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PONIATOWSKI, Prince Joseph Poniatowski, born at Warsaw, the 7th May, 1763, and nephew of the last king of Poland, Stanis laus Augustus, was the son of Prince Andrew Poniatowski, lieutenant-general of artillery •in theservice of Maria-The resa, and grandson of the celebrated companion of Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden. The unfortunate Polish monarch had his young nephew, whom for some time he hoped to be able to make his heir, brought up with •the greatest care under his own eye. At the age of 16, Prince Joseph entered the Austrian service, in which his father enjoyed the highest reputation. He obtained rapid pro motion, and distinguished himself by his talents and splen • did valour during the war which broke out in 1787, between Austria and the Porte. He was then colonel of the em peror's dragoons, and aide-de-camp to Joseph the Second. He was severely wounded at the taking of &theca in the presence of the emperor, who lavished on him the most anxious care, and at all times testified to him his esteem and confidence. Notwithstanding the numerous advantages the Austrian service held out to him, he hastened to quit it, as soon as he thought his presence useful to his country. The Poles, about this time, hoped to ba.able to rid themselves of A foreign yoke. The diet, about the end. of .171)9, had de creed a new organization of the national army: Prince:Po, niatowski repaired, without delay, to Warsaw, and showed the greatest seal in f orm i ng • end instructing s new corps. In a short time the sepublic . entrusted him with the chief command of its army ; the citizens were inspired with the. greatest coafidence- wands him, amid he was became the idol of the soldiers. :1n , 1701, dial:his, the members of the diet, seed the whole nation, .)spud, esthto Ginn), a liberal constitution ; bet •the liberty and 'bap r piness of Poland did set -soft the views of Russia, and the antrar swum, was zest to tbestise the rebels. Prises . issepb,-wittli inferior forces, perforated prodigies Of valour, to oppose the invasion cif tbe northern hordes. TM brave Kosciusko then commanded a division under his orders. They obtained signal advantages at the battles of Zielessa and Dublinska, but a pusillanimous and shameful policy ren dered their valour useless. The prince soon learned that his uncle, King Stanitdaus, frightened at the menaces of Russia, had again submitted to the yoke, acceded to the confedera tion of Targowits, and signed the act drawn up by some Poles, who were the partisans of Russia ; and, besides, an armistice was concluded with the enemy. The faction who had laid hands on the feeble monarch, equally feared Prince Joseph's presence at the army, and at Warsaw. The Rus sians. also, feared lest he should excite the soldiers, who were entirely devoted to him, to sonic dangerous resolution ; and lest, in spite of the king's orders, lie should continue a war that hitherto had been to his glory. The earnest en treaties of his uncle, and the fear of drawing down on Po land greater misfortunes, induced him, at last, to give up the command of the anny, and even to exile himself from his unfortunate country. His fellow-soldiers caused a med et, with his effigy, to be struck, bearing the inscription,— " Miles imperatori," which they presented to him before his departure. Prince Joseph was travelling in foreign coun tries, when be learned, in 1794, that a new revolution had burst forth in Poland. The Russians had been driven out of Warsaw ; and the immortal Kosciusko had been declared general-in-chief of all the national forces. Poniatowski did not hesitate to repair to him, and to accept the command of a corps under his orders. The issue of this sanguinary struggle of the Poles for their independence is known : overwhelmed by the superior forces of the Russians and Prus sians, they were forced to yield to a foreign yoke. The victors ordered Joseph to quit Poland : be retired to Vienna, lived in retirement, and rejected every offer that was made him to accept foreign service. After the death of king Stauislaus, the emperor Paul pressed him again to accept the rank of Lieut.-General in the Russian army, and on the prince's re fusal, his patrimonial estates in Poland were confiscated. In 1798, king Frederick William restored to him those si tuated in that part of Poland which fell to his share, and per mitted him to retire thither. He then went to inhabit the estate of Tablonka, on the right bank of the Vistula, not far from Warsaw, and then gave himself up entirely to agricul tural pursuits. newer between France and Prussia, the battle of Jena ' in 1806, so fatal to the latter power, the en trance of the French armies into Poland, and the hopes that Napoleon excited in the bosoms of the Poles, once 111 J/ snatched Poniatowski from the sweets of private life. He first accepted the place of Minister of War in the Grind Duchy of Warsaw, lately established, and was able to or ganize in this country, already exhausted, a fine army cern posed of 12 regiments of foot, 16 of horse, and of several artillery companies. But, when in 1809, a fresh war bruit out between France and Austria, this little army was di. - poised in