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mount of surplus, but he believed it would be very small, fate of the refugees, and either to allow them to return to
if any. With respect to the remark of the Hon. Member their homes, or to furnish them with passports for other coun-
'who last addressed the House, he would only say, that a tries. But these representations made at that time, and at a
fiaed sum was agreed to be given by the French Govern- later period, frequently repeated, and addressed to the Confe-
n.ent, which went to cover all claims. 'The surplus had rence, were always left unanswered ; the illustrious Courts
been paid over by a 'Treasury minute under Lord Liver- having reserved the right of making a final decision re-
peol's Government to the Commissioners of Woods and specting them. In the meantime the number of emigrants
Forests, and the authority for that payment was that of an at Cracow daily increased, in consequence of the measures
Act of Parliament. As to the payment of theinterest where taken to expel them from Gallicia, a course of things which
tl.e principal was withheld, he admitted it was done by the was facilitated by the circumstance that no opposition was
Commissioners ; but he was not prepared to enter into that offered to their passing from Podgorze (in Gallicia) to Cra-
part of the question. He had no objection to produce all cow. The second reproach made to the Government is
the documents on the subject, if they should be called for ; the having tolerated subjects of the protecting Powers in
lut he did strongly object to re-opening the whole question their militia, and among these individuals some who had
for re-adjudication in that House, which was not the proper even borne arms against their Sovereigns. This fact has
!lace for it, and certainly he was the less disposed to do so, never been denied ;so far from it, the present Government,
rs Mr. D'Arcy Talbot had himself signed an agreement to et the commencement of its organization, proposed to the
abide by the award. Commissioners' Plenipotentiary to dissolve the militia as it
After a few words firms Mr. LYNCH, which did not then existed, and to re-place it by recruiting among the
reach us,
.natives of the country, after dismissing all suspected per-
Mr. GOULBURN said, that when the Treasury nmi- ions. The rejection of this offer by the rescript of the
note arranged this matter under the Duke of Wellington's list of May, 1833, reduced the Senate to the necessity
Government, in 1829, he had thought it all ended ; and leaving the militia on the footing on which it was formed.
eel tainly nothing had since occurred to make it desirable The third accusation is founded upon the events which
that the matter should be re-opened, as all the parties had ye have so recently had to deplore, and the sad conse-
a right to appeal from the adjudication. He doubted much quences of which we are doomed to endure. These are,
whether, in point of form, the parties had the power to the windows broken on the 18th of December last, the
apply to Parliament on the subject, unless the consent of nurder of Pawlowski, and a murren thrown into a window
the Crown were given—for when they applied they did an the day of a ball given by the citizens, according to
not appeal so much to the justice of Parliament, as to 'he statement of the Vienna Gazelles. The first and se-
the liberality of the Crown. Under all these circum- cond of these events, if we may judge from their perpetra-
stances, if the matter were pressed to a division, he must :ors, would certainly not have taken place if the Conference
oppose the motion. if Residents had been pleased to adopt resolutions in ac-
. The House then divided, when there appeared— mordance with the communication made by the undersigned,
For the motion 39 lated May 30, 1835, and a copy of which is hereto annexed,
Against it
Majority - —lo who (afterwards) broke the windows, and of De Eysmont,
OCCUPATION OF CRACOW
one of the principal accomplices, as it now begins to appear,
Lord DUDLEY STUART said he should be sorry to in the murder of Pawlowski. The fact that the note thus
stand in the way of a question interesting to Irish Members, presented was left fur the space of nearly a year without
but having given notice of the present motion so long ago any answer whatever, was one cause of these melancholy
a; before Easter, and having been precluded from bringing occurrences, which, from the character of the individuals
it forward on a former occasion by the Government having Above-mentioned, had been foreseen and dreaded by the
g •.•.rm precedence to Orders of the Day on motion days, he undersigned. The maintenance of political associations,
it It bound, under those circumstances, to proceed. He and the transmission of inflammatory writings, by the Poll: h
1 o ied, before he sat down, to be able to show that the ques- -migrants of France and Belgium, cannot be laid to the
n was important, though it might not appear to be so to charge of the Government, since every province bordering on
th we who had only superficially considered it. He trusted fur State has a well guarded ft ontier and customs guard, and
to he able to prove that the question he was about to sub-
ill the post-offices of our city are in the hands of the foreign
to the House was a question interesting to the country, authorities. As to emissaries being sent, and receiving per-
to Europe, to humanity. A question affecting the charac- mission to roman here, I may be allowed to observe that not
t,r of the present Government, and particularly the con-
thee (tithe Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. one of these individuals can be proved to have been furnished
,
a passport to Cracow. All bore passports to Austrian
