The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-17 00:00:00

LA TIRE T S TI?EE T.

- Yesterday, during the hours of public business
this office, a weather-beaten sailor presented him-

UNION-HA LL.
Yesterday a young female, apparently in a deli-
cate state of health, was brought up from the South-
wark station-house, having attempted to destroy
herself in the course of that morning.
A policeman of letter M. division, while on ditty
in Blackfriars-road that morning, about two o'clock,
near the bridge, was called by a gentleman who held
a female in his grasp at the top of the steps leading
down to the river, and gave her into his (the police-
man's) charge. From the gentleman's statement, it
appeared that as he was returning home from. a
party, in crossing the bridge he observed the female
present walk with a hurried step, evincing at the
same time great agitation. Suspecting from her
manner that she contemplated self-destruction, he
followed her unperceived,' at some distance, and
saw her descend the steps leading to the
water, upon which he made great speed, and
caught the back part of her gown just as she
was about to precipitate herself headlong into the
river. She struggled hard to break away from him,
in order to effect the olject she had in view, but was
prevented, and during the confusion she drew a
letter from her bosom, and flung it into the Thames,
and it was carried away by the tide, which was
running down at the time. At the station-house
she excited the sympathy of every one who saw
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house, and appeared grateful that the gentleman
had rescued her from destruction, at a time when
her mind was in such a state that she had no
cuntroul over herself. The Magistrate interrogated
her as to the cause which led her to meditate
suicide, and after some slight hesitation she stated
that she had been seduced, about three years
ago, by a gentleman of fortune, while residing
in he family of a Baronet (Sir R. Wigram), at
Walthamstow, in Essex. At the period she had
met with the misfortune she was living in the Ba-
ronet's house as companion to the family, and her
seducer was in the habit of visiting there. He af-
terwards brought her to town, took splendid apart-
ments for her, and accommodated her with the use
of his carriage, in which they were accustomed to
ride together. She had three children by him, and,
during her last accouchement, Laving met with a
serious accident, owing to the unskilfulness of her
medical attendant, the gentleman who had seduced
her from that moment became less assiduous in his
attentions, and finally abandoned her, leaving her an
outcast on the world. She had respectable friends
residing at Brighton, but tiny had discarded her
ever since she had fallen into the path of dishonour;
and she could not bear the thoughts of going into
their presence after having brought disgrace upon
them and herself by her conduct. For the last four
months since her abandonment she had lived entirely
by the sale of her clothes, and that resource being
exhausted, rather than pursue a life of infamy,
in the height of her despair, she had determined
on drowning herself, and was prevented from carry-
ing her intention into effect by the interference of
a strange gentleman. He held her at the moment
she was about to throw herself into the river. After
considerable hesitation on her part, she at length
stated that her name was Broughton, and while at
the office she was furnished with pen, ink, and
paper, and wrote a letter to the gentleman whom
she accused of having treated her in the manner
above described. Mr. Chambers sent for the parish
officers of Christ Church, who undertook to take
care of the unfortunate woman, until her friends
were made acquainted with the circumstances under
which she had been taken to the station-house.
Mr. CHAMBERS seemed to have made such an
impression upon the poor creature's mind, by point•
ing out in forcible language the miseries attendant
upon a life of infamy, that there is reason to believe
she will not repeat the attempt on het life.

W ORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a lubberly-looking fellow, of gigat.tic
s'ature, named Matthew Green, was charged with
committing a most atrocious assault on police con-
stable No. 2, a serjeant in the H division.
The serjeatit, who was much bruised, stated that
at one o'clock that morning he saw two women loit-
ering about in Spitalfields, and having advised them
to go home left them, but had not proceeded far
when the prisoner (whom he had not seen before)
came up to him, the women at the same time calling
out " That's the man there, give him a good beat-
ing." The prisoner said, " You have insulted my
wife, and now I'll serve you out," and without further
ceremony knocked him down, knelt upon Ills breast
with both his knees, and grasping his throat, nearly
suffocated him. Had not another policeman ran to
his assistance he would have been killed on the spot.
Mr. TWYFORD—To be sure you would. He
would have killed three such men as you.
Prisoner—He took liberties with my wife. Here
(exhibiting his head), look at the prints on my fore-
head from their three staves.

