The Sun. — London, England, 1812-08-06 00:00:00

Gentlemen Deputies of the Confederation of roland,- 1 have heard with interest what you have re lated to me. —• • Poles ! I would have thought and acted like °11L: like you 1 would have voted in the Assem yat Warsaw. Love of the country is the first 41 Ity of civilized man. " In my situation I have many interests to con ciliate, any i nane d u ti es t o perform-. Had I reigned during the Ist, 2d, or 3d partition of Poland, I / i v ° 11 1(1 have armed all my people to support you. a lruediately that victory enabled me to restore Y° ll r ancient laws to your capital, and a part of /°lir provinces, I did it, wfthout prolonging a k ar Which would have continued to spill the blood ° I ray subjects. " I love your nation. For sixteen yearl I have your soldiers by my side, in the fields of Italy, ks well as those of Spain. A " 1 applaud all you have done ; I authorise `Lie efliuts yovvish to make : I will do every t iling that depends on me to: second your re tolutions. " If your efforts are unanimous, you may con, ive the hope of reducing your enemies to ac nowlerre,your rights ; ,but in these countries, le distant and extensive, it is entirely upon the . 4 ttanimity Of the efforts of the._ population which crvers them, that you must found your hopes of tuccess. I have held, to you the same language since Y first appearance in Poland : I must add here, t hat I have guaranteed to the Emperor-of Austria the integrity of his dominions; and that I cannot lianction any manoeuvre, or any movement, which kay tend to trouble the peaceable possessittn . of ' l lla.t remains to him of the Polish provinces.— Let Lithuania; Saniogitia,Wetespsk , Polotsk, Mo- Ail° w, Volhynia, the Ukraine, Podolia, be animated ‘;ith the same spirit which I have seen in Great Oland, and. Providence will crown with success le 4 ir holy cause. lie will recompence that devo tk°ll to your country which has rendered you so , 'terestingi and acquired you so many claims to mY esteem and protection, upon which you may depend under every circumstance." [The Moniteur, of the 29th and 30th, contains t)thiri g farther respecting the armies or the Po gsh Confederation.] FURTHER' EXTRACTS. /tames of the Alembers of the Deputation from t he General Confederation of Poland : Messieurs Joseph Wyhieki, Valentine Sobolewski, Senators Palatines. AleZander Count Beniski, Nuncio of the district tf Oborneiki.—(Deiartinent of Poinan). _ - _ Stanislaus Count Soltyk, Nuncio of the district of Szylouriee. Nepartment of Radom.) Ignatius Count Stadnieki,N uncio of Koniecic.—(Department of Radom). kat - thew Wadzinski, Nuncio of the district of Brzesk.— (b epartment of Bromberg). Ladislaus Count Tanio;ski, Nuncio of the district of Lu 111rtow.—.(1:00partment of Lublin). Stanislaus Count Alexandrowidz, Nuncio of Losick.—(De kit:Lent of Liedlee). SP EECH OP MONSIEUR THE COVNT PALATINE WY- BIM', PRESIDENT OF THE DEPUTATION. " SIRE, " The Diet of the Duchy of Warsaw re-united at the approach of your Majesty's puissant armies, baling bad in view to give force to the opportu nities offered them by the localities, that they blight pot be in any wise deficient, has discerned, 4 ° ll l the first step, that they have rights to re- C laim, and duties of the most elevated order to t ail. By an unanimous voice, it has constituted' itself a general- Confederation of Poland ; it has declared Poland re-established in her rights, and 4 , 11 the usurpatory and arbitrary acts which would l m!e destroyed her existence, 'to be annulled and %no force. SIRE, —Your Majesty labours for posterity and for history, as all Europe cannot misunder- I tand our rights, no more than We can miscon !ive our duties. A nation tree and independarit i roln the earliest ages, we shall not lose our ter htory an d our independence, neither by a treaty 'le by conquest, but through perfidy and treason. l 'reason never-could constitute a right. We have li een bur last King dragged to Petersburg, and there perish in opprobity, and oar natioi now I ° l ll . into pieces and patted amongit princes against whom she had not made .war, and who had 110 t conqueredher. • • Our rights will, therefore,. appear evident ii t he eyes of men and in the eyes of God himself. — We have a right to declare ourselves Poles—to re establish the throne of the Jagellons and Sai l e skis--to seize again on our national .existence— t° re-assemble our divided members—to arm our- I Qlves for our native country, and to prove, in ' 4 )rabating for her that we are worthy descendants of our forefathers. - Cr Whatever constitutes our rights constitutes