text:  He seems to have altogether overlooked the boundless territory and growing population of Russia her forty millions of men--a number already exceeding that of any other kingdom in Europe--the inaccessible nature of her dominions the implicit and Asiatic devotion of her subjects the unrivaled vigour of her despotism and the fact that she had but that moment secured an immense tract of Polish territory and was stripping the Turks on the other side--that to the north she was touching on the Vistula and to the south had nearly reached the Danube