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90th Its advaiteed guard entered Soleinicki• It wig
charged by the light cavalry of General Baron Burde.
Sault had driven out of the village. Doctorow, per-
ceiving that be was anticipated, turned to the right,
'and made for Ochmiana. General Baron P.
rived at that place with his light cavalry at the mo-
ment when Doctorow's vanguard entered it. Gene.
ral Pajol charged. The enemy was sabred and.over-
thrown in the town ; he lost 60 men killed and 18
prisoners. General Pajol had five ;nen killed, and
some wounded. This charge was made by the 9th
Regiment of Polish lancers.

.1- General Doctorow, seeing his route intercepted, those ivereignty.-
fell back upon Olchanoni. Marshal the Prince of On all sides was eagerly courted the honour of sitting
Eckmuhl, with a division ofinfantry, the Cuirassiers on its throne ; if at any time dissensions broke forth
of the division of Count de Valence, and the second in its bosom, those storms obscured only its own ho-
regiment of light cavalry of the guard, moved upon rizon, and sever carried their ravages to a distance.
Ochmiana, in order to support General Pajol. 6. Gentlemen—This country was Poland—you
" The corps of Doctorow, thus cut off and driven were this people—and what now are they become ?
towards the South, continued to prosecute the move- .. In vain your eyes look for them in those regions,
ment en the right by forced marches, with the sacri- the union of which formerly constituted their glory
lice of its baggage. Upon Smoroghoni, Danowchoff, Alas ! those whom we now see, only too much recall
.and Rolxiiiilnclo' whence be made for the Dwina.--.I to our minds those who might have been here, and
This movement had been foreseen. General Nits, I the blessing, though small, we are now permitted to
souty, with a division of cuirassiers, the division of enjoy, only too much reminds us of that which we
light cavalry of Count Bruyere, and Count Moraand'at have lost.
division or infantry advanced to Mikailitchki, with a 4, But how has this dismemberment of our country
•view to cut off his corps. He arrived on the 3d at i been effected ? How has this great family, which
• Swin, at the time when it passed that place, and push- j even amid its intestine divisions did not separate,
ed it briskly. He took a large number of waggons, ' which remained united amid ages of dissention, how
and obliged the enemy to abandon some hundreds of , has this powerful family been so dismembered ?
baggagecarts.
j What have been its crimes, and who have been its
Theuncertainty, the anxiety, the marches, and judges ? By what right has it been attacked, invaded,
counter-marches which these troops had endured, the and effaced from the list of states and nat-ms ;
fatigues which they had undergone, must have made: Whence have proceeded its oppressors and its fetters ?
them suffer severely. I The indignant universe might answer you for us.—
. " Torrents of rain fell during 36 hours, without ins ; Every state, every nation, might say to you, that it
' termission. The weather has suddenly changed from I has seen its own tomb opened beside that of Poland.
extreme heat to a very severe cold. Several thousands , In' the audacious profanation of those laws on which
of horses have perished by the effects of this sudden '. all communities equally rely, in the insulting con.
transition. Convoys of artillery have been stopped tempt that has been shewn of those laws, in order to
by the mud. I destroy us, the world has imagined that it has been
44 This terrible storm which has fatigued both delivered up to the empire alone of conveniency, and
men and beasts, has unavoidably retarded our march; . that soon it should have no other master. Europe,
and the corps of Doctorow, which successively fell in terrified and menace), might point out above all to
your just resentment this empire, which, in crushing
with the columns of General Borde, Soult, of Gene-
ral Pajol, and General Nansouty, has narrowly escap- you;was preparing to bear it down by a new weight.
ed destruction. I We do not doubt, Gentlemen, that it is Russia that
" Prince Bagration, with the sth corps stationed is the author of all our misfortunes. Not contented
more in the rear, marches towards the Dwina. He with the enjoyment of a great portion of the globe,
sit out on the 30th of June from Wolkowitsk to the world itself would scarcely satiate her ambition.
