The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-12 00:00:00

THE POLES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-You will not wonder that the Poles " op:
pressed with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, '
should feel more than ordinary pain, whenever their
character and their fair name, now unhappily the
only thing left them, are exposed to an unmerited
and uncalled for attack. The invidious remark,
therefore, made by Mr. Francis Baring in the House
of Commons on Wednesday last, with respect to the
Polish refugees, must have inflicted on their hearts

a very deep wound, as, on the other side, it cannot
fail to draw reprobation from every generous mind
in England. On that day Mr. O'Conn,:•11 called
the attention of Government to the grievances of
some of the Poles, who have been most arbitrariij'
deprived by their Paymaster of their share in the
Parliamentary grant. Some of them relying upon
the liberty given them, and never questioned before,
to absent themselves from England for the benefit
of their health or for the sake of seeing their families,
went abroad for a few weeks, and found on their
return their monthly allowances stopped, in conse-
quence of an order of the Lords of the Treasury
(which enacts that the Poles, who go abroad, shall.
forfeit henceforth their claim to the subsidy during
their absence)—an order, be it observed, of which
they have not been aware before their departure,
and which even has been issued after their return
to this country, and after their having made a formal
application for the arrears. One individual has
been suffered by the Paymaster to wander in the
streets homeless and penniless, or to subsist upon
the charity of his own countrymen, for the
space of seven months, only because his pri-
vations and his sufferings brought on him
that state of madness in which he, formerly a stu-
dent at the University of Warsaw and a well-edu-
cated man, is unable, horresco refereizs, to sign his
own name. To such charges brought by the Hon.
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and Learned Member for Dublin, for whose mani-
fold services the Poles cannot be sufficiently grate-
ful, Mr. Francis Baring, said, that he knew enough
cyrthese parties (he meant of course the Poles in
general) to pause before he credited any statement
coming
.fi-om them. Now, Sir, I shall not stop
remarkii upong
,u, h
itche ungenerous
only
could and
dictate
suchist i a
ann
ltiokefee
expression ; neither shall I advert to the injus-
tice of casting reflections, without adduc-
ing sufficient proofs, upon a body, of whom
I aver it most solemnly, Mr. Baring does not know
anything except through the Paymaster, who has
from the first rendered himself obnoxious to the exiles
by his unkind, overbearing, and arbitrary proceed-
ings, and to the offensive unfairness of throwing
a doubt upon statements attested by Lord Dudley
Stuart and the Literary Association of the Friends
of Poland, composed as it is of men of the
highest standing, character, and talent in this
country. This I shall leave to others. My only
object in view is to contrast the spied in
which Mr. Baring's remarks were conceived, with
that which manifests itself among the representa-
tives of the French people, whenever the question
of subsidy to the Poles comes on before them. It
is known that this year the French Cham-
bers have voted again the sum of one
hundred thousand pourd3 fur the Polish exiles, and
even in consequence of their tried and most praise-
worthy conduct, have freed them from some re-
strictive measures formerly rendered necessary by
the unsettled state of the internal affairs in France.
On that occasion the Committee appointed by both
Chambers have presented reports most flattering
to the Poles. I quote, in preference, that made
by the Peers, as a body less calculated to indulge
in exaggerated statements or enthusiastic expres-
sions.y On the Sth of last July, Count d Har-
court, the reporter of a Committee, composed of the
Dukes of Caraman and De Crillon,—Counts
-de Jean, d'Haudenarde, and d'Harcourt, and
Messrs. Cousin and Bellmare,—presented a re-
port, of which, as officially printed in the Moni-
teur of July 9, 1539, I beg to quote the following

extracts :
France has always thought it its duty to give
shelter to political refugees, amongst whom the.
Poles have at all times excited our liveliest in-
terest. Their long misfortunes, their unalterable
attachment to France in the hour of danger and
calamity, have secured to them our warmest friend-
ship. There does not pass a year, without the
reprsesentatives of the nation in both Cham-
bers endeavour to soften the hardship of their
situation with at least a few friendly expressions
of sympathy. Even the Government itself
has
manifestations of national feelings, And in the
discussions brought on by that subject, it stated I
always, that in its foreign relations it never forgot
to call urgingly for a faithful execution of treaties,
which have secured to Poland a political existence.
Yet the Government could not fail in guarding the
country against the consequences which might flow
from hospitality offered to so great a number
of persons. The refugees, oppressed with misfor-
tune, irritated by constant calamities, coming to a
foreign country without any knowledge of its lan-
guage and its laws, were naturally subject to be
easily misled and to yield to many errors."
" Amidst our internal dissensions it was to be
feared lest the refugees should become instruments
of the disaffected. We were obliged, therefore, to
be careful and vigilant. Thence the restrictive
laws enacted in 1832 aid 1834. It is, however, a
subject for congratulation that experience has shown
that the severity of those laws has become super-
fluous, and the necessity which commanded their
enactment has now disappeared.
" The Reports of the Administration clearly show
that for a long time no emigrant had taken share in
our civil contests ; that one half of the refugees
devote themselves to different kinds of industry,
that almost all those who arc able to work are
pursuing most diligently their industrious avoca-
tions. Thus, that brave nation which has fought
with us on so many battle-fields, comes also to
enrich our soil with their labour.
" France, gentlemEn, has been always, a country
of hospitality. But nothing can be more cal-
culated to give a still nobler character than
the manner in which it is dealt out, than
considerations, owned and strictly kept in view,
lest the delicacy of men bending under misfortune
should be offended—considerations so well under-
stood by all generous minds, and without which
all benevolence becomes but a humiliation.'
that
trust, Sir, that this piece of advice, that this
example of truly generous feelings, shall not be
lost on Mr. Baring, mid all those who, because
they have been most reluctant, and only obliged by
the humane and liberal spirit of the British nation,
to afford relief to patriots, victims of unparalleled
tyranny, are now trying, by every unfair means, by
harsh measures and un-English chicane, by false
aspersions and insidious inuendoes, to disgust the
Poles, to embitter still more their hardships, and to
defeat those generous intentions and that liberal
spirit in which Parliament has voted the grant, and
in which they meant also, no doubt, it should be
distributed.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, Aug. 10, 1839. S. K.

