The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-31 00:00:00

POLISH REFUGEES IN ENGLAND.

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1834 (1) 488 ZlO,OOO
1835 111 377 89 414 10,000, i 466 Decrease `.2
1836 35 431 46 (2) 477 10.0 )0 69 540 Increase 80
1t137 15 462 4.52 10,000 121 5-3 Increase 31
1833 7 455 191 646 I 10,009 (3) 646 Increase 63
1839 15,010 25 1840 158 488 488 13000, 52 510 ,Decrease 106
(1) First grant voted by the House of Commons.
(2) Out of 115 new comers, 45 only, who came from Cracow, were
admitted ; 69 were not admitted.
(3) All present in England were then admitted.

Paris, July 20, 1840.
My DEAR SIR STRATFORD,—I cannot forbear congra-
tulating jvu on the success which attended your motion in
,he Hous of Commons on the 13th inst., in favour of the
unfortunate city of Cracow, or refrain from expressing to
you at th,griame time my most sincere thanks. In the pre-
sent pool:ie. e of affairs, when men's minds are so univer-
sally engrossed by the pending question of the East, to
have succeeded in directing the attention of the House to
the condition of a small independent State, oppressed by
its neighbours and forgotten by the rest of Europe, is to
have accomplished a task of no small difficulty or trifling
importance. You have demonstrated clearly that this
question of apparently minor interest, involves that of the
preservation of those principles of justice and inviolability,
which form the safeguard of weak States against those
more powerful, and of those which stand alone against
coalitions, and the most distinguished Members of the
House of Commons have concurred with you in denounc-
ing the violation of the treaties respecting Cracow and
Poland as a direct attack on the interests and honour of
Great Britain. I rejoice, and so must all just and reflect-
ing persons, that a voice of such consequence as that of
Sir Robert Peel, has been raised to support your protest,
to remind the so-called Conservative Cabinets of the du-
ties imposed on them by the principles they proclaim, and
to warn them that the intervention of the power of Eng-
land must be the consequence of continued contempt of
her representations, made in a spirit of peace and concord,
but at the same time dictated by a legitimate solicitude for
the future destinies of civilised Europe. At the very
time almost that English statesmen were thus testifying
their interest in Cracow, France was renewing, through her
Chamber of Peers, her remonstrances in its favour, and
the discussion of the question on Cracow, which is ex-
pected to take place in the British House of Lords, will
form the complement of your exertions on the subject.
The three Northern Powers in vain display Conserva-
tive colours; their actions belie their professions. By
uniting for the partition of Poland they have shaken to its
very foundation the European edifice, and violated the
most sacred principles. Since that time, driven on by a
kind of fatality, they are forced sometimes even against
their will into acts of iniquity, the object of which is the
annihilation of every vestige of Poland. But Divine Pro-
vidence, we trust, will baffle those fatal projects ; and,
moved by the perseverance and devotion of the Polish na-
tion, will summon it to new efforts, so as to make its resto-
ration the great event which will re-establish in Europe
the equilibrium destroyed since its fall, and restore the
force of the law of nations, trampled upon by its oppressors.
May those who are placed at the head of the two great
nations, which set to the world an example of rational
liberty and of power founded on that very liberty, compre-
hend that the future welfare of their countries depends on
the degree of value they may set on the observance of in-
ternational justice ; and that, as on the one hand the main-
tenance of legitimate rights will insure to them a merited
preponderance, on the other their ruin will become inevi-
table, if, giving way to the seductions of a perverted diplo-
macy, and abandoning their high vocation for the sake of
concessions which will be readily made to them, they dis-
grace thevelves by sharing, or even by not opposing the
triumph olload faith and violence.

In becoming the defender of principles of eternal justice
you have acquired, my dear Sir Stratford, a right to the
gratitude of your country and of mankind. Permit me, in
assuring you of that of all my countrymen, to repeat the
expression of regard and attachment

With which I am, most sincerely, yours,
(Signed) A. CZARTORYSKI.
The Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning,
M.P., &c., &c., &c.