Minsk. I During an age past she has advanced with gigantic
. The King of Westphalia entered Grocrno the . steps upon nations that were even ignorant of her
same day. The division Dombrowski passed it first. name. %Vitt. Peter the First the veil arose, behind
The Hetman Platow was still at Grodno with his which was formed an immense Empire, where every
C' ,sacks. When charged by the light cavalry of thing tempted the inhabitants to renew upon Europe
Prince Poniatowski the Cossacks were dispersed in the inroads which their fathers had made. This new
'every direction. Twenty were killed and sixty made appearance ought to have filled Europe with alarm,
prisoners. At Grodno :ere found materials for
and made her socin a prudent foresight the means
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baking 100,000 rationsiof brt.ad and somecrnains cf of repelling this ne\v danger. She ought to have shut
.the :rag azires. i her gatz's against the ambitious Prince, who came to
44 It bad been foreseen, that Migration would have be instructed in all the secrets of her arts, in order to
fallen back upon the Dwitet, by drawing as near aslarm against her the hands of his ferocious and servile
-possible to Dunabourg ; and the General of division,isubjects, and though the battle of Pultowa seemed
Count Grouchy, :tad been sent to Bogdanow. He only to decide between Ovules and Sweden, Europe
was on the 3d at Trabrui. Marshal the Prince of was conquered almost at the same moment as Sue-
.Zehmuhl. reinforced by two divil.ions, was on the 4th ken. . Poland ezperirn:ed immediately the effects of
•at Wiehnevr. If the Prince roaiatowski had vigor- this increase of the Russian power. Placed in its
versed the rear guard of the corps of Bae,ra•l immediate vic'n'ty, she received its first as welt as
App, that corps would have been endangered. last attempts. Who can enumerate these attempts,
"All the enemies corps are in a state of the greatest ever since Russia, in 1717, tried her influence, by
'uncertainty. ' The Herman Platow was still ignorant licencing the Polish army ? Since that period, what
'cis the 30th of June, that Wilna had been two days moment has there been exempt from her influence,
in the possession of the French. He took the direc-! or her outrages?
tion towards that city, as far as Lida, at which place' 44 At first she prescribed an alternative to that free
he changed his route, and moved towards the South.' election which had always decided the throne of our
44 The sun during the whole of the 4th re-estab- country. By this she assails -those rights of which
fished the roads. Every thing is now organising at the nation had always shgwn itself most jealous.
Wiina. The suburbshavesuffered by the vast crowds I Very soon our finest provinces became the rewards
of people that rushed into them during the continuance ;of the favourites of her Sovereigns I our children,
of the tempest. There was a Russian apparatus there dragged by force into the ranks other armies, were
for baking 60,000 rations. Another is established for ; compelled to purchase with their blood what the
an equal number of rations. Magazines are forming. Russians alone ought to have fought far. If our
The head of the convoys arrives at Kowno by the fields are covered. with harvests, it is to find her
Niemen. Twenty thousand quintals of flour, and a soldiers. Every new war shews the Russian standards
million rations of biscuit, have just arrived here fron traversing oland, and. her colours flying on all
Dantzic."
siJas. It is by continually treading the Polish soil,
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that the Russian power approaches gradually the
RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM body of Europe which she aspires to govern.
OP POLAND. • ~" if by assuming other forms this crafty power
WARSAW, JULY 1. united itself to Poland, it was to impose upon her,
Our country begins at last to emerge from its% as in 1761, that fatal guaranty which attached the
'ruins. Poland is re-established. A General Diet integrity of our frontiers to the perpetuity of anarchy,
has been assembled a: Warsaw, and in the Sitting of., for the purpose of making this anarchy the means of
the 23d of June, a Conimittee made the following ' accomplishing her ambitious designs ; the world
Report : .1 knows what they have been since this fatal period.
" Gentlemen—lf there ever existed among men ;It is since this period that, piece by piece, Poland has
an important commission, or if ever there was an ' been seen entirely to disappear, without crime as
honourable task assigned them, it is, without doubt, without revenge. It is since this period that the
-that which we have received from you. If ever Poles have indignantly heard the insulting language
Work presented to the mind and to the heal t all thati of the Russians and of the Sivers, whom they have
is calculated' to rouse the one or inflame the other, -1! 'seen holding, with daring hand, the reins of their own
is certainly that to which you" have directed our atet Government. It is since that period that the Russian
tention. soldier has a hundred times bathed his hands in the
•.. Placed by a concourse of prodigies, it the close!, blood of his fellow citizens, paving the way for that
of the drama, in which our country perished, betweengailay (for ever execrable must it be recollected) on
the yet recent cradle of one part of that same country*: which, in the midst of the yells of a ferocious coo' -
and the tomb still open of the other the picture! -quefor, Warsaw heard the cries of the people bf
which we have to present to you, the accents in whichti-sPrague, which was totally. destroyed by fire and
we should address you, to be faithful, ought to par.; sword. Poles ! for it is time to make this name re-
' ticipate in the awful mixture of life and death. They ' sound in your ears, which is your's, and which you
ought, at the same time, to convey hope and conso- ought never to have lost ; these are the odious means
lation to the hearts of the victims, and terror to those by which Russia has been enabled to appropriate to
Of their oppressort. But that is not enough, it is fit .Ir.rself your finest provinces—these are the rights, the
.that there should boplaced in your hand the thread only rights she exercises over you. Force has en.