l' Le should succeed in showing the House that there were wr.n
Gallicia, and merely entered our territory as passers through
Pereementary grounds for the present motion he trusted
m I it. 'lle Government of Cracow can hardly be made re-
Lor Ito put aside his motion, if he felt so inclined, unc the House would support him, and not allow the Noble mponsible for the signature affixed by the police of Breslau
pon .° passports delivered by Prussia, through Cracow, to the
so one flimsy excuse, or some unsatisfactory explanation. Austrian territories ; nor could it be expected to turn in-
Tee tention which he had to submit to the House was for lividuals thus provided out of the road pointed out to fire
Copies of any correspondence between this Govern-
tompetcnt authorities. This was the less to be expected,
ment and the Governments of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, as the President, confiding in his line of action, represented
or between this Government and the Government of Cra• co the Conference at the time the inconvenience that might
',6, relating to the entrance of foreign troops into the ter-
ritery of that republic ; also, copies of any correspondence .nsue from the arrival of many persons under feigned names
Lc tween this Government and the before-mentioned Go —giving notice even as the individuals in question appeared
it Cd tnicating e arriv of M.
s ernments relating to the appointment of a British Consu.,
Dolicoaracow—an under thehatm naecomm ofu the
Bneek, of that ofal Cybulski
i,t Cracow." This question had been so ably expoundel
under the name of Richard, and of the arrival of Szabicki
mt former occasion by the Hon. Member for Ly nn, and
lie, facts were so fresh in the recollection of the House. .radar the name of Kazarezeek. In support of his asser-
Ilist lie would content himself with a vm ry brief state ion he cominuoicated their original passports to the Resi-
.
'cote. These, Sir, are incontestible facts, w hich are easily
neait. The State of Cracow, though small in extent, an:.
iroved by otiicial papers and correspondence, arid which
lonited in population, was thought of sufficient ien,-;ortanci he Resident of his Imperial Apostolic isilejesty cannot
to be made the subject of a separate convention, whirl
'illy %,.ithout contradicting the evidence of those do-
te,,s signed by the three Great Powers, Austria, RtlS3i,l. • nments, of the traees of which he must himself
and Prussia. By the 18th Article of the Treaty of Vi-
sa ncia that separate convention was said to be of the
.11 efforts are partly sod, I fent it necessary to
me validity as if it was word for' word in the text of
'le up my functions, and hays, aecordinzly tendered my
esignation throw li the medium of the residents. The
tosit treaty. The first article declared Cracow and its ter-
.s
rit.r-y to be free, independent, and a strictly neutral city, I
;onferecee, by virtue of the foil poweis with which it is
u the protection of the three Great Powers. Tne sixth
furnished, has allowed me to do Si;. I have, therefore, now
eele declared that the three States were bound to protee'
to other wish then to justify my conduct to your High-
! me .;cutralit y of Cracow, and that no forci) under
less, and xdr, S 3 my regret at without being sun-
,l I reteoce whatsoever should he allowed to enter dm
tetea of any 'atilt, to support the weight of punishment;
:,;fur.. To this all the three Powers were parlies, atir
Ind this in the eyes botll of the inhubitanis of the country
any "tie of thew could not do anything to violate it IA ithou.
ma str,ina•ers, who were wituesses when the Polish Re-
,g guilty °fa breach of faith to e.zelt other, as well as t+
ecs, the simple summons of the Government,
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country. In 1831 a Russian three entered the State _• , ,• „ „
pointing. out the point of assemblsge,
Cisleow, and rernaioed there for two months. Wirers
.ma lest entered they promised to pay for the support 0,
witted Cracow with a docility and resignation unex-
wupled in such cases, and without any other inanifes-
tils troops (though this was a point in no way affecting tin
tation of their sentiments than tears and mutual embraces.
ceeesiim), and on going away the General refused all pay
Humbled, suninioried daily by Corporals to the Com-
raent, stating that it was a just punishment for their eisal
manclir --General. it was easy for me to perceive, from the
feetion. In 1832 the Three Powers, without giving Emig- :first moment of the inilitary occupation of the town, that
land any information of intending. such a step, took posses- the good will of the protecting Powers towards me as
slog of Cracow with a number of troops. In 1833 the
Chief' of the Gov ernment had either been destroyed, or was
three Powers took on themselves to abolish the Consti • I
• . ansummerstooa.am not competent to judge whether the
m :aims, and establish a new one. Now had the old Constm-
eollecting of- the emigrants into a body, and the expelling
t ion been one of the worst, and the new one one of the best,'` them simultaneously., has been of service to the country or
be contended that the act would be no less a violation o'
t he T adjacent provinces, nor shall I undertake to prove that the
'Treaty of Vienna and an interference with that indepyn-
s.t. •
• • • -•- • - alt the ghat Cracow before the arrival of the troops,
v, as not the case. By the old Constitution the Representative
must, in the absence of physical strength, have enjoyed a
Assembly had the right to choose its President. The net,
Constitution vested the appointment of the President in moral and well felt influence over the minds of the strangers
the three Power's. Under the old Constitution there were
