The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-11 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1831.

GLORIOUS DEFEAT OF
THE RUSSIANS.

We have just received the Hamburg Re-
porter, which contains the following glorious
and heart-stirring intelligence :

WARSAW, APRIL 1.-The Polish Courier contains a
report, flated yesterday, addressed by the Commander-in-
Chief, General Skrzynecki, to the National Government,
according to which his advanced guard yesterday attacked
General Geismar's corps, which occupied a strong position
near Wawr. After two hours' struggle this corps was
beaten hack, and closely pursued on the road toMinsk. Every
effort of the enemy was baffled, and even General Rosen's
corps stationed at Dembewielski, was unable to sustain
the Polish troops, who at the end of the battle occupied
the positions of the enemy. According to the further
contents of this report, the loss of the Russians amounted
to several thousand men ; ours is only between 4 and 500,
owing to the attack being unexpected.
According to the latest intelligence, the Polish head-
quarters are at Minsk. General I.ubinski is at Zawody.—
Prussian State Gazette, April 6.
(The Prussian State Gazette of the 7th, contains no
further particulars.)

(FROM A LETTER.)
BERLIN, APRIL 6,—Letters from Warsaw have been re-
ceived here by express, which contain the details of the very
serious loss which the corps of General Geismar has sus-
tained by an attack from the Poles under Skrzynccki, exe-
cuted with equal boldness and success on the 31st of
March and the Ist of April. The Polish Commander-in-
Chief was informed of the negligence of the Russians
at Wawr and Grochow in their cantonments and camp,
He led a corps of 25,000 men on the 30th ult. to Praga,
and in the night of the 31st of March approached the
Russian camp—the road was covered with straw, so that
the artillery and cavalry advanced without being perceived,
to which the darkness of the night did not a little
contribute. The advanced guard of General Geismar,
consisting of eight or ten thousand men, was first attacked
and almost wholly destroyed. The Poles took 4,000 pri-
soners and 16 pieces of cannon. The I itter, ornamented
with green boughs, were brought into Warsaw. Skrzy-
nicki followed up his victory, and fell upon the corps
of General Rosen, who, with twenty thousand own,
was posted at Dembewieslki. He, too, was obliged
to yield to the impetuous attack of the Poles, and
lost 2,000 prisoners and nine pieces of cannon. The
Russians retired by way of Minsk to join the main body
of the army. Some of their fugitives fled to Siedlec,
whither they were pursued by the Cracowites. Skrzynccki
had on the Ist of April his head-quarters at Minsk, where,
however, he will hardly be able to maintain himself as soon as
Diehitsch with his whole force advances against
The moral impression which this victory, by which at
least 20,000 Russians are put hors de combat, will make,
especially in the provinces in the rear of the army,
is incalculable, far these fanatic priests, as for-
merly in Spain and Tyrol, excite the peasants
to insurrection, and these savage bores increase
to such threatening masses that the Russian civil
officers and the frontier posts are obliged to take refuge in
the Prussian territory.

