The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

RE-ES':4BLISIIMENT OF .THE KINGDOM
Ok POLAND.

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[FROM THE ANTIGALLICAN MONITOR.]

[Con6nued from yesterday's Paper.]

-" Civitas to in libertate-est..posita gum suis stat Tjribus,
non ex alien° arbitiio petidet."—Lzirr.•

A wrong opinion has always been entertained
of the Polish character, which has generally been
represented as sincere, v:rtubus, moral, and reli-
gious. A residence in that country at different
periods has enabled me to form something like -a
correct. opinion of, these men, which I shall sum
up in a- very fey' words-:
• A Pole, "when in prosperity, is high, petulant,
insolent, and nrrogrmt, wore so than any nation
I know.—ln adyersitif, or at least when bending
under a foreign yoke, as I have seen them in
1804, they are cringing and mean to a-degree ;
nay, to a foreigner, a Pole of an infinior &scrip-
tiOn will condescend so far as to kiss the skirts of
his garments. A Pole that has travelled will pass
for a 'finished gentleman ;, but even they, when at
home in their oirn country, . are as brutal as those
who had never travelled.., They 'are, false, cun-
ning, deceitful, and profligate to the: higl.est de-
greeL The first thing a Pole does; when he rises;
in the morning, 'is to fly to the gaming table
after dinner, be gambles again, -and spends his,
evening in riot, irinking, and gambling, As to
the women, •tulthing. can
.he said very favonrable
to their chastity. . When a yonng.,lady .is to be
marriedi and they are generally married very-
young; the name of• her intended lover is men-
tioned, as well as:that of her future. husband.
For instance, the tea-table chat is--" Miss
is to be married to Mr: B—, and Mr.
C----is'spriken of asJhe amthit, or lover.'.' , •
To .shew the, frivolity of ,this 'ration, I have
only to relate the following anecdote.
An eintssary of Buonaperte was Sent to Poland,
as Iv have frequently stated, to enter into a scheme
for 'revolutionizing Poltmtl, whilst he was at
peace with 'Prussia. In co!'wetsing on this sub-
ject at Warsaw with a Count f4razlusky, who had
married the dafighter th'e late Grand Marshal
of Poland, Alalachowsky, what- seemed to please
him MoStrwas the idea of having French dancers
froM Paris; and ',of having the Theatre Cham,-
petre (1); yvtikh is situated in a garden belouging,
to' the palace 'called Lajenka, near Warsaw, re-;.
stored • to its former splendour. 'Snell .Men are
not capable of " committing- treason fasting :"
-and all the foie regretted, by the loss of his inde-
pendence; was the fetes and carousings which
were formerly given at WarsaW As to their po-
litical liberty, that they did not much value.
The Pole is noSpartan. Poland will never ;pro-
duce a Leonidas. There arc however exceptions.
I know no better mortal than the worthy Kos-
ciusko his head has been overrated, but his heart
has not.

It was therefore very natural, that men thus
constituted were easily to be worked upon by the
French Jacobins. The allied Courts of the North
v-ere of course no strangers .to what was going on,
and fl.e Poles had, even the imprudence to apply
to .the Prussian Ambassador at Warsaw (the well
known Marquis de Lucchcsini), fcr arms, as it
was sald,to defend themselves against any attacks
froin Russia or Austria, especially as they said the
Court of Berlin guaiarrtecd their new Constitu-
tion of 1791. The trick played them by this
Prussian Italian diploinatiSt is worth relating ; ,it
is not generally known. The Polish malecontents
gave Lucchcsini 40;000 ducats (about 20,000
pounds sterling) to purchase arms' for them.
When the muskets arrived at Warsaw, and were
tried, they were all of theiii found to be good for -;
nothing, and only fit to be broken up for old iron
and fire wood.

