The Georgetown news., 1855-09-20

change Of sentiment.
IMPORTANT VIEWS OF THE French EN-.
PERoR.-The New York Times embodies
the following extracts from letter from
Paris, in an editorial, and states that the
views therein contained were expressed bv
the Emperor at a conversation with the
writer Of the letter Even if imperial ori-
gin be not ascribed to the statements, vet
they are sufficiently striking to be worthy
Of attention:
public sentiment generally, both in
France and England, is inclined to look up-
on the siege of Sebastopol as substantially
failure, and the compaign in the Crimea as
q mistake.
The Emperor does not at all concur in
this view Of the subject. He expresses his
opinion very freel y in conversation with his
intimate friends, and maintains that the AL
lies are marching steadily towards com
plete victory over Russia. In one CONVEX
satiOn with an English officer, held in nv
presence, the Emperor spoke substantially
as follows:
There never has been siege Of Sebasto-
pol, for the first step to constitute a siege is
investment. The Russian army has been
posted in extended line between SimpherO-
pol and Sebastopol, its centre being nova
ble, at one time concentrated on Inkermann
and another Oh Baks-serai. The right wing
of the force rests on Sebastopol, as the right
wing of the English troops at Waterloo res
ted on H0ugOumOnt.
The Anglo French army has not been
large enough to extend its lines so as to
give face to the Russians, so we have occu-
pied an entrcnched position opposite their
right wing at Sebastopol; and while we
have been attacking, not besieging, this
post, we have been constantly 0utfanked
by the Russian left. If there has been
siege at all, it is the Anglo-French army
that has been besieged.
l acknowledge the tactics Of the Crimean
campaign to be my own projection, and |
confess myself satisfied mqinly an the results.
The people Of France and England want a
feat of arms, and perhaps the people of
America would applaud another Sm0lenski,
and MoskOwa. No! France in 1913 eros
Sed the arid steppes and deadly SHOWS of
Russia. | will now make Russia traverse
her own wildernesses to meet us on her
frontier. There is not a man who enters
the Crimea that has not undergone all we
suffered in tae retreat from Moscow There
Is not regiment that arrives at PerekoD
have been engulphed. The Russian loss ac-
cOrdlng to their own estimate rendered to
the Emperor Nicholas last December a.
mounted to tlcO hundred and SeUentV thou
sand. The Allied troops at that time had
not lost One-tenth of that figure. ! am con-
tent to protract the struggle in the Crimca
on these terms
On another occasion he observed:
"A Russian army is not recruited with
facility. Men can be had, but not soldiers.
The Russian peasantry require from two to
three years exercise at drill before they are
bit for the ranks. We have nearly extirpa-
ted the elite Of their forces-those which the
Gar has taken many years to create. Eng
land and France, on the contrary, grow
stronger as the struggle proceeds; our peas
antry IN few years become staunch troops,
and the fire of war, which burns slowly at
first among our population, increases with
reverse
Again, the Emperor observed:
1t would be folly to infict merely a
wound npon Russia, from which she would
soon recover. Let us establish q running
sore in her side, from which her strength
will run out. SebaStopol is draining her
system. The Future will judge my tactics,
but the people are too small to see far
around them.''
The Times adds the following:
at is confidently stated that Louis Ma
poleon IN person will command in the forth
coming campaign, in Moldavia and Russian
Poland. The new levy of one hundred and
forty thousand is destined for this field Of ac-
ton and 1cN SuperSede the austrian army
OF occupation. The object of this campaign
will be the erection of Polish republic,
comprising Nolhynia' Poland and Bessara-
bIa. In case Prussia disscnts, and advance
made qy an Anglo-French army upon her
clS-Rhenlsh provinces and the Baltic fleet,
will keep her in check: while Lombardy
and hungary are moved up to block the
OF Austria. The end of all this
Will be an empire of republics Turkey
Will be oblIterated from the map of Europe
and form nest Of Byzantine States, into
when n Greece and perhaps Hungary may
TALL The last great European war COM
menced with republicanism and ended with
confirmed monarchy; this present struggle
commences with battle of the monarchs
and Will end with confirmed republics"