t 5 THE EX AMINER. in 7 —— Saeeaeneee a the scepticiem of Hume, had defended it in his profounder fashion, and had thus given rise to the German ‘Transcendental Puilosophy, with all that has since come out of it. This philosophi al activity of Kant falls fally within the ife of Rogers, for Kant died ia 1804, when Rogers was aman of foity. La France, oa the 4 hand--the 1n- tellectual scepticism of Uume mingling at once with what may be ealled the native moral and social scepticism of Voltaire—ther@ had issued, as the natural bat still illogical result, that Gallic system of senaationalisia, W (erman «e oth ‘r 7 avowedly materialistic than the contemporary sens:tionalism of England, reigne] supreme till, in comparatively recent times, Scotland and Gerwany applied modifying elements. Now, both of these foreign philosophies, reacted on that British eoutroversy with which they had original relations. Through the poetic-philosophic mind of + eri igre, as through a window of coloured glass, there ; valent sensationalism, or into the ill-mixed sensational isin | end traditieval theology of Kugland, a. flo dl of tinted Ger- | man light; while the task of revising Ketd’s philosophy from the foundation, with the aid of a therough knowledge | of all that Kant and his German successors had done, and | 80 deepening and rebuilding the pational Scottish Philosophy, fell to the harder and severer wind of Sir William Hamilton. The communication between English aud French sensations alicm bad all this while being going on through such thinkers as Beotham aad Mill; aud more recently we have had an infusion of Freuch seusationalisw in its most pronounced | materialistic form of so-called Positivism, through transla- | tions from M, Auguste Comte. tal Had avy oue informed old Rogers that he had lived | through all this, he would probably have said that he was really uot aware of it, but was very glad to.hear it, and, hoped it was all over. He was certainly one of those who | put ia practice Goethe's famous auti-metaphysical maxim, and did not trouble themselves with thinking about thinking. | Herein he dif-red greatly not only from bis frend Cole- ridge, byt also from his friend Wo.dswo-th, aud many other | contemporary poets. His philosophy, so far as be had any, | was the simple practical philosophy which confines itself to | the consideration of the art of pleasant and tranquil living ; ond, wherever he deals with maxims, it is with the time-| honoured maxims which have been rabbed smooth by poets | in the service of this philosophy. Hume or Reid, Kant or | Comte, it was all the same to him; for, whichever philosophy | was uppermost, there seemed little danger that Aés little metaphysies—which consisted very much in believing that | men ought to pay their way, keep their temper and cultivate soft affections—would ever be disturbed or persecuted. | Almost the only one of his poems in which one discerns something of the influence of contemporary metaphysical speculation, in his IVeasures of Memory, which is a mild poetical exposition of the doctrine of the association of ideas as wade popular by Hartley and others. Nor, unfortunately as regards the interest of his Tadle-talk in the department of gossip about contemporary philosophers and philosophic systems, was Rogers one of those who make up for not thinking about thinking by {what is really a very different thing) thinking about thinking about thinking, Goethe, who desired to avoid the first, was his whole life practising the second ; and hence his own metaphysics consisted in being anti-metaphysical. Mereover, for the same reason, his talk wis rich enough ia reference to the history of thought and speculation in his time. But in Rogers's case it was other- wise; and-had it not been that eminent men were interest- ing to bim as such, without any regard to the precise grounds of their eminence, and that, seeing, in the course of his long | life, celebrated thinkers as well as cclebrated poets, or | actors or men of fashion, he noticed them with curiosity, | and afterwards told his reminiscences of them, the history of British speculation in his time, important as that history | was, would have had nothing to represent it in his Table- Talk. long and knew 80 many people, he could not but have some interesting enough recollections of the ways and physiog- | As .it is, however, simply because Rogers lived so | nomies of men of the philosophic tribe ; here are a few such : | are prepared to expect every impediment from their political op- Storyof Hume and his Critics.—“ Hume told Cadell the | ‘beokselior, that he had a great desire to be introduced to as | avany of the persons who had written against him as could | he cvlleeted ; and requested Cadell to bring him and them | together. Aceordiagly Dr. Douglas, Dr. Adams, Xc., &e., | were invited by Cadell to dine at his house in order to meet Liume. They came; and Dr. Price, who was one of the party, assured me that they were all delighted with David.” | Recollection of Adam Smith.