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* ground in front. If any thing of the kind 
be found in a Turkish fortress, it is a proof 
of the place having once been in the hands 
of. Europeans. High parapets and deep 
ditches, and you have a sufficient concep- 
tion of Turkish fortresses. They will have 
nothing to do with winter campaigns—the 
men must withdraw to their homes—to fol- 
low their trades and domestic occupations. 
Their wars are wars of extermination—if 
they make prisoners, it is an exception to 
the general rule. They cut off the heads of 
the dead as well as of the living, and pre- 
serve the noses and ears as trophies of war. 
The Porte awards payment for these testi- 
monials of good fortune, but prefers entire 
heads—to fix them on poles in the capital— 
and shew something for money. 
But the chief and choicest morceau of 
the book is a plan—a receipt for taking 
Constantinople, which just at this moment 
is of too dainty a character to be rejected.— 
Thus—You will get first to Shumla—this 
is the point to which the Vizier usually ad- 
vances, and till he arrives, the campaign 
will not be worth talking about. The Rus- 
sians, it seems, never got beyond it—though 
we think Kaminskoy did in 1810, but we 
cannot step to examine that matter just now 
—hbesides, we are anxious to begin. First, 
then, you must beat the Turks before 
Shumila, or turn them—which you please 
—but it will be best and safest to turn 
them; and this you must accomplish mainly 
by a diversion—by previously directing a 
corps of 30,000 to cross the Danube at Ni- 
copole or Rutschuk, and march them, by 
Tornowa, straight upon Adrianople—stop- 
ping only to take Tornowa en passant, and 
make a magazine of it. The march is a 
trifle—the road, to be sure, a little rongh— 
not much frequented perhaps—but a few 
hundred pioneers soon clear the course. 
This will draw off the Vizier, who must 
retire to cover Adrianople, and if he 
should - happen* to be ‘too late, and lose 
time, you will gain it, and make much of 
it—and he must retreat still farther to look 
after Constantinople. \ It will be proper for 
the corps marching on Adrianople to sur- 
prise that place; they must commence bom- 
barding forthwith, and work away till a 
breach is effected, otherwise, the Vizier’s 
presence may prevent the capture altoge- 
ther, and spoil the beauty of the whole cam- 
paign. But being aware of this, of course, 
they will attend to the thing punctually. 
The Vizier thus retreating from Shumla, 
the main army will pursue him closely and 
diligently, and will endeavour to anticipate 
him, and with a detachment turn him. 
This will enable the main army just to stop 
and gather the fruits of the retreat—for 
Turks retreating, it seems, take nothing 
with them; and so all will fall into your 
hands, and you will have a glorious abun- 
dance of provisions. : 
Before, however, the main body advances 
farther than Faki, which is about seventy 
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miles on the road from Shumla to Constan- 
tinople (the whole distance is about 200) a 
detachment should be despatched to the left 
and take Varna, by the co-operation of a 
flotilla; or if you cannot take it easily, 
leave it—no matter—let it (the detachment 
we mean) and the flotilla proceed to Bur- 
gas, forming thus the left wing of the new 
line. The centre will be at Faki, with its 
advanced guard twenty or thirty miles a 
head at Kirkklissa; and the corps at 
Adrianople will of course form the right— 
while another detachment will be sent still 
farther to the right, and occupy the vale of 
the Miritza. In this position the whole 
will repose a few days—for the purpose of 
gathering stragglers—completing its order 
—securing its communications, and bring- 
ing the country into subjugation, previous 
to a vigorous and conclusive moyement. 
Again, like a giant refreshed, the whole 
moves forward, and takes up a new line, in 
support of which the fleet will take posses- 
sion of Midia ; and the whole will concen- 
trate, in the narrowing country, at Araba- 
Burgas, from which point, when all is 
ready, a general advance will be made 
forthwith upon Constantinople. The force 
requisite for these arrangements—which in 
our eagerness we forgot before—will be 
200,000—neither more nor less. The main 
body 50,000; the corps for the coast and 
reserve 30,000; another 30,000 for Adria- 
nople; a third 30,000 for advance and re- 
serve ; and 6,000 on the Danube, to keep 
all right and tight in the rear. 
Now hey for Constantinople ; but first, 
a landing should be effected in Asia Minor 
—chiefly to prevent the escape of the Grand 
Signor into that country with his treasures 
—which must be intercepted to pay ex- 
penses. Therefore the flotilla, which has 
all along co-operated on the coast, will pass 
onward, and disembark a good stiff force, 
and especially take care to secure Scutari. 
The flag once flying upon Scutari, and Con- 
stantinople trembles.- Now the army ad- 
vances on the European side, cuts off, in its 
course, the conduits, which beginning at about 
12 miles from the city, supply it with spring 
water—nothing, it seems, reduces a Turk 
like thirst—and undertakes the siege. This 
will now give no trouble whatever—it will 
only demand a little patience—three or four 
days, and they will be ¢hirsted into sur- 
rendering, and all’s your own. We are 
not sure we understand what becomes of 
the Vizier—but of course the Adrianople 
detachment will give a good account of 
him. 
All this, however, must be done ear2y— 
in the spring and first summer months there 
is grass in abundance—up to the shoulders 
—but after this the whole is withered, 
singed, and burnt, and not a blade to be 
found; and the great valley of the Lower 
Danube is none of the healthiest in the hot 
months—nor are plains to the south of the 
Balkan. But what in a moderate climate 