likewise our duties. Thanks to your Gracious Majesty, four millions of Poles are now free, and governed by the Polish laws ; but ,the happiness Which they enjoy has not, under the existing cir eutastances, suffocated the sentiments of duty exacted by their country, which arc engravers on their hearts, and are connvanded by Heaven itself. "Our brethren, forming the greater part of the Population of Poland, are still curbed under the o ppression of the Russians. We dare to reclaim t ' h eir,rigbts, and to present a centre of se-union for the whole Polish family. " Could your Majesty disavow or blame us for "ing done what our duty, as Poles, exacted of 4 15 ao.ci for having re-assumed our rights I—Yes, Sire, the Polish country ig proclaimed front-ttis day ; she exists in equity, but still she . exist in fact ? duty and justice legitiinatC our resolution, but will the strengh be on our side ? And God ; has he not siifficiently punished Poland for her di vision ; will he perpetuate our misfortunes ; and shall the Poles, who have nourished the love of their country, descend into the grave, melancholy and without hope?—No! you, Sire, have been raised up by Providence ; its strength is put into your Majesty's hands, and the existence of our Duchy is due to_the puissance of your arms ! " The Confederation has deputed us to wait on you, to submit its act of confederation to your supreme sanction, and to request your puissant protection for the kingdom of Poland. cc Say, Sire: The Kingdom of Poland exists,' and that decree will to the world be equivalent to the reality " We are sixteen millions of Polenders, among whom there'is . not one Whose blood, .Whose arm, whose fortune, is not devoted to youf Majesty. Every sacrifice will appeal light to us, when it is to effect the restoration of our our native country froin the Dwina to the Dniester, from the Borys thenes to the Oder. One single word from your your Majesty will devote to you every arm, every effort, and every heart. This unprecedent war, which Russia, notwithstanding the remembrance of Au' steflitz, of Pultusk, of Eylau, of Friedland, .notwithstanding the oaths taken at Tilsit and atEr futi, has dared to declare, is, we doubt not, Sire, a decree of Providence, which, touched with the mis fortunes of our nation, has resolved to put an end to them. This second Polish war is scarcely com menced, and already we bring our homage to your Majesty, in the capital of the Jagellons. 'Already are your Majesty's eagles on the Dwina, and the armies of Russia . separated, divided, cut off, wandering - . about, and seek in vain to re-unite and form themselves. . . " The interest, of your Majesty's empire re quires the re-establishment of Poland, and pro bably the hon Our of France is equally interested in it. If the dismemberment of Poland was the sign of the declension of the French Monarc4, may her re-establishment be a proof of the pros perity to which your Majesty has elevated France. The oppressed Poland has turned het' eyes for al- most three centuries towards France, that great and generous nation. But fate has reserved this ter mination for the head of the fourth Dynasty, Tor NAPOLEnti the GREAT, before whom the policy of three centuries Were but a momentary object, and the space from South to North but a single point. We present to your Majesty the Act of Confe deration, W.:ich claims the revival and exittence of Poland. We renew before you, ,in the 'name 'of all our brethren to preserve the solemn engage ment to the very end,. and with the concurrence ,of ali our minds, of all our means, and, should it' be needful, of all the blood which runs in our veins, to carry on the enterprise which we shall not have formed in vain,. if. your . Majesty will deign to prevent it." KONIGSBERG, JULt 9.—The following has been published here : " Conformably with an order of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, the fortifications of Dantzick art to be considerably augmented with in a very short space of time, and eight thou, sand labourers out of the Prussian territory have been commanded to work on them without delay. According to the strict. alliance- which unites the two Governments of France and Prussia, it is highly. desirable that this demand be corn plied with as far as possible. These labourers will 'be. regularly .Paid every Saturday at _Dantzick, for the work of the week past.. They shall re ceive from one guilder to one guilder and three groseliens Prussian currency per day, according to the nature of the ground and the done. "In giving the inhaabitants of this city informa tion of these dispositions, we