—* When a young man, I went to Hdinburgh, carrying letters of introduction (frou | Dr. Kippis, Dr. Price, Xe.) to Adam Smith, Robertson and | others. When I first saw Smith he was at breakfast, eating | letter. of yesterday’s date, requesting me to furnish a statement hich far more | | was poured inte the pre-| _— eee creature io the nineteenth century, and much more that ib should unsuspectingly be given out by him in conversation as passable metaphysics, might seem incredible. That Rogers bad misconeeived something which he had heard Mackintosh, Malthas and Bobus Smith any, we take for granted; and, indeed, but for a note of Mr. Dyce’s, which shows that he ‘was himself surprised at the opinion he heard Rogers quote, we should faney that the mistake was his. As it is, the saying is an authentic meas say, also, of the imagination of Rogers. (T'o be continued.) Correspondence. TO THE TENANTS ON THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S ESTATE. Gextiewen,—Some time ago I was entrusted by a large) majority of your body to transmit to the Earl of Selkirk a Petition, in which your wishes were set forth that his Lord- ship would sell his “estates to the local Government, in order that you might at once become Freeholders under the provi- sions of the Land Purchase Bill, and no longer be liable to be sold to land speculators, in order that an exorbitant profit may be made at the joint expense of yourselves and his Lordship. I think it now my daty to lay before you an account of my) stewardship, by which it will be seen that your wishes are likely to be aceomplished. But first let me say in explanation, that a correspondence has taken place with Her Majesty’s Go- yernment, from which I infer that money, to make this or any other similar purchase, will be obtained under the guarantee of the Imperial Government ; that is, always supposing that this beneficent intention meets no interruption from the House of Assembly, where an Address was voted Jast session to Her) Majesty for the obtaining this guarantee, and carried on a division which may be seen in the parliamentary proceedings. I now transcribe the correspondence on the subject, and remain, Your obedient servant, Wa. SWABEY. October 7, 1856. From the Earl of Selkirk to the Hon. Wm. Swabey. Lonpon, 25th June, 1856. Sin,—I have received your letter, accompanying a petition from some of the tenants on the lots owned by me in Prince Edward Island. Ihave no anxiety to keep this property in my own hands; on the contrary, I shall be perfectly willing tu dispose of it either to the local Government or any other arties who may be inclined to offer a reasonable price for the ots. if the whele property were to be taken at once, and the price paid in full, it would be an additional inducement to me to treat. No. l. I am, your most obedient, : SELKIRK. Wirtuias Swasey, Esq., Commissioner of Public Lands. No.2. To the Right Hon. the Earl of Selkirk from the Hon. Wm. Swabey. JuLy 28, 1856. My Lorp,—I have the honor to acknowledge the reecipt of ‘your letter, dated London, June 25th, 1856. | wait on your Lordship’s agent—re presented by Mr. James Douse, son of William Douse, Esq., who is in England—to ‘obtain information as to the amount of wilderness lands and | occupied farms on your estate, in order that some data might be afforded the Government on which to found an offer for their | purchase, or to consider any proposition which might emanate trom yourself. I showed Mr. Douse your Lordship’s letter, ) whieh, I should have thought, would have justified his giving | some information, however limited. This, however, he declined to do, as by his letter in my possession. The Government is desirous to purchase this property, but till furnished by your Lordship’s order, with the pcronets particulars, nothing can be done. I can only inform you of the facts for your guidance, that the Worrell Estate (82,000 acres) was purchased ty the Government for 4s. sterling per acre ; that of Sir Jobn Walsh (7000 acres) for 38, 6d. sterling. The price to which the Go- vernment is limited is 5s. L think it right to suggest that though the local Government ponents, in their endeayours to bring about the purchase of proprietary lands, in order to set at rest in an equitable man- ner the warfare existing between tenants’ and landlords’ in- terests, they would gladly do so on as good terms as your Lordship could obtain from other parties. Your Lordship’s obedient servant, Wa. SWABEY, Commissioner of Public Lands. No. 3.. From James Douse, Esqy., to the Hon: Wm. Swabey. 