inhabiting the country. It would be superfluous for me to
dwel on these considerations, which ycur Highness, in your
twelve Senators ; the new reduced them to eight. Nine
wisdom, which is ever guided by sentiments of justice and
limn professorships in the University' were abolished, and amongst
goodness, will sufficiently appreciate." He should add that
mn that of Polish literature and law, as if they sought. to he had good reason to know that this document was au-
destroy every vestage of Polish nationality. The first ar-
thentic._( Hear.)
tide of the new Constitution declared Cracow a free, inde-
pendent, neutral State, under the protection of the three An Hon. MEI4IBER said the subject was too much impor-
Posvers. One of the excuses for this armed occupation of
taut to be discussed in so thin a House, and moved that
Cracow was, that it was becoming a focus of disaffected the House be counted.
persons, who entered into plots dangerous to the Govern-
As only 31 Members were present the House adjourned
meats of the three Powers. But what did these plots at Half-past Seven.
etnr.unt to ? Notwithstanding a most rigorous police, in-
quisitorial proceedings, and numerous arrests, all they had
been able to discover amounted to nothing more than this :
It appeared that on time occasion of the illumination in ho-
your of the birthday of the Emperor of Russia, a window
was broken by some person flinging a chesnut, and a per-
son was found murdered. He certainly believed that there
. were, plote and treachery, but the plots were on the part of
these Powers themselves, and the treachery was practiced
by tl e paid agents of Russia.—[An Honourable Member
here moved that the House be counted, but forty Mem
hers being present, the Noble Lord proceeded.] He
contersded that there had been no case whatever to
jestify the three Powers in what they had done.—
(Cries of " hear, hear.") One of the pretences was that
seditious books had been found in *the hands of some of
the stetilents of the University, but on inquiry being made
by the •Government of Cracow it was discovered that these
seditio ; books had been placed in the hands of the stu-
dents lay the Professor of Russian literature, and Ile still
held Iris place, notwithstanding this fact. There was enough
to she w that Russia, from designs of her own, was, through
her al.:cints, exciting disaffection, in order to have a pre-
tence i'or interference. He admitted that, whilst the three
Powers: bound themselves to protect the independence of
Cracow's., that State was bound not to harbour disaffected per-
sons. ^i hero was a stipulation that Cracow should not har-
bour re tvaways, persons under prosecution, or deserters; and
that on such being found on her territory she was bound to
surrendlter them, under a proper escort, to the guard appoint-
ed at t'h e frontier to receive them. He contended that the
only gro and or pretence was, that Cracow harboured the Po-
lish refugees, but he denied that the Polish refugees came
within. the description contained in this stipulation. He
really thought the conduct of the three Powers so infamous
that, is' a conspiracy was hatched at Cracow, and any of the
Powers subverted in consequence, and a democratic form
of Government substituted in the place of the present form,
the aty of Vienna would fully warrant such conduct.
He hen argued the case as if Cracow had refused to com-
ply the wishes of the three Powers. But no refusal
had ht e a made. An order was sent to have the political
refuge, te ; dismissed from the territory, and 300 were imme-
diately 'desired to leave the city. One would have sup-
posed titat so little opposition, or, to speak more correctly,
so mum tli resignation, would have purchased some immunity
from title outrageous demands of the three Powers. But
no sucl.t result had taken place. He would read to the
House,. -on this point, a letter which had appeared in the
ForeiLn Quarterly for January last, from the President of
Cracow- to Prince Metternich. It bore the date of the 25th
of February, 1836 :
" Ire the official letter with which your Highness was
pleasedl lately to honour me, and the perusal of which left
a most, slistressing impression upon my mind, I find that,
after a II the measures which it has been judged necessary to
take iet the name of the illustrious Courts, the Government
of wh'r-h I was a member, still lies under the imputation
(founrit.d not upon facts, but merely on reported assertions)
of havilni;, through my indulgence, or, what is worse, through
my cup able connivance, encouraged the Polish emigrants to
ro:nai n et Cracow, where their presence proved as prejudicial
zc the.' free city as it was to the adjacent provinces oldie pro
tect it g Powers. How far this accusation is founded in truth
thine n'l circumstances must one day bring to light. In the re-
.of Cracow, which thv illustrious Courts wished to
ave gm mverned according to the fundamental laws which
they- -iv' ire magnanimous enough to lay down, time funce
twits o f the President of the Senate were exclusively
limited to the power of making propositions to the Go-
verment -elative to improvements in the administration of
the ccurt try, and his signature sanctioned the decisions made
by the :n; ijority of the Senate. It will be impossible, how-
ever, to. point out any decision, any rescript of the Senate,
flout v. hich time results that have been stated can be de-
duced, or which can be adduced in proof of this supposed
tender: cy. The residence and protection of the Polish emi-
r,„,',.."'fik4i,*Gracow can never be imputed to the Senate ; still
r, to the undersigned ; since, during the recog-
sit '••-• State, the Government requested the coot-
' with the reorganisation by the note of the
3, to he pleased to decide upon the future

