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 202 EFFECT riiODUCED BY TlIK CHAPTER XIII. CHAP. XIII. Tidings which kindled in England a zeal for llie invasion of the Crimea. Siege of BtlulriA. The closing events of the summer campaign in Bulgaria did so much to kindle that zeal which forced on the invasion of the Crimea, that it seems right to speak of them here, uot with any notion of putting into the set form of ' lIi.story ' tilings which all Europe knew at the time in the most authentic way, but rather for the purpose of showing how the armies at Varna, and the states- men and the people in England, were touched, were stirred, nay, governed, by the tidings which came from the Danube, rriiice Paskie- vitch stood charged to execute with liis OAvn hand the plan of campaign which his Sovereign liad persuaded him to design;* and accordingly, in the summer of the year 1854, he found liiiii- self marching on the Danube at the head of the I'ussian army then engaged in attempting an in- vasion of the Ottoman Empire. lie had insisted, as we have seen, that, as the needful condition of a prosperous canii)aign, Silistria must fall by the first of iNIay.i" It wiis not before the miildle of • See anU', clmp. iv. + Iliid,