which is to conduct you towards the issue of the la- chained you, and force may also break the fetters
byrinth of misfortune, into which you have been made which it alone has forged. They will be broken !
to wander, during half a century. Your footsteps How can you doubt it, when you contemplate what
must be firmly placed in the new path, which circum- ; is passing around you ? Inquire if any thing which
stances lay open before you.
I ha; been your ruin still exists. In this vast revolu-
Such is 'the extent of the relations, under which tion which involves the world, why would you re-
your Committee have viewed the labour yOu. have cognize the ancient dangers of your country?
committed to its Charge. The Committee has felt, I •I. Instead of the jealousy of powers which kept
that they had to appear before Europe, as well as ' alive in Europe an anarchy similar to that "which
before you ; before ages to come, as well as before gnawed 'your own bosom one spirit only seems to
the present generation ; before nations, as well as be. animate the whole. You; plains are rjovered with
fore Sovereign; ; they have said to themselves, above (standards, astonished at their new fraternity. in.all, that they spoke before the greatest of Sovereigns, • stead. of neighbours avaricious of your spoils, ante:,
and before their earn. great nation. They have felt [accomplices in your destruction, all have mited their
all the Sanctity' idiom. cause, the Magnitude of its re- • arms with yours. Instead of those phantoms
suits, any more teateissed than terrified by those, armies which the bole of your ancient territory with
werful motives; they amines to lay at the feet of this 'difficulty furnished, numerous legions issuing, as if
late, a work, of which theyrish to Make an offer- estehantissees, from
formed in • the eel of thh • •
the . country, in the persona of those, in whom iwir sod, me* witbilthsorngrp.infiremo° lvyic4toriesithi
'laced its confidence and its hope; •' • • '
n long time th!re had existed in the centre After the awl of she'
greatest captains, and,
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or ZurofE, a celebrated nations mistress of an Men- your spoilers with their swords, forged of ftL 1
sive- and fruitful country, rendered illustrious by the duced in the same country as themselves, Nig:
twofold glory of war and of the arts, protecting for with the desire of hearing the bur of
ages, with indefatigable arm, the barriers of Europe strike ! veopoil
against the barbarians who surrounded its confines : " Instead of those small succour: which 1p
and by a character.as honourable as singular, having lent to your necessities, it is tbe t,b„ie of
never made its valour subservient to employ, against which is now in motion, and which ads
the existence of its neighbours, those attempts which steps frightful to your enemies. France was dli°
force has too often coloured under the pretext of jus. the ally, the friend of Poland. Poland, is itt'l
Om A numerous population prospered in its soil. always returned to France love for ion. :I
Nature liberally rewarded their labours, its kings • various fortunes sbe has been always seen to tun!
had often received a place in history liy the side of wards France, whether to glee bier ass:Au
who have done -cost honour to So demand it from her, The first - co or

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--, ...wawa .ICI, - - , use that Poland k
of her right of choosing her oen Kings, we: est
to the throne a Prince of French blood. Is ea
France that Cassimir went to ask consolatho kill
hardships he had experienced on the throne or $
land. It was in a part of France that Stadia
went to realize the benevolent designs be comet
plated for Poland.
44 It is with nations as with individual
shies of interest strengthen between 14;1171Z
soluble bonds of union,
44 All these are found to subsist between
and Poland, but what formerly was only held 4761
small number of men whorls tie minutest enst;Z:
the interests of States cannot 1-:cape. is 'el
political axiom of Poland. Poland is ..
France, as France is to Pol Ind. Wat°lal tkh d "
is necessary tn all Europe. Europe has to reessans
five and twenty years of great a git iticas, 'air
ere
tel will remsin incomplete, the price ale blasts
and her blood will not be secure so Icegssietathat
of the North shall be able to pour upon bathe.
hordes, respecting the nature of whet* we sates
longer shut our eyes. • They are no longer dancing'
whom necessity drove from their savage abodes, au
impelled forward in all the routes wlseh tou'ellosi
'them tq countries that promised enjoymenunot obi
found in their own severe climates.