The news from the Continent is most cheer-
ing. The brave Poles are said to have beaten
the Russians—who are in full retreat at all points
—in another grand battle ; the latter endea-
voured to cross the Vistula, but were re-
pulsed with immense loss. The conflict con-
tinued for many hours, and terminated in
the loss of two thousand Russians killed,
between 7,000 and 8,000 wounded, and twenty
pieces of artillery captured. This welcome in-
telligence was communicated on Saturday by
General SEBASTIANI to several Members
of the Chamber of Deputies at Paris.—
Accounts from Dantzic, dated March 31,
also mention that an insurrection of a
most serious, decided, and extensive nature
has broken out in Lithuania, which has been
for some time concerting, and which has been
powerfully seconded by the Clergy, who, from
the pulpit, have called upon their congregations
to arm in the sacred cause of independence.
A Provisional Government, adds tl;e same
authority, has already been organized, and the
Russian barbarians are put to death wherever
they are met with. There is little or no doubt,
we believe, of the truth of this intelligence,
which is in every respect cheering to the cause
of freedom. Of the Proclamation (inserted in
The Sun of Saturday) addressed by General
Jiiii4-ALOFF to the Russians, calling on them
to come forward and demand a Constitution
front the Emperor NICHOLAS, we have no fur-
ther mention. On the state of affairs in Italy
some doubt yet hangs. It is rumoured, how-
ever, that on the morning of the 27th of March,
the Austrian General, in attempting to take the
position of the Patriots by assault, was, after
some hours' hard fighting, compelled to retire
upon Rimini, leavit:g 1,000 dead, wounded,
and prisonets, with the field, to the insurgents.
It is said that immediately after this defeat the
Austrian Government was compelled to send
off for further reinforcements.
ivAksAw, AtAIiCH 31.—The correspondence with the
Russian Commander-in-Chief, published by our Genera-
lissimo, contains, besides the two letters published in our
last, the fpllowin'g
.3. Letter from the Generalissimo to Field Marshal
Count Diebitscb, dated the 19th of March, in which
General Skrzynecki observes, that the Field Marshal has
not replied to him himself, but only sent him an answer
through the Quartermaster-General Count Mycielski ;
however, he will consider this merel • as a
formality, and declares on his side thatY be will diplomaticact only
with the frankness of a soldier, and therefore persists
his resolution, which, in in
to-the generous heart of the his
Sovereign, because the sole
object of it is to prevent the farther shedding of the blood
of two nations which were destined
to love and esturn
each other. Hereupon he again contradicts the opinion
expressed. in the letter of General Neidhardt that the
Polish revolution was the work only of some hot-headed
youth; and affirms that it was chiefly caused by
the fear that the Constitution would be entirely
abolished. This leads the writer to call to mind hi. Ala-
eAy the Emperor Alexander, and affirms that the Polish

aation recollects with the greatest gratitude all that it re-
ceived from that Monarch, and honours it also in his suc-
cessor • he, therefore, expresses a wish that his Majesty,
the ri • i g Emperor, had. been pleased to appear in per-
son capital of the kingdom, in order to put an end
to the evils of war. If kis.Majesty had .appeared as a fa-
ther in the midst of the. Senate, the Chamber of Deputies,
and t earmy, and solemnly pledged his royal word to the Po-
-lis n to maintain . its sights, Poland, proud, of such
cot - nee, would have thrown itself into the arms of its fa-
ther, and received with gratitude all the blessings of peace
which he brought to his children.
With respect to that passage in General Neidhardt's
letter, which says that the act declaring the throne vacant
had dissolved every connection between the Russian au
thorities and the individuals who joined in that act, an!
that it meat first of all be revsked, General Skrzynyclii
observes, that such a rev4tion cannot he made
without exposing the Polish nation to the reproach
of the most culpable precipitation, unless it receive,
from the other party positive security for its right,
and privileges. To he concise, the General con-
tinues, the Field Marshal will allow him to expres's his
opinion, that if . both parties were equally convinced of the
advantage that would arise from the termination of the
war, it was especially incumbent upon the other party to
find out a means of putting an end to the contest, which
should he equally worthy of the magnanimous heart of the
sovereign and the honour of the Polish nation, for what-
ever the result might be, if the armies of his. Majesty the
Emperor should return in the greatest triumph from the
war, yet victories and triumphs which ended in the anni-
hilation of a weaker people could rot be agreeeble to the
truly generous feelings of his Majesty. The letter con-
cludes with the assurance that the Generalissimo has ex
pressed himself openly respecting the feelings which the
letter of General Neidhardt had excited in him, and that
the well-disposed, intelligent, brave part of the nation
cherishes the same aectiments of which the Field Mar-
shal, who was no stranger to the sentiments of humanity,
might judge.
4. Letter from Field-Marshal Count Diebitsch to Gen.
Geismar, answering that the letter which Messrs. Ko-
laczkowiski end Count Mycielski, delivered ta the
General, had been made known to the Field-Marshal.
ff these negociators should again appear at the out-posts,
General Geismar might inform them that in the present state
of things the Field-Marshal considered their presen•-e as
entirely useless, as at the repeated interviews with Count
Mycielski in Grochow, he had fully and without reserve
expressed his opinion on the unhappy events in Poland,
and he could therefore only refer to his verbal declarations,
and to the statement of them in General Neidhardt's letter
written by his desire to the same officer, and he could
therefore repeat, that as his Majesty the_ Emperor and
King had promised a complete amnesty and oblivion of
the past to all such as returned to their duty, this pro-
mise would be faithfully observed.
The Warsaw Gazette says,--" On the return of
better weather, the movements of the enemy's army
recommence at several points, and particularly at
Stenzyca and Karczew ; the Russians made prepara-
tions to cross the Vistula, hut, 'as it seems, only
to draw our attention from another point, where they
really intend ta effect the passage. Last night they sent a
fire-ship down the Vistula, from Karczew, probably with
the hope of injuring our bridge at Praga, but it ran
aground and burnt, without doing any mischief."
The Warsaw State Gazette says, " The head -quarters
of General Klicki, on the left bank of the Vistula, are now
at Lowiez."