I.

PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION.

FRENCH CLAIMS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

THURSDAY, MAY 25.
Motion made, and Question put,—" That a Select Committee
be appointed, to take into Consideration the claims of D'Arcy
Talbot, and other claimants on the French Compensation Fund :
_(Mr. Mackinnon :)—The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 39. g
Attwood, Thos.—Piinningham O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co.
Bonham, R. F —Harwich O'Connell, Daniel—Kilkenny
Bridgeman. Hewitt—Ennis O'Connell, Morgan—Meath
Broadwood, Henry—Bridgwater O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co.
Bulwer, H. L—Marylebone Palmer, General—Bath
Chapman, M. L.—Westmeath Palmer, IL—Berkshire
Chichester, Arthur—Honiton Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co.
Crawford, W S.—Dundalk Praed, W. Mackworth—Yarmouth
Evans, G. - Dublin Richards, J —Knaresborough
Fector, John Minet —Dover Shaw, Rt. lion. F.—Dublin Univer.
Forbes, William -Stirlingshire Smith, Benjamin--Sudbury
Gore, Ormsby—Salop Stuart, Lord D. C.—Arundel
Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham Talbot, J. 11.—New Ross
Goulburn, Mr. Serjeant—Leicester Trevor, lion. Arthur—Durham
Hamilton, Lord C.—Tyrone Co. Vigors, N.—Carlow Co.
Hutt, W.—Kingston.upon.Hull Walker, C. A.—Wexford
Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Bandon Itridge Walter, John—Berkshire
Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Young, John—Cavan
Longlield, Richard—Cork CO TELLERS.
Lowther, J. IL—York Mackinnon, W. A.—Lymingion
Matthew, George B.—Athlone Lynch, A. H —Galway

