The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-07 00:00:00

TO THE POLISH PATRIOTS.

BY EDMUND READE, ESQ.,
AUTROR OF " CAIN, THR WANDERER," " REVOLT OF THE ♦NGELS.

Mountains and crags are Freedom's citadels :
Which never harbour'd yet a human slave,
Where never tyrant climb'd but found his grave!
Bulwarks of Nature are they where she dwells,
And only her eternal gates doth throw
Open to freemen struggling 'gainst their foe
When all is lost but courage and despair!
And it may be her will to show him there
Her lessons of resistance; that stern will—
And pride whose base is honour—and the sense
Of inward duty and selfzeverence—
Stand like her oaks, though rent, unstooping still !
But shall man trust in rocks and hide behind
Nature's defences when he should come forth,
Strong in his country's hopes and native worth,
Scattering his foes as chaff before the wind ?
No—let him rather gallantly confide
On that fix'd bulwark—the unconquer'd soul! ,
The soldier's confidence is in his pride :
And who e'er saw in flight the fiery Pole?
This is your trust—and not in crag nor glen;
But like old Sparta with her wall of men
Ye call on open Nature and on Heaven
To see ye guard the blessings they have given 1
And oh! forget not though of later date,
How Saragossa conquer'd even her fate.
War rent her streets asunder, crushing round
As from a whirlwind—fire upheav'd the ground
With an earthquake revulsion—one by one
Her ruins fell—pale Famine in her den
Gorg'd her own life—diseases rack'd—yet then
Their frantic struggles only were begun!
It was a strife of mortal agony :
Such are the sacrifices that atone,
And purify those souls that will not die!
Had she not done this she had been unknown :
What bath she now gain'd 7—a deep memory,
As everlasting as the solid earth.
Their bones are dried, their names and homes forgot,
And yet how blest and envied is their lot!
What reeks it now their life or place of birth ?
They are immortal, rais'd among the just :
Virtue, like God, re-animates the dust
Unfold voua records—what have ye to tell ?
Why your great Ancestry have actions done
To which these melt as shadows in the sun !
What is a city storm'd but unsubdued ?
" A debt immense of endless gratitude".
The West doth owe ye—they reward you well!
Tell them that when the conquering Infidel
On Austria's fields a wasting whirlwind came—
When weaken'd with her petty feuds, she clos'd
Her gates in terror, and none interpos'd
To save her life, and faith, and very name,
Then young in vigour, flush'd with martial wrath,
Alone great SOBIESKI dar'd stand forth
The forlorn hope of Europe! who look'd on,
Listening the dreadful onset : who knows not
The martial deeds the fiery Pole hath wrought ?
Morn saw the fight, and day the battle won !
In dust the Paynim's power for ever hurled,
And Poland hail'd the saviour of the world!

• Milton.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Ball given to the juvenile branches of the nobility and
gentry by their Majesties, at their Palace at Brighton, on Thurs-
day evening, was attended by about 400, between the ages of four
and fifteen. The company assembled at seven o'clock. Prince
George of Cumberland began the quadrilles with the younger
Miss Boyle for his partner; the grace and elegance of the young
Prince's demeanour were particularly admired. Prince George
of Cambridge had for his partner, in the first quadrille, Miss C.
Haines. The two Princes afterwards danced with Miss Lush-
ington, the two Misses Wigram, and the three Misses Otway.
The young Duke of Roxburgh was among the party. At
eleven o'clock supper was served to the juveniles ; dancing was
afterwards resumed, and was kept up till past twelve o'clock.
The Duke of Cumberland left town about eleven o'clock on
Saturday morning on a visit to their Majesties at their Palace at
Brighton. _ _

Ilivine service was performed yesterday morning before the
Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and their Royal High-
nesses' Household, in their private apartments, at the King's
Palace, at Kensington, by Archdeacon Potts.
Prince Leopold left town on Saturday for his residence at
Claremont.