invite all those who, by their situation, have it in tletir power to fulfil this object, to answer to this call, which is of great interest, and to announce themselves in the shortest possible time at the Secretary of the Municipality's Office, where they will be en rolled for the purpose of being. afterwards placed under the directions of Colonel RICHEMONT, Engineer in Ohief at Dantzic." Yesterday the RECORDER made.: report' to the PRINCE REGENT of the following capital convicts in Newgate,s. viz. :—Joseph Metcalf, for stealing in a dwelling-honse ; John Richardson, fora high way robbery ;. Catherine Foster, for taking a false oath to obtain letters_ of administration ; Joseph, alias Joseph Woolman Thompson, for forgery ; Thomas Collicott, for ,forgery ;- Mary Best,. for uttering .forged notes ; James Gofl, for stealing in a dwelling-house; and Eleanor, alias' Ellen ChaMbers, for a like offence ; when • Catherine Foster and Joseph Woolman Thompson were or dered for' execution on Wednesday next. ntts:±MiNsTM MEETING. Yesterday a Meeting of persons calling them selves Friends to ParliamentarY Reform took place 41 Palace Yard, Westminster. The busiztess be- , . ing opened with the usual forms— , Major CARTWRIGI-17 came forward to propose certain Resolutions, and "a Petition to riAii.nielit, on the subject for the consideration of whxh the Meeting was called. He pr aced his motion with a speech, in which he recommended to theM two patriotic Societies which had lately sprung up with a view to procure a Reform in Parliament, namely, the Hampden, and the Union Clubs. — Having described the nature of these Societies, and their proceedings, at some length,,he advert ed to a pamphlet which he had published thirteen yeats ago, in ans‘Vet to a publication Sir James Stewart; and contended that a tax upon ca pital, which the Chancellor of the Excliegler had given them reason to expect, from a hint which he had thrown out at the close of the last Session of Parliament, was similar "to the pl_ an recom- mended by Sir James Stewart, and which he (Ma jor C.) had combated. [Here he read. copious extracts from the arguments.he had' nsed on that occasion.] He then went on to complain of the exertions made by those in power to stifle the voice of the people when raised to assert their right to-at Reform in Parliatnent, and observed, that no fewer than 37 persons Were now confined in Lancaster jail for no other offence, than that they had met to consider of petitioning Parlia=' merit for a Reform. Ile concluded by moving certain' Resolutions' against 'a Tax.on Capital. 'as being-equivalent to confiscation, anti as throwing - all property into the :in - ids of the Treasury, and calling for a Parliamentary - RefOrm." A Mr. thams.secOnded,the Resolutions, which were then put and carried, • Major CARTWRIGHT then came forward to pr•'- pose for the adoption of the Meeting a' Petition to the House of Commons, 'founded on the Resolu tions which they had just agreed to. This Petition was read .by Mr. Harris; who afterwards offered a few observations, on the subject. He gave it as his opinion (tho Ugh in this he differed from the Major), that the Petition would be Of no use, and censured the conduct of Lhe ins and the outs, on .a recent occasion, . when 'they had appeared content to sacrifice the best interests of the coun try to their own ambition. Mr. MARTII , T . (the Mem!)er for Galway), though he might.differ from the Meeting generally as to the means proper to be Otel, was as anxious as any man could pe to attain the beneficial object they bad in view. He was friendly to Reform, if it could be proved to him that it could downy good; but he could not think that an annual Par liament would he t in any respect preferable to a septennial one ; but, on the.contrary, he thought it would lead to greater evils than were at present experienced. In the -recent proceedings, he dis approved of the conduct both of Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning. If neither could yield to the other, he thought tbOth g t t•• have given way to the country. He did not, pprove it the Petition. Sir T. BURn TT complimented the last speaker on t'.c man,y manner in which lie had come f(».