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London, England, 1832-09-04 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1832.

We have received letters from Brussels, dated
Saturday, at which time the alarm of the cho-
lera had in some degree subsided, but the cases
were still very numerous, and, as in this country,
no certain means of cure had been discovered.
The stomapathic treatment, so much vaunted by
Dr. HAIINAEMANI, and his disciples in Ger-
many, and so strongly recommended by one
physician here, who has even published an ac-
count of an extraordinary number of supposed
cures by that mode of treatment, has been tried
at Brussels, and like others, failed. One phy-
sician of that city had tried the hydrocyanic
acid in doses much larger than are usually ad-
ministered by medical men, and from two re-
coveries had concluded that he had discovered
a specific, but on repetition failure followed in
every case.

The political news at Brussels, on Saturday,
was not of much interest. A report had been
spread that negotiations, independent of the
conference, were going on between the King of
HOLLAND and King LEOPOLD ; but our Cor-
respondent assures us that the report was utterly
destitute of truth. The question remained just
in the same state as it had been for several
months.

If ever there existed a kingdom which, beyond
any other, had claims on the esteem, the ad-
miration, the gratitude of Europe, Poland is—
xe should say was— that one. The pages of
history are filled with records of her valour and
her services. She was the saviour of Christen-
dom when threatened by the Moslem Turks and
Tartars ; its copious, indeed its almost inex-
haustible granary, when the memorable famine,
in the time of the great ANIURATH, laid waste
Southern Europe; its chief luminary, when a con-
siderable portion ofthe North lay buried in hopeless
darkness. From the days of the first JAGELLON
down to the last STANISLAUS, not one century
has elapsed, but, despite her domestic strife,
proceeding from the unsettled and complicated na-
ture of her monarchical, and her fierce contests
with her republican institutions, Poland has pro-
duced some great man, whether statesman or
warrior, on whom the eyes of all Europe have
been fixed in wonder and admiration. The his-
tory of the Poles is not the mere history of bar-
barians, from the midst of whom now and then
a man of surpassing mind springs forth,
his intellectual dimensions of course exagge-
rated, and made brighter by comparison wall
the pigmies that grope in Boeotian dark-
ness about him ;—but the history of a magnifi-
cent, high-minded people, bound to earth by the
chains of the feudal system, harassed at times
by the crimes and exactions of a fierce, rebel-
lious nobility, but always, in the long run, rising
superior to circumstances, and asserting, even
with tremendous odds against them, their own
national independence. What a contrast in this
as in every other respect, does Poland present to
Russia ! The one history is that of brutes, the other
that of men. The one, that of blind, sluggish
submission to despotism ; the other, that of stout,
patriotic hostility to it. For one great man that
Russia can produce, Poland can produce a

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dozen. The latter kingdom was as enlightened
in the seventeenth, as the former is in the nine-
teenth century. He who would desire to pe-
ruse an authentic, continuous record of human
nature, in its most abject state of degradation,
never ascending, rarely striving to ascend, from
the flat level of incurable imbecility, let him
peruse the history of Russia before—aye, and
since, too, down even to the present year 1832—the
accession of the First PETER. He who would
desire to peruse the records of patriotism and in-
dependence ; of the human mind, ever making
slow but sure way against the inroads of tyran-
ny and barbarism; ever in a state of ascent, like
the angels on Jacob's ladder, let him peruse the
history of Poland. Here, though he will as-
suredly find much to make him blush, much to
make him sad, he will yet find more to delight,
more to fill him with admiration and astoi iishment.

