Show I 1 the th russian army how ORGANISED the army is kept up by a system of reer ultine the number of men to be furnished by bv the boyars is determined every year sy by the state the choice of tile the individual men is left to tile the arbitrary judgment of if the i nobles or their pr the reen recruits lits are neither halt nor lame nor blind blid the government accepts alt all that are ale sent rent without troubling itself tit in th the lest about ilir moral condition the boyar and lits his begin by satisfying their personal hatred and antipathy whatever may he be the importance of the wrongs for which chy sek satisfaction they cire care very litell attl about breci breaking brei king 1 f g up a family or tearing away a son fron bif ati tiler e r and mother infirm old people who will be left without assistance or support they spread desolation desola tiou arid and misery in ill every house which has resisted their exactions exact jons m and lid when i a recruit is taken bis son if lie he be less thau than ten tan years old follows hith him afar having gratified their feelings of vindictiveness ti veness they proceed to cleanse all al the vit villages lages of robbers vagabonds rogues tb leves idlers I 1 drunk ards and incendiaries until they have made up trie tile number which they are obliged d to contribute to the onoto required of the district the government itself seizes and e enlists 0 on n its it 44 0 own authority and without appeal all awkward coach mein and thieves whose muscular force adapts them for being converted into machines machii ies of war As soon as the sel ebion lioB islade made the a authorities U ties proceed to the toilet odthe of the min men th they have aken in order to prevent desertion or flight the g cut their hair very short in front ai and id almost shave shade it behind and flain send th recruits 0 oft ff to the chief town of tha district where they tare are det de t livered antio the custody of a non of aicer charged with the took task of condne ting them to the depot whence they aro arc draft edoff into the different regiments regimen ts and ana drilled the army is Ps as we see composed for the moist byrt oy only of the vory dregs of 4 the serfs no other method of recruiting it is ever practiced in III luisia this explains the profound pio found feeling of horror the invincible in aversion of the entire russian population for military serviced service there never was to my knowledge and I 1 have also been beert informed so sony ay others an instance of any one enlisting it ling of his I 1 own fee will G tie de lagny cagny |