26th Juny, 1856. Sir,—! have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your ure of the intellect, and we might! After laying it | before the Lieutenant Governor in Council, I was directed to is a ne na ta — ore an interest of six per cont., and formed the staple invest- ment of officials and their friends, and the public monies were It is to reproduce to them a source of speculation and profit. office removed from Parliamentary scrutiny. Some there are, | too, who are parties to this alliance, who view with no favour \the means taken, under the present regime to controul the lucrative business of smuggling, and to protect the revenue. them when knowledge was more confined than it is at present. The spread of intelligence in our day enables the mass of the people to detect official peculators in their mal-practices, and to know in what consists the freedom and happiness of mankind, | __the former of which is a nuisance, and the latter not worth having, when monopoly and misrule are to be the price paid for its employment. But of all things just now serving the turn of the Obstrue- tives, the Land Purchase Bill is the most recent, and the best to play upon. Much pains, much sophistry, and an incal- ‘eculable amount of falsehood have been employed to defeat the object this Bill has in view, which is to lull the raging waters of discontent by destroying their souree—by using means at hand, and not apocryphal, to turn discontented leaseholders into happy freeholders. To prevent this, every artifice is at work, '—all the means that can be scraped together are collected to purchase from the absent and deluded proprietor, to forestal the Government, so as to keep up the price of land, and to retail to the tenantry at two or three times the price at which the Government would be disposed to sell. If any one can doubt the intentions of the unholy Alliance in this matter, let him turn to the division on the address to Her Hajesty, to guarantee a loan, in order that this healing and beneficent measure may uninterruptedly proceed. There they will find arrayed against the only effectual means of settling the land question, Messrs. Cooper, McIntosh and Laird, with the real proprietary faction, Messrs. Palmer, Haviland, Longworth, ke. These, and such like things, are the stalking horses of those who strive to ride into power on the heads of the ignorant and the credulous, and who, being as wide as the poles from each other in principle—({may we he forgiven for prostituting the term !)—will not cease to aid each other to pick a bone, the remains of which they will, if ever the time should come, snarl and fight over to the last. This spirit of hostility to public liberty and social improvement prompts an opposition to the extension of the number of the people’s representatives. Is it not enough to say in fayour of this measure that these people i | ‘ | | stance demonstrate that it is an enlargement of popular interests? When was ever any thing proposed for the public good that this unholy alliance did not combine to oppose? We hear, in connection with these matters, that the better to carry on these inveterate obstructive objects, forsooth a Society is formed, called the ** Political Alliance.’? The manceuvre of those who lead people by the nose in this hopeful squad, is to persuade ignorant men that a Liberal Government is not pro- ceeding on liberal principles; and in order to pick up a few loose fish, who, at one time, styled themselves liberals, but never understood the meaning of the term or its application— who never knew or felt that the object of true liberality is not the disruption of all law and order, and the confiscation of sistent with public, private and social safety ; and above all, the dragging of public officers from the skulking places in which they formerly plundered the revenue, into a place where they cannot escape the public scratiny ; and although it is not openly avowed, it is for this very reason that the policy and persons of the present Government are more particularly dis- liked by the leaders of the Obstructive faction. The ‘* Political Alliance,’ as the new confederation style themselves, but which we shall continue to designate the ‘* Unholy Alliance’’—held their first regular meeting at the strawberries ; and he descanted on the superior flavour of | of the quantities of land (occupied and otherwise) in the pos- Temperance Hall on Thursday evening last. The number pre- those grown in Seotland. 1 found him very kind and com. | musieative. He was what (Robertson was not) a man who | had seen a great deal ef the world. Once, in the course of conversation, I happened to remark of some writer that he was ‘rather superficial—a Voltaire.” ‘Sir, cried Smith, striking the table with his hand, ‘there has been but one Voltaire.’ ” Anecdote of Paley.—“1 never saw Paley; but my brother knew him well and liked hias much. say, in his broad dialect, * Lum an advocate for corrooption, (that is, parliamentary influence.) Coleridge's Talk. —* Coleridge was a marvellous talker. me, Coleridge talked for three hours without intermission about poetry, and so admirably, that [ wish every word he But sometimes his harangues | were quite unintelligible, not ouly to myself, but to others. | uttered had been taken down. Wordsworth and I called upon him one forenoon, when he was ina lodging off Pall Mall. He talked uninterruptedly Paley used to. 7 One morning, when Hookham Frere also breakfasted with | session of the Earl of Selkirk. I beg to reply that his Lordship’s agent, Wm. Douse, Esq., perty in this Island ; that 1 expect his return home in the latter part of the month of October; and that, during his | ‘absence, Edo not feel myself at liberty to communicate any information respecting the estate, without instractions to that effect. