The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-20 00:00:00

(lid such an opportunity arise for achieving an Um
mortal benefit to Europe. That secured, through
,he settlement of Belgium, is auspicious of success
to every generous effort of the British Government.
Of France we may be secure : of Austria we ought
to be so, if she could see beyond to-morrow. Is it
possible that Metternich—if h'e have an atom of the
sagacity imputed to hilt —can put the continued
possession of Clallicia in the scale against such a se-
curity for the [louse of Austria as a formidable Po-
lish state would prove against the restless projects of
the Czar ?-7'inies.

Count -Jelski, President of the Bank of Poland,
has arrived in London. Foreign lournals announced
his departure from Warsaw in February last, on a
mission to Vienna. We have learned some very
extraordintry details of his reception in Austria.
Ere the Count left Warsaw every possible precau-
tion was taken to insure a favourable reception.
The Court of Vienna was written to, for the pur-
pose of knowing whether it was their pleasure to
receive a Polish Envoy publicly or secretly. The
answer was, that they would be very happy to re-
ceive M. Jelski on a secret mission. He of course
set off, confident of a friendly reception from the
Cabinet of Vienna, from whence he intended to
proceed to other capitals of Europe upon the finan-
ciel tai fairs of his country, and the business of
the establishment confided to his Presidency.
However, the Austrian Cabinet suddenly forgot the
laws of hospitality. Whether it was the entrance
of the Russian troops into the Polish territory, or
the events which had taken place in Italy, which
caused the sudden change in the disposition of the
Cabinet of Vienna, it is difficult to know : suffice it
to say, that an o'llter of rank was sent to apprise
the Count, that it was not the intention of his Go-
vernment to second the object of his mission in any
' way; adding, that the Count Jelski would neither
be allowed to go to Vienna, to return to Poland, or
to leave Austria, by any route whatever. This ex-
traordinary resolution, contrary not only to the law of
nations, but the laws of hospitality and good faith,
was persevered in for four months; when Count
Jelski, after having exhausted all possible means to
induce the Austrian Government to alter this strange
resolution, was forced to make his escape from this
detention, abandoning to the Austrians his carriage,
baggage, and servants, and carrying off nothing but
his portfolio under his cloak.—ilintes.
It was natural to expect that, when the Russian
despot found his steel was powerless against the
brave people of Poland, he would try what virtue
there is in gold. He first tried the thunders of his mani-
festoes, which he thought, of themselves, sufficient to
annihilate the rising freedom of Poland ; he next tried
the thunders of his artllery, which smote the
Turkish power from the heights of the Balkan, to
lose their terrors on the banks of the Vistula ; he
then came to the third stave of the conflict, and
tried the last resource of tyrants—treachery.
Baffled and mortified by the shameful defeats of his
armies in the field, he exchanged has assumed cha-
racter of Jupiter Tonans for that of Midas; and
the bungling manner in which he has endeavoured
to purchase, in his disgraceful discomfiture, an inglo-
rious triumph, proves that nature has gifted him
with more large and spreading appendages to his
Imperial head than the laurels he has lost. There
has rarely been a struggle for freedom, such as that
which Poland is now engaged in with her gigantic
enemy, in which some individual acts of treachery
did not stain the glories of the national heroism, and
endanger, for a time, the cause of the whole people;
even at Thermopyhe there was a traitor found to
open a way to the barbarians, which led them to
temporary triumph and to eventual destruction. The
treason of Arnold had nearly compromised the cause
of the United States of America, yet that event
had beneficial consequences for freedom ; it re-acted
upon the public mind with a moral force that excited
a deeper hatred of oppression, and called forth a
more vigilant and determined spirit of resistance.
So it was in the war of the French revolution,
when the treachery of Dumourier was revealed, and
he fled from the scenes of his glory to the infamous
protection of the enemies of his country, whose
weapons of iron he had broken, to become the
captive of their gold. If any confidence re-
mained to the Russian tyrant that he could
open the way to Warsaw by force, he would
not have felt disposed to purchase it with his
rubles. Notwithstanding his exterminating procla-
mations arid lying bulletins,he confesses the severity
of the blow which Polish valour has struck against
his military power, when he relies less upon his
thunderbolts than his money, and thinks one Judas
worth many Captains. But we are much mistaken
if the traitors who had conspired to effect the ruin of
Poland, during the most righteous struggle for in-
dependence in which a nation was ever engaged,
will not prove, in the end, more injurious to him
who employed them than to the country which they
had undertaken to destroy. It is affl,cting, indeed,
to think that the career of Polish victory should
have been stopped by the efforts of traitors within
the bosom of their native land ; but this discovery
has given a new impetus to the cause of freedom—
it has excited a more bitter hatred for tyranny—it
has put the public mind upon its guard, and stimu-
lated into greater activity the patriotic spirit and
virtuous energies of the nation.—Morning Herald.
The first step resolved upon by our reforming
Ministry, in conformity with the spirit of their re-
volutionary Bill, to degrade the Monarchy of our
great State, by stripping it of all its splendid and
commanding attributes at the approaching Corona-
tion, has naturally produced the most general dissa-
satisfaction among the people. Nothing ever afforded
more real gratification to the county than the grand
spectacle presented on the solemn occasion of the
Sovereign of a great people pledging himself to pre-
serve the rights and liberties of his subjects ; while
it gave a stimulus to trade which produced general
advantage, and provided profitable employment to
thousands of our artisans. Upon a moderate cal-
culation, we may safely aver, that from the indivi-
dual expenditure of the higher ranks, not less than
a million of money has hitherto been brought into
circulation on occasions of this nature, to the gene-
ral advantage of the public. As the ceremony of
the Coronation is to be shorn of all its splendid
rays, we beg to suggest that its observance in so
despicable a form as that proposed in Westminster
Abbey had better be avoided altogether. Let not
the King be publicly insulted by so gross a mockery
of all that is due to his sovereign rank and the so-
lemnity of the occasion; but let him privately go to
the Chapel Royal on the appointed day, there to
take the necessary constitutional oaths, instead of
being publicly exhibited in Westminster Abbey, as
a degraded Monarch for the satisfaction of republi-
cans and revolutionists.—Morning Post.