1803.] Parallel between the Ancient Romans and Modern French. St 
there are certain circumftances that {mo- 
ther it for a time, while others ferve to 
call it forth ; but it is never to be extin- 
guifhed, ; i 
THE RUSSIAN ARMY. 
The laft army we fhall take notice of is 
the Kuffian; in difcipline and tactics it is 
formed on the principles of Frederick the 
Great : what was prattifed by the latter 
forty years ago, is now followed in Ruffia. 
The difciplineis extremely rigorous. The 
fubordination amongit the officers of dif- 
ferent ranks, is almoft as great as that of 
the foldiers to their officers in other fer- 
vices: they are fometimes treated in the 
{ame manner as the privates. Their bra- 
very is the effe&t of difcipline, more than 
of clevated fentiments: Every thing 
feems Gothic in the-appearance and mili- 
tary cultoms of the Ruffians: this does 
not, however, prove any material defect in 
their organization. 
The Ruffian foldier is deficient in in- 
ftruétion rather than intelligence: the fer- 
vile obedience to which he is accufomed 
from his birth, the, rigorous difeipline of 
the army, and his abfolute feparation from 
all other nations, make him more obedi- 
ent to his officers, and more patient and 
hardy, than thofe of other countries. Cou- 
‘rage is the general charatteriftic; itis, if 
I may fo exprefs myfelf, the faith and creed 
of the Ruffian foldier. Implicit obedi- 
ence occafions in him the fame effects that 
enthufialm does in other nations. The 
Ruffian foldiers do not conceive it poffible 
to give up the contelt fo long as they have 
life to continue it. They will die rather 
‘than be beaten. 
- The officers are, in general, very igno- 
-rant: for this reafon ftrangers are in high 
-efteem among them. They are brave in 
the ranks; but, like the foldiers, they are 
fo from the effect of difcipline. The fame 
horror is entertained in the Ruffian armies 
of cowardice, as is entertained in other 
countries againft irreligion and villainy. — 
Bravery is a duty from which nobody 
confiders himfelf as exempt. A Ruflian 
camp refembles a horde of Tariars. In 
the fame manner that a people accultom- 
ed to obey the laws mechanically obfcrve 
them, fo do the Ruffians conftantly fol- 
low the rules of difeipline. — 
In every company one man is ~felested 
by the futfrages of his comrades as an ex- 
ample of bravery, firmnefs, and good con- 
duct. This man is looked up to as a mo- 
del for the others to imitate. When men 
are. accuftomed to any thing, it is fuffi- 
cient for one to give an example to induce 
the others to follow it: this it is that rena 
ders the hero in queftion fo. ufeful in ac. 
tion. 
The method the infantry follow is to 
charge with the bayonet at full fpced, 
crying, owri, owrl ; no troops’ in the 
world can }tand this charge: the fring 
does not abate their impetuofity : they 
attack a battery in front, if that is a rea. 
dier way than to atiack it in flank. | Aw 
enemy muft not wait for fuch an attack, 
but proceed to meet with the fame ar- 
dour. The French are more remarkable 
for buldnefs and rafhnefs than for intre- 
pidity: when the Ruffians charged with 
their long and broad bayonets, the Re- 
publicans could not ftand their.impreffien, 
They will beat all other troops if they can 
but bring them to aétion : they are-mov- 
ing bodies of fire, that confume whatever 
they approach. 
The cavalry, like the infantry, is of 
Pruffian. model, but innnicely inferior.— 
For camp-guards or advanced-pofts, the 
Coffacks are extremely ufeful. They are 
not capable of fighting in line-of-battle. 
Their horfes are imall, a€tive, and able to 
fuftain great fatigue. The Emperor gives 
them twenty-four rubles a year for them. 
felves and the maintenance of their 
horfes. 
The Ruffian troops arein gencral badiy 
paid. ‘The service is a lottery, in which 
favour and fortune difpenfe the prizes.— 
Tbe Emp-ror makes prefents of crofles, or 
a gilt word, to an officer who is in dif. 
trefS. The hopes of making a fortune, 
by obtaining one of the capizal prizes, in- 
duce him to ‘upport habitual poverty, the 
rigours of fervice, and the fudden and un. 
expected difgraces to which all military 
men among the Rufiians are fubjeét. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
PARALLEL of the POLICY, POWER, aud 
MEANS of ibe ANCIENT ROMANS and 
MODERN FRENCH, 
AVING delineated .the military 
character of the nations who have 
taken a principal part in the late war, we 
now proceed to form a parallel of the po- 
licy, the power, and the means, of the 
Romans and the French. 
As far as poffibility goes, there is n2- 
thing but ignorance, want of refleétion, . 
aad apathy, that can induce people to 
confider the plan of univerlal monarchy 
which his been attributed te Charles V. 
and Louis XIV. as vifionary. There 
were empires before the times of Alexan- 
der and the Romars. The former was 
the conqueror of Alia; the latcer fubdued 
the 
