The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

POLAND

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We request the attention of our readers to 00
lowing documents, which officially contra— f jitte
calumnies which the partisans of Prussia leave
been circulating against the unfortunate Poles 'OO
TO
LETTER OF THE ARCM:Uri:IOP OF POSEN P/101'170,4
THE MINISTER OF T:EIE INTERIOR v. AnEgO,lsies`i,,
After the sanguinary events of Berlin, his I,'"ittieft
was pleased to declare " the Prussian provinces, "; ton
not belonging vo the Germanic Confederation, ci fir
incorporated with it—if such be their wish'
Germanic Union consent to it." Accordingli."
h Apt
vincial Diet for Posen, assembled at Berlin is
regard for the approval of his Majesty,
last, was summoned "to declare freely and willtit eeteati
whether
Posen?" Whether the provincial Diet was tamed such a wish with respect to the Grand 19'„,00
ta-
for making such a declaration, binding the 'choler°,
vince, is certainly very doubtful. In order to to tisqj
the wishes of the province, its inhabitants oughtpiet ,`""
voted individually. However, the provincial 00i br
Posen declared itself competent, and its con3pete
ajoril
in no way been contested. It decided with textiCire:o
of 26 to 17 votes, " that it does NOT wish Geroi,
Duchy of Posen to be incorporated with theniet, 0';
Union." Supposing the competency of the J'becssjof
knowledged already de facto, its resolutioll.nority
thereby legitimate and unassailabl Yet the Int ci
' ble fa
the Diet was of a different opinion. It assem f the 0,
private, illegal manner, declared the resolution oe 00 A
Diet as null and void, and decided in favour 01
of
nexation to the Germanic Union." ,sobersol
This private decision of a few individual nr'ruatidiji
the Diet is unlawful and void ; yet, on. the fious frueo,
this illegal private resolution, and a few Pet' uf Vs of
individual inhabitants of the Grand Dtiol3Y,..ptioesu,
obtained by the dishonest intrigues and n3a°,"l was joo
officials, the greater part of the Grand Del, 05_0
flexed to Germany. I prophecy, that wiwc. .ir•Oer/
regard for the rights of another, will not be fig4erry 10 of
his own !" This proceeding is contrary to the lefty
contrary to the treaty of Vienna—contrary to papa of
nations. The Grand Duchy contains, arrongingehr,roo;
tion of 1,200,000 souls, 800,000 Poles ; the 9000).4
Polish and German Catholics amounts to abotre'_,,taiel,
the sacramental rubrics for the year 1848 therm,
834,000 Catholic communicants. There re if we de
fore, about 300,000 non-Catholics and Jews', with tbd
duct from these the migratory host of officiais eoestoo
families and dependents, who ought not "more too
among the population, there will remain little
o,
200,000 German and Jewish inhabitants, anr°ho",33isilvt;
the pseudo-German enemies to Poland, snostY, screoo,l4
of recent settlers and countryless Jews, w"' to fo14_,"00
little more than 100,000 souls. I beg leave og," of
to your Excellency four scrolls, with protes':.mareso
that unjust measure. They contain 60,323 eilldistric;
heads of Catholic families, mostly from
that were so arbitrarily torn away. The P_rfficiiils $ll,
would have been much more numerous if i-1„1,008.r.
tboseotestutiod
authorities, especially in the department of J-1 Dief`ti,
had not forcibly opposed their being drawn P
run- ihe 1131°
theless, many will still be sent forward ;* • been 50,
time, besides the separate protests which e
haystatiousiof
from Posen, especially to Berlin, the proot,„_„wvoc
witted to your Excellency from the district f lu' linorotost6 ell
alone contain 31,922 signatures. These p._peo.,
show with what perfidy the intrigues for olof.ar°2,.l'
tions were carried on. I, therefore, hunrhlYanu_r,s'poc.P9
Excellency to have the inhabitants of the
Whether
tbuey
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of Posen questioned individually " Wh„?,t a O° ge
to belong to the German Union or not uLiovgiugo,
sion, composed of Poles and Germans--not D_Un, us
justiy abhorred. Of course, that then-0
sO',,ruit to tic
this province—for those that are livingacecir2_44 to
the
rules of right—the minority will have c ~r„ersbargoru,
majority; else the Germans taskresiden el ;
to be -Elesio
Moscow, and Warsaw might as well
there, S
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f ro"n
hp
eorrea tienda
din m
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bGi U.
eUGn iroann.d
DWuhcahty s
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Since that, additional protests, covered Ns-Ala 60,T?t sOre
natures, have been forwarded to the Minister.; 50
number of signatures, besides those from Ir,towrocor
Posen, exceeds 120,000.

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ranch entitle,; to tht protet tion of the law of nations t!
other States.

(Signed) PRZYLUSKI,
Archbishop of Posen and Gnesen.
Posen, May 18, 1848.
----Flom the Cologne Gazette of June 6.

PROTESTATION.

Tarnow (Galicia), May 15th, 1848.
We, ir.habitants of Tarnow and its neighbourhood,
Penetrated with grief for the fate of Cracow, and terror
for that with which we are threatened, knowing by a
fearful and grievous experience how unarmed and inno-
cent people are tortured and assassinated, declare before
our countrymen and the world, to whom our recent mis-
fortuneslv (in 1846) have made known our existence, that
.tohreeetshnhraere unanimously and deeply the sentiments of our
of Cracow, and loudly proclaim with them, that
Scenes provoked by the authorities of that city on
the
_ 25th of April last, do in no manner justify the
massacre perpetrated on the next day by the Austrian
tantry and artillery, upon an inoffensive unarmed po-
ration—upon women and children—they do not justify
yee bombardment of the city, and the throwing of con-
T'ire rockets, with the view of setting fire to it; nor tho
"reiug and disbanding of the National Guard, nor
the dissolution of the National Committee, nor the ex-
pulsion
of our brothers scarcely returned from a long
nor the establishment of military rule, nor the
contribution for war expenses and damages to private
traoPerty, imposed upon the city, which the Government
d previously, with an unfortunately successful and
Persevering system, stripped of all its resources.
We see in these acts a degree of violence and injustice
411 Paralleled even among the innumerable cruelties which
VPur,reas our country.
h.: e see clearly that neither constitutions nor liberty
ve altered the resolutions of our oppressors to exter-
aTuate or annihilate the Polish nation, and to over-
relna us in the eyes of the world, with the vilest
mnies as during the late events ot the Duchy of Posen.
But, like our brothers of Cracow, we adore with love
and humility the miraculous hand of Providence, which,
under the mortal blows that never cease to betal us,
awakens within us the spirit of national life. Thanks
do that
same Providence, the congreve rockets showered
wn upon wooden roofs have not ignited them, and the
wt„ Y, wherein repose the ashes of St. Stanislaus, and
ere our Piasts and Jagellons have reigned, has been
miraculously preserved.
sa„,\Tith our brethren of Cracow, we rest our trust in
h; and we protest against the odious treatment which
been inflicted on them; we feel it as if we were its
ri a
etims, and we denounce it before all nations and men,
ith
whom the words of " native land," " justice," and
humanity," have not lost their meaning.