London, August 11. At the moment the armies mustered by the 
allies against Russia are limited, apart from their own troops, to: 

1. a small Piedmontese auxiliary corps of 15,000 men—a corps 
extorted from Piedmont by the concerted threats of England, 
France and Austria. This bloodletting of Piedmont was one of the 
conditions Austria made for selling its adhesion to the “Treaty of 
2 December” *”’; 

2. the Foreign Legion, amounting to a few thousand troops—an 
olla podrida* of occidental mercenaries enticed bit by bit surrepti- 
tiously and iilegaliy away from their respective countries; 

3. an Italian Legion of 4,000 to 5,000 men, still in the process of 
formation; 

4. a Polish Legion, existing in the form of a project; 

5. finally, in the distant future, a Spanish auxiliary corps, to 
represent “dire financial necessity”’. 

This motley sample card of volunteer corps and diminutive 
armies provides a map of the Europe England and France have in 
their retinue at this moment. Can one conceive of a more 
consummate caricature of the army of nations which the first 
Napoleon rolled into motion against Russia?