Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-01-05
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How Russia Cot the Crinel.

Chambers Repository contains an ac-
count of the means by which Russia be-
came possessed of the portion Of territory
which the English and French forces are
now trying to wrest from her. The sketch,
" hirh is possessed of intoro4t just nov.
is part Of Il biographical sketch Of the
famous Suwauow.
Catharinc had huldlcl up peace with
the Sultan in l7I4, partly because Of the
pugatchcy danger, and partly on account
of the menucing tone of the British Cab
met but no sooner was England involved
in war with the United States Of Amer
lea, and France preparing to strike in
with the rcvolted colonies, than the press,
true to the traditional policy Of st. Peters
burg, forthwith commenced, while yet the
ink was wet with which she had subscribed
covenant of perpetual peace" with
Turkey, active provocations for renew
al of the war by offensive demonstrations
in the Crimea, on the Kuban, northward
of the Caucasan-C Cordillera, and on the
Black Sea. In 1776, Suwarrow, fully
possessed of the designs of the Czarina,
left St. Petersburg for Cherson, the most
southern point of the Russian frontier
toward Turkey, and without even de-
cent prctence for hostilities, at once at
tackled Dulut Ghiray, Khan of the CHI
mea. drove him off to seek such redress
as Constantinople might afford, and set
up Scham Ghiray, a klnsman Of the de-
posed Khan, and the supple TOOL of Rus
sia in his stead. General Suwawow next
proceeded to erect forts on the kuban,
and provoke hostilities with the ''handitti
of ('ircassia," but with such ill-Gortune
that he abandoned the task to Major-Gen-
eral Kyser, and busted himself with the
| "delcate mission.' much easier one, at
all events, than the guerilla warfare with
the Tuherkessi, of removing some twenty
thousand Armenian families from the Cri-
mea, to the districts of Cathorinorlot; in
Russia, where they would be more man.
ageable than in their own country, Near
ly third of these unfortunates perished
by the way Of fatigue and privation, and
hundreds threw themselves in despair,
under the hoofs of the cossacks' horses,
as the riders, in obedience to Suwarrow' VS.
orders, pricked them on with their spears,
as if goadlng cattle to market or to pas
| ture.
The Sublime Porte loudly demonstrated
against these proceedings of the Russian
| General, and even went so far as to par
ade numerous fleet in the Black Sea, but
the deplorable war with America and
her European allies, precluding the Min
istry of Lord North from aiordins the
Sultan more than moral help, the Capu
dan Pasha returned with his fleet to Con
stautinoplc, after receiving contemptu
Gus note from Suwarrow, in reply to {
demand for an explanation Of the Rus
sian doings in the Crimea, and the ap
pearance of "Russian corsairs" in thu
Black Sea, to the effect that the Legitimate
Kahan of the Tartars, Schcim Ghiray
had been pleased to call in the aid of hi
august ally, the Empress of all the Rus
sias, which has enabled him to dispens
with the assistance Of the Sultan, and tha
the scandalous epithet Of "cofsairs" ap
piled by Capudan Pasha to her-imperia
Majesty's ships, was grave offence whicl
: must he answered for hereafter. Th
Sultan was at length induced to acknowl
edge Schaim Ghiray as the rightful Khan
; and that point gained, comparative tran
guilty prevailed till 1882, when the Tar
tar tragic comic farce was played out
: Large bodies of Russian troops havin
been quietly drawn together and judit
iously posted, the Prince Potemkin issue
. proclamation, stating that Schaim Oh