Star.
London, England, 1831-03-22 00:00:00

POLICY OF RUSSIA.

:Gensral Lafayette said—One of my Hon. Friends has',
stated that I am in possession of documents confrming►
opinions I have before expressed with regard to the Polish
insurrection, that the vanguard had turned in our favour
against the main body of the army. I derive this informa-
tion from txlrers found among many others which the Grand
Duke Constantine left behind him on his precipitate fight—
(laughter.) Is it the pleasure of the Chamber that I should
read them ?—(Read, read.) Here the Hon. Deputy read
two letters; one addressed by M. Turku!, Councillor of
State at St. Pt tefsburgh, to Prince Lubecki, Minister of
Finances of Poland, and the other the answer of the latter,
as follows :

Petersburg, August 18, 1830.
" Prince—The Emperor and the King has charged me to inform your
excellency, in the most private manner, that as, under existing circum-
stances. cases might arise In which the Polish army would have to be set
in motion, it is his Majesty's wish that you should immediately occupy
yourself in ascertaining the resources upon which the Imperial Treasury
might reckon, if necessary, to meet the expense of setting the army in
motion, as Hellas that of a campaign.—l have the honour, &c.
" IGNATIUS TURKUL."

The General continued ; " This, I conceive, Gentlemen,
is sufficient to enlighten us as to the genuine intentions of
Russia." (Tokens of dissent from the centres.) "It is the
wish of the Chamber that I should continue." (Hear, hear.)
The General then read the following extract of a letter ad-1
dressed to Prince Lubecki, by Count Grabowski, Minister
of the Emperor Nicholas :
" The official correspondence which, by order of his;majesty,l have had
the honour to communicate to you, and which directs that the Polish
army should be put upon the war footing, has affected you, no doubt,
more even then it has me. I really suffer severely in seeing all our
plans thus stopped. We should have had a most superb budget if it
had not been ruined by these extraordinary expenses, because, on this
occasion our geographical position placed us in the first.—St. Peters-
burg, October 27, 1830."

(Timm THE lAMB TO THE SAME.)
" October 18.
"Being just informed by the Aid.de-Camp General TschernichefF,
that an order has been sent to the Grand Duke to put upon the war
tooting all the troops under his orders, without excepting those of
Poland, and that this is to be completed by Dee. 22. I have the ho-
nour, in obedience to the command of his Majesty, to require that
the necessary funds be furnished without delay to the Minister of
War. I shall confine myself, therefore, to requesting that you will
place in the hands of his Imperial Highness the Czarowitsch all the
sums necessary for placing the Polish army on the war establishment.
(Signed) " GRABOWSKI."
(THOS[ THE SAME TO THE SAME.)
" St. Petersburg, Nov. 20.
" The return of Marshal Diebitsh will decide upon the measures to
be taken. He has orders to return from Berlin by Warsaw, in order to
confer with the Grand Duke Constantine upon all that is necessary for
the movements and subsistence of the army. The emperor desires that
you will see the Marshal as soon as he arrives at Warsaw, and confer
with him on all these subjects, and that you will proceed to carry into
execution all that may be agreed upon, without waiting for further or-
ders from his Majesty. You will also conform to the wishes of the
Grand Duke. The lanperor further directs me to desire that you will
come to St. Petersburg as soon as the army is set in motion ands gene-
ral war shall he declared, in order to receive his further orders In per-
son.' '—( H esr, hear.)
(In another part)—" We are now in the month of November ; the
distances are great—the armies cannot be prepared to move before the
spring—and events follow each other so rapidly that Goa knows wha
may happen in the interval—(fses', sensation.) No courier can equal
the rapidity of occurrences up to the present; and this has placed the af-
fairs of Belgium in a disastrous state--(The General smiled when he
read chis paragraph.) But this is a useless reflection ; for the next
courier may bring us different news, which succeed each other in a
manner which surpasses all idea."
Would you (continued the hon. Deputy) Ibe acquainted
with the Lonversasion between Marshals Diebitech and Ben-
kendorf, after the short interview which Col. Wylezynacki,
the envoy from the Dictator of Poland, had with the Empe-
ror, and at which, as being both initiated into the state
affairs of the empire, they had assisted :—" Well, Gentlemen
of Poland, your revolution has not even the merit of being
apropos. Your insurrection took place at the very moment
when all the forces of the empire were on their march towards
your frontiers, in order to bring the Revolutionists of France
and Belgium to reason. (General agitation.) And
as the Colonel obaervt tl, Poland believed itself sufficiently
powerful to stop the torrent for a time, so as to warn Europe,
and to allow her to prepare herself for the contest. " But,"
replied Marshal Diebitsch, " what will you gain by this ?
We reckoned upon a campaign on the Rhine—we will make

it upon the Elbe or the Oder, after having crushed you. Re-
flect upon all this." I refrain from occupying the time of the
Chamber with reading the statement made by the Mitti.u•r of
Foreign Affairs to the Diet of Warsaw. It displays the tito,t
noble sentiments of patriotism and courage, with the con-
fidence with which Poland relied upon F'anec, and her 41. -
termination to expire in the cause of the liberties of Ettrepn.
For some time the Chamber was very &nue. agitatsd hy
opposite feelings, and some desiiitor) convelseifku passed
between M. Corcelles and his neighbours, particularly tho
Marquis Marmier and M. Adam de la Ponneeraye, which,
however, we could not distinctly hear.
Gen. LA FA TETTE continued—Now, Gentlemen, permit
me to ask whether or not Russia had hostile intentions again*:
France ? You are fully able to judge—(murtuhrs fvel
centres). The minister declared, and I think he will ut:t
contradict me, that if an Austrian soldier set his foot in Itsi
France would not consent, and thought the minister was
fully impressed with the force of what he said ; and then,
when the French nation was made to say, " I will not . ,so
sent," it was as if it had declared, " I will not permit-
(murmurs from the centres). The gallant veteran then en -
tered into a review of the position of M. Casimir Fen ier,
that the revolution of July was a defensive act, he
canvassed and denied. It was an offensive att .ck of the
principle of national sovereignty upon the ether prinri?le of
" divine right."—He was loudly applauded
The MINISTER for FOREIGN AFFAIRS.—The )1011. de-
puty makes it our crime not to have supported Poland, and,
on the other hand, complains of our not having prevented the
Austrians entering Italy. Let him tell us whether lie v
for intervention or non-intervention —irot.4cal !aught r on
the left). We have been charged with having laid d 0.% n a
principle that we have scarcely respected once tin. this
time, at least, its application was efficacious. If Bc!gilan
has been seprrated from Holland, and forms an indepeudt ut
nation, it is to France she is indebted for it. When fit:it
these papers were mentioned, I had no knowledge wird-
ever of them. If all of the documents referred to by
the honourable general had been communicated, it would
have been proof that war against France never entered into
the views of Russia. Documents, in fact, establish that the
Emperor of Russia answered the King of Holland, who ