The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-02 00:00:00

have been as successful as it was in Switzer-
land, when the countrymen of Tell overthre‘,
the insolent. dominion of the House of Austria.
and restored freedom once more to her moun-
tain-home. In allusion to the share which
Prussia had in the subjugation of Poland,
while our Foreign Secretary rejoiced in the ho.
nour of sitting in amicable council with the
agents of the Holy Alliance, Mr. Campbell,
in his eloquent and pathetic address on behalf
of the brave and suffering Poles, says, " The
Poles arose, and fought with an intrepidity
which has scarcely its parallel in authentic his-
tory, and hut for the criminal interference of the
Cabinet of Berlin, they would have beat the
barbarians. As it was, they have thrown in
immortal glory over their melancholy name
and it is even of this melancholy glory
that the Autocrat wishes to defraud them.
He would abolish their language, and, not
content with robbing their heroes of life,
he %%ould rob the very dead of their memory,
and erase them from human recollection.
That is more than he can do ! But let us look
to his more practicable determinations. Poland
is to be for ever annexed to.the dominions of
the Muscovite ; its intitutions and its language
are henceforth to be Russian ; and though Great
Britain guaranteed to them a separate indepen-
dent existence, the independence of the Poles as
a nation .is to be annihilated. Meanwhile the
Muscovite is sending, by thousands, and by
tens of thousands, the wounded men, the weep-
ing .mothers, and the very youth, from the
schools of Poland in chains to Siberia !" Is this
the worst, we ask ? Far from it. Those are
inflictions which- the • vtorquished Poles could
hardly but have expected from their barbarian
conqueror—the brother of the savage Constan-
tine—who countenanced, if he did not instigate,
the enormities of the Vice-regal tyrant, which he
intended should provoke a generous people to
madness, that he might obtain an opportunity of
cutting away the last remains of Polish liberty
with the sword. But what the Autocrat has
.just now done surpasses all his previous acts of
base and malignant revenge. We hav,! said that,
though Poland fell, she preserved her honour
unbroken. The Autocrat knew this. It
grieved him to the heart. His laurels,
bought with gold and won by treachery,
withered in the eyes of all the world
before that mournful glory which consecrated
the fallen fortunes of the heroic victim. He felt
that his victory was not complete, unless he
added to the destruction, of the Polish nation
the degradation of its people. He never could
hope to deprive time Poles of the sympathy and
admiration of all generous minds, unless he
could acid to the chains which conquest forged
the moral bondage which rests on self-abase-
ment. How wai he to accomplish it ? us
give one g'ance a the paltry contrivance. It is
calculated to excite more disgust for the petty
malice of the tyrant than all the other excesses
of his mean revenge. The Autocrat thought
that, if, after exhausting the " seven vials" of
his wrath upon the brave population of Poland,
he could obtain an address of thanks from War.
saw for his clemency, and of supplication
for his future favours, it would inflict the
stain of the deepest servility upon the
Polish name, and counteract the charm of that
glory which their heroic struggle had achieved---
it would be for ever a memorial of their moral en-
slavement—a badge of their hopeless degradation.
As there were no persons base enough in Poland
to undertake to be • the bearers of a voluntary
address of this sort, he ordered his General
Paskewitsch to select some of the most timid and
servile of the inabitants of Warsaw, and send
them as a deputation to thank the merciless con-
queror of their country—the cruel despoiler of
her rights—the insolent destroyer of her very
existence, for his clemency and moderation
Paskewitsch found out the persons fittest fur his
purpose, and had them instructed in the " duties"
that were expected of them. When first as-
sembled to perform the rehearsal of their part,
even some of these servile men attempted to
remonstrate, but he cut them short b) saving,
he " did not send for them to reason with
him, ho: to receive his orders." They were
silenced. They knew the virtue of the taunt—they
preferred a journey, as splendid mendicants,
to St. Petersburgh to one, as patriot cap-
tives, to Siberia. They went, and enacted their
part in this political farce in a manner that must
save them from both the knout and Siberia, at
least for a time. But will this ridiculous exhi-
bition deceive Europe ? Oh no ! Will it have
the effect of degrading the character of Poland,
and thereby giving the tyrant the triumph which
he wished? It is impossible. The degradation
will be confined to the immediate actors in the

scene—it will excite more disgust for the policy
of the Autocrat than it will bring dishonour to
the Poles. Europe will not believe that a people
who made such prodigious sscrifices for their in-
dependence, can, with the loss of victory, have
lost their manly virtue, and become enamoured

of the chains which press them to the earth !
No, the heart of Poland still beats high with
honour—vanquished in arms, but not subdued
in spirit, the strength of the white eagle shall
yet be renewed, to soar in the light of victory
and freedom.— 3iorning Herald.

In the Chamber of Representatives at. Brus.
rely, on the proposal of a tote or credit of three mil.