- war 1, and lamented that the. Gentlemen of Eng lard d d not generally do the sate. Hewas sorry to say it, bnt the English Gentlemen, instead of coming forw•ird t's they ought, on au occasion like the present, seemed content to sit at home, .and have their estates confiscated undertheir very noses, ra ther than give the people an opportunity of resuming their digni'yby asserting their rights and liberties. Formerly the Gentlemen of England would have acted in a different manner; formerly they would have held themselves ready to head, to 'conduct, and to direct the people, and, if necessary, -to sacrifice and - shed their blood in the cause. A Par liamentary Reform, he was satisfied, would prove highly beneficial to the country, as if it did not make men more „honest, it would make knavery more likely to be detertq - and punished . To shorten the function of Parliaments was, in his opinion, very desirable. If this , were done, those Who-had seats in Parliament would be obliged freivently to give an account of their conduct, to their con Stituents ; and -he could - not help observing, in the Words of - a very homely proverb, that ," Short accounts make 'lung friends." It would, 'more over, in a great degree,. prevent that beastly, infamous,, and corrupt connection, which at present existed between Members - of Parliament and the Treasury—he would not speak of Minis ters, as it appeared that they were but straws float ing down the stream, without power to direct its course. The system was such, that whatever men appeared in Parliament as Ministers, they Were to be attended to as oracles-1-and - any mea sures that they might propose were to be carried. -Yet those who have thus made themselves the tools of the overbearing oligarchy, called. themselves the guardians of the public purse. —They were the keepers of the public purse ! Ile thought they ought rather to be called the cut purses of the public. When it was .seen that the guardians of the public purse held it constantly . open for any thief to put his hand in, he thought it would be felt that it Was much better it should have no guardians at all. Whoever were Ministers now, they were to be looked up to as capable of ably guiding the destinies of the State at a crisis momentous like the present, and they might say to the people, as Joseph said to the Egyptians, " We have this day bought out and your lands." There was however- this difference between the two cases. In former times, when those on the land were bought with the land, they were fed by the purchaser ; but now the bread was taken from, their mouths by the ,purchaser, and the people were bought with their own money. lie con cluded by telling the multitude, that had not ,his colleague- (Lord CochraneLbeen confined to his bed, by indiSposition, he would have seconded the motion on the state of the nation, which he (Sir Francis) had brought forward on the last day. of the Session ; and had not that indisposition con tinued, he (Lord C.) would have had the• honour of meeting them that day. p.fo k e retiring, he expressed his hope that this Meeting would serve as -an example. to the Country to .persevere in as serting their rights ; and 'when • that was unani mously done, the Borougb-morq - ,Tering faction must, like the Devil, tremble and obey. ; , This speech was Loudly applauded, the Pe • titiow.was agreed to, and the Meeting broke up. SUSSEX ASSIZES. LEWES, rrutsDA, AUGUST 4. Esc i wt GPNEItAL PHILIPniN. ' James itobinon, John Hughes Hatter, and William Turner, were indicted for a coil - spiraci to aid the escape of Arnaud i ) hilippOn add Philip Aiigate Garnier, French prisoners of war, from Oswestry, in Shropshire: . • Sergeant BEST opened the care, and detaii ed the evidence, which.was as follows . Mr. Toosley proved, that General Phi'ippon wag a prisoner at ()swestry', nd that the last time he saw hint was about twelve o'clock on the 30th of June. Garnier 'lad also been a prisoner about three years. Philippon was a tall man, about six feet, thin, with a scar over his eye, and usual ly wore a grey coat, with a blue great-coaL Gar pier was about five feet six inches, thin and pale, end wore a blue coat, with a brown great coat. — The defendant, Robinson, had lately taken a 41 within three miles of Qswestry, but had not car- ried on much-business as a miller. On , the 30th of June he sent his . servant to Shrewsbury, to get a weighing machine, and directed him to wait his coming At length, in the evening ; Robinson came in a gig, and had a pony tied to the shafts ; he told the .man to go forward to. Haygate with him; and the man rode the- pony until they overtook a Gentleman tin the road, a small man in a - blue coat and brown great coat. They went to Haygate, which is on the Birmingham road, and there Robinson bespoke a chaise ; and himself, with two Gentlemen, got into it, and went away for Birmingham. The post-boys then traced Ro binsou and tha two Gentlemen to the Shakes.. peace Tavern, at Birmingham, where they, break- , fasted the next morning. The next