270 SOUTH COAST OF THE CRIMEA. 
chap, snoring soldiers, hardly out of drill, or a party 
j > of bloated officers, labouring under indigestion 
and ague, would not have offered even the 
semblance of an opposition. Any experienced 
General, belonging to the armies of England , 
of France, or of Germany, might then have 
pledged his reputation for the capture of the 
Crimea with a thousand men'. Such an event, 
throughout the Peninsula, would have been cele- 
brated as a signal delivery from the worst of 
tyrants ; and every honest individual would 
have participated in the transports of an injured 
people thus honourably emancipated. 
Suvorof. This account may not seem to accord with 
the descriptions published concerning the con- 
duct of the Russian troops in Italy, under Field- 
marshal Suvorof. But where will Russia find 
another Suvorof? He was created to be a 
Russian General ; possessing all the qualifica- 
tions, and the only qualifications entitling a 
Russian chieftain to the hope of victory. Among 
his troops, he was generally their commander ; 
individually, their comrade and their friend. To 
the highest military rank in Russia, he joined 
(1) We had the satisfaction to bring to England a Survey of the 
ports of Ahtiar, with all the soundings : it is engraved for this Work. 