The Chambers of the Diet had again joint sittings on
the 28th, 29th, and 30th, in which the project for giving
landed property to the peasants was discussed and adopted.
Prince Michael Radziwill, father of his Highness the
Prince, Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen, died on
the 2Stb, at the age of 87 years.
BERLIN,
_A rzuL I.—Letters from Konigsberg say, that
on the 28th ult. intelligence was received there from the
Russian frontier, that an insurrection had broken out in
the Government of Wilna. According to these letters the
insurgents having 'obtained possession of the fire-aims, of
which they had some time previously been deprived, and
which had been deposited at Roanyn were advancing against
Georcenburg, for which place a great part of the inhabit-
ants had fled to the Prussian territory. On their way to
Georgenburg, the insurgents are said to have destroyed
and plundered several small places in the Government of
Wilna, and to have repuheil several bodies of Cossacks
sent against them. From Tilsit we hear, that the in-
surgents have already shown themselves in the vicinity of
Tauroggen.
WARsAw, Miacu 29.—The Warsaw Courier of the
29th March, says:—

" It is reported. that the vanguard of General Uminski
has lately had some engagements with the enemy on the
Bug, and that a Russian corps attempted to cross the Vis-
tula, between Pulawy and Stenzyca, but was hindered by
our troops.

" The Russian Guards are advancing through the
province of Augustowo."
RIGA, MA RCH 28.—News has been received here that
the peasants in Lithuania, in the neighbourhood of hos-
sienna, (where there are no troops) have risen. Some
officers of engineers, who heard of it by chance,
were arrived here. The insurrection is said to
spread, but the peasants are destitute of all that
is most necessary for attack as well as for defence. They
have no powder, and neither an officer nor soldiers ; there
are, however, some priests, and among them a great
number of smugglers. Near Kanen they have cruelly
maltreated some custom-house officers. A small detach-
ment of troops only has been sent from this city, which is
considered to be sufficient to put an end to this useless
enterprise.

BERLIN, APRIL 4.—The Konigsberg Gazette, of the
31 st of March, says according to a letter from Schalen-
inken some Russian civil officers had arrived there from
Genrgenburg, with the coffers of the Custom-hou.e. A
number of peasants, eager for pillage, plundered the in-
considerable depot of arms at Rossina, which was weakly
guarded, and drove away the Cossacks. Hereupon the
robbers advanced against Georgenbure, and threatened also
to plunder that town. They are said to have committed
the most fr,ghtful excesses in several ♦illages, and the very
fact refutes the report which originated from it, of an in-
surrection in the government of Wilna.

