The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Notwithstanding the apparent inattention shown to
Polish interests and griev..neea in Parliament. when the
sul-feet Was lately brought before that assembly, we are
well convinced that there is no question, not strictly
speaking a domestic one, in which the pent le of Engl .n.l
take.ao deep or vivid a concern as in that of the national
sufferings of what once was Poland. The ease which has
most impressed itself upon the mind of the British nation
is .his viz., that the independent nationality of Poland
was provided for solemnly by the treaty of Vienna. as at,
essential ineredient in the general welfare and security of
the whole of Europe, and that the stipulations to th it ffect
have Since bet n thither itely vi.ilated in the grossest m .n-
-iter by the Government of the Czar of Muscovy. But,
fr, in an article pub ish d in this, day's Times. it wouti
appear that another of the p rritinning Pow.ra is loafe
leas criminal in rs treatment of that portion of the Pobsti
rice which an . vil de,tiny has placed within its grasp than
Russia has ever shown herself, The Ceurt of Berlin is
re. resented by the article fr.,m Posen to be rivalling that
of Sr. Petersborgli itself in the work of denationalizing
Poland. Under pretence, it is said, of - improving
public instruction. " the Polish language has be. n
btnished from the school.," and foreign institu-
tions have been forced upon the country to this
slate eff et as in Russian R.land. although—and
this is • most important fret—the guarantees of the treaty
• V.enna extended to the oreservati of their nationality
on I elial of sill the Fo ov:rices of ancient R•land so c•I cif
1 ef .e the pa. thin. of 1772. and therefore actually covered
the Ati,tian and P us-tan allotments as comploelv as
those.of Russia. In conformity with this understandin:
of he ti. ay. it is stat.ri that solemn pi oi. tier- held
o•t in al --he P. us can pr-elarriations of 11-115 that t 1 e
tartional indep. ndence and identity of that part of P.l,nd
ot Which F. ed. irk Will.ain th.n took possession shou
be set iiptilou•ls, respe. red. ah. r modes, neverth. leas,
bes;tl s • hat of silencing the P.-fish lon mtg.., have leer.
• red to by at. P.llB,ian Government fir nenatienaliz
ing that unhappy country, arid outraging the solemn
compact to Vienna Functionaries, for ins•anee, of
vat ..11.1 'kr who have hitherto hp., Poles, are to
be G. ttnans lietwelorth : and it is alleued that on the
decease of the Fires. nt King's Lieutenant (Pr-ice Rrr'zivil)
that. t ffieer, who ha. teen the representative. of
8 -vet rigivy in Pros., Poi Ind, is no longer to salSr.
How far ti e acts which are here enuTerated may con-
s•itiire a• suffietent can., for coercive inte,ference tin the
part of the great west. rn power., with re2ard to those
POllOl provinti. s which are now limier Pi 11.11 ft /ill*, is
a question whieh ill' will not ar 'ue ; but that they mani.
fest a spirit congenial in that which I as offended and
fi.gueted r‘ory honest roan in the west of Europe. a- din
ty, d by toe Ellipeffir N cholas towards hi- unhappy
Polish vict-ma, will he deni. d by rune. It is true th ,t•
Austria, who orivinally was -he least wi ling of the three
d..spotie Governments to merl&e with the independ nee of
Polind, has been leas reproachal.;e than any of them with
tyrannical exercise of her usurpation. She is„ mitre
over, less united by position and local interev with Russia,
as well as more deeply :unveil by je douss arid apprehension
of that encroaching power, than Prussia has horn, or is
like)r to be for some time to come If the ereat Eng ish and
Rene)• nations, therefore, desire to act by efficient means in
resietance. to Russian tyranny, and on b•-ha,f of Pol .nd,
their wisest. course will he to consult the defensive in-
terests of the Austrian empire, and co.eperate with th ii
narchy for the removal of rl e Russian frontier to a
suffirient distance from enua, which it now menaces
within less than a week's mare''. The only way of
realizing a project at once so palate le to Austria, and so
beneficial to Europe, would he by re-establishing the Po-
land of 1772. so far as Rtoisia is eitaret ned, and interposing
it between the dominions of the Cz tr and those of the
Emperor o 1 Austria. It has been asked, would the latter
consent to the surrender of Galicia, for the sake of so
entire a relief from the pressure of Russia upon his
northern, frontier ? The answer is, that Austria would
find her account in doing so, as the s crifiee w- old be
mod• rare, and the good immense. Austria, moreover,
gr,vitates like Ru•s,a towards th, south, irate .4 of towai d.
the west of Etirone, and in the breaking up of the bar-
barous emit ire of Turkey, will one day find indemnities,
a'. well as securities, far out of compartson to G
In the man rime, let not our G verninent or country lose
sight of the cause of Poland.—Times.

We publish three mere of the intercepted letters of the
e party. We h .ve not room tor any lengthened
comment, but we beg the especi .1 avenrion of the public
to .Iriee important and distinct features in this corresprin-
de, ce :-1. The active, .z.aktm co operation of the still
existing 1-1 .1y Aliance, fur the purpose " not only of
siving the P.mtugnese cause, but the eau,e of leei.imacy
in the whole Pcninsia in Europe, anti in the vvotl.l.” 2.
The deg, rir of the fiction at the loss of the fl,-et. 3.
The irnmen-e import 'rice attached to thedrience of Lisbon,
the I.ss of ivr ich is considered to he cureless ruin, as
leading to the instant recognition of Donna Maria. The
catii,al is in the possession of he Const'tutional party--
what •ollows? That whelt even Miguelites admit ought
to take place—the instant recognition of Donna Maria
We shall return to the sus jeet in our near, merely adding
now t:ttr rt g•et tl.t party feeling should have driven the
Duke of W liin2ton to countenance any prok•et for the
benefit of such a despicable tyrant and unprincipled usurper
as D n H,4 Grave should be more chary of his
hart earned fim-. Times.

