Letter to His Grace the Duke of Wellington Kg Upon the Actual Crisis of the
Letter to His Grace the Duke of Wellington Kg Upon the Actual Crisis of the
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17 Ibs. The charge, for throwing it, is " sixteen pounds of powder. It is worked by six- " teen men, and they are six minutes between each " round. The noise is said to be tremendous. " B 4 The Emperor of Russia is not an inactive per- son ; he was exercising his fleet in the Baltic during the equinoctial gales ; the fleet was blown into port on the 9th of October ; he loses sight of nothing. Not many months ago, his Admiral Rlcord (brought up in our service) was visiting and examining our dock...-yards. Suppose this Russian fleet, of about thirty sail of the line, and twenty frigates and steamers, was heard to be at sea, and approaching the Nore, perhaps to destroy Sheerness dock-yard (which cost millions). * 1 The Isle of Sheppey is not for- * Can any person believe that Marshal Soult, who em- barked at (and, no doubt, well reconnoitred) Sheerness, and every foreigner who comes to this country, does not know our defenceless condition, or that the Emperor of Russia is not aware that all his deep-laid plans are succeeding to his most sanguine hopes ; and that if, last summer, we had at- tempted to interrupt his schemes in the East, or to have re- monstrated with him upon his atrocious and murderous war against the brave Circassians (Circassia being the chief barrier to India, which he is endeavouring to break down, and which, should he prove successful, he may treat as he has Poland), he might not, with all ease, have sent his Baltic Fleet, of fifty or sixty fully manned ships (the same Lord Durham sailed about in), and troops, and have spread desolation in this country?
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