A letter from TiWt of the 30th March says, " On the
29th, in the evening at eight o'clock, the Russian frontier
post, with the Imperial troops, that were still in Georgen-
burg (about 2,000 men, cavalry and infantry), arrived at
Schmaleninken, and immediately proceeded on their cv,,y
to Wischwill, and are expected here to-day or to-morow."
It is said that the insurgents have already taken posses-
sion of Alexandrow, a league from Georgenburg; . but ac-
cording to the accounts from Schmaleninken of March 29,
they had not yet entered Georgenburg.

_
RIL .f.,.
St. Schuld Sch. 4 per cent. — RERUN, AP
85M
Prussian English Loan, 1816, 5 per cent.
Ditto Ditto 15i1.... S per cent. 95

Ditto Ditto 1830; 4 Per cent.
RIGA, Maacit 23.—Convoys of military stores are
continually passing through this city proceeding with all
expedition to the army in Poland. Several civil officers,
appointed under the provisional Government of the eight
provinces of Poland, have also passed through on their way
to the head-quarters of Diebitech. Several Livonian
nobles and retired officers who lived on their estates
hasten to re-enter the province. The attempt of the in-
surgents to organise a Landstt urn in the Waiwodeahip of
Augustowo has wholly failed. The Polish officers, with
Major Dombrowski at their bead, who were sent from
Warsaw, armed indeed some hundred of the Lithuanian
peasantry, but they dispersed only on hearing that General
Manderstern was advancing from Augtistowo to Suwalki.
Major Dombrowski escaped in disguise, abandoning all his
effects.

WARSAW, Maßcir 28.—Our papers publish a procla-
mation said to be by General Yerinolow, and endeavour
to piove its authenticity, which is extremely problema-
tical. The library of Princess Czartoriski, chiefly con-
sisting of valuable inedited MSS. was used for
by the Russians on their second entrance into
Pulawy ; the furniture, the beautifhl palace, the magnifi-
cent garden, and the gothic house, were destroyed. In
a word, the beautiful Pulawy, which contained the finest
national monuments, and had been viewed with delight
by many foreigners, noir, presents a frightful scene of de-
struction.
Beaus, APRIL 4.—Letters from different parts of
East Prussia, as far as Memel, confirm the accounts of
the insurrection of the peasants in Samoglia and Lithuania,
and, as similar disorders have arisen within a few leagues
of Polangen, measures have probably been since adopted
to prevent any interruption of the post with Russia.
BERLIN, APRIL 3.—A sanguinary action is said to
have been fought near Grochow on the 30th tilt. Full
particulars are not known, but the result is generally b,_
lieved to be favourable to the poles. The general subject
of conversation here is the insurrection in Lithuania, the
consequences of which, it iy feared, will be extremely
disastrous to.the Russian army, which received the greater
part of its supplies through Lithuania.
DA NTZIC, Alaßcn 3l.—The disturbances which have
broken out in Lithuania are said to be of a most serious
and extensive nature, and have created a powerful sen-
sation here. The insurrection seems to have been pre-
pared before hand, and to have been powerfully seconded
by tie clergy, who, from the pulpit, called upon the con-
gregation to arm in the cause of independence. A Pro-

visional Government has already been organized. ' The
Russians are put to death wherever they are met with.
HAMBURG, APRIL s.—Boas6k-HALLE.—Funds have
somewhat improved to-day, in Conieguence of the, rise of
one per cent. in the Frenchfunds. • Owing to its being al
Jewish holiday, very litle business lias'been
. End of April.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Ce11i..., e. ,53%
Anglo-Russian Loan ... ... ..
Hamburg-Russian Loan ' 4 ' "3%
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares • ' VOn'
New Austrian 4 per Cents 67
THE HAGUE, APRIL 7.—Their Majesties the King:
and Queen set out for Amsterdam to-morrow. Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange will
set out for that city on Saturday.
It is officially announced from Mayence, under date of
March 2, that the Act for the navigation of the Rhine
was signed en that day by the Plenipotentiaries of all the
Powers on the banks of that river.