Yet it is this high-minded nation, whose re-
cords are thus filling to the imagination, that is
now in the last and lowest state of prostration.
And as if to make the consciousness of suffering
more acute in the bosom of every true Pole,
it is Russia that is the triumphant aggressor!
What a flat contradiction is this to the stale old
adage, knowledge is power ! Why, knowledge
is weakness, perfect, drivelling, hopeless weak-
ness, or NICHOLAS would not at this moment
be lord of the lives and liberties of the Poles,
nor the Holy Alliance of the mind of Germany.
But while there is life, there is hope,—very
meagre consolation-by the bye,—and though we
have no great faith in the remonstrances of Lord
DUR HAM, yet we have in the stern, decide 3 spirit
that is now manifesting itself everywhere through-
out England. It is here, in the hearts anti reso-
lutions of a great nation, that Poland, we feel,
is strong. The day is past when an English
Cabinet could uphold one set of political opi-
nions, and an English people another. The
former must now speak the language of the
latter, even though that language be
addressed to the Autocrat of all the
Russias ! When NICHOLAS is next re-
monstrated with, it will be by an Ambassador
sent express and exclusively for that purpose by
a pledged Reform Administration. The re-
monstrance will be neither Whig nor Tory,
neither a grumble like the one, nor a courtly
whisper like the other, hut a stern, downright,
national remonstrance—such a one, in fact, as
(from very shame) France shall be compelled to
back, and NICHOLAS to attend to. One fact is
clear. Poland must not—cannot be destroyed.
Human nature may, to a certain extent, be ag-
grieved and insulted in her instance, but it
must not be wholly lost sight of, wholly blotted
out. It must, and will make itself heard, and
when it does, woe to the Autocrat of the
Russias ! It has a long balance to settle with
him, which must be discharged, both principal
and interest, down to the minutest fraction.

The registration of voters for the metropo-
litan districts twits out better than was ex-
pected. We have seen the lists of three—St.
Pancras, Marylebone, and Paddington, which
give together a constituency of nearly 7,000.
It seems, that of those who have neglected to
qualify, the lower class of householders form by
no means so large a portion as might be sup-
posed. This arises probably from the greater
degree of time afforded by the rate collectors to
the wealthy, of whose means they had no doubt,
than to those householders, who, from the
pressure of the times, were considered doubtful.
Hence it happens, that in the Marylebone dis-
trict a large number of the wealthiest inha-
bitants, not having been called upon for their
rates, and forgetting to offer payment in time,
will be disqualified from voting at the next ge-
neral election.

The petty German Princes are—as we per-
ceive by a correspondent in the Morning Chro-
nicle—sending in their adhesions to the Frank-
furt edicts, from all quarters. They seem even to
vie with each other (those who use a cross, as well
as those who know how to write their names) in
their hurry to affix their signatures. And such
signatures! It would fracture the jaw of even
the most practised Gaelic etymologist, to
pronounce one-tenth part of them. If the
German Princes be but half as savage as
their names, what a pretty set of barbarians they
must be ! Yet why should we doubt the fact ?
Their prompt, cringing, pusillanimous adhesions,
confirm it to the fullest extent. Had the
signatures of these surpassing blockheads
been required to a constitutional, instead of an
unconstitutional edict, what a world of reluc-
tance would they not have shown ! How much
discreet reserve ! How much fastidious hesi-
tation ! But a German Prince, like most other
Princes, thinks there is no time like the present
to encourage despotism, and none like the fu-
ture to further the march of freedom.

We find in the German Papers, received this
morning, a long letter, which endeavours to ex-
plain away the reports of insurrectionary move-
ments in Poland. The writer even goes further,
he attempts to prove (a herculean task !) that
the Poles are happy and contented with their
condition :

VIENNA, Auc. 23.—His Imperial Highness the Arch.
duke Ferdinand of Este, hitherto Commander in Chief in
Hungary, has he n appointed by the Emperor Governor
General of Galicia, and Baron Von Kre4, Vice President
of the Aulic Council, to be President of the Government
of Galicia. Prince Lobhowitz, hitherto Civil Governor of
Galicia, will have another appointment. _ _

Deptrations arrive from all parts of the monarchy to
congratulate his Majesty the young King of Hungary on
his escape front the danger that threatened him.
The Funds have rather declined to day in consequence,
it is said, of the mission of M. de Flahaut to London, to
which greater importance is perhaps attached thin it de-
serves, for our own merchants are still very uneasy respecting
the final arrangement of the affairs of Belgium, thou4h the
course of the negocistions shows the firm resolutions of the
Powers to secure the peace of Europe at any price. It is
reported that Captain Reidl is dead of the wound which
he inflicted on himself after the failure of his attempt on
the young King of Hungary.
VIENNA, AuG. 24.—Five per Cent. Metalliques 88i ;
Four per Cent. 76i ; Bank Shares 1,146.
AUGSBURG, AuG. 28.—The Correspondent of Ham-
burg states that the following letter has been received from
a respectable quarter:--
" Warsaw, Aug. 7.—The Courier of the Lower
Rhine contains a letter from the frontiers of Lithuania,
dated June 3t', which the Constitutionnel has copied in its
205th number. This report not only relates to an insur-
rectionin smnogitifs, in the Corot of Bialowia, and in

