The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-28 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

REGAL, JULY 18. —Their Imperial Highnesses, the
Grand Duchesses, went on the 12th by the steamboat to
St. Pr tersburgh, to congratulate their mother the Empress
on her birthday (June 13) and have not yet come back.
The squadron which came here on the 27th of June left
our port on the 10th inst.
Accounts from Sarepta, in the government of Suralow,
say, that the horde of Kalmucks, living in the neigh-
bourhood of that place, had suffered most severely in the
last hard winter. The snow lay to a great depth from
November till the middle of April, so that the herds could
not find any food, and great numbers perished. Many of
the Kalmucks were starved, because they had no wood to
dress their provisions. They were obliged to burn almost
all their huts for fuel, and many families collected in one,
but even there they found but little protection against the
violent storms. All the children under six years of age
are fr,zen to death, arid many grown-up persons have lost
Their hands and feet by the frost. AY their herds constitu c
their whole wealth, they are now in such a state of misery
that they are obliged to attack caravans, and plunder them
of cattle and bread, to appease their hunger.

The Brunswick Ger;nan National Journal contains,
under the head of " The present state of Poland," the fol-
lowing accounts :
" The intercourse with Poland is now so difficult that
the communications on the subject furnished by public
papers, either give but a general view of the misery of
the country, or describe only isolated facts, that are soon for-
ga,tten, or from which it is impossible to form a correct idea
of the entite system which Russia is now preparing in Po-
land. We have lately received letters of the Ist, 4th,
sth, 25th, and 30th of May, which bring various, nu-
merous, complete and important statements found-
ed on public documents, and the evidence of credible pee-
sons. We here give extracts from them. We abstain
from all personal reasoning, confining ourselves to the quo-
tation of naked fact, dates, names, and documents. It ap-
pears certain that Russia has wholly renounced the idea of
attaching the Polish nation by benefits and institutions ;
it has now recourse to severe, perhaps last means, viz.—
the system of the depopulation of the country ; it desires
the Polish land, but not its inhabitants. In consequence
of this system the following orders have been issued :
" 1. The confiscation of the children. This takes place
in the provinces previously incorporated with Russia,—
viz., Lithuanii, Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine, with-
out any previous orders, merely according to the General
Military Ukase; the exceptions depend on the will of the
military governor. It extends to children of both sexes.
In the kingdom of Poland, which is nearer Europe, it
embraces only the male children of the poorer class,—that
is to say,l9-20ths of the male children. This measure was
announced first in an ukase of the Emperor, communi-
cated by Prince Gorczakow, chief of the staff of the army,
to M. Tyinsioski, Secretary to the Council of the Ad-
ministration of the Kingdom, who stated that it was his
Majesty's pleasure that boys wandering about the streets,
orphans, and those who are destitute of means of subsist-
ence, shall be collected together, sent to Minak, and de-
livered to the commander of the garrison, to be placed in
the battalions of the military cantonments, and to be after-
wards sent to the divisions assigned by the Chief of the
Staff for the military colonies. The Commander-in-
Chief, it adds, had received orders for the punctual execution
of his Majesty's will, and a fund was assigned for the sup-
port of the boys, and for the expense of vehicles to convey
them to Minsk. The Prince Marshal accordingly sent di-
rections to the military governors and intendants general
in the provinces. A subsequent order of Prince Parb-
mitsch, recapitulating the heads of the ukase, is addressed
to the Counsellor of State, Fuhrinann, President of the
finance department, informing him that the intendant
general of the army has been ordered to have clothing
made of three different sizes, for boys from the age of 7 to
about 16, to the number of 100, from every waiwodeship.
The clothing, of which patterns have been sent us, consists
of caps of grey cloth, with yellow borders, cloak and
rurtli of grey cloth, with yellow collar and plain
buttons, grey pantaloons, short boots, black stocks,
two shirts for each, and socks. This mission, re-
sembling that of the Russian cantonists, amounts
for the whole, reckoning 100 for each waiwodeship, to
48,222 Polish florins. The Field-marshal adds, that he
has approved of the pattern and the prices, and desires the
President of the finance department to furnish the above
sum from the revenue of the kingdom, and to place it in
the budget under the title ofextraordinary military expenses.
These orders, the contents of which are so threatening'
and which are still more terrible in the execution, excited
general fear in the whole kingdom. The terrified mo-
thers craved to send their children to the schools still ex-
isting, which, indeed, were very indifferent, and this went
so far that the municipality of
.Warsaw found it necessary
to publish a declaration (which was immediately made
known in the Prussian State Gazette) that the Eta-
peror took only poor and orphan children under his pro-
tection. But it depends on the military governor to de-
cide which child is to be called poor or an orphan. Up
to the sth of May four convoys, each of 150, had been
clandestinely sent out of Warsaw alone. On the 17tb
of May, the fifth convoy, consisting of more than
ges o six to seventeen twenty'
Waggsoenvsen fullen ofPolish children, from the
years, was sent away, not in secret
but quite openly. The scene was heart-rending. For
some days pest,' writes an rye-witness, the weather had
been very bad and cold, and on that day (17th May) there
was a heavy rain. Nobody was seen in the streets. All
at (owe, about 1 in the afternoon, there was heard an
extraordinary rumbling of waggons, trampling of horses,
and cries of women, mingled with sobbing. It was the
caravans with the stolen children, rolling from the Ale
anirine Barracks to the bridge. Every body who had any
protsions, clothing, or money in their house, sent "r
carried it out, put it in the waggons, or gave it to the
innocent creatures, for ever lost to their mothers and their
country. The mothers, running after their children,
rushed among the wagg:tns to stop them ; other woineti:
join in their grief; a general lamentation is heard, with
loud curses of the gendarmes, but without effect. The
better inrormed could not help recollecting the story of;lide
Lion at Florence, that prowled through the street, Fe. e.
a chill, and bore it off to the devil. Alas! the despair
of the mother disarmed the cruelty of the wild beast, but
it could not disarm the cruelty of the men at Warttecv.:
Whose Russians who felt how dreadful the orders of the"
Government were, propagated in Warsaw, as an apologij
that this was done in consequence of the principles adopt',
with regard to Poland by the three Allied Courts of RU
sia, Prussia, and Austria."
(To be continued.)
—Allyemeine Zeituny, Aug. 22.

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