The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-12 00:00:00

with immense a2plausc, the company cheering enthusias-
tically amid the waving of handkerchief':
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Prince CZARTORYSKI then rose, and was received with
cheering, which continued for some minutes. At length,
silence being obtained, he said he rose to thank them for
the toast which they had drank. He thanked them for
the manner in which they had given the cause of Po-
land, and he felt here (laying •his hand upon his heart,
deeply affected) that the cause of Polish independence
was not yet lost. (Great cheering.) The eloquent
speech of their Noble Chairman—as eloquent in speech
was eloquent
Lin heart and received as it was
as :
with such pru-reibetic applause—could not leave any doubt
of the meaning of tfie toast, They had drank to the in-
, dependence of Polar:); sacred indeed to every Polish heart,
and the expression of feeling v;-:_s
11 be heard in all countries,
and responded to, he hoped, as it hat; here.--(Loud
cheers.) Poles have met in all parts of Great .aritaio with
a kind reception wherever they have appeared, and innei,
sympathy ; and nowhere have they been receiVed with more
cordial and kind feeling than in Scotland, who, enjoying all
the blessings. of liberty, has not forgotten the difficulties
her sons bad to encounter in securing those advantages, and
she can estimate what Poland has suffered in the struggles
she has made to regain •her freedom.—(Cheers.) When
they are telling their history to their children, and impres-
sing on their young hearts the sufferings of their own pa-
triots, they should Bear also of the wrongs and sufferings of
Poland.—(Cheers.) Scotland is an educated and en-
lightened nation, and is always inclined to pay the more at-
tention to the justice of the claims of others to national in-
dependence. The sympathy the people had shown was not
forgotten here—(laying his hand on his heart). He wished
to give expression to his feelings, but he could not tell
them how lie felt for their sympathy with a people who had
struggled against so many difficulties in the cause of
freedom,—(Great cheering.) The conviction had been
expressed that Poland would soon rise again to as-
sert her rights—and certainly she shall not be disin-
clined to do so when the opportunity shall occur.—(Long
continued cheering.) For the first time the Poles have
redskin to be thankful to their oppressor.—(Cheers.) He
has acknOttledged that the Poles would never submit to
tyranny—( Hear, hear, and great cheers)—that they never
would submit to his will. He has acknowledged that cor-
. reptien was employed to induce them to depart from their
duty to their country, their national rights, and their cha-
racter—(Cheers)—and his opinion was,_ that they never
would submite.so long as they had existence.—(Cheers.)
They were now informed that the Russians did not peace-
ably govern the land, but that they were encompassed with
all the .Ministers-of War—with a new-built garrison, and
cannons pointing upon the city ; but when these cannons
come to fire their balls upon the city they will not intimi-
date the inhabitants, whom they have been destined by the
tyrant to. destroy—(lmmense cheering)—they will be met
by eager and intrepid courage, and even regarded as a signal
to the inhabitants to rtspi to arms—a signal of preparation
and of pain, but one which is more deplorable when used
against the unarmed; than ageinst men ready and eager for
the combat, and resolved to achieve the liberties of their
country, or perish in the attempt.—(Cheers.) But the
Poles would not waste their strength in useless and unavail-
ing bursts of action. They will wait their time, and when
that time comes, they will show themselves more than evce
actuated by a love of liberty and of country.—(Cheers.) He
wds sure that Poland would do her duty, whatever might be
the event. Obe would wait with silence, and with constant
patience, and though years
,of daily humiliation, and tor-
ment, and affliction might come over her, when the day of
action arrived she would show herself equally active, brave,
and deroted..---(Tremendous cheers.) Now I have to pro-
pose to you a toast connected with the cause of Poland ;
of one who was the friend of Poles when they had been
driven from their homes by the cruelty and the tyranny of
their oppressors ; a nobleman who has a right to be at the
head of the friends of Poland, because he had been most
zealous and persevering in his actions in her behalf. He
(Prince C.) would speak of the character of that Nobleman.
He was a true Scotchman, and possessed all the noble qua-
lities and feelings which in a high degree were ornaments
of that country,--4Loud continued cheers.) Family for-
tune had no influence upon him. If, therefore, to attempt
46 attract his attention they must speak to him of virtue
and justicdee-(Cheers.) Poland owed him a debt of gra-
titude, for he !2a(l etood by her fortune in the day of her
darkness and adversity.---(Loud cheers.) After a few
more remarks, the Prince Sessucluded by giving—" Lord
Dudley C. Stuart, and the Friends f Poland."
