roy Nice, though il bad received their guar
anty of protection and the second is, that the
French were then as careless as the allies now
have been in the Crimea, and from which care
lessness great results then flowed. Whether
the parallel is TO be made complete, we must
wait for some time to see.
The alliance that was commenced between
Turkey and France, in the days Of Solyman
and Francis, endured down to the time Of the
French Revelation. The French were often
reproached with being the friends Of the n6del
nation which continued 50 long to be the terror
Of Europe. AS nation, France did nothing
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glorious actions which are popularity supposed
10 have saved Christendom from falling beneath
the sway Of the Oitomaus, the defence Of vi
emma, the capture of Tunis, the glorious victo-
ry of Lepanio. The defence of Christendom
was the work, for the most part, Of the South
ern people of that continent,-the Venetians,
and other Italians, and the Castilans, and other
members of the Penmsular Kinsdoms="ihe
Spains," not to mention the Portuguese, whose
greatest contests were with the Mahometans of
Northern Africa. 1ne Southern Germans
had also large part in the contest. "The
Spaniards and the Italians, says Ranke, "were
very closely knit together by ties Of church and
state. BY the former, because after the gen.
eral departure from its communion, the dwell
lers alone beyond the Pyrenees and the Alps
remained wholly faithful to the Roman Sec
BY the latter, because Naples and Milan were
Spanish. Often was Madrid the abode Of
young Italian princes, Of the Roveri, the
Medici, the Farnese and Rome the residence
of young Spaniards desirous Of cultivating their
minds. The Castilian poets adopted the forms
Of the Tuscany masters all the martial fame
of the Italians was won in Spanish campaigns.
trast to BOTH The Sp,niards they encoun,-
cred VIGOROUSLY on the African, the Italian
and the Greek coasts. They threatened Oran,
they attacked Malta with their whole force
thew conquered Cyprus, and swarmipp round
all The coasts thew carried danger even into the
haunts of peace. They were opposed, there
fore, not alone by the old maritime powers oil
the two peninsulas; in Tuscany and Piedmont
new kniehtly orders were founded for this strife,
the Pope himself yearly dispatched his galley.
in Nav. from Civita Vecchia to cruise apains,
them the whole force Of the two nations tool
part in this contest. Those fair coasts and
many-named seas that beheld in their antique
grandeur the rise. the rivalry, and the extension
Of the Semitic and the the Greco Roman ses
dominions, that saw the mastery won success
lively by Arabs and by German Christians, wer,
witnesses 10 third Struggle, when Otiomani
came forth instead of Arabs, when Spaniard
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