MAJORITY-
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockennouth
Alston Howland—Hertfordshire
Beckett, Right Hon. Sir J.—Leeds
Bewes, T —Plymouth
Brotherton, J.—Salford
Brownrigg, S. J.—Poston
Byng, . George—Middlesex
Campbell, Sir John—Edinburgh
Crompton, S.—Thirsk
Donkin, Sir H. S.—Berwick
Dund,s, Hon. T.—Richmond
Fenton, John—Rochdale
Gisborne, T.—North Derbyshire
Goulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam_l
lige University
Hector, C. J.—Petersfieldli
Hindley, Charles—Ashton
Irton, Samuel—Cumberland
Jones, T.—L:,ndonderry Co.
Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry._i
Taunton
Lemon, Sir Charles—West Cornwall!

—NOES, 49.
Palmerston, Viscount—Tiverton
Parnell, Sir H.—Dundee
Pattison, James—London
Peel, Right Hon. Sir R.—Tamworth
Pelham, .1. C.—Shrewsbury
Price, Richard—New Radnor
Pryme, George—Cambridge
Pusey, Philip—Berkshire
Rice, Right Hon. 'l'. S.—Cambridge
Richards, Richard—Merionethshi e
Rundle, John—Tavistock
Smith, R. Vernon—Northampton
Stanley, E. John—North Cheshire
Steuart, Robert—Haddingtoil
Strickland, Sir G —West Yorkshire
'Thomson, Right Hon. C. P.—Man.

chester—
Thoroeley, Thos.—Wolverhampton
Troubridge, Sir T. E.—Sandwich
Vyvyan, Sir It. R.—Bristol
Wood, Charles—Halitax .
Woulfe, Mr. Serjeant—Cashel
Wrightson, W. 13.—Northallerton
Young, Geo. Fred.—Tynemouth

I.ister, E. r_anliffe—Bradford
Mangles, J.—Guildford
Marsland, Henry—Stockport
Morgan, C. M. R.—Brecon
Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire
Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham

TELLERS,.
Faring, F. Thornhill—Portsmouth
'Parker, John—Shettield

A Deputation, consisting of Admirals Sir George
Cockburn, Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Sir Ross Donnelly, Sir
William Parker, Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge, M. P., Sir
John Rennie, Benjamin Wood, Esq., Henry Amsinck, Esq. ;
and Captain Crouch, R N., had this day an interview with
the Earl of Minto, First Lord of the Admiralty, upon the
subject of forming a Grand Asylum Harbour near the Downs,
and for the supply of fresh water to all classes of shipping.
About one o'clock on Saturday morning last, a
murderous attack was made by a band of men, armed with
heavy bludgeons, on Peacock, gamekeeper, and three others,
in the service of Sir George Sitwell, Bart. It appears that
Peacock having reason to suspect that a party of depredators
were stealing rooks, took with him his assistant and two gar-
deners, and proceeded to the rookery, in Renishaw-park. They
were immediately, without a word having been spoken by eith, r
party, attacked by the marauders, and Peacock so dreadfully
beaten with their bludgeons, that his life was for some time de-
spaired of; his head was severely injured, and his face dread-
fully cut, besides which he received a number of dangerous
kicks on the chest. The men with Peacock were also se-
verely beaten. Th• ;gang, after having perpetrated conside-
rable damage, by cutting off the tops of the young trees, so
as to bring the nests and rooks to the ground, made off
with a double-barrelled gun, belonging to the keeper.
Derbyshire:Courier.
Last week the mail to Marseilles was upset in the
forest of Fontainebleau. One of the passengers received
some serious bruises, another was sleeping so soundly that the
shock did not at•aken him.

Yesterday morniv a party of gentlemen, seven in
number, repaired to a field near Hampstead, fcr the purpose
of deciding a match at pigeon shooting, when unfortunately
the gun of one of the party, Mr. Charles Rayner, Solicitor,
of Kentish Town, burst, and shattered his hand and ann in so
frightful a manner, that amputation of the arm was obliged to
be perfOrmed immediately, and it is doubtful whether Mr. R.
Kill not lose the sight of his left eye, which was forced from
the socket, and was with difficulty replaced by the medical
attendant.

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