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES DOUSE. No. 4. From the Earl of Selkirk to the Hon. Wm, Swabey. 4th Sepremper, 1856. Sir,—I have received your letter, of the 28th July, respect- g the purchase of my property in Prince Edward Island. My agent, Mr. Douse, will return to the Island early in October, and he will be instructed to furnish full information in to the Government as to the amount of wilderness land and | ‘oceupied farms on my estate, and he will be authorised to for about two hours, during which Wordsworth listened to | negotiate with the Government for the sale of it. him with profound attention, every now and then nodding his head as if in assent. On quitting the lodging, I said to Wordsworth, ‘ Well, for my own part, [ could not make reply.” Mackintosh.— When I lived in the Temple, Mackintosh | and Richard Sharp used to come to my chambers, and stay there for hours, talking metaphysics. One day they were so intent on their ‘ first cause,’ * spirit” and ‘ matter,’ that they returned. differenee about them, sat down and wrote letters without taking any notice of them. | | j head nor tail of Coleridge’s oration; pray, did you under-| staud it? *Not one syllable of it,’ was Wordsworth’s | ——— were unconscious of my having left them, paid a visit and | 1 was a little angry at this, and to show my in-| | I never met a man with a fuller ject of which is, by the use of any available means, however small offices which have been given to better men, and who I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, SELKIRK. ———— Che Examiner. ARLOTTETOWN, P.E.L., cH OCTOBER 13, 1856. THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE. Unper this head we have, at various times, had our attention called to all sorts of anomalous combinations, the general ob s at present on his route to England, where he will doubtless | have immediate communication with his Lordship, and be made | fully acquainted with his wishes respecting the sale of his pro- | sent, the proceedings of the meeting, and the plan of operations for the future, were kept as secret from the outer world as bars and bolts could secure them. None but those who had tickets could gain admittance to the ‘* charmed circle,’? — and the very limited number of tickets printed, warrant us in sup- posing that there was avery beggarly array of empty benches. | The Tories delight to work in secret, and in the dark; and as | fate would have it, their proceedings had scarcely commenced | when every gas light in the building was extinguished sudden- ‘ly and instantaneously. This event, at the inauguration of , the Unholy Alliance, is universally believed to typify the ex- _tinguisher which Public Opinion will shortly put upon the combination. Our readers do not require to be told what materials con- stitute this precious ‘* Alliance.’’ It is readily believed, and truly so, that the first and principal element is the old Tory party—that impracticable and obstructive faction who could never see beyond the length of their noses—who opposed all changes and reforms as long as they could, because they hate changes and reforms of any kind—who have been thoroughly whipped at the hustings and outvoted in the Legislature— -who have had their misdeeds, their pecalations, and their | wholesale robberies, exposed and punished at the bar of pub- lic opinion ; and with these are leagued discarded temperance lecturers ; a rejected servant of a late House of Assembly, _who contrived to exact payment for work he did not perform ; | and two or three deserters from the liberal ranks, who sought mind than Mackintosh, such readiness on all subjects, such a incongruous in principle, to reinstate in place and power those ever since pretend to have discovered great faults in the con- talker !” Rogers puzzled as to the origin of evil.—* Why there should be evil in the world is indeed a mystery. Milton attempts to answer the question; but he has not done it and Proprietors, and Proprietary Agents, were, in the last Session of the Legislature, | | who formerly held a baneful influence in this Island. Escheators duet of the Liberal party. | oi a . _ We do not see any necessity to put the Liberals of the Island satisfactorily. The three ucutest men with whom I was ever , throw the present Government, by votes, arising from nothing combination. Although it may include some who think they acquainted, Sir dames Mackintosh, Malthus and Bobus) jn eommon in principle, but only the hope of a majority being ‘are wise in their generation, they are false prophets without Smith (wo elder brother of Sydney), were all agreed that the attributes of the Deity must be in some respects limited, else there could be no sin and misery.” This last quotation wi! indicate, better than anything else