The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-21 00:00:00

COUNT ZAMOYSKI,

The Mayor of Macclesfiel i has received the following
letter from General Count Zamoyski
Quai d'Orleans, C. 9th April, 1863.
Sir,.—You have done me the honour of inviting me to
attend a public meeting on behalf of Poland at Macclesfield,
and I receive similar invitations from several towns in the
north. Though somewhat uneasy as to how I shall be able
to acquit myself of such an amount of duty, I can only say
I will do the utmost in my power. I have already engaged
to attend the meeting any day after the 19th. I therefore
beg that you will kindly arrange with the Mayor of Preston
so that the two meetings may be held on consecutive days,
of which you will be good enough to give me timely notice.
You ask me to state beforehand what, in my °Onion,
should be the sense and beating of the resolutions which,
adopted by influenti tl meetings in Great Britain, would be
Lest calculated to benefit my country in her present struggle
for independence.
I have, in answer to that question, no hesitation in say-
ing that the resolutions adopted at the Manchester public
meeting on the 24th ult. are upon the whole gratifying and
satisfactory. But I see that many, especially among the
members of both Houses of Parliament, express strong
doubts as to the expediency of " suspending dip emetic in-
tercourse with Russia," in consequence of her permanent
violation of treaties. In one respect, I might agree with
them as to its not being what is more urgently required for
for the situation.
To denounce and suspend all diplomatic intercourse with
Russia would, undoubtedly, be inflicting on her Govern-
ment blame, and so far punishment. But it would hardly
alleviate the burden now weighing upon Poland. The sus-
pension by England of diplomatic intercourse with Russia
would prove satisfactory in as far as it might be adopted
by several other European Powers, thus placing Russia
beyond the pale of public law. But it would be only a
negative measure, and not amount to what I strongly be-
lieve to be the duty of both the Government and the people
of England, as well as of all other Powers which were par-
ties to the treaty of Vienna. Their bounden duty, I must
be permitted to say, their bounden duty it is, to keep
silence no longer in presence of what is passing in Poland ;
—for ' silence in presence of crime," as a great statrhe
t
of yours (Lord Lyndhurst) said, "is participation
crime." Ywhich, during a
and barba-
What, then, should England say sit:psi this What
I sanctioned, in 1815, upon conditions
Lord Palmer-
pstearniodstoaftendeattr:y
`systematically,
111 'easnction no more. I, there-
rously violated,' I can and wt
sanction.
The Emperor of
fore, solemnly withdraw that ye
t years,e
m ati
eyes, no longer
in my Bing of
Russia is henceforth,O.. in 1815, the part of Pahilayve °cantle:et:ly,
oland in
Poland. 1 acktwviledviiit placed under
his possession to be law his dominion.
Y extinct th
1 now declare that dominion at possession un-
lawful, and, as the consequence, I acknowledge as lawful
t of independence the Poles may any ernoun succeed in
establishing by their national struggle. I do so without
further delay, because I wish the Poles s
they will find additional strength in the success, and hope
of their right, a right which could early recognon
inas-
much as the Poles accepted the only cease to exist
for its forfeit, inasmuch as thatcompensation offered them
sacred and inviolable. But above compensation remained
what is right, I free my all, I do so, because doing
conscience from all further soli-
darity in the unfair enforcing of certain provisions of a
treaty while other and
neu 1
do
so,
in most essential provisions are set at
my own name, wishing for the con-
currence, by a similar act, of all the powers who were
parties to the Treaty of Vienna ; but I do not wait for that
Concurrence, trusting that the most speedy and certain
mode of obtaining it is to set the example."
Such sentiments, publicly addressed to all the Powers of
Europe, while they would leave England free further to act
or to abstain, as she would judge best, would in either case
nerve my countrymen to make every effort in their power,
with fervent trust in God's mercy, and with the certainty,
at least, that cur national independence will be recognised
in as far as we succeed in enforcing it upon our enemies.—
I have the honour to be, sir, your obliged and -humble
. Zaleo Ye
„servant,
To the Worshipful the Mayor of Macclesfield.