The wife (to the complainant)—You bad fellow !
You know well that, thinking my husband was not
near, you took liberties with me. I have two wit-
nesses to prove it, your Worships.
Hewitt, one of the witnesses, stated that he saw
the policeman walk up to the last witness and b?gin
to ticklilter—(A laugh)—upon which she cried out
murder.

Mr. TWYFORD—Did be tickle the other woman.
too ?—No.

The complainant declared on his oath that he lied
not laid his hand upon either of them.
The Magistrates told him that, after the statement
they had heard, they could not think of convicting
the prisoner. He might, if he chose, indict him at
the sessions.—Discharged.

A worthy churchwarden of Canterbury, a few
days since, excused himself by note from a, dinner patty by
alleging that-be was .engaged.in taking the senses of his
parish."

WARSAW, Ji:tiE: .h•of our acquaint-
ance will, I think,,. . the trouble I am
about to impose 'on ypu, and will, I have no doubt,
be a sufficient excuU; if not, I know how deeply
you are imbued with the •principles of civil and re-
ligious libt-rty, and that you will not regard trouble
to become the instrument of propagating, these bless-
ings to those parts of the world which have not
hitherto enjoyed them. The cause of Poland is the
most sacred that ever yet agitated any community.
The changes which its independence would occasion
in Europe are of vast importance, and the un-
exampled bravery of her sons entitles her to univer•
sal admiration. All good men sympathize in her
cause, and many contribute assistance. There is
only one aim in view—the possession of independ-
ence; to this end life is staked, and property sur-
rendered ; every thing dear to men on earth is sa-
c,iticed to the country's welfare.

Nothing short of this exertion could have enabled
the country to withstand, for so long a period, the
overwhelming power of their invaders; the great
Autocrat expected, by force, to rivet a perpetual
yoke around the necks of men made constitutionally
free by his predecessors, and guaranteed by all the
great Powers of Europe. The attempt has failed;
a full moiety of the invading army is slain or made '
prisoner a ; they are beaten or repulsed in every at-
tack, and their situation in Poland is become cri-
tical. It will be observed that the recent manoeuvre
of the Commander-in-Chief had two objects in
view, viz., to prevent the advance of the enemy
towards the Vistula, in the direction of Thorn,
where they had supplies; and to cut off their com-
munications with Prussia, as well by the land frontier
aq the Vistula.
2. To send efficacious succour to their Lithuanian
brethren. rhe mode in which this manoeuvre was
accomplished is already known. Ostrolenka and
Lomza, places strongly fortified by the enemy, and
considered of great weight in their operations, wire
abandoned. The Imperial Guards, repelled and
harassed by forced marches, even into Lithuania,
being at length joined by the concentrated farce
of the Field-Marshal Diebitsch, occasioned the
battle of Ostrolenka and the retreat of the Polish
Commander-in-Chief in Lithuania.

This combat appears to have entirely demoralized
the Russian army ; immediately after the battle,
the Field-Marshal, by a forced march, made eighteen
leagues in 21 hours, leaving some thousands of ma-
rauders in the rear.
He had scarcely arrived near Ostrolenka, when
the battle commenced, and continued sixteen
hours without intermission. The Field-Marshal,
after having sustained an immense loss, was com-
pelled to make a retrograde movement with the
masses with which he intended to cross the Narew.
In this state of things, with an army harassed, far
removed from his magazines of ammunition, which
was entirely exhausted, deprived of provisions, and
every moment exposed to attack either by the Com-
rranaer-in-Chief or by the corps of General Giel-
gud, which might have returned on the other Bide
of the Narew, and debauched near Lomza, the
Field-Nlarshal found himself obliged to quit Ostro-
lenka. . . . .