several countries and garrisons, so that when th 3 Arch-duke Ferdinand, at the head of 60,000 Austrians, passing through Gallicia, was preparing to fall upon the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, Poniatowski had but 8,000 Poles to oppose him. The priuce was advised to withdraw and not expose this precious remnant of the Polish army to cer tain destruction, but he would be obliged to fke and aban don shamefully to Ihe enemy the Grand Duchy. Ponia towsky and his brave soldieis rejected the cowardly advice and resolved to defend, step by step, the sacred soil of their country. He took up a position with his little army before Warsaw, near the village of Raszin, become famous in tli • annals of Poland, for the battle which was fought there the 10th May, 1809. The terrible action lasted the whole day; the Poles repelled every attack of the Arch-Duke's superior forces. Night at length came to separate the combatants, and the two chiefs had an interview that 831ile night. The valour of the Poles had made such an impres sion on their enemies, that the Arch-Duke offered Prince Joseph, in order not to recommence next morning a fresh struggle, the most honourable convention, permitting bins to repass the Vistula with the handful of heroes that were still left him, and to occupy Praga. Here he conceived the project of throwing himself into Gallicia, calling the inhabitants to arms, and of harassing the enemy by inter rupting his communications with Austria. General Doin browski, who was at Posen, seconded the movenieut by arming the inhabitants of the greater Poland. Success crowned an enterprise so full of boldness. The peasants came in crowds to place themselves under the banners of these valiant chiefs, who were fortunate enough to unite their forces under the walls of Cracow. in the mean time, Napoleon, at the head of his victorious army, had en tered Vienna ; the Arch-Duke Ferdinand immediately eva cuated Warsaw, and the other places he had occupied, to regain Moravia, and thus Poniatowski was enabled to re enter the ancient capital of Poland. During the Russian campaign in 1812, which terminated so fatally for the French and their allies, Poniatowaki and his breve Poles covered themselves with glory in every action they took part in. At the opening of the following campaign in 1813 he repaired to Saxony, where Napoleon entrusted him with the com mand of a corps composed of Polish and French troops. With out having the title of Marshal of France, the Emperor had ordered him the insignia, the rank and the honours. But Poniatowaki declared publicly, " that he was proud of Ix ing the chief of the Poles, and that no other distinction suited him." However, after the actions of the 16th of October, in which, by dint of valour and able manoeuvres, he again obtained the most brilliant success, Napoleon bad it pro claimed in the order of the day, that, " .wishieg.to,give Prince Poniatowski a last mark of his high esteem, aod at the same time to bind him more firmly to the destiny of France, be elevated him to the rank of marshal of the em pire." The 18th October, 1813, he was again eneaged during the whole day ; entrusted with the task of covering the retreat of the French army, after the glorious and fatal battle of three days at Leipric, be was arrived at the ex tremity of that city, where with a handful of Polish lancers he made several brilliant charges, in which be was wounded. He there ted the passage of his light troops, swam across the ITi t ss7 but at last, with a very slender suite, found himself on the banks of the river Plater. By a -fatal mistake the bridges had been broken down by the French. The enemy in vain cried out to him to surrender, though wounded again in the shoulder, he, did not hesitate to plunge into the current, relying on his home, whose strength could not resisf the rapidity of the stream. The unfortunate Prince disappeared in it. His body, which was not found r until der,94th, was embalmed and sent to Warsaw, where all the honours due to his rank were rendered by the orders of the Emperor Alexander. The memory of Prince Joseph Poniatowski is held in veneration in Poland, and ought to be respected by the brave of every dime. The enemies of hfirnation regretted the end of so generous an adversary, and his compeniens in arms still weep for their valliant chief', tbe;Polisb %wird, ,bim, a model of fidelity, likobim a warrior without fee end without reproach. PlitACT.—We have. been informed by a passenger, who arrivad'from Ceastastineple in the William, that on the Bth of October last, •the brig Asia wm• plundered. by pirates in tbe ArnhiPelege,,Peer the coast of Troy, who •took every thing valuable .they could put their hands mi, hsviog pre viously seemed the crew by tying them fem. The William would have Sharod tho same fate, but for hoisting lights and eentalint wham, 'hy .wbiels• the pirates inspposQ they had seteePiii l r7 l 9Bl4 o .#l.. ;The captain of thoWillianb, how ever an UP NEM idey, Wed Mem Turkish soldiers to pro tect the ship while leading It is a carious feet that Eng lishmen Amid be obliged to hire Turks to protect thew from the Greek piratee.—FalscoutAPacket, ~______. • , °I/14 v ag C FACTO .1) eA11 44 0 , isIONIAND zo ~,