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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
tality and regard , were the first baits thrown out by the Russian whale to catch the English minnow ; then we lutve expressions of personal regard and good-will towards England , its Government , and its Sovereign . To these succeed inuendoes of regret and surmise respecting the assumed decadence of Turkey , followed up by playful similes respecting sinking monarchies and dying men . " We have a sick man , " says the emperor , " on our hands what are we do if he dies ? " And here commences the
; actual recital of as cool a contemplated scheme for the appropriation of tho said sick man ' s goods and chattels as ever scoundrel servants and spendthrift relations planned over a death-bed . Throughout the Avhole of these despatches , we only experience one solitary and melancholy satisfaction , that our excellent minister was not long the dupe of such consummato cajolery and lying perfidy . We will not enter into the details by which the scheme was to be made lete . Suffice it to that England Avas
comp say , to have for its share of the spoil Egypt and Gandia ; Russia , a large share of Turkey Proper ; while Austria and Greece Avould probably have come in for the leavings of the rich man's table . On the whole , however , the perusal of the correspondence is useful ; we rise from it convinced that the present war is a necessity , and that in itself is sufficient to induce us humbly to submit ; Avhile ATC may sincerely
and truthfully congratulate our rulers with having abandoned the societA 7 " of very indifferent company , without the usual results touching tho corruption of mind and manners . Should , however , any of our readers feel inclined to know anything of the autocrat himself , they will do Avell to consult the pages of Dr . Lee ' s work , " The Last Days of Alexander , and the First Days of Nicholas . " * In them they Avill And a very excellent sketch of the character of the latter soverei who was described bone who knew him well at the time he
gn , y ascended the throne , " to be one of the falsest men that exists , and of a very unforgiving disposition , " . The profession of Dr . Lee , and his long residence in the country in some of the best families , afforded him many facilities and opportunities of acquiring information ; and he appears to have carefully collated and arranged the materials of a well-kept journal . Speaking of the serfs , he describes them as everywhere in a deplorable conditionwith little to' eat and less to hope forready to rise at
, , any moment against their masters , and only kept down by the armed soldiery , who swarm over the country , or garrison the thousand and one strongholds which cover its surface ; and he seems to intimate that risings among them are by no means uncommon , although all knowledge of such acts are carefully suppressed by the authorities . Marvellous , however , are the accounts of the losses which the Russian Government has sustained in
the several wars m which it has been engaged during the last twenty or thirty years . The war with Circassia , which has now been carried on uninterruptedly for twenty-eight years , has annually cost 20 , 000 lives on the Russian side alone , making a grand total of nearly 600 , 000 Russians who have perished in attempting to subdue the independence of Circassia . In the two campaigns against Persia , as in the Hungarian campaign and the two Polish campaigns of 1831 and . 1832 , the data are insufficient to give
the exact loss ; which was , howeA'er , in the Persian and Polish wars , enormous . In the two campaigns against Turkey of 1828 and 1829 , 300 , 000 fell , of whom , however , 50 , 000 perished by the plague ; and since the entry of the Russians into the Danubian principalities , the loss is understated
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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
tality and regard , were the first baits thrown out by the Russian whale to catch the English minnow ; then we lutve expressions of personal regard and good-will towards England , its Government , and its Sovereign . To these succeed inuendoes of regret and surmise respecting the assumed decadence of Turkey , followed up by playful similes respecting sinking monarchies and dying men . " We have a sick man , " says the emperor , " on our hands what are we do if he dies ? " And here commences the
; actual recital of as cool a contemplated scheme for the appropriation of tho said sick man ' s goods and chattels as ever scoundrel servants and spendthrift relations planned over a death-bed . Throughout the Avhole of these despatches , we only experience one solitary and melancholy satisfaction , that our excellent minister was not long the dupe of such consummato cajolery and lying perfidy . We will not enter into the details by which the scheme was to be made lete . Suffice it to that England Avas
comp say , to have for its share of the spoil Egypt and Gandia ; Russia , a large share of Turkey Proper ; while Austria and Greece Avould probably have come in for the leavings of the rich man's table . On the whole , however , the perusal of the correspondence is useful ; we rise from it convinced that the present war is a necessity , and that in itself is sufficient to induce us humbly to submit ; Avhile ATC may sincerely
and truthfully congratulate our rulers with having abandoned the societA 7 " of very indifferent company , without the usual results touching tho corruption of mind and manners . Should , however , any of our readers feel inclined to know anything of the autocrat himself , they will do Avell to consult the pages of Dr . Lee ' s work , " The Last Days of Alexander , and the First Days of Nicholas . " * In them they Avill And a very excellent sketch of the character of the latter soverei who was described bone who knew him well at the time he
gn , y ascended the throne , " to be one of the falsest men that exists , and of a very unforgiving disposition , " . The profession of Dr . Lee , and his long residence in the country in some of the best families , afforded him many facilities and opportunities of acquiring information ; and he appears to have carefully collated and arranged the materials of a well-kept journal . Speaking of the serfs , he describes them as everywhere in a deplorable conditionwith little to' eat and less to hope forready to rise at
, , any moment against their masters , and only kept down by the armed soldiery , who swarm over the country , or garrison the thousand and one strongholds which cover its surface ; and he seems to intimate that risings among them are by no means uncommon , although all knowledge of such acts are carefully suppressed by the authorities . Marvellous , however , are the accounts of the losses which the Russian Government has sustained in
the several wars m which it has been engaged during the last twenty or thirty years . The war with Circassia , which has now been carried on uninterruptedly for twenty-eight years , has annually cost 20 , 000 lives on the Russian side alone , making a grand total of nearly 600 , 000 Russians who have perished in attempting to subdue the independence of Circassia . In the two campaigns against Persia , as in the Hungarian campaign and the two Polish campaigns of 1831 and . 1832 , the data are insufficient to give
the exact loss ; which was , howeA'er , in the Persian and Polish wars , enormous . In the two campaigns against Turkey of 1828 and 1829 , 300 , 000 fell , of whom , however , 50 , 000 perished by the plague ; and since the entry of the Russians into the Danubian principalities , the loss is understated