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Show NAPOLEON I. AND CZAR ALEXANDER. ALEX-ANDER. Alexander wrote to Napoleon: "I oflor you tho half of Europe, I will help you to obtain it, secure you in the possesion of it; and a'M I aBk in return is the possession of a single strait, which is also the key of my house." Napoleon, scowling to O'Moara, in his ' "Voice from St. Helona," replied thus: "Jn the course of a fow years Russia will havo Constantinople, the greatest part of Turkoy, and all Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken place. Almost all tho cajoling and flattering which Alexander practiced prac-ticed toward rue was to gain my consent con-sent to eflect this object. I would not couaent, foreseeing that the equilibrium equili-brium of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural course of things, in a fow years, Turkey must fall to Russia. The greatest part of her population are Greeks, whom you may aay aro Russians. Tho powers it would injure, in-jure, and who would oppose it, are England, Franco, Prussia, and Austria. Aus-tria. It will be very easy for Russia to engage Austria's assistance by giving giv-ing her Servia and other provinces bordering upon the Austrian dominions domin-ions which extend toward Constantinople. Constanti-nople. The only hypothesis that France and England may ever be allied with sincerity will be iu order to prevent this. But even this alliance al-liance will not avail. Franco, Eng- ihuu, uuu j-iustjiu uiiueu CUUUOL- prevent pre-vent it. Russia and AuBtria can at any time eflect it. Onca mistress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes be-comes a great naval power, and God knows wnat may happen. She Quarrels Quar-rels with you (England), marches off to India an army of seventy thousand good soldiers, which to Russia is nothing, noth-ing, and a hundred thousand canaille, Cossacks, and others, and England loses India. Above all the other powers, Russia iB the most to be feared, especially by you. Her soldiers are braver than the Austriana, aud she has means of raising as many ns she pleases. Iu bravery the French and English soldiers are the ouly ones to be compared with them. All this I foresaw. I see into futurity farther than any other, and I wanted (o establish a barrier against those barbarians bar-barians by re-establishing the kingdom of Poland, and putting Pohiatowski at the head of it as king; but your imbeciles im-beciles of ministers would not consent. con-sent. A hundred years hence I shall be priijeJ, and Europe, especially Eugiand, will lament that I did not succeed. When they see the finest countries in Europe overrun and a prey to those northern barbarians they will say, 'Napoleon was right."' |