Drank with three times three and louCi. cheering.
Lord DUDLEY STUART then rose, and was warmly.
received. He -said if he were possessed of eloque7nn the
most powerful that ever flowed from the lips of the moss It'
nished orator, he should stand is need of it all to express to
them the feelings with which his heart was full. - If he had
done anything to deserve such an honour, the high—the
graceful—the beautiful encomiums, which :had been paid
him by his illustrious friend—if he would permit him to use
that word—was ample, and far more .than ample, reward.—
(Loud cheers.) I can only claim the credit of feeling
deeply for the heroic nation—for having exerted myself to
the utmost of my poor abilities on behalf of Poland—feel-
ing, as I did, that Providence would never permit the de-
struction of a nation.--(Great cheers.) He wished that
the cause of Poland had not been identified with the toast
of so humble an individual as himself,-but he knew that it
was taken up by men of high distinction throughout the
country, and some of whom were now present ; but he •
wished that it were taken up not only by those be alluded
to, but by those who occupied high statiorte and of command-
ing abilities ;- and he believed it would be so taken up, and
with that zeal which they had seen so often displayed—he •
meant by the Government of the country.—(Great cheer.
ing.) He could not sufficiently express himself for the ho-
nour they had done him this day of his health having been
proposed by so illustrious a man as Prince Czartoryski, and
of its having been received with so much enthusiasm.—
(Cheers) The Noble Lord, after expressing his attachment
to Scotland, amtinned to say how he had been delighted to
see a cause so dear to his heart cherished as it bad been
that evening, and his Illustrious rriend so received as lie
had been amongst them. The object of the meeting
this day was not to make speeches, but to make a great
demonstration in favour of Poland—(Great cheering)—
with the benevolent object of realizing the hopes of the heroic
country—(Cheers)—and express their detestation of that op-
pression which that country is still subjected to,—( Cheers.)
But sympathy has long been felt in Britain, and also over Scot-
land, m the cause of Poland.—( Cheers.) By public subscrip-
tion, and by appeals to the public, somethinz has been done to
alleviate the distresses of the brave Poles, and this feeling has
been general over Great Britain and over Ireland.—(Cheers.)
But never did it rise to such a pitch as now.—(Great cheers.)
They have formerly had great success, but not so great as now,
when we have got as an ally even Nicholas himself—the Em-
peror Nicholas, who has uttered such a brutal tirade against
the Poles, that it has raised the whole civilized world against
him.—(Great cheers.) Nicholas found out that the Poles
never would submit except to brute force. That was a testimony
calculated to sink deep into the hearts of nations and of rulers.
—(Great cheers.) No longer will it be possible for any par-
tisan of Russia to state that there is anything but unconquera-
ble restlessness in Poland. Joined with the means of other
nations Russia put her down. Poland is prostrate, but she will
rise as bright as chr. Poland fought her enemy single-handed,
and be it remembered that Russia could go into other territo-
ries and recruit against the conflict. But still Poland was
very nearly being successful ; and in my conscience I do be-
lieve that the Government of this country could have turned
it by a stroke of the pen. After continuing at some length,
the Noble Lord concluded by giving as a toast ;—‘6 The gal-
lant Poles who in exile and privation keep alive the national
esteem of their country."—Drunk with great applause—three
times three.

Count ZAMOYSKI said it devolved upon him to return
thanks for the high honour that had been done to the
Polish 'exiles. He felt it difficult tndischarge this duty in
the manner in which it ought, to be done, not only because
he spoke a foreign language, but also becatise he
.never had
had occasion to speak in public. He had but one duty to
perform when in his native land, and that was the service to
which he had devoted himself—the service of his country,
and that service did rot call upon him to speak in public.—
(Cheering.). The meetings which he bed had in Poland
were other than meetings where speeches were delivered.—
( Continued cheering.) The Noble Lord in chair he was
bapprto call his friend ; for ever since he came to England
he.(Count Zamoyski) had uniformly experienced his friend-
ship.---( Cheering.) He seemed to understand the feelings
and sentiments'of the Polish exiles. He understood also their
cause, and felt its sacredness as well as the Poles themselves
did ; and so clearly had he pourtraycd every thing regarding
Poland and her sons, that he had left rot one word of any
interest for another to enlarge on. (Cheering.) He had
spoken of the emigration of the Poles, of their exile, their
banishment, and their sufferings, in a manner that said much
for the patriotism and liberality of his sentiments, and the
geodness of his heart.--( Cheers.) To him, he (Count 'Z.)