morning a : travelling chariot, with a dicky-box, took them from the Shakespeare. It appeared that Robin son had passed through Birmingham about ten days before, and had bespoke this carriage. at a Mr. Wneeley's, a coach-maker, at Birmingham, and had agreed at the same time with a post chaise driver, of the name of . Yoxall, to go with 4hini as a. servant, for which he was to give him 1/. a day, and a new bat and coat, and told him to be ready to setoff on the Ist of July. Ac cordingly, Iroxall came with the carriage to the Shakespeai.e. He then travelled with them as servant, and hired the horses, &c. on the road. He did not know the two Gentlemen who ac- coMpanied Robinson, and he never heard theta' speak. At length - they arrived at Rye, and were put down at a public-house kept by the defeudan; Hughes. While they were at Birmingham Robinson re ceived a letter,* in the hand-writing -of lik,ghes, Signed by Jones, that all was well and .ready.-... Robinson, and the two persons with him; con tinued at Rye some days. In the mean time, the escape of General Philippon was made public, and a sharp look-out was kept along the coast fcr any boat going out or coming in from sea ; at length, on the 12th of July, an open boat was. seen rowing into Rye, early in the morning, which had Robinson, Hatter, and Turner, on board. Robinson got on shore before the officers could overtake him, and upon their questioning the two other defendants as to who he was, they said he resided in that neighbourhood. - He was traced to the house of Hughes, and when the officers entered the house his boots were wet with sea water. lie said, upon being questioned, it was so, and that he had,been out all night at sea, mackerel fishing. Upon this statement, himself, Hughes, and the other two men, were taken into immediate custody. There was no distinct evi dence as 'to the identity of the persons of Philip pon and his companion; but all the witnesses gave a description of their persons, answering to the description given of them by Mr. Toosely, the agent at Oswestry. ,Upon this evidence, the Jury found them Guilty. ELPHICK V. ERSKINE. This was an action for an assault, by a farmer, against General Erskine. The _statement of the plaintiff was, that he was out coursing on his own lands, near Eastbourne, with his 'son, and had just put up a hare, 'at the same time that the hounds of a Mr. Bean were. hunting another hare. A dispute nrose Whether they had crossed each other'S game ; when the General treated the plain tiff with much abusive language—told - him he was' not, worth a yard of land, to which the farmer gave -him the lie. The General immediately laid his whip across his head, and gave him a beating .With a stick; which he saatclicerfrom a neighbour ing shepherd. For the defendant, it tvas stated, that be had nothing to du with the hunting on either side, that he was merely riding across the Downs in company with a, friend ' and seeing the dogs in pursuit,,he drew up to look at the chase. That the plaintiff very rudely came up, told him he had no business •there, and provoked him by the most insulting language, upon which he struck Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 501. His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, Com mander in chief, and General CALVERT, trans' acted busii*ss of a military nature, tits half-pat seven o'clock yesterday evening, at his office in the Horse Guards. The following is said to be an exact statement of the daily allowances granted to the- prisoners of war in France, at the regular depots, calcu lated for each hundred men : beef, 52A lib.—vege tables, 521-lih.--- , barley, 100 oz. with as much salt, as is sufficient to season the broth, of which each man is allowed one quart ; they are allowed like wise 150 lib. of bread, made of marketable wheat, ground into flour, every thing included except the broad bran. IVe are sorry to state, that a dreadful accident occurred this morning in Russel-street, Covent Garden. . A house, situate opposite the North West corner of Drury-Lane ,Theatre, fell down, and buried in the ruins eight of the workmen who were•employed in repairing it. Every effort was immediately made to extricate the unhappy suf ferers,' aiNd seven of them were dug - oat alive, but are all dreadfully bruised; one of them expired before he could be taken to the Hospital. Seve ral of the others were considered to be in a most dangerous state. A poor Woman with a basket was passing at the time the house fell, and as the basket has been found among the ruins, there can be but little .doubt that she is also buried uuder them, ~~~~,..