I SI Among such men, a blind instiact Whisk
of those arts which polish or defend ode meaty
But here the arts which civi:ize mankiad an hal
associated even with that barbarism. The Its*
has sought instruction from the Europeans. liens
. learnt from them every thing that could semi.*
-tack or defence, that could enable him to inianew
destroy. The Russian has in seme respects/mho
himself the equal of the European, in order thak
! might become his master. In that country sops;
tious and docile slaves place all their faeuhreswie
: the controul of a Government familiarized :Zia
kinds of atrocities. At its voice their indiatigok
! arms have, during a century, laboured to sap de
dykes which confine this torrent, always dinned%
overwhelm them. How ate% have not the Rain
already overstepped these bounds, impelkd ads hp
their own interest, or by the imprudent suannesel
Pri-ces, to whom the Bear concealed chains vain
their perfidious succour ? In the (vane of fifty yew •
Russia has twenty times inundated the 2•40 of Es.
rope with her arms. The empire of Cb •
has been. thrown back upon her crtscant,
s r 'yes.
; 46 Frederic himself could not protect his aped
against her. In these latter times Italy has mini
them with honour in her smiling plains, it.sokian it
vain, a new Marius to rise to her aid. Who edi
have believed it ? The cries of bar-berm Se*, 1
' have been heard in the tomb of the Mantua* feta-,
(Virgil). In their headstrong boldness ruler;
those slaves, cut down by the Gallic sword, Wein.
tilized the free country of the Swiss. 'l' he meals
hero was requisite at Austeriitz to arrest their ow
At a period still more recent, the same arc m*
cessary to drive them back to their forests Ness
rents examples have made Europe sensible die
I danger, and of the *tnedy which is required. Pm
! dangers and these remedies have not escaped de*
servation of a Prince. who, in his calmastice, en
braces the [entre with the came facility as Mere
~ sent, and who, having founded a vast Enipire,ciesi
fail to impart to it all the solidity necessary het
structure reared by such a succession of toils.
1 66 He is aware that a perpetual and impersonal'
bulwark is indispensable against the inroads of ills'
ranee and barbarism. He is aware, that the maim
which separates civilized from barbarous assolss
must be fortified with brass and with steel. He n
aware, that the nation, forming as it were thews.
guard of Europe, must be possessed of power sal
cient to insure her repose. If at other periods eV
thing seemed to combine for our destruction, at ese•
sent they all unite for our restoration. Poland*.
will exist—What do I say ? she exists already. Or re!
ther, she has never ceased to exist. How coda&
perfidy, the plots, the violence under which she hit
sunk, injure her rights ? Yes, we are Poland; wake
so by the tide which we derive from nature, hen
civil society, from our ancestors; those sacred tics
which the universe recognizes, and the nudist*
which arc mankind at large. Not only sur we A
who already enjoy the regeneration of our onellfe
but likewise all those who inhabit those vast lid,
' tories, that still wait for the era of their delivwwwl,
" 44 Those boundaries traced by the hand d sis'
"knee, those barriers reared by suspicion, thevlsert
With which she has blocked up every a ,P
' those gloomy forebodincenwhich are the 1011110n°
on usurpation, have not able to alter a nod,
origin, nor to break those ties of consangswaY— wila
establish love and mutual confidence among usual
of brothers. Yes, notwithstanding so long a grarb*
the inhabitants of Lithuania, of. Wbita Lars
the Ukraine, of Podolia, and of Wolhynia.l4olll
brothers. Like us they are Poles; and have them°,
tight with us, as such, to appear. Our countrytr
th tender parent, still throws open her arms to all,
tons; and every member has a right to mai!
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himself to that family, from which be was t 14
• violence. - .
" Poles ! for by what other name can I new - ,
dress you ? I will no lenger avert those whims
feelings which are bursting from your hearts, ;
:them be proclaimed aloud.; let your lips
with that energy which springs frons.enstsfar.=l.
? ssed ; and let the existence of the Kingdegn ...,
nd se solemnly proclaimed within gin .. -., _,
I,4cchoed over all Panda and as here, .. , • .
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selbe sentiments ofemotioc. end the siehe ahrK . .
kastt uswhcrt;ualstsethesarsamibtameTtit
'I But to give to those emotions our . '
ikree, to be more assured of the result, _ _
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bancest°ll97thte ariodlift4ofkucteth:lseie love for their 'enemy I
"ng cleft; i
of these taw whch too freiumq -
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