Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-03-30
AligrrIlanRuu5.
How Russia Got the Crimea.

nv" huoSid 0Ot the III llltd.
The following is an extract from
Chambers Repository, which will
be read with appetite at the present
crisis 1t forms a part of a well
written biography of the famous
Suwauow.
Catharine had huddled up peace
with the Sultan, in IVA, partly OH
arcount of the Pugatchey danger,
and patty because of the menaclng
tone of the British Cabinet but no
sooner was England involved in
war with the United States of A.
merica, and France preparing to
strike in with the revolted colonies,
than the prince, true to the trddi-
tional policy of st. Petersburg,
forthwith commenced, while yet the
ink was wet with which she had
subscribed a covenant of perpetu-
al peace" with Turkey, active prov
ocatons for a renewal of the war
by offensive demonstrations in the
Crlmea, on the Kuban, northward
of Caucasian-C ordilers, and on the
shores Of the Black Sea. II l776,
Suwarrow, fully possessed of the
designs Of the Czarina, left ST. Pc
,ersburg for Chorson, the most
southern point of the Russian from
tier toward Turkey and without
even decent pretence for HOSTILE
ties, at once attacked Dulut Ghiray,
Khan of the CrImea, drove him off
to seek such redress as Constantine
pie might afford, aud set up Scham
Giray, a kinsman of the deposed
Khan, and Tie supple tool of Rus
sia, in his stead. General Suwar-
row next proceeded TO erect forts on
the Kuban, and provoke hostililies
with the " banditt of Circassia," but
with such i'll fortune that he ADAM
doned the task to Major General
keyser, and busted himself with the
"1elicaie mission" a much easier
one at al events, than the guerrilla
warfare with the Tcherkessi, of re-
moving some 90 900 Armenian fam
lilies from the Crimea to the dis
tricts of Catherinorlof, in Russia,
where they would be more manage
able than IN their own county,
Nearly third of these unfortunates
persisted by the way Of fatigue and
privalion, and hundreds threw them
selves, in despair, under the hoofs
of the Cossack horses, as the riders,
in obedience TO warrow's orders,
pricked them OH with their spears,
as in goadng cattle to market or
TO pasture.
The Sublime Porte loudly remon-
straIed against these proceedings OF
the Russian general, and even went
so far as TO parade numerous fleet
in the Black Sea, but the deplora-
Bile war in America, and her Euro
pean Allies, precluding the Ministry
of Lord North from affording the
Sultan more than moral help, the
Capudan Pasha returned with his
fleet TO Constantinople, after receiv-
ing a contemptuous note from SUI
NARROW, in reply to a demand for
an "eyplanation" of the Russian
doings in the Crimea, and the ap-
pearance of Russian corsairs" in
the Black Sea, to the effect that the
legitimate Khan of the Tartars,
Schaim Ghirag, had been pleased tc
call in the aid of his august ally
the Empress of the Russians, which
had enabled him to dispense with
the assistance of the Sultan and
that with the scandalous epithet Of
corsairs" applied by Capudan Pa
sha to her imperial Majes.y's ships
there was a grave offence which
must be answered for hereafter. The
Sultan was at length induced e
acknowledge Sultan Ghiray as III,
rightful Khan and that point gain
ed, comparative tranquility prevail
ed till 1882. when the Tartar tragi,
comic farce was played out. Larg'
bodies Of Russian troops having