owed much of the reception he bad met with in this country,
and to him' he owed the reception with which the toast bad
been received. lie (Count Z.) did not certainly flee from
his country from fear of
,danger, or from views of personal
safety. Many :were the emigrants devoted to their country
who had returned to it, even tvhen they knew that there was
every chance that they would be under the yoke of the oppres-
sor. The sentiment which the Poles had at home was the
same which their fellow-countrymen had here, who enjoyed
the blessing of speaking aloud what they thought or felt
(Cheers.) lie, with his brethren, had left thew country be-
cause they could do no more for her : they had, come to -co-
reign countries for the purpose of claiming the assistance of
every humane and just man in these countries, and the (3o-
vernment of these countries. Their first object was to im-
press upon the liberal World that they steed in need of as-
sistance. The Poles had received sympathy and support
wherever they had sojourned in this countrv—(Cheering)—
which had rendered their privations, their sufferingS,- more
supportable than they, could otherwise be.--.--(Cuntinued
cheering.) There was one difficulty they had
to encounter,
and that was, not knowing well what to do with themselves.
Petv:pf Oleo bad the -happiness of knowing• how to'AclvArice
the'business which they eagerly sought to advouce—tostir up

friends to espouse the cause of Poland. This business of
their emigration but a few could well perform, from the want
of sufficient knowledge in a foreign language, and from this
Want many were kept with their hands tied down, and
grievous it was to such that they were thus deprived of doing
something, Whatever that might be, to advance in
,public esti-
mation their tountry's cause.—( Great applause.) It was a
very difficult thing for men who had sufferings to remain
in quietude. Men were not always able to keep moderation
under suffering, which was the real attribute of strength..
The Poles had sometimes been accused of being troublesome
fellows.—(Cheers and laughter.) They had been called im-
patient, and he did not know how many names more ; but
misfortune was not only a teacher, but a counsellor for man.
—(Cheering.) They sincerely trusted that their time had not
been lost. Every day they saw, with increasing satisfaction,
that the knowledge of their rights, and of their ITTOI:LITS too,
was gaining ground in many foreign countries ; and they con-
ceived that they wanted nothing else to gain abundance of
friends to their cause • but to be well known.— (Immense
sheering.) They thought that every thing that had failed to
be done, in favour of their cause, had been neglected for no
other reason than want of knowledge of the real state of their
country.--(Cheering.) They felt that they wanted nothing
but an ineestigan into 1116 e just cause, if now it required
much investigation, se gain she interest of every man who had
a spark of justice and humanity in his breast.—(Cheers.) It
was thought, because the Pokes were troublesome fellows, and
were Jacobites, that it was necessary. for the tranquillity of
Europe, that Poland should be sacrifices : but this was not the
opinion of the learned and enlightened me' of this country—
it was not the opinion of Edmund Burke, „l'in was not, ho
(Count Z.) thought, a Jacobite.—( Cheers.) 13ut to keep
Europe tranquil it was thought that Poland should Le sacri-
ficed. And to obtain this 50,000 on the one side, and 100,000
on the other, lay on the ground—this was the effect of painful
intervention. Many years had passed, and they had met with
no assistance, but sympathy. Everything was death to them
if they had not the hope of returning to their native country,
and he trusted that that day was not far distant.—(lmmense
cheering.) He begged again to return thanks for the honour
that had been done to the Polish exiles, who never could
forget the national existence of Poland. Count Zamoyski
then sat down amidst tremendous cheering.
The Right Hon. ete Lone ADVOCATE said—l wish I could
express the feelings whieh I am sure are common to all who
are here assembled—the feelings of respect, of regard—l may
say of veneration—to the dl.stinguished individual whom we
have heard this day, Prince Czai:+oryski, and who has honoured
'us with his presence.—(Loud and Nig continued applause.)