The reeent exposure at the Stationery offire, which is
the topic or conversa ion in every quorter. without excit-
ing the slightest eiff--ience of opinion in any, strengthen-
our heliet in the ad tee, tl at `. eond often springs out of
ev 1 and we trust th .1 G vernment will wove the truth
Of tt e max m in the present instance. The amount of
the mischief wont I not have been dimini-hett by the ap
pointment of Sii Jahn Key's -on, and that son a boy, as
a check on the f Cher—as the scrutinizing, keen, im
partial examiner into the hone-ty oaf a parent's dealinet._
as his prompt and i.e.() ut- accuser iti c se of deltoid-.
But the di-Tetra- holduess of the attempt t appilv to came
th fret aof its disco,ery. and much benefit will fl ow from
t e tt hoe transoc i n—oiefatious as it was in prone ph-,
aid not less fraught with tt e worst c-nsogii nee-, Lad it
not been detected—if tits 51 .j.-sty's Ministeis should now
fo:arrt ssiy do their duty, not only to tl e public, but them-
selv.s, by i stunting an inquiry, a seaottliig one, into
etch . public ,ffice; ascertaintrg the duties actually per.
feruted by t a higi ear as Well 1151 the lowest in eel y de•
purulent, It-wiling born whom and lor what the ti ff runt
offic, s tee ived their a,ipitintinen,,arul • ecomithr arquainted
wi it he political ttrn tons iit the v,rtiu. persons .et Vine
Under tht-oi ; not tune pi Ovate npini tttt s, hut those openly
matotia•teil in eonveisation, or s,cretlyprovigateti
to omit,. in new-p:-1•r at ticks, anti to an• tlym"tis p t-
pltlctor. Ler it...ft a•kell what work.is dime by 'host- o let ks
:he Tory protege's, who talk s t freely ; an-I whether it
nut be much r ex.eir erl, at half the coo., by
noen of in ellect friends to an er•11;:h cued, rt lot ming Go.
Ver 11,1frtit ? As to do few, and reW they are, whit pus
sess enoughl knit o ledge, have Nooffi -lent alrili y, and ate
inchned to ...nit ibute to pro licati-ns adverse to the Go-
vernment they set ve, or pretend to serve, t' ey ahonhl
initwoliate;) he plot untie' a kind of sat toilla see, be ottii-
p tt, disehor_e the r duties, not only so -os to avoid
re, 1(.4, but to inerit praise ; and failing in this, tim!itt at
oree to he if.smis,d, and so Ihtve an opportunity of at-
t. toip.ing to he ter their condition, by pronounc rig tir
v.riting diatribes aglinst changes calculate tu stretig.lien
and give perm oneucy to a gruel Govetriment ; or, in whet
words, by plotting azain-t reforms, that tend to improve,
the mor:ls an.l incre se the happiness of the great mass ot
our population. We de: nit' tclrre thus 'moth unadvisedlt,
an.; shall he well urelet.:o,(l n q atrrers that perhaps
jri ;yr have the Inuit rice to profit toy tour hints. But we
must likely sh 11 return to the subject ot clerks and other
pe suns wiuo tii• situations in the public nffices. There is
much to be and much to he done on this hitherto
ne,leett:d sulafeetsillurnilog •Chrunicle.

The ellarreter of thW.ce.tortneil H. mg- of Cimmons will
rintlie touch I ais-tlin the• -e-timation of the enuntiy by tie
cleci:lon upon Air: Buckingham's moti. n relative to the
inivre.sment of seaineti. A snore c tie!, unjust, and bar--
ballots practice'neVer existed, we, will venture to say, in the
ciei,j2„4l woi;t4 ton excepting the African slave trade, and
t),at tt is as in; fti,ient in'aupplying the rio al navy with able
seamen as it is toitr.geous to humanity, has been con-
vincingly shown by the gallant Admiral C drineton, who
has had. to task los ingenuity to get rid of the unutanage
able teintorcenient with which such an tilikction .ble !mole
of supply hail en. um' ered him. Sir James Graham has,
no doubt, done tb .1 which is very acceptab e to the Tory
oppilleiiiB ut reform, by showing hauseif as decided an
advocate lon the trunilleal practice of impressment as any
Firf, Lord of the A.biliralty'who has pieceded. him.
anxious to preserve,
ThUs We have s.-ett the Wiligs.trptiily
as pdrt and
patcel.ml their " libel ai" government, fl,,ggin4
in the witty anti tospremstornt...tseamr't—boththus prat:-
tice are badges. ,:every, which should nut dise,race a
.
free land. Si thought, or at least 80 spoke, he Whigs at
one time, but it we stt ben 'bey were, out oi office. The
inirressment seinien,-thomili nanctiuncd by long usage,
it unconstitution,4l, .we belirvr.; for monennorial usdue
does, nut, in evtry, cave, cousii:ure a law. No length
of pr.iot.or can wake
toil! law which .
opoiScd to reason and the principles of justice.. Tile
*man Parliament, though, in
.bad times, it did many
iniquitous things. never disgraced itself by passing,
a statute in favour ti this irithatims application of brute
force to man our ships of war. We are aware that such