could, Rogers’s calibre as a metaphysician on his own account. ‘this aystem that an anxiety is expressed to have the holders of Others again look on the universal system in education with | no favourable eye, because they are not only taxed for its) | support, but they feel assured that things went on better for are banded together to oppose it? Does not that very circum- | Naples. property, but the establishment of as much freedom as is con- | LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM EUROPE Tue English Mail, which arrived in Halifax on the Sth inst, , iin the Royal Mail Steamer Magara, reached Charlottetown on Friday last. Affairs in Italy begin to assume @ more serious aspect, and a war with Naples, at no distant day, does not | seem improbable. Austria pretends not to be favourable to the designs of King Ferdinand, but it is incredible that the latter should assume a defiant attitude towards England ang France, unless he were encouraged by the Court of Vienng. ‘The appearance of the Anglo-French fleet in the Bay of Naples —for which destination it was preparing at latest accounts — will be most likely to bring matters to a crisis. Field-Marshal Lord Hardinge died at his country seat near Tunbridge Wells, on Wednesday, the 24th September last, “| = > car We intended to have published in this day's paper the i several speeches delivered at the Normal School Sviree, but did not receive the whote of them in time to put them in type, ominiel NEWS BY THE MAIL FROM ENGLAND. If we are to credit communications from the capitals of | Russia and Tarkey, the question of the Isle of Serpents, so far from being settled, still wears an angry and threateni appearance. Russia has not yielded her claim to the rock, and has no intention of doing so. The squadron of Admiral Lyons in the Black Sea has received orders to remain until the ‘dispute is settled. In the event of Russian troops again attempting to land on the island, our guns will open y them. This looks yery like a determination to bring the matter to a crisis. French ships will also be speedily sent to the Black Sea; but the representatives of that Power, it is pursue a more reserved policy in the affair, | As regards Naples, the Western Nations are determined to bring Bomba to his senses. The appearanee of an Anglo- | French squadron in his beautiful bay will speedily dispose of ; unsettled points. There are no less than fi scre w-steam- (ers waiting at mY mp for orders to sail, but their de re has been delayed in order that the ultimatum of the Western | Powers may be prepared with all the care and formality becoming so important a step. Austria, if a communication from Vienna is to be credited, will leave the wretched fellow to his fate ; but Austria herself has been deteeted im as disre- putable a transaction as could by any possibility be imagined : that is to say, the arrest and imprisonment of a sember of privates and non-commissioned officers, Austriar subjects, on their arrival from Malta, inthe Austrian States. Their of- fence is accepting employment in the Anglo-Italian Legion, to lfight against Russia, without the permission of their own Government. This has caused a great stir throughout [taly, especially among the discharged legionaries of Piedmont. -The English and French representatives at Tuseany ond Parma, where the men are imprisoned awaiting their trials, have protested against the act, and, considering the broker proniises of Austria herself during the whole of the Russian war, in, we have no doubt, very indignant terms. The Paris correspondent of the Times alludes to a report of ‘its being the intention of the United States to furm an alliance: with those European Powers who may be disposed to adopt, ;asan article, the immunity of merchant vessels and merchandise | from capture in time of war, even by men-of-war. ‘understood, will Tur seconp Nore to Nartes.— A Frankfort journal i gives a synopsis of the second note sent by the Western Pow- ‘ers to the King of Naples. They express their desire to /come to an honorable understanding with him. They admit that under present circumstances the King cannot grant a ' general amnesty, and, therefore, request the King to grant a | pardon to those political prisoners who may apply for it, and 'make their submission in proper form, But this they par- |ticalarly insist on; and they, therefore, give their note the form of an ultimatum, allowing the King a fortnight for consideration, after which they will resolve the measures they think advisable. —— @-O>-———eee, Tue Frencu Squapron ror tHE Bay or Narirs.— The Moniteur dela Flotte publishes the names of four ves- sels which are ordered to eruise forthwith in the Bay of The squadron is to consist of the Bretagne, the Ulm, the Algesiras, and the Napoleon, under the orders of Admiral Trenouart. The ultimatum addressed to the King of Naples has not yet gone. It is said that Count Walewski thought it necessary to exchange one more communication with the Emperor before despatehing it. A Cabinet courier is expected from England, bearing the w/timatum of the English Government, which, with that of France, will at once go on to Naples. Count Walewski, seeing the great effect produced out of doors by the announcement of the decided measures resolved upon by the, two Governments, deemed it advisable to represent it to the Emperor before taking the final step. In this manner, at least, has the delay been explained. nin ie a Nartes.