His Prussian Majesty, King Frederick William,
entered, on the 3d instant, the 70th year of his age. Bee-
nadato, King of Sweden, is the oldest of the rcigring Et 3 •
vcreigns of Europe, being front the 26th of January in his
76th year. The Pope eon es next, then the King of Den-
mark, the King of Prussia, and Louis Philippe, King of
the French, Who will be 67 years old on the 6th of Co
tober next.

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.—On Satur- '
day a young man, of the name of William Manning, was
sentenced by the Bench to pay a fine of five pounds or be
committed in default for two months. It appeared that the
eay
complainant, Mary Ann Foot, whose parents live at Twick-
enham, was on Wednesday last returning home from Straw- I
b
Hill, when she was met by the defendant, whom she
asked what o'clock it was. He told her that it was put
one o'clock, upon which she exclaimed she must make baste
home. The prisoner hereupon said he wanted to speak
to her, and that he had a bird for her ; but she replied
that she did not want such a thing. Upon receiving this
answer the prisoner laid hold of her by both her hand s,
and dragged her over some rails into a shrubbery, near tc
the house of Mr. Briscoe, M. P. She screamed very
much, but he stopped her mouth ; and,
her down, pulled out a knife, with which he threatened to
avi
cut her throat if she made a noise. She accordingly, from
alarm, remained quiet. Ile then rubbed back with s
ome
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nettles, and as he was finishing that h
oper eration
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alarmed by the sound of voices in the road, upon which
he let her go.
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related what had occurred, during vihich time the defend.
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without success at that moment. The complainant then
statement wwiitthh.
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EVENING EDITION

ANECDOTE OF A. BLOODHOUND.

(From the Naturalist for July, edited by N. Wood,
Esq.)
The subject of my story and the uncle of my inform-
ant, was a very ardent sportsman, and kept as fine a
pack of tiger-hounds as any. person in all Guiana. He
owned a large estate that yielded him a superb income,
which he, however, appeared to value principally for the
facilities it afforded him of pursuing, ad libitum, his fit-
vourite pastime.