AMSTERDAM, APRIL 8.
Actual Debt, nIA per cent 3834 to 39
Arnort Syndic, 4% per cent. 643/ to 651/

Ditto, dilto,iy, per cent. 5Ni to 52
Rio DE JANEIRO, JAN. 27.—The following order be-
came necessary to be issued, in consequence of the Bank
Directors having refused to deliver the specie after the
recent sale of dollars had been effected:

" Having laid before his Majesty the Emperor your
representation, bearing dates of the 10th and 15th
instant, referring to the doubts which existed a-
to the compliance with the order relating to the
delivery of the metals bearing date of the sth inst.
his Imperial Majesty desires the Committee to be in.
formed, that no responsibility will result from their_ com-
plying with the legal orders that are forwarded to them,
it being understood that their private property will be
held responsible for any loss that may arise from the said
metals not being promptly delivered to the purchasers,
and that all those who oppose the execution of the law will
be proceeded against as the law directs.
Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 17, 1831."
" ANTONIO FRANCISCO DE PAULO
HOLLANDO CAVALEANTE DE ALBU-
QUERQUE.
" To the Committee for the Liquidation of the Bank."
FEB. 3.--Their Imperial Majesties continue their
journey and enjoy the best health. They travel in the
most private manner possible, wishing to give the least
possible trouble to their faithful subjects, by whom they
have been received, in every town and village, with every
mark of respect and gratitude.
On the 19th ult. their Imperial Majesties were at Saint
Joao del Rey, where their Majesties were received with
the greatest enthusiasm.

On the 31st ult. the Portuguese ship Incomparnbel,
bound to Lisbon, was detained on suspicion of having -on
board smuggled copper coin. On the proper authorities
proceeding to search her, thirty odd barrels of copper coin
were found and seized. We understand they were des-
tined for Pernambuco.

BUENOS AmES, DEC. 25.--:•A communication from
M. Mendeville, the Consul-General of Fiance, to the Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs, dated Buenos Ayres, 20th inst.,
states that his Majesty the King of the French has recog-
nized the independence of the Argentine Republic, and
that his Majesty was disposed to enter into a treaty of
friendship, commerce, &c. &c., with the united provinces
of the River Plate.

This communication has caused the greatest joy here.
JANUARY 1.-On Wednesday night a courier ar-
rived from Santa Fe, bringing a bulletin published in
that city on the 25th ult., to the effect that Don
Francisco Ibarra, the late Commandant-General of
the Province of Santiago having raised a body of men,
gave battle to Colonel Dera, the Governor of that pro-
vince, and completely routed him, taking many prisoners
and various article., among which are enumerated two
carts laden with hand-cuffs and chains. Part of the
troops of Colonel DeZa are said to have mutinied, and gone
over to Senor Ibarra.

It is said, through other channels, that an insurrection
lid taken place in the province of Rioja, that Colonel La
Madrid, the Governor, had been routed and killed, and
that popular commotions had taken place at San Luis,'
Tucuman, and Salta.

We have rtceived Monte Video Papers to the 30th tilt.
Don Ricardo Lopez Jordan and some officers had arrived
in the Oriental States, and that he and his followers hail
delivered up their arms, and solicited the protection of
the Oriental Government,

