The true Democrat., 1855-09-04
The French EmperOr's Views of the seige of SeyaStOpol.

The New York Times profeSses to have re- ceived, through private channels, a letter from Paris containing statement from high and re- liable authority, of the views of the French Emperor concerning the seize of Sevastopol and the Crimean campaign. These views were expressed in the course of conversation by the Emperor with the writer of the letter. The Emperor does not at all concur in the view of the seige generally taken in France and Eng land, that it is substantially failure and the campaign mistake. In conversation with an English officer, he spoke as follows:
 "There has never been seige of Sevasto- pol, for the first step to constitute siege is in- vestment. The Russian army has been posted in extended line between Simpheropol and Se- vastopol, its centre being moveable at one time concentrated on Inkerman and another at Bak- si-sera. The right wing of the force rests on Sevastopol as the right wing of the English troops at Waterloo rested on Hougoumont
 "The Anglo-French army has not been large enough to extend its lines so as to give face to the Russians, so we have occupied an entrench- ed position opposite their right wing at Seyas topol; and while we have been attacking, not besieging this post, we have been constantly
 
 been siege at all, it is the Anglo-French army that has been besieged.
 Y ackn01Oledge tue tactics of the Cr1naean cana- paign to De my oaon projection, aud / confess my- self satisfed aainly in the results. The people of France and England want feat of arms, and perhaps the people of America would applaud another Smolenski, and Moskowa. No. France in 1913 crossed the arid steppes and deadly snows of Russia. l will now make Russia tra. verse her own wilderness to meet us on her frontier. There is not a man who enters the Crlmea that has not undergone all we suffered in the retreat from Moscow. There is not regiment that arrives at Perokop that is not de- cimated. Whole batalions have been engulph- ed. The Russian loss, according to their own estimate rendered to the Emperor Nicholas last December, amounted to tUo hundred and seve1- ! ty Housand. The allied troops at that time had lost one tenth of that figure. 1 am con- tent to protract the struggle in the Crimea on l these terms"
 i On another occasion he observed: 1 "A Russian army is not recruited with facil- ! ity. Men can be had, but not soldiers. The Russian peasantry require two or three years exercise.at drill before they fit for the ranks l We have nearly extirpated the elite of their forces-those which the Czar has taken many years to create. England and France, on the contrary, grow stronger as the struggle pro- ceeds; our peasantry in few weeks become staunch troops, and the fire of war which burns slowly at first among our population, increases with reverse.'
 Again the Emperor observed:
 1 "It would be folly to inhict merely wound upon Russia, from which she would soon re- cover. Let us rather establish running sore
 in her side from which her strength will run
 out Sevastopol is draining her system. The future will judge my tactics, but the people are 7 too small to see far around them"
 It is confidently stated that Louis Napoleon
 in person will command in the forthcoming campais sn in Modava and Russian Poland 3 The new levy of 10000 is destined for this field of action, and aoiN supersede the Austrian army cf occupation. The object of this cam paign will be the erection of Polish republic comprising Volhynia, Poland and Bessarabla e In case Prussia dissents, an advance made by 2 an Anglo-French army upon her cis- Rhenish : provinces and the Baltic fleet, will keep her Tn V check; while Lombardy and Hungary are mov- U ed up to block the interference of Austrla- 9 The end of all this will be an empire of repuo- e lies. Turkey will be obliterated from the map of Europe and form nest of Byzantine states
 into which Greece and Hungary may iah:- The last great European war commenced wl'n . republicanism and ended with confirmed mon . archy; this present struggle commences with 8 battle of the monarchs, and will end with con- f frmed republics.