Oa'e morning—and it was a morning by him
never afterwards to be forgotten—the subject of
this anecdote left home, and proceeded alone on a
shooting excursion. I should scarcely, however,
be justified in assorting that he went forth abso-
lutely alone, for two powerful tiger-hounds followed
closely at his heels. His favourite blood-hound howled
long and plaintively for permission to join the party, but
his master was inexorable ; he was tied up and left be-
hind. Indeed even the two dogs he took with him
were more as companions than from any idea he enter-
tained that their services would be called into requisi-
tion. Had he expected danger, it was not on them he
would have relied, but on the noble animal whose cou-
rage and fidelity he had so often proved, and who was
now left at home.
Tne day passed over without any remarkable
encounter, and Mr. A. was on his return home.
his
game-bag laden theretl spoil, and D. fine
buck suspended from a projecting branch of a m,iked
tree, awaited the morning's sun till a slave should
be sent for it. He had now nearly reached the out-
skirts of the wood, when he suddeniy perceived in the
thicket, OD one side of the pdtli thr,iigh which he ino.t
pass. two sniall taint like that of a
p Ur. t,f cloy-worms ; his practised Cyr ltiszantly in-
_..,4 him that this oppearane,.., proceeded from nothing
et-it eves of a wild beast—whether
cougar, puma, jaguar, he hesitated not to determine
one thing was certain, retreat was fatal, and to ad-
vance was apparently equally so. Now, for a bold shot,
a steady hand, and a coal sight, and you may yet be
saved ! Take care, sir, take care ! The sportsman's
first action is to throw the barrel of hi, piece, unfortu-
nately only a-small bore, across his left arm, the thumb
of his right band cautiously and noiselessly cocks the
gun, and the fourth finger of the same hand feels the
trigger. Mr. A. steadily advanced ;he was not suffered
to remain long in suspense ; he had proceeded but three
paces when with a terrific cry the cougar (for such it was)
sprung from its lair and dashed upon him. He fired,
but apparently without effect ; where were now his
hounds ? They had fled at the first glimpse of the
furious beast, and rent the woods with their cowardly
wailings! He struck indeed a few blows with the
butt end of his piece, but the robber of the forest
was too nimble for him ; a momentary struggle and he
was upon his back. The ferocious cougar was standing
or rather crouching over him ; one paw was upon his
broad chest, and each protruded talon, penetrating his
clothes and flesh, caused a stream of blood to trickle
down his side ; the other paw grasped his skull, and
he felt as if each claw penetrated to his brain ; his
senses reeled, and his blood suffused his eyes awl
nearly blinded him ; still, however, this heroic Ame-
rican fainted not, nor ceased struggling manfully for
the victory. His vigorous arms were extended, and
his hands grasped the monster's throat, thus keep-
ing hurt fur a time from bringing into play those ra-
pacious!, jaws, which, as the hunter's strength delined,
were gradually advancing into closer proximity with
his face ; such a fearful struggle could not be of long
continuance. The burning eyeballs of the cougar
glared nearer, and more near still, as they looked into
the bloodshed orbits of the prostrate but still fearless
victim ; their owner was forced to turn them aside
from the encounter, as if conscious of the dastardly
nature of his attack, and the superior bravery though
inferior strength of she man upon whom he couched.
The powers of the man relaxed ; nature had done
her utmost, she was at length exhausted. The darkness
of despair was on the point of plunging his senses in
unconsciousness, and death was about to seize upon
his victim, when the brushwood behind him crashed
and yielded before a heavy weight, the bay of a blood-
hound awoke him to consciousness and hope, a large
animal bounded upon his merciless foe, the shock hurled
the destroyer from its prey, and the brave hunter felt
that he was saved.
An American hunter, whether a native of the northern
or southern division of that vast continent, rarely, if ever,
loses his presence of mind. The prostrate and much lace-
rated man tottered to his feet, and recovering his hunting
knife, whiehhe had lost in the struggle,staggered forward,
and at eminent further hazard to himself, plunged it re-
peatedly between the ribs of his late aonqueror, who,
although he had well-nigh mastered the dog (for such
was his deliverer), was still too firmly fixed in the
blood-hound's gripe to forsee or evade the avenging
thrusts, It then fell backwards and released its cou- '
rageous opponent, wbo, however, despite his wounds,
maintained firm hold of his throat until Mr. A. had re-
loaded his gun, and applying it to the monster's ear,
put it out of pain, and deprived it of the capability of
doing further mischief.
Need I explain the occasion of this truly provi-
dential and almost miraculous rescue. The favou-
rite blood-hound which on quitting home he had left
behind him, had continued howling all day as if pos-
sessing a sort of prophetic prescience of the accident,
by which his owner's life would he placed in such ex-
treme danger, and having at length broken loose, had
gone forth in quest of his missing master, and found
him in time, but only just in time, to save him from
one of the most horrible of deaths.
The brave hunter, although much torn, contrived
to remove the cougar's scalp, i. e. the ears, and
that portion of the skin between and around them,
and also to return home, from whence he was fortu-
nately not far distant ; nor did he, I am happy to be
able to say, ever forget his faithful deliverer, but took
the greatest care of him until he recovered from his
wounds, which were of course severe, and constituted
him his constant attendant night and day, till at length
he died at the advanced age of nineteen years, full of
lays and of honour.

.he ma;evo

THE DONIWETTIS, OR GENIUS AMONG THE
TAlLORS.—Nothing is more curious than the history of the
great masters of the revels in the terrestrial paradise of
Italian opera. Donizetti's eldest brother, the leader of
the band of the sublime Padishah, who makes the Sultanas
and Odalisks dance to the tune of Piacer," since
M almond has inducted them into Parisian concerts— Doni-

%seta's brother, we are informed, was of yore master tailor
at Bergamo. That he had glorious journeymen no one
will gainsay when told who were his satellite snips.
These were Donizetti and the divine warbler, Rubini. A
r fag they had, a little football, who conveyed to them the
cloth, inexpressibly cut by the elder Donizetti for the

fashionables of the metropolis of Beccafigui and Polenta—
for the cocks of the walk in the glorious birthplace of the

most immortal and popular of-all heroes, and the most
multiplied in his progeniture, whereof the English descend-
ants are dumb—high master Arleguino I This a-fore
said fag—pronto a far Milo notte e giorno—was,
if we mistake not, Donizctti the composer I
Younger by many years than his brother, the
utmost dream of his ambiticn was then to mount the board,
wield the sheers, and handle the goose as his Turk-like
seated comrades, or succed to the cutting out and cabbag-
ing profits of the maestro, his brother. However, tailoring
d d not sufficiently swell the pockets of the four heroes
a oresaid. To give vent to the latent musical fire within
t,leir breasts, and, above all, to increase their few pezzetini