A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lansdowne,Viscount Mel-
bonnie, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Durham, Viscount Althorp,
the Right Hon. C. Grant, Lord Holland, and the Earl of Carlisle.
Viscount Goderich was absent from the Council, having left town
for Hastings, where his nephew, the ben of Lord Grantham, now
lies dangerously ill. The Council broke up at half-past five o'clock.
Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador and Monsieur
Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, had interviews with Viscount
Palmerston on Saturday at the Foreign Office.
A Deputation from Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, and other
manufacturing and commercial towns, had a conference, by ap-
pointment, at the Treasury, on Saturday, with Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of
Controul fur the Affairs of India, relative to the trade to China
and the East Indies.

A deputation of the Merchants of Liverpool, headed by Gen.
Gascoyne, one of the Members, and the Mayor of Liverpool, at-
tended at the Treasury on Saturday, and bad an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sir James Graham held a levee at the Admiralty (as First
Lord), on Saturday, which was numerously attended by Naval
Officers.

A numerous deputation of the hop.growers and farmers of
Sussex had a conference with the Chaocellor of the Exchequer
on Saturday, at the Treasury.

PROJECTED MARRIAGE

DETWILEN THE
GRAND DUCHESS of RUSSIA and the Duke of ORLEANS.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Such is the momentous intelligence which we have to commu-
nicate—such the love of liberal institutions on the part of the
citizen King—such his anxiety to secure the throne of France to
himself and his successors, by an alliance with a powerful family
—such his imitation of ie conduct of the man, whose son and
nephew he dreads as neighbours, quite as much as Napoleon
ever dreaded the Duc d'Eughien or any portion of the exiled
Royal Family of France!

liut to come to facts, which are exclusively in our possession, and
a knowledge of which we derive from a source on which we
place the utmost reliance.

The mission of the Duke de Montempt, it seems, did not
wholly relate to Poland; or rather, to Speak properly, Poland
formed no part of his negociatiOns, except in a secondary point
of view. His mission was to demand from the Emperor Nicholas
the hand of the young Grand Duchess, only thirteen years of
age, for his Royal Highness tits Duke of Orleans, son of the
citizen King;
On this ground the indiarence which the Government of the
King of France has manifested towards the.peopla of Belgium and
Poland is easily explained. He has been looking more to the ac-
complishment of hts own wishes, than to those of the people who
have placed him on the throne; and, in consequence, no deci-
sive step has been taken in favour of either.
M. Pozzo di Borgo, adds our correspondent, whose diplomatic
talents are well known, supports, by every means in his power,
the projected alliance, of which the successful issue would canter
upon him an influence at Paris, as a family ambassador, of which
hitherto he has only enjoyed a part, and that part the mere
reward of his talents.

The affair which we now ineution—all secret and unknown as
its authors imagine it—has got wind among some Members of
the Chamber of Deputies; and some of those who belong to the
left, and who see in this projected alliance with the Autocrat of
Russia the complete overthrow of all the liberal promises which
were made in July, are determined to make the matter public in
the tribune—.a result which the intrigue: and caresses of the
Citizen King have only hitherto prevented,
We shall not add a word to the almvo intelligence. The ten-
dency of it will be easily understood by our readers as well as by
the people of France ; Unit we cannot help remarking that it fur-
nishes a convincing proof of the bad faith which we lately began
to eliseuver iu the proceedings of the Government of Vranee, and
lu our opinion, if it be worth any thing,
a sea worn of the down-
fall of the nascent Orleans dynasty,

SIR ROBERT WIGRAM, BARONET.—.,The
will of the deceased 'Baronet has been proved in Doctors'
Commons, and probate granted for lour hundred thou-
rind pounds, personal property, besides freehold estates.
This enormous amount is in addition to the large fortune
given daring his lifetime by the dels,..spd to his numerous
(we believe 22) children by two wives.—Morn. tis""ide,

The Duchess of ST. ALRAN'S, although a
resident at Brighton, has not been included in the inYita-
tion3 to the Palace.