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Giaours, and are for the most part called Anglia, and 

 Frances, and that they hate the " Muscovs," and that 

 therefore something is to be expected of them ; and 

 so they were not astonished when they saw our 

 steamers upon the coast, though they may not have 

 anticipated so rapid a result. That only inspired 

 them with the more ardent hopes and notion of our 

 prowess. But with the desire of freedom is mixed 

 up a little suspicion of the purity of our motives in 

 thus espousing their cause ; and now that we have 

 deserted it, the probable opinion in Circassia will be, 

 that the English, after destroying the Russian forts, 

 sent a party into Circassia to explore it, and see 

 whether it was worth possessing ; but finding it only 

 a rocky and impracticable country, containing a very 

 independent set of savages, they have relinquished 

 the idea, and have no objection to Russia's expend- 

 ing her resources in the acquisition of this strip of 

 mountains. Among many of the Circassians the idea 

 exists, which is also common in Turkey, that the Sul- 

 tan is the kingmaker-general throughout the world, 

 and that the origin of this last war has been the con- 

 tumacious conduct of one of his vassals, to wit, the 

 Emperor of Russia, who has attempted to throw off the 

 authority of the Padisha. In order to punish this 

 powerful rebel Turkey has called in her liege subjects 

 the Emperor of France and Queen of England, who are 

 bound to maintain " the integrity and independence 

 of the Ottoman empire," of which Russia forms part, 