He commenced his retreat on the 28th, having
previously burnt the bridge. The position of the
Field-Marshal is more critical than ever ; the Guards
drew their provisions ft con tie magazines of ()sac-
lenka and Lorrza, and were easily nourished by the
provisions which came to them from Prussia, from
the Palatinate of Augustow, the neighbourhood of
nrodno, and winch, following the course of the
Narew, were conveyed to them. They Nvill be no
longer able to receive them by the same rout, because
the corps of the army commanded by Generals
Chrapowski, Gielgud, Dembinski, and Sierakowski,
have cut off all communication with those districts.
In consequence of the expedition of the Commander-
in-Chief, the magazines established by the Russians,
in various points, have been either taken or de-
stroyed, and those of the grand army established at
-Nnr, Ciechanowiec, at Branak, and at Bielsk, have
experienced the same fate. Those who were in the
battle of Ostrolenka assure u, that the enemy's
artillery was at least six times more numerous than
that of the Poles. The Field-Marshal brought
the dower of his troops, but with those even suc-
ceeded in no attack. The Grenadiers of Prince
Szackowskoi were completely destroyed. They were
ordered to cross the bridge; and, to render their
retreat impossible, the cannons were planted in their
rear to fire on those who retreated. Several detach-
ments of cavalry and infantry, which endeavoured to
pass the river, were completely exterminated by the
Polish troops. Ostrolenka was burnt by the enemy;
Russian bullets still reached the town after it was in
their own occupa,ion.
A regiment of Cossacks, who approached some of
the second Lancers experienced what the brave can
effect, as testitled by the destruction made among
them. The enemy, not being able to repair the
bridge, assembled the peaceful inhabitants by force,
who were obliged to perform it under a tremendous
lire of our artillery, by which a considerable number
were killed.
The conduct of General Lubienski, in extricating
himself from a situation so perilous, is the theme of
universal admiration. The corps commanded by him
consisted of about 7,000 men, posted near Czyzew.
The Field-Marshal crossed the Bug with his whole
army, and succeeded in surrounding the corps of
General Lubienski, The Russians considered they
had already a fine draught, but their net was not
strong enough to hold it—all the meshes were broken.
The Russian General (Berg) was polite enough to
send a flag of truce, to invite him to surrender the
whole corps, all means of escape being closed.
" Know," replied General Lubienski, " that all
passages are open to Polish bayonets." The flag of
truce had no sooner retired than an attack was
ordered--a passage, effected with little loss, was
made through the dense masses of the enemy, whose
cannon were early taken, and the brave troops joined
the main army amid acclamations of joy—the dis-
positions taken by General Lubienski—the extra-
ordinary courage of the soldiers, under circumstances
so critical—constitute the main features of the pre-
sent war—every officer and every regiment—the
new as well as the old levies—are capable of per-
forming similar prodigies.
From the most recent news arrived here, it is
-confirmed that the Field-Marshal has divided his
army—one part is detached to Lithuania, and the
other has repassed the Bug, on its return to the pro-
vince of Podlachia.
The people of all nations sympathise with the
brave Poles, although Governments are either hos-
tile or passive. The inhabitants of Hungary,
moved by the true spirit of humanity, have sent to
the hospitals of Warsaw 300 barrel,, of wine, a
great quantity of prunes, some hundred pieces of
cloth, and a quantity of Airs. These articles, of
which the duty was paid by the senders, are already
arrived in Cracow ; it is said the Government con-
sented to the sending'. The Prussian Chancellor of
Magnue, has sent to the Commission of the
to he .Province
of
233 pounds of (sharpie) lint,
conveyed to the hospitals of Warsaw. He
wrote, at the same time, that this was provided by
her Royal Highness Princess Rniziwill, wife of
}'rinse Anthony itozm • •it r •
, Lieutenant to the King
of Prussia in the Grand Duchy of Posen, whose
name he was authorized to
(prisoners) employed in the province
veo:vi,"!r aThe Russians
Cracow,in
the construction of roads, ne
rations of
bread, meat, and spirits, with a trifle
lein money,
nearly a penny, under the superintend enee of their
own officers.
Four Turks from Asia Minor, made poisoners by
the Russians at .'‘tuipa, forced to enter the service,
have been taken as prisoners in the present war.
The Government has set them free, clothed them in
their national costume, and will send them in a few
days to their native country. It is known that after
the retreat of General Dwernicki from Volhynia,
the Russians practised horrible cruelties. They
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in
and murdered the landed propnetoro;
a certain pet son, of the name of Czarnoluskl, was
first shut, and his ferilairls Alta wattle. exhibitea

