Mr. Forbes, the well-known correspondent of the Daily News, in
an article in the Nineteenth Century, states positively that "he has himself seen great clumps of mutilated Russian dead on battle-fields," and "has watched without the need of a glass the Bashi-Bazouks swarming out after an unsuccess- ful attack on the part of the Russians, and administering the coup de grace with fell alacrity, under the eyes of the regulars in the sheltered trenches." He also positively denies that the Russians commit atrocities, declaring them kindly and humane men, who even when drunk spare the Turks. This is the more remarkable, because Mr. Forbes writes most bitterly of the corruption and jealousies in the Russian Army, believes the Turks, though avowed and hopeless barbarians, the most com- petent of the races in Turkey, and entertains for the Bulgarians the loathing which rough Englishmen usually express for men who display the vices born of slavery, He considers the Bulgarians better off than English labourers, and seems to forget that Eng- lish labourers' wives and daughters are not at the mercy of a foreign gendarmerie, bred to believe that a Christian has no rights.
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