When these preparations were snaking in Po-
land, in order to obtain a diversion in favour of
France, the most respectable of the Polish nobi-lity urged Russia to send troops into Poland, to
prevent a revolution similar to that of France.
bone troops were sent into Warsaw, but not
sufficient to rope with the revolutionists ; a gene-
ral rising throughout Poland was the consequence.
The Polish revolutionary General Madalinski took
up arms, and was near obtaining possession of
.Dantzic ; the. gallant Kosciusko assembled his
forces at Cracovie, whilst the Russians at Warsaw,
under General.Baner, -were all driven out by the.
revolutionists. Every act of *cruelty played off
by the French furies in Paris Was insitate4 in
Warsaw. A reverend prelate of seventy years of
age,. the Bishop of Cracovie, who. was suspected
of favoinisg the Russians, was hanged up on a
gallows, without even the form a trial; and that
the Pyles might equal the French 'Jacobins in
cruelty, the place fixed upon for his execution was
the square which fronts the cathedral, where the
'prelate used to. preach. The
,rope broke just as
they were drawing Flint up (for an the Continent
the manner in which they hang criminals is by
drawing them frOm the ground by a' pulley with
the halter round'their necks) ; the poor alkt man,
on the breaking of the rope., ran into the cathe,
dral, where he thought he should be safe ; how-
ever, the furies rushed in after him, dragged him
out, and hung him up again. 'ln this state he re-
mained for three days, and the tender hearted
patriotic ladies brought their children to' see this
wretched victim of popular fury siuspended on the
gallows. _ 1. was in Warsaw at this very period,
and was myself witness to the. sight.
Jacobinisrn was now raging in all its violence,
the peasants Were running about the country cry-
ing out Liberty,- Equality, and .No LacusX Tire
King's life was endangered, he was insulted in
every public place he.went 'to, and robberies out
number were committed in the country. At that
time I frequently reasoned thus with these Polish
Revolutionists. " How can you think of ever
restoring tranquility to your country, hereafter.
In Poland there exists only'two classes of persons,
the master, and the slave ; you preach liberty and
equality to them,—now do you think that were
you even to succeed in repelling the attack ,of
your invaders, that you could bring back your
peasantry to a state of, obedience and servitude
—But persons, who iire troubled with Revolu-
tionary visitations, are just as capable of listen-
ing to reason as a lunatic, or a man in a,state of

' BIRTHS.
On Saturday last, the Lady. of Sir Edwin Bayntun Said
Bart. of a Son.
On Sunday last, at his house in Nottingham-place, the
,Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Martin, Ist Guards, of a Daugl'4
ter. • ' •
Yesterday, at hi's •liouse in Cavendish-square the LadY
Major-General the I-ion. John Crewe, of a Son.
On the loth 'HAL at her father's house in Portland-place'
Mrs. J. Russell, of Hi;ni-Hall, Staffordshire, .of a Son. r.
Lately, the Lady of the Rev. G. Muor, of Grampound, oi
Daughter. ,

• M. VIED.
Yesterday, at St. George%, Bloomsbury,- James Wg131,11
Porter, Esq. of Writtle, Lssex, to Miss Thorpe, of *u."'
=Wit-street, Bloomsbury.
Thu same day, at St. George's, Church, Hanover-square;
John Bennet Lawes, Esl. of Rothamsted, in the C4.-3:ItY
Hertford, to Mrs. Knox, of Harpenden.
On the loth inst. Wil.eihltt, Esq. commanding the laud'
dart East-Indiaman, to Miss Samuel. ,
Lately, at. St. George s, 1-lanover-square, Captain I-Ter'.l
Wyndham, of the Royal icth Hussars, t.: Elizabeth, ei"e'l
daughter of Lord Charie3 Si.)lnerset, and niece of the rtake
Beaufort.
A Lieutenant few days since, Lieutena and Adjutant Latfer, •11r,
mouth Division of loyal Marines, to Miss Rovers, daughte'
of the late Captain .Tames Roizefs. Royal Navy.

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MED. ..
On the I Ith of Ju'/._t, in Mountjoy-square, Dublin, in heal
78th year, Mrs. Hone; and, on . tire 22d ult. her bush
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Brindley Hone, Esq.
On Friday the 24th Jilt. at Enniskerry, in the CoantF °'
Wicklow, in the 61st year of his age,: Francis Hard,,, k's.`l,
whc,•represented'in Parliament the town of Mullinzar for tj'
space of eighteen years.
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.Oa the 31st ult. at'St. Austell, Mr. WilliamFbnianizi v
28, son of the late Mr. William Flanianis, of St: Anstell.
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On Wednesday the 29th ult. at his house at Islingt
Thomas lytendliarn, Esq. in the 80th year of her age,
,tvA'
On Wednesday, at Bnceonnoe, Watson Shaman'r, ''
Steward to the Right Ho). Lord GI-enville. ._____,,,._......••"

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