I am sure, if I could express those fienlinnss, the impression
that has been made on every person present would be much
more than I have stated. From his own lips we have awe
tained the great command that he has of our language.-
(Cheering)—which very few foreigners arc able to gain ; and
still more must we be impressed with those sentiments of vir-
tue and of patriotism with which he is so richly embucd.—
(Loud cheering.) It is an honour to our country to have such
an individual amongst us, who on all the various stages through
which he has passed in his chequered life, has never swerved
from the path of virtue and patriotism—(cheering)—whom no
allurements, no temptations, no openings of ambition, no pos-
sessions of power, could ever tempt to deviate from that one
virtue, which is the highest duty with which a human being
can be impressed, and which appears to be most deeply im-
pressed on the hearts of the sons of Poland--I mean the love
of country.—( Loud applause.) No foreigners were so well
received here as the Poles, because they brought with them
hearts alive to all these sympathies of freedom which have ever
dignified human nature.—( Continued cheering.) We have
ever considered them as our countrymen ; and I trust we shall
ever so consider all those who arc alive to the rights of free-
e of the last partition of Poland—that fatal event
men, and devoted to the cause of justice and humanity.
At the t
country and to Europe—for if Poland
had been preservh:7
se In its original powers and rights, many of
the evils with which
both to that n:_'h"lyy
urope was afterwards deluged would
age Prince Czartoryski
e.
have been unknown. At an early
adopted the cause of his country: He was driven to that
country which had triumphed over Pnland ; but even there,
the honour and sincerity of his character attracted the notice
of a person educated in liberal sentiments, anal participated in
them, though they were stifled—l mean the Eneneror Alex-
ander. The Emperor offered him a share in hi-g
power.—
( Cheering.) He placed him high in his confidence. He
offered him which, if he had been an ambitious man, he
might have looked up to the distinguished situation of foreign
'affairs in Russia. But in all situations it was his country that
Prince C. regarded ; and the possession of power, the allure-
ments of ambition, never for a moment induced him to swerve
from that, the highest of all duties.—(Great applause.) The
education of his conntry—which was entrusted to him when
he refused to accept situations which no man could aspire to
higher in any country—the education of Poland, was the ob-
ject of. his heart; and even the Russians benefited by his
anxious endeavours to improve the laws, and to give them
rights and advantages which they had not previously enjoyed.
..._(Cheers.) His desire was to benefit all around him. He
was swayed by love to his own country, and possessing such
feeling, it may be imagined that he would not be popular in
Russia. But, notwithstanding, he long enjoyed favour—he
long enjoyed power. He might have possessed favour and
power even now, if he had not considered the cause of his
emtntry, and her rights and privileges.—(Cheering.) When
he
."arid no longer follow that distinguished path, he retired
to priv"tie
and to every enjoyment which high station and
I,•' Life,
great riches, and a distinguished name,
immense
could confer :41
tiny individual. When the cause of his coun-
an, from retirement, it was at a time of great
try again called I.
chosen by himself—for the die was cast
difficulty, a time no.
b others but rather . `in?ii remain in possession of everything
pywer, wealth!, and stall s`l.c;
ould give, he joined himself to
the cause of his country. power,
'au well know the events that oc-
curred—you well know the issue of them ; and lam sure that
I express but the feeling of every .tan around me when I say
that, however distinguished an indiviy.'
