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takes somewhat of this unpopularity, by his leaning to the Muscovite 

 for assistance. This remarkable expression was lately used to an 

 Englishman, by one of the chiefs of a district in Asia, wrested from 

 the Turks by the Emperor of Russia: " We would shed the last 

 drop of our blood in defence of our Sultan ; but why is he such a 

 frien d to th Russians ? We see that he never will be worthy of 

 the affection we all bear him, till he is guided by your council." 



" It is a singular," continues the author of the pamphlet, " but natural 

 circumstance, that hatred for the Russians should have led to the disap- 

 pearance of prejudices against other Christians; as their hopes, from one 

 extremity of the empire to the other, are now turned to us. In the capital, 

 in the meanest village, in the centre of communications, on the furthest 

 frontiers, a feeling of vague but intense expectation, is spread, which will 

 not be satisfied with less, at our hands, than internal organization, and ex- 

 ternal independence." 



How necessary is it, therefore, if we are not totally lost to our own 

 honour and interests, to take advantage of the few saving circum- 

 stances left us, to arouse even at the eleventh hour, to arrest the knife 

 assassin even at the throat of the victim. Already Russia knows the 

 crisis is at hand, and is making secret, though gigantic preparations, 

 to meet it ; let us not then forego this opportunity, perhaps the last, 

 of retrieving our errors ; and as we have lost Poland as a bulwark on 

 our side against Russian aggression, let us not also sacrifice Turkey 

 on the other ; but place her once more in a position by which she 

 may maintain her own independence, the means of which we have 

 unwittingly lent ourselves to deprive her. 



MILITARY MEMOIRS: 

 LiEUT.-CoL. CADELL AND THE 28TH FOOT.* 



THERE is no feature perhaps more remarkable in our literary his- 

 tory of late years than the number of military authors, who have sud- 

 denly poured in upon us, and sustained themselves so ably in the as- 

 sault as to usurp sundry shelves of our library, and divide many a 

 laurel in the republic of letters with their elder brethren, who, pur- 

 suing literature as a profession, have lived their lives unad venturously 

 clustered in retirement, and sedulous in study. Of old, when his cam- 

 paigns were over, the soldier turned his sword into a ploughshare, 

 and supported himself vigorously by subduing the soil when he could 

 no longer conquer the foe ; but now he manufactures his sword into 

 steel-pens, fights his battles o'er again in choice English, and pre- 

 sents war to the peaceful world in all its wonderful varieties, from 

 the extreme of mean suffering and hardened cruelty to high romance 

 and undying heroism. We are not going to expatiate upon the ad- 



* Narrative of the Campaigns of the 28th Regiment since their return from 

 Kgypt in 1802, by Lieut.-Cof. Charles Cadeil. 8vo. Whittaker and Co. 