—The Paris correspondent of the Times says it is not doubted that the ultimatum will be despatched to Naples by the end of the week. Other advices, however, speak of the probability of the Neapolitan affairs being again re- ferred to diplomacy, and that consequently the squadron intended to be despatched to Naples will not sail at all for the present. _At the last dates from Naples rumours had begun to circulate of the Anglo-French naval demonstrations, and some symptoms of popular agitation were observable. The police maintained a strict surveillance on the English re- sidents. An Austrian squadron of 7 ships of war is cruising in the vicinity of Sicily. Tue Frencu rv Atcerta.—A despatch to the Minister of War, from Marshal Randon, gives an account of the ex- pedition of General Jusuf in the Frikal country in Algeria, and of a series of hot skirmishes with, and village attacks on the Kabyles. In these affairs the enemy, as usual, are said to have suffered serious loss. The French had three men killed and 24 wounded—-amorg them two officers of Chasseurs, and one of the Tirailleurs. The Marshal adds to the report, that the struggle with the Gnechtolas approaches its end, that the hill positions are in possession of the French, and that soon the reinforcements of Algiers will appear upon the plain country of the Boghni. + _+> Tue Empress or Rossta DANCING WITH HER RECENT ENt- mirs.—The most agreeable news from Moscow is the state ment that, at the Coronation ball, the Empress of Russia showed her remarkable good sense by dancing with the allied Powers that opposed her country, that is to say, with M. de ,Morny, Lord Granville, and the Turkish representative. The Emperor himself is reported to have received the French- ‘man very cordially, the Englishman with reserve, and the Turk with impatience. Be that as it may, the dancing is & fact, and who can doubt that the diplomatists of France, found helping each other to over- | generally on their guard against this shabby and disreputable | Turkey, and England were more usefully employed in dancing with an Empress than in sitting in council at Vienna ? | . | Serious Aram at Tisereiie Tha Journal de Con- obtained, which, if it ever oecurred, would leave the respective the power to deceive, — for let them bring every stalking horse stantinople report that a serious affair happened at Trebizond | part | could get. Only fancy a little old gentleman citing it as the deliberate. escheators beeome proprietors. What care they for the con- | the Bigots and the Orangemen — let them profess an attach- opinion of the .hree acutest men he had ever known, and in- timating his disposition to agree with them, that, in order to of departments from the Legislature—desirous to see the return | account for the existence of evil, it is necessary to suppose that the Deity is in some respects incompetent, and does not fill all creation, but ouly,as it were, a large piece of the pomorphisin eon'a bs ‘stitution? They have revived the old story of excluding heads ‘of the good old times, (as they deem them) when no official person was either responsible in his place in the Legislature, } mont to some ultra principles of Liberalism, when they only want to ensnare a few of the most unreasonably discontented _and disappointed of the Liberal party ,— and still we defy them to come openly and publicly before the people of Prince Ed- middie of it! That such a wretched little bit of Anthro- | or subject to have his accounts and proceedings pass under the | ward Island, for if they do, we are prepared to antee their have lingered in the theology of any ‘examination of qualified auditore—when Treasury Warrants overwhelming condemnation. a , ies in it still to fight amongst themselves for what they to their aid —Jet them pretend that they are in favour of tem-|0n the 8th, Some Turkish boatmen tere down the flag of a One party or the other of these must predominate, perance, while their leaders habitually get drunk —let them | —either the proprietary party must become escheators, or the | pretend a zeal for religion, when they only want to conciliate | Russian merchant vessel, and threw the Russian sailors into the sea. The Russian Consul demands the dismissal of the Captain of the Port, a compensation, and the bastinado for the boatmen. The Divan is inquiring into the affair. ‘Tue Circasstans RALLIED TO FiGuT tHe RusstaNs.— | Constantinorie, Seer. 12.—The Naib Chief of the Cireas- sians, sent by Sefer Pacha, has arrived here. Sefer Pacha, who is at the head of 30,000 men, has issued a proclamation, ,calling om all the Circassians to fight the Russians Wt energy.