JANUARY B.—The week has passed without any ad.-
dition to the news we communicated in our last numbrr,
except that the province of Entrerios is stated to be in
perfect tranquillity, and likely to remain so.
We have nothing to report from Cordova or the interior,
the next intelligence, we should think, from thence, will
be most important, as deciding whether General Paz, in
bis quality of. Protector of the nine allied irrovinces, will
think it requisite to advance his force in order to support
the pretensions, and endeavour to reinstate Colonel Dezt
in his office as a Governor of the province of Santiago del
Estero. Many think that he will, at all risks, undertake
this expedition, as his not doing so would be a confession
of weakness, which, under present circumstances might
prove of serious consequence to him and the political ques.
tion or party of which lie is the great support.
The interior provinces now present a perfect -volcano.
It cannot he long before'something decisive takes place.
Would to God that this unhappy dispute between the
Unitarian and Federal might be settled without an appeal
to arms ; for, as we once before observed, which ever side
gains the day, in civil warfare the country is always the
sufferer—a country too which, were it not for these do-
mestic dissentions, possesses every qualification to become
powerful and happy. But we fear that the dispute has
gone too far, and engendered too much animosity, to in..
dulge in the hope of a❑ amicable arrangement between the
belligerents of the Argentine Republic. We were struck
on reading an observation in the Lucero, of the 11th ult.,
and we insert it now as being applicable to the opinion
we have expressed.
The remark alluded to is as follows:

" For a long time we have flattered ourselves with the
hope to see the two parties amalgamate together, and
we have always laboured with this feeling ; but after all
that we have seen, if our opinion were asked upon the
matter, we should honestly reply, that this desire, so ho-
nourable to those who cherish it, is like the project of
perpetual peace, or of an universal language."
The patron of a balandra, which arrived yesterday from
the Uruguay, states that a part of the troops of the Oriental
Republic, in the execution of their orders to disperse any
unlawful assemblages of emigrants from this'proviuce, had
had a skirmish, in which four of the latter were killed,
and that Rosales had been forwarded as a prisoner to
Monte Video.

This day at half-past one their MAJESTIES ar-
rived at St. James's Palace from Windsor, which
they left a little before eleven o'clock. The
KING lnd QUEEN rode in the same carriage,
escorted by a party of the 9th Lancers. His
MAJESTY, who looked in excellent health, re-
peatedly bowed in acknowledgment of the
cheers and salutations of the crowd assembled
in the park. Their MAJESTIES entered the Pa-
lace through the garden gate. A carriage
which preceded brought their Royal Highnesses
the Princess AUGUSTA and the Landgravine of
HESSE HOMBURG. In one which followed
were the QUEEN'S ladies in attendance and
Prince GEORGE of Cambridge.

Parliament reassembles to-morrow after the
recess. Among the subjects entered in the pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons for discus-
sion to-morrow evening, we find the Stamp Duties,
Lord ALTHORP having announced his bite» •
tion of bringing in a Bill for their consolidation.
As we are ourselves somewhat interested in this
matter, and as we have already been beguiled a
dozen times in our expectations of seeing the
proposed alteration fairly settled, we merely sug-
gest to the consideration of the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER the impropriety, not to say
inexpediency, of any further delay. We do not
accuse the Noble Lord of any intentional delay,
knowing full well the many difficulties he
has had to contend against, but we do
trust that he will at length grapple with
the subject, and thereby relieve not only
the natural anxiety of the Press, but the just
expectations of the country. We are aware
that the proposed reductions in newspaper
stamps and advertisement duty will not
take place till the sth of July, but yet it is rev}'. .

desirable that the matter should be finalliset at 7.
rest.
While We' are oil this subject we would
humbly suggest. to Lord ALTitoftli the expe-
diency
of abolishing the duty on receipts uncle
si.tpenee.
,The amount derived from twopenny.
.and threepenny receipts is, not large—and the
annoyance to the public, particularly those classes
who can least afford it,is very considerable. Besides,
another forcible argument in favour .of conces-
sion is, that the tax is constantly evaded by
thousands who are either unable or unwilling
to pay.

Die LORD CHANCELLOR arrived in town,
this afternoon, at his residence in Berkeley-
square, from Yorkshire, where he has been since
Tuesday.