The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-27 00:00:00

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POL AND

(Frnna a Correspori,:t of Morning Pap•r.)
PERSECUTIONS OF THE POLES IN GERMANY BY

RUSSIA.
At the conferences of the three despotic Powers
at Muncbengratz, the chief objec► of which Was the
►upression of the liberties of Europe, a regulation
Amongst others at the demand of the C,binet of S.
Petersburgh was resolved upon, in con-equence of
which all Polish refugee: are to be expelled from
very part of Germany. The order is now being
out into full execution ; Russian Ambassadors anti
Agents, who besiege the Coors of the different
Princes of Germany, being enjoined to inform the
local authorities of the name and residence of every

Pole still remaining in their states. The punctuality

.viih which the.e iabominable orders of the Russian

Autocrat are executed gives rise to new degrading

scenes of severity and violence. In Austria and Prussia
lifferent straiauerns are practised on the refugees,

who, after so many instances of previous treacherie,

ind faithless con,ltct towards them, began to be to

wary to be easily Still the orifices of their
enemies cannot fail to get the upper hand of their
suspicious caution. A permission of sojourn, for
instance, had been granted them in the abodes

where they have hitherto resided. But no sooner

did they diem themselves secure, than a design was

formed to surrender them a prey to the severest
-abitrary measiires. By a joint order of the re-
spective Governments, detachments of troops had
been sent to surround the houses of the citizens in

which the refugees were lodging. The search after
them was instituted without the least regard to pro-
priety or decency; any attempt of theirs to rescue
themselves by flieht was precluded by the danger
of being shot, and those who exposed themselves
to that chance were hunted like wild heas•s. Those
who were taken hold of, sometimes at the houses of

their parents or nearest relations, were thrown in7o
,futtgeons or confined in the fortresses of Bruhn,
Olmu,z, Dantsic, and Graudenz. From those
places they are now sent away by hundreds to Ame-
rica, or to any part of the wide world, from Aus-
tie via Trieste, and from Prussia via Dantsie. In
the latter city, as we are informed by mercantile
letter, two vessels have of late been hired by the
Prussian Government for those transports. These

vessel,, as is stated, have been on the point of sail-
ing with cargoes of wood to America, in order to
have it af,erwards sold duty free in England; but
in the present juncture, the owners found the ship-
ping of the unfortunate Poles more profitable to
them than timber on the roundabout voyage. How-

soever favourable the minor Garman Priecipalities
had shown themselves to the cause of the Poles,
their subjects not excepted, who continue to be en-
thusiastic in their favour, they were at last
compelled to yield to the dictatorial supremacy exer-
cised by Prussia and Austria in the councils of the
Germanic Confederation,which is made subservient to
he arrogant pretensions of the savage embassies
of Muscovy. The kingdom of Hanover was the
first that yielded, by the surrender of the state
p ipers of the Polish Diet to the Russian agents;
Bavaria then followed in her submission to the
Russian orders, by prohibiting the Polish refugees
;cp sojourn in her states, or even to pass through
them, on their way to France, in recompense, as it
appears, of the Royal Prince of Bavaria having
been raised, by the meddling influence of Russia, to
the throne of Greece. Saxony, whose Princes had
nearly for one century ruled over Poland, and whose
his.ory, as well as the affections of her pecple had,
during that interval, strongly blended themselves
with those of the Pules, might be said to have the
longest resisted the importunities of Russia, so as to
-xtend her hospitable protection over the Polish re-
fugees, with a disposition worthy of her ancient
friendly connexions. The Cabinet of St Petersburgh
looked long with a jealous eye at the reception th-
Poles experienced in Saxony. It began its remon
'trances by requiring the removal of several most ob-
noxious individuals, while the majority of the refu-
gees continued to enjoy undisturbed security, until
at the confetences of the despotic Courts,
•n,is'ed upon the expulsion of all the Poles from
every state of Germany. The Saxon Government
was the first to whom the most categorical ordeis
were communicated to that effect by M. Schroeder,
the Russian envoy, who since the fatal denouement
of ;he Polish struggle has not ceased, like Repuin
and Jgelstrum, formerly Ambassadors an the late
Court of Kit,g Stauislaus Augustus, to harass with
insolence, common to Russian agents, the Court of
Dresden, on account of the Pales, till the Govern
meat expelled them. These refugees are now cote
to England, on board the Columbine, on the 13 h of
November, arid let me speak thou own tale of woe:—
" Our whole number residing at Dresden did not
exceed twenty, and we maintained ourselves from
our own resonuces. After two years' pacific resi
deuce, during which period we had formed various
connections with the inhabitants, which proved
most soothing to us in our misfortunes, we received
an order from the Government compelling us to
present ourselves immediately at the police-office
for the purpose, as was asserted, to sign on our part
a voluntary declaration, the contents of which were
there to be communicated to us. Obedient to the
older, we went to the municipality at the hour ap
pointed; but no sooner were we assembled in the
room assigned, than the door was shut upon us,
and a guard placed at the entrance. It was then
announced that we were under arrest, and the Direc-
tor of the Police declared that, in consequence of
an order from Government, every one of us would
be obliged, within two hours, to sign a document of
the Russian amnesty, which was then laid before
us, and to choose whether we would return to
Poland or be exiled to America, no other
choice being left for us. It was at the
same time added, that in the event of any one re-
jecting the amnesty, he should be immediately con-
veyed to the Austrian town Trieste, and thence sent
to America. But what was most strange is, that
we were required to sign a declaration, that our
resolution had been taken without any constraint,
and absolutely from free will. Faithful to the oath
we had taken to our native country, we rejected
with imignution such a base insidious proposal, as
well as we did the Russian amnesty, of the treachery
of which we knew so many of our countrymen had
become victims, and we have individually declared
that, at all events, we cannot submit to exile in
America, but that we wtil place ourselves under
the protection of Sir Charles Forbes, the Ambas-
sador of Great Britain, who we knew, on a former
occasion, when the French Ambassador rcfused his
protection to a Pole, had declared, that should
any one of us stand in need of his protection, he
would willing!), g. ant it. We felt confident that in
this emergency lie would not desert us. We en-
deavoured to convince the Director of the Police of
this circumstance, who, in his official character, as-
sured us, that he did not believe any ambassador
would accord us a passport; but yielding at last to our
entreaties,lie permitted a petition to be add. essed to the
British embassy, on condition that if within an hour
no answer should arrive we must submit either to
be sent back to Poland or to Trieste. Within that
time, however, a favourable answer arrived from the
English Ambassador; yet, in spite of it, we were
not immediately released from our prison, but kept
with the vilest malefactors for three days, because
the passports had not been delivered to the British
embassy to be countersigned. Liberated from pri-
son, we were escorted by the police to Halle, a
Prussian town, where our passports were delivered
to us, with an express direCtion to pass via Hum-