THE 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
New Serics, 
Vor. VII. ] JUNE, 1829. [ No. 42. 
ENGLAND, RUSSIA, AND TURKEY. 
Onz of the peculiarities of the insular position of England is, that she is 
compelled to feel a direct and immediate interest in every other conntry. 
The very separation from continental Europe is thus the actual source of 
her more intimate connexion ; and instead of being, like Portugal, or Bel- 
}  gium, vitally anxious only about her relations withthe adjoining dominion, 
_ she is under the political bond of looking to the changes and designs of 
all. This is the work of the element by which she is surrounded. The 
Ocean, separating her for defence, approximates her for intercourse; every 
quarter of the world is as the gates of her dock-yards; wherever a 
British ship can touch, there exists a British interest, and the truest and 
‘most essential British interest ; one which must be fostered, protected, 
and propagated. A tumult in China is feltin London with scarcely less 
-vividness than in Canton. The rise or fall of a South-American party 
awakes a keener sensation among us than within the next province; and 
the late abstraction of Persian territory, by its encroaching and ambitious 
enemy, has turned as many English eyes to the Russian march, as 
pver watched it from the towers of Erivan. ; 
tis this strong and general susceptibility to the changes of dominion 
png the remotest sovereignties, that gives the war-of the Turks and 
ans the powerful interest which, even in its commencement, it has 
exerted upon the councils of England. The Baltic, andthe 
es; at Lritish highways, and whatever event is likely to shut 
of our universal enteyprize, becomes, to us, a matter of 
bg portance. 
Gee madness of thrones, and it is the madness of per- 
psire—the madness of avarice and accumulation: No extent of 
min can satisfy it ; the utter worthlessness of the object cannot 
ain it ; desart is added to desart, marsh to marsh, a sickly and beg- 
red population is gathered to the crowd that are already perishing in 
he midst of their uncultured fields; yet the passion is still keen, and 
usands of lives are sacrificed, years of desperate hazard are encoun- 
Se and .wealth, that might have transformed the wilderness into a 
varden, { 
18 fang away, for the possession of some leagues of territory, fit 
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he grave of its invaders. Austria, at this hour the mis- 
Hdigious empire, one half of which is forest, heath, or 
mpled, or only peopled by barbarians—Austria, the mis- 
the Bannat, and Transylvania, is longing for Albania; a 
en mountain and swampy valley, with a population of 
gja, with a territory almost the third of the old world, 
Series, —Vou. VIL. No. 42. 4D 
