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London, England, 1831-03-25 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

EXCLUSIVE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAUR 23.

The circular of Nl.Cassimir Perier to the Prefects, leaves
no more doubt upon the dissolution of the Chamber. The
electors will then soon be called upon to pronounce upon the
fate of France.— Gazette de France.

In spite of all that has passed in Italy and Poland, in
spite of the six English vessels which, it is said, will appear
in the Scheldt, to reply to the proclamation of the Regent
of Belgium, we do not persist the less to say, that the ques-
tion of war will be decided at Paris ; and that the destinies
of France are agitated between the government and the fac-
tion, the movement and resistance.—Gazette de France.
It is announced that Colonel Huberti, an Ambassador
from the Italian Patriots at Bologna, has arrived this even-
ing at Paris ; and that having demanded an audience of M.
Sebastiani, he met with the same refusal as the Polish agent
Wiclaposki.—La Quotidienne.
POLAND.

The following is the rep!y of the Commander of the For-
tress of Medlin, to the letter of Field Marshal Diebitsch,
which we published in the STAR of yesterday :
Marshal—As Colonel Kiel, Adjutant to his Imperial
Highness the Cesarowitch, who delivered to me your letter,
could not wait for my written reply, I have the honour to
forward it to you through the means of Lieutenant Sobieski.
The prepossessing expressions with which you have pleased
to honour me, as an individual, are very flattering. I am
obliged by them ; and I hope, Marshal, by my ulterior con-
duct, to merit your esteem, and the good opinion of so ex-
perienced a warrior. As I know perfectly well the spirit of
the garrison of Modlin, which I have the honour to com-
mand, I can assure you, Marshal, that it will not remain in
any way inferior in courage, to the army of which you have
been pleased to speak in praise.
Without entering into the detail of the contents of your
letter,and especially those passages wherein you mention the
advantage which the Imperial Russian army had obtained
in the [la's of the 19th and 25th of February, I cannot,
nevertheless, prevent myself from avowing to you, that we
have every reason to consider those days in quite a different
point of view. But even were the situation of our army
such as you are pleased to represent it, and should there
remain for us no other hope than to augment by our bodies
the thousands of victims already sacrificed in the defence of
the national liberty, even in that case, the garrison of Modlin,
to preserve its military honour, would not hesitate to give a
proof of its devotion to the country ; persuaded that by such
an action, it would acquire the consideration of its conquerors,
and the sympathy of those nations whose wishes are for the
success of our heroic insurrection. I have the honour,
Marshal, to present you, with the greatest consideration,
my salutations.
(Signed)
Modlin, March sth, 1831.
The latest news from Poland paints the situation of the
Russian army in the most dismal colours. This news has
not been contradicted. This day a private letter from War-
saw, of the 11th of March, announces that the Polish troops,
commanded by General Dwernicki, reinforced by a con-
siderable body of mowers, have passed the Bug, at Kald-
niour and at Horodio, and had proceeded upon Wpldzi-
meerzy, the capital of the district of the government of
Volhynia, where they had separated into two corps ; of
which, one had followed the route of Kowel, and the other
that of Loutzik. Every where the Volltynians had re-
ceived the Polish brothers with the greatest enthusiasm:
that part of Wolhynia had already taken arms, and every thing
announced that the insurrection would propagate rapidly Into
the governments of Tcharnigow and Kiew. If this intelligence
is correct, the position of the Poles is singularly ameliorated;
for, besides the province into which they have penetrated,
assuring them considerable reinforcements, they have not,
to dread, from thiir side, the Russian forces which are con-
centrated in Lithuania, which is adjacent; but of which the

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soil is inundated for more than fifty leagues by the Pripet,
which forms immense marshes, and renders it impossible
for au army to cross the extent of country. Volhynia is,
on the contrary, a country dry and fertile, crossed by good
roads, and bordered by provinces, which are the more
grudged by the Imperial Government. The march of the
Poles across Volbynia renders infallible the rising of the
Lithuanians, amongst whom the sparks of revolt had al-
ready appeared at the commencement of the war, and who
keep in mind the remembrances of the cruelty with which
the members of their first families, such as the Sanguszko's
the Lubmirski's, the Sabanski's, the Mogerzanski s were
sent into Siberia, in consequence of the troubles.—Le
Temps.