RUSSIAN DESIGNS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 347, 4 June 1877, Page 4

RUSSIAN DESIGNS.

Colhurn's New Moiir \y has tlie following :il>».ti- Ru.-siau <I - "• Altxandt r wrote to j;:|"!>:ii--'I oiler you the half of Europ■•. I •.•»•;•[ I.elp you to obtain it, secure you in t. e poss-. sdon of it, .ind all I ask in return is the of a single strait, wiieh is als> the k y of my house.' Napoleon, ,-.ec <r. dug to O'Meara, in liis " Voice front St. Jlchn.-t,' replied thus: — 'In the cour.su of a f. w years Russia will have the irreatest part of Turkey, and all Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken [.lace. Almost all the cajoling and nattering which A!-fan-cier practised towards m:; was to gain my consent to effect this object. I would not consent, seeing that the- eqniliUium of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural course (if tilings, in n few years Turkey must fall to Russia. The greatest part of her population are Greek--, who, you may say, are Russians. The Powers it would injure, and who would oppose it, are England, France. Prussia, and Austria, It would be very easy for Russia to engage Austria's assistance by giving her Servia and other provinces bordering upon the Austrian dominions which extend towards Constantinople. Tito only hypothesis that France and England may ever be allied with sincerity will be in oritur to prevent this. But even this alliance will not avail. France England, and Prussia ■united cannot prevent ic. < >nce unstress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the commerce of the .Mediterranean, becomes a great naval power, and God knows what may happen. >She quarrels with you (England), marches oil to India an army of 70,000 good soldiers, which to Russia is nothing, and IOO.OfHj c:.'i>k !!/■:. Cossacks and others, and England loses India. Above all the other Powers. Russia is the most to be feared, espeeholy by yon. Pier soldiers are braver than Lite Austrinns, and she has means of raising as many as site pleases. In bravery the I'hxtich and English soldiers are the only <>.\>:.i to be compared to them. All this 1 foresaw. I see into futurity further than, any other, and I wanted to establish a barrier against those barbarians by re-establishing the kingdom of Poland, ami putting Poniatowski at the head of ic as king : but your imbeciles of Ministers would not consent. A hundred years hence I shall be praised, and Europe, especially England, will lament that I did not succeed. When they see the finest countries in Europe overrun and a prey to those northern barbarians, thev will sav, ' Napoleon was right/" " '