The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

MAY 27.

The late English papers abound with lengthy paragraphs on the present politics, the wars now actually waging, and the prospect of impending wars in the European quarters of the globe. The far greater part of those paragraphs, are merely surmises, reports, suppositions, and apprehensions, which we presume it would be needless to detail at full length. From this variety of matter, however, we may, among other particulars, briefly collect, that the Empress of Russia is determined, at all events, unless restrained by a superior combination of powers, to plant her standard on the walls of Constantinople, and if possible, even possess herself of the Lesser Asia. Avarice has commonly been called the vice of old age: in the Empress of Russia it appears to be insatiate ambition, with a mixture of avarice and revenge. Great-Britain seems to be sanguine in the cause of the Turks, and was by the latest accounts making the most active preparations in their favour, it being no longer a part of their political creed in England, that the Christian powers ought to unite their endeavours to extirpate the Mahometans and to re-establish christianity in its original seat. France, (even by the English accounts) is going on quietly, in consolidating and establishing her new Constitution, the great body of the officiating clergy having subscribed thereto, and the real anti-revolutionists, being for the most part out of the kingdom, and apparently destitute of all hopes of restoring the old tyrannical form of government.