qal may be in wealth,
power, and statien, that a virtuous man
.performing his duty
in every situation of life. preferring exile to- the highest sta-
tion for the cause of his country, has more sympathy from
the world, and is infinitely more esteemed noel venerated,
than all those who live with tyrants and oppressors, however
great may be their power—a power which is soon fongotten
—and he will command a living veneration from the just
and virtuous all ages of the world.—( Cheers.) This, I
am sure, is a sentiment which you all feel, and which you
can express more fully and strongly than I have done.—
We must consider that the Poles are deprived of their coun-
try. These virtuous men are amongst us, and, as Scotch-
men, as long as they are in Scotiand-a(Cheering)—it is our
duty to cherish them.—(Continued cheering.) I trust that
more prosperous events may soon place them again in those
stations of which they are so highly worthy, and if they should
not obtain anything so distinguished as the name which they
will leave behind them, that name will be hallowed by pos-
terity.—( Immense cheering.) I propose, therefore, "the
health of our distinguished and illustrious guest, Prince Czar-
toryski."— (Loud and long continued cheering, And waving of
handkerchiefs.) •
Prince Czarcronvster said he was at a. loss how to render
his grateful acknowledgments for the great honour which had
been done to hint in proposing his health in such handsome
terms, and for those kindly, flattering, and he might say, feel-
ing expressions, which the learned and eloquent gentleman had
applied to him. Ila (Prince C.) would not deny all the praises
which the Right Hon. Gentleman had had the goodness to
bestow on him. It would not astonis;; Scotland when he 3:0
that the object of every I'ole had been, according to their
means, to sacrifice every thing they held most dear for their
liberty; they were again prepared, all of their who had any-
thing to lose, 'life, every enjoyment, when called forward in
the dischisege of the duty most dear to their hearts. The
Poles have ofon.fallen, but it was always to rise again—(Con-
tinued cheering)--it was always- to rise, because they had nu
other means to remind them of their country, and to prove to
the world that each time they were subdued they were the
more strongly devoted to their country and their cause.— .
(Cheers.) The toast which lie wished to propose was the
Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the ,City of Edin-
burgh. Edinburgh was the asylum of many Polish
.exilear
where they had experienced great attention and friendship, and
where they had endeavoured to improve themselves by the op-
portunities of acquiring knowledge, which this country so
richly afforded. The- Prince concluded by saying, " May this
celebrated City continue long to furnish the empire of Great
Britain with superior men in science, as well as art, and in
public life ; and may the inhabitants of Edinburgh be ever as
proven:us as they are, and ax I wish them to be. Join me,
then, gentisnsen, in a bumper to the Lord Provost, Magistrates,
and Council of the City of Edinburgh."-( isnmense cheering.)
The Lean PIZOOST, after returning thanks, in handsome
and most appropriate terms, for the toast of their illustrious
guest, begged leave is
ina;nese a toast, although it was out of
the °seer arranged by
tee beomittee. This day the Corpora-
tors of the City, with fl,e view o; paying the utmost respect
to the Prince, and the Noble Conn: his nephew, slid present
threes with the freedom of the City.--(assernense cheering)—the
only honour which it was in their power to convey to them
but in offering it to them, it was not so much ah: honenr to their
Noble• Guests as it was to the Corporators.---( Greet applause.)
He would propose as a toast, Prince Czartoryski end Cot
Zamoyski, the youngest Burgesses and Freemen of the City
of Edinburgh.—(Long-continued cheering.)
Prince CZARTORYSKI expressed' the prickl he felt in being a
it:
burgess and citizen of Edinbursslie-(Chucring.) All his life
it would be dear to him to remember this day, which had made
a most indelible impression on his heart. It' was a proud day
to'him, as he could date henceforth that he was a ecutsman•—
(Great cheering.)
Count ZAMOVS:iI, after paying a handsome tribute to the
character of his uncle, Prince Czartoryski' • and stating that
but for the relation which lie bore to that distinguished man.
he would have passed unnoticed, said that he felt he did.-
not deserve the high eulogiums that had been bestowed teem
him. It would be his duty, however, to endeavour to descry.;
well of his country and his friends. If he should ever feel -
weak in the coming struggle—(Cheers)—he hoped it was
coming, and that speedily,—if his Polish feelings should
abandon him, which he hoped in God they never would, he
would remember that he was a Scoteliman—( Immense cheer-
ing)--which would nerve him, reminding him, as it would, of
the noble stand which this country—of which he was the
youngest son—(Cheering)—made in defence of her civil and
religious liberty.—( Continued cheering. )
Dr. Badv&r, sail, after having recognized the cause of
Poland as thevause not of any party or 'factien, but as thii.f'
of eternal justice, 'of true patriotism, of pure humanity, Dade
of national independence; and after having done honeur
one of its most distinguished Princes, of whom his mortal'.
enemy declared that he had retarded by a century "thti'l
amalgamation of Poland with Russia; and of whom Russians,;
themselves had pronounced against bins the sentence of
death; it was nnw his duty to inquire of this meeting whetli6ili
they were prepared to go a step
further in CIO Came C.Arqtri(i
and to unite pledginl-s theml,ehics a; friends to the
speedy restoration of Poland, and the re-constitution of its