; the wife and children of the landed pro.l
prietor Krasicki have been murdered. The health
of General Dwernicki has suffered considerably, in
•onsequence of the conduct used towards him and
hls army by the Austrians. According to accounts
of the Russian prisoners, six Generals Were carried
from the field of battle, by OstrOlenka, wounded ;
among whom were Generals Berg and Manderstern.
Letters from the frontiers of Prussia state that Col.
Sit rakowski has totally beaten the corps commanded
by General Pricker), in the province of Augustow,
and taken four pieces of cannon. Fricken himself,
with 600 men, had fled for protection to Prussia.
This news is, however, not confirmed yet.
The National Government sent a deputation to
the Commander-in-Chief, whose head-quarters are
at present in Praga, congratulating him, in the most
G.tering terms, for the excellent manner in which
he conducted the late operations of the army. To
this effect an oration was made by the Senator
Wodzinski.

A highly interesting assembly met yesterday in
the Kryginski Garden. It was a treat given by the
National Guard to the soldiers and officers of the
regular army—it consisted of about 60 men, from
each of 23 regiments, now in the metropolis, and
officers, making together upwards of 1,600 persons,
and 300 officers. The dinner was well provided :
every soldier was presented with a large glass of
wine, and as much beer as he wished. Polish tro-
phies adorned the Garden, accompanied by music
rum several regiments. Count Anto Ostrowski,
Commander of the National Guard, presided on the
occasion. It went off with great hilarity, and se-
veral toasts were drank with enthusiasm. Is', The
General, in the name of the National Guards, gave
" The brave Soldiers of Poland ;" 2d, "The health
of the Commander-in-Chief;" 3d, " The National
Goveinment of Poland ;" 4th, " The' Soldiers ;"
lastly, " The health of the National Guards," &c.
Polonaises were danced, of which the first was led
off by the General Count Ostrowski, who, during
the repast, delivered an eloquent oration.

PARIS, APRIL 21, 1831.
TO SENATOR COUNT OSTROWSKI,

GENERAL of the NATIONAL GUARDS.
GENERAL,—WhiIe my whole views are directed
to the noble dangers and sublime revolutions of the
admirable nation which the world contemplates with
a respectful enthusiasm, judge with what happiness
and honour I am tilled in learning, thanks to your
goodness, that she has deigned to admit me in her
ranks, and to confer on me the glorious title of Po-
lish National Guard. Since the day in which your
honourable promotion and the authorisation of the
Supreme Government gave me this precious right,
I feel impressed with obligation, dear to my heart,
which this adoption imposes on me.
With a lively impatience I waited an occasion to
convey to you the expression of my profound ac-
knowledgment, of my devotion to your heroic
country, to my comrades of the National Guard,
and to their worthy chief, whom I entreat to com-
municate to them my tender and fraternal senti-
ments, which it is impossible for me to testify per-
sonally, in partaking of their perils and their glory.
The National Guard of Paris have been sensibly
moved by the address of their brethren in arms
from Warsaw. I have been able to appreciate the
impression it has produced, and among the marks of
sympathy which daily reach the Polish Committee,
1 am fond to acknowledge the spirit of admiration,
affecticit, and gratitude, with which the National
Guards are animated, whom you have so handsomely
felicitated on our revolution of the metropolis. Re-
ceive, General, with all devotion for your holy cause,
the assurance of the inexpressible joy which yoar
prodigious exploit.; give me, and the particular as-
surance of respectful attachment which you have
avowed to your happy grenadier of the National
Guard.

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