The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-12 00:00:00

THE rittskt)EXT OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

" in the capital of the Polish people, where all the
authorities are concentrated, where the representatives of
the nation deliberate day and night on the interests of the
country, where the National Government exercises its
power, where so many Courts of Justice exist, atrocious
crimes have been consummated, and murders have been
committed in the name of the Polish people, in the name
of the country. The Polish people rejects with contempt
their sanguinary and atrocious abuses. It is net upon de-
grading crimes, bet upon national virtues, that it has
founded its poorer : it desires to have heaven, and not
hell, for the ally of its cause. We have sworn to conquer
or to die ; if we must die, we will perish with all the
dignity of a civilized people we will not suffer the na-
tional tomb to bear the stigma of crime. The supri me
authority of the nation, the united Chambers, have felt the
necessity of changing the form of Government. Founded
on the power of the laws, it will act with the strength
and vigour Which the present situation of the country
requires. The law will overtake the guilty. It is to
them that we must attribute the recall of part of our
troops to the capital to protect it against the agitators
and murdenrs-a, recall which yesterday caused us losses
that we should not have sustained if we could have sent
these same troops to the assistance of those that were en-
gaged with the enemy. May these losses,--may the blood
of the brave men who have perished fall on their heads,
with the maledictions of the Polish people. When has
Poland had a Government like that which has just been
changed ? Did it not emanate from the national will—
was it not guided by wisdom, patriotism, and moderation ?
Has liberty ever been more flourishing ? Was there not
at the head of the Government an honourable, pure, and
virtuous man, who has sacrified every thing to the country ?
What have all these virtues availed against the disturbers
of public tranquillity ? They have abused the moderation
of the most liberal Government to sully our history by
murdering individuals under trial, who were perhaps
guilty, but unarmed. It is for this, then, that the blood
of the Poles has flowed I was it then for this that we have
made so many sacrifices and given proofs of a devotedness
without parallel ? Our last insurrection but one was sul-
lied by similar murders. Kosciusko effaced this stain by
punishing the guilty, and the history of his life and the
revolution has been handed down with the most brilliant
Glory to posterity.
" I will not sully the national glory ; I shall find means
with the aid of the laws to annihilate crime, and the agi-
tators who are the best allies of our enemies.

" Warsaw, August 18.
(Signed) " Count KRUKOWIECKI."

These proclamations are accompanied by a report from
Gen. Dembinski, of an affair that had taken place between
the enemy and the corps of Gen. Romarino, near the village
of Skymanin, which the Polish General had retired from
in good ct.dtr, after destroying two bridges, though attacked
by a greatly superior force, and also another attack upon
Gen. Uminski, on the high road near Sochatzew, but of
minor importance. The loss of the Poles is stated to be
inconsiderable. Two officers, however, of the sth regi-
ment of the line were killed.

(From the Quotidicnnc.)
POLAND.

The Union, a journal of Warsaw, which arrived to-day

from Paris, contains the details and the documents which
have been published relative to the massacres of which that
capital has been the theatre.
The facts already revealed by the Paris journals are
far from approaching the atrocities of which this paper con-
tains the hideous picture. The extent of the narrative pre-
vents our insertintr, it to. day.
A letter from Valladolid, of the 22d of August, con-
tains the following t--" The King has ordered the division
which is commanded by Field-Marshal Don Paulo Garcia,
to march to Estremadura (frontier of Portugal ; and a di-
vision of Burgos, which is commanded by Field-Marshal
Don Antonio Mogoz, to march to Ciudad Rodrigo, in
order to occupy the bridge of Puente de Onoro and Andea
del Obispeo (frontier of Portugal). This vigilance of the

Spanish Cabinet gives reason for supposing that there exists
some secret project of assisting Portugal in its resistance
against Don Pedro."

(From the Journal des Debats.)

PORTUGAL.

A letter from Lisbon of the 24th of August adds the

following details to those which we published yesterday,
respecting the insurrection of the 4th regiment of ale

" The number of killed and wounded on both sides
amounts at present to 300 men; the soldiers of the 4th
regiment, though amounting only to a fourth of the forces
opposed to them on the place du Rocio, repulsed them, and
did not yield until their ammunition was exhausted ; the
prisoners have been placed on the pontoons; the inferior
fficers have been shut up in Fort Belem ; they will be
brought to trial and shot in a few days.
" An Englishman returning from the country, has been
killed by a patrol, although he showed his carta of protec-
tion, and proved that he was English. The British Con-
sul has caused a corvette of war to he placed before the
arsenal threatening to set fire to it, if he did not instantly
receive satisfaction and indemnity for the family of the
deceased."

(From the Journal des Debuts.)

(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 10.—A violent fire broke out
on the 2d instant, about half-past nine o'clock in the
morning, at Pera, a suburb of Constantinople. A very
strong wind, blowing N.N.E., spread the flames with so
much rapidity that the whole suburb was quickly reduced
to ashes. The hotels of the Ambassadors of England,
France, and Holland, which belong to those nations, and
the residences hired by the Ministers of Russia, Prussia,
Sardinia, and Naples, together with a vast number of
churches, of which three were Catholic, fell a prey to the
filmes. The loss sustained is enormous. The number of
houses destroyed by the fire is estimated at about 5,000.
It is a heart-rending spectacle to witness so great a
multitude of persons without resources, without shelter,
and without clothing, wandering up and down, and having
no means of sustaining their existence. It was possible
to oppose but a very weak resistance to the flames. Pera
exists no more! Its inhabitants have received permission
to retire to Galata, Bujukdere, and Therapia (suburbs of
Constantinople).
To this frightful misfortune have just been added the
first attacks of the cholera morbus, which has been brought
hither from Odessa; and the plague has not yet entirely
quitted us.
The envoy from the United States of North America
his arrived in our waters. He is expected with the first
favourable wind.

Mention is made of an earthquake which has laid waste
:he isle of Scio.

The Courier de Sinproe has ceased to appear; another
editor however will without loss of time undertake the
continuance of its publication.
(From the Moniteur of Saturday.)
The Government of the King has received with a lively
satisfaction the official intelligence that his Majesty the
King of Spain has ordered the liberation of 71 Frenchmen,
who were detained in the prisons of Pampeluna and St.
Sebastian's, for having formed a part of the detachment
of Spanish refugees who attempted last year, as an armed
hody, to enter the Peninsula. This pledge, so recent and
so positive of the friendly disposition of his Catholic
Mljesty in regard to France, cannot fail to be appreciated
by her, and to bind closer the ties of harmony and good
neighbourhood which ought to unite the two Powers.
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MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—An assistant-sur-
e-eon has been appointed to this Hospital. The contest lay
between Mr. AIiNOTT and Mr. PERRY. At the close of
the poll the result was as follows :—Aallorr, 287; Mr.
PEititY, 132.