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tun tile itimn Of August the Emperor addressed the following re. script to the Mletropolitan of this capital:- " It has been conmyrunicated to me, that in Your Journey of In. s eclion, you have visited the Milittry Coloniea estaljlislied in t50 Rovernmnent of Novoroycid, that you have ccletwateSl divine worshir, tierc, and involked the blessing of Heaven on that infant establish- ment, praying the most tigha to bestow on it a continuation of its prosp)erity. I teel p leasure in thanking y3ou for this pontitical act; for I am fully convined(l that we nn neithercommence nor continue, wvith advantage, any undertaking without the bleesing of Glod. ; Confiding in your prayecs, I am, your afl'ectionate " ALEXANDER." SrvPTENMRV, 7. The following isthe manifestooftlseEmljcror for raising recruits:- IWVe, Alexnander the Firnt, by the grace of God, Empetor an(d Autocrat of all the Russias, &c., " Having judged it necessary, in the present year, to order re. cruits to be raised to comiiplete ouir armlies antl fiets, where a %vant of tuen is felt by the ordinary diminutions of their numlber, and the discharges we have granted to old soldliers, who have completed their terms of service, the number of whiichi was considerable, as was that of thie sick and infirm, rendered unfit fbr the service, we ordaini " There shall be a lcvy throughout ihe wlhole extent of the em- plre, of two recruit out of every five iindretl men, agreeablv to tihe reguloations orouir Ukase, issuied by titedirecting Senate, Sept.7. 1818. T Thanks to the Almighty, duriag three successive years, there has beer, no occasion for recruiting and ouir faithful and well-be- loved subjects have been able, ivithottt neglecting their lomestic affairs for this public duty. *o enjoy, in this bosom of their families, the fruits of a peace twhicii happily h?ft not been interrupted. Thie organization of military colonies lias largely contributed to make recruiting but rarely necersarv'. It will not be so agaitl, btit in tim3e of war, when with the aid of Divine Provldence, these colonies will have gamed altl the inportanre which wo desire to give them. "Given at Zsarskoejselo, Atg. '2j, the X ear of Grace 1i124. anti of our Reign the 24th. *' ALEXANI)DER." The Vice-Admiral Croon5, wiao set sail at the enl of June for the Frozen Sea, in order to Yieit the sitores of Icelant, returnced iere The new shl1, of war, isamed Rfrer the Grandl Duchess Helena, has been ready for sonme dlatys to sail from Cronstadt on a voyage roundl the world. Lieutenant Tschiqlakow, who cemmanids it, has already miade one voyage of this kind. RUSSIA.-. ST. PETERSBIRG 11. 84PT. 9.