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

inebriation. The ultimate subjugation of Poland,
and its :dismemberment is well know-n. The
bloody scenes' Which tookplace at Praga, opposite
Warsaw, 1 myself witnessed from the windows of
the Palace, and they will: never be effaced from
my memory. •
As a political act the dismemberment of Poland
will not admit' of a justification, but the Poks
themselves have since aaknowledged that their
properties were preserved by it.' i am certain
that Frenchmen would have preferred any Foreign
rather,than the guillotine pf Robespierre,
the noyades of Carrier at Nantes, or the shooting
at Lyons of thousands of. persons, without trial
as ordered by Collot d'llerbois. ThuS with the
Poles. In 1804, they, have acknowledged.it, and
seemed only to regret- the loss of the fetes-and
carnivals at Warsaw.

Ever since the partition, that part of POland
which belonged to. Russia flourished, so did that
part ceded to Austria, as well as that which was
given up to Prussia. The City of Warsaw alone
suffered. It lost the splendor which it had before
acquired as the residence of the Sovereign of
Poland, and became,a miserable and obscure coun-
try town of Prussia.
Having thus shewn what Poland was, I believe
no man will contend that that country ever en-
joyed any real spirit.of indepeadence, and now
that: it will be under the.controel of Buoaapartt
or that of one of his satr,l?s, it will have as little
liberty.as it bad in the time of. Catherine:: As to
the prope-rty'of the Poles, that will Certainly not
be .so for: however that ambitious ,ave-
reig-a was disposed to interfere with the public
hctsandproCeeding in Poland, yet no one can say,
that the Poles' 'property was riot secure; they will
soon find the dilierenee between a Napojeconi6W
vernment, which is 'that of pillage—and a Prus-
sian or Russian Government, whiCh, although it
deprived them of the empty name. of an intleikrt;-
dent.natiOn, yet/secured to them their property
and their existence. • .

• If the Poles had formerly any spark .of honour
..about. Ihem, they never wniuld have had anything•
to do with revolutionary Frenchmen u- Even.the
Committee of Public Safety deserted them, when
it suited their purpose.

I have already stated that it was the French in-
trigue, which set the Polish Revolutionists to
work ; accordingly a deptitation of Poles was pre-
.sented, to the bar of the Convention,' by Anar-
charsis-Clootz, who called himself the orator of the
-human race; and whom Mr. Whitbread has- taken
for, his model. They received the fraternaloetn-
brace; and wore invited to the honours of the. sit-
ting ! However, when the Peace of Basle was
signed between PrusSia and France, none of the
Polish deputation were 'allowed to remain in
Paris. The. treatmept they 'experienced from Buo-
naparte was`not rind' better:= It will be recol-
lected that Buonaparte owed all the. successes of
his first campaign in Italy to the Poles, who de-
serted in great numbers from the Austrian‘; no
leis than 25,000 men
.deserted within a Very short
space of time. These nren were formed into a
legion, and bore the name of the Polish Legion,
and were under .the command of a Polish General
of the name of Dombrowski, who, previous to
the troubles in. Poland, was a man without ho-
nonr(or probity, and was evens exiled from his
country. He.resided a short time after. at Dres-
den in' Saxony, and was expelled from thence like-
wi on account of his immoral conduct.
The Electoral Minister who exiled him had
some estates in Italy, and when Dombrowski com-
manded the, Polish Legion there many years after
his disgrace at Dresden, he recollected Where
the Saxon Minister's estates lay, and had them all
destroyed—houses, lands, and everything. I heard
Dombrowski relate this story myself.
After the Peace of Amiens, Buonaparte wanted
to ship off do Polish Legion, which was at G,enoa
and Leghorn to' St. Dainingo'; they revolted, and
a great many officers and men were shot ! still,
however, they would not embark. • Murat, who
was then in Italy, assured them they were not to
go any further than .Totilon : on this assurance
they epabarkW,_ and discovered.their error when
it was too late ;, but on their arrival 'in St. Do-
mingo, they all 'deserted to Toussaint. Kosci-
usko repeatedly said to me, that no honest Pole
ought ever to forget this conduct of Buonaparte.
Yet these infatuated men listen to the arts of the
enenl of mankind ; and the Poles who in 1794
wanted a revolution upon republican principles
will now content themselves With, having a vassal
King of Buonaparte's choosing.' In 1803, when
the Tyrant proposed the abdication of the crown
Jul' France to its legitimate soV.ereign, it was said
that he eared Poland to his most Christian. Ma.:.
jesty. The republican Poles were then indignant,
at the idea of having a King to .govern them ; they
did not object to Consiil or a President now
however they, like the F:pglish Republicans, do
not mind it since nnonaparte hasiaid aside, Re-
publicanism and becoMean Emperor. Thtservile
herd of ail iv.tions Who were formerly Republicans,
have been converted into the advocates of usurped
royalty. Yet these are then men who talk of eon-