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the Government of Minsk, but even enumerates the
heroic deeds which are to give immortality to the incur-
gents. But all this is not enough for the writer; be
therefore causes a mutiny to break out in the Russian army
itself, near Novogorod—' a fact of the highest importance
to the cause of liberty,'—and adds 130 officers to the hum-
her of sacrifices to freedom. After that, indeed, the
northern gloom of fidelity and obedience return, in which
he and his brethren have nothing to do. This old Polish
snag is now composed so as to sound very agreeably to
many years. But it is the affliction of old age, that all the
follies which we have witnessed in youth, all the errors
which have long since been read, corrected, and refuted,
are to be gone through over again with a new race,
to be considered as advances in civilitation, and venerated
as historical truths. Those of my countrymen who, like
myself, saw itt their youth the revolution of 1791, and
have lived to witness that of 1830, have had enough of
these grievances, these tinned labours. But what shall
we say, when, after the lapse of scarcely one year, all these
falsehoods are served up anew, for which (because we too
heedlessly confided in them) we have now to dig the
gravess, of husbands and friends, and mournfully to deposit
in them the withered wreaths of departed prosperity. Let
any one reckon up in our revolutionary journals how often,
only in the first three months of the last revolution, gene-
ral insurrections in Lithuania, Voffi.enia, Podolia, the
Ukraine, in St. Petersburgh, and in the interior of
Russia, &c. were promised and announced to us, and he
may judge how little we must be disposed to give the
slightest credit to these reports. But it is different with
foreign countries, which do not know or understand our
hereditary reveries. I therefore add some accurate and
true particulars, in reference to the above statement. In
Samogitia, the forest of Bialowicz, or the Government of
Minsk, all is tranquil as in the interior of Russia and
with us. Not one of our brethren has dyed the soil of
his country with his blood. If the report, with its
mightiest deeds, had a particle of truth in it, what must
the Constitutionnel (after the lapse of a whole months
from 30th June) have now to relate of the progress of its
band ; but here nobody has heard of the slightest inter-
ruption of tranquillity. Prince Albert's regiment of
Cuirassiers, which, after the storming of the city, entered
with six fine squadrons, has long since returned to its old
cantonments about Odessa, and it is therefore physically and
geographically impossible that it should have been rinnihilsted
at Marianpol, if all Samogitia had become one great volcano.
The second army is not commanded by General I'ahlen,
but by Baron Von Kreuz, and is perfectly tranquil in
garrison here. Its march therefore in the forest of Bia-
lowicz is as false as the other story, unless this corps can
be in two places at once. Lastly, the insurgents of the
Courier of the Lower Rhine could not capture the bag-
gage and military chest of the division of hussars under
Lapuchin in June, near Brzeec, because that division re-
turned to its quarters at Wilna, with its baggage and mili-
tary chest, in February, and Lapuchin has been on a tour
in foreign countries ever since January. After this shall
we say any thing of the romance of a Russian insurrection
at Novogorod ? Or is it believed, that that which
could be so speedily put down on the Rhine by the
legal firm will of the Government, could have
freer scope in Russia, and be able to form and
develope itself in a serious revolt? This would be wholly
to misunderstand our Government, which vigilantly at-
tends to the order and tranquillity of the state as the true
sources of real social prosperity. But were we even
treated with harshness by our conquerors (we feel the con-
trary, even in points in which we could not expect it),
real tyranny is that which continually paints and exhibits
to the stiff rer his misery in the most frightful colours, and
sports with his affliction by lying hopes—the real tyranny
which foreign journals would so willingly impose on us,
had not the Russian Government alone delivered-us from
it by giving no ground and no truth to such reports, and
for rash hopes no wishes, by its gene-ous conduct.

" An OLD CITIZEN of Warsaw."
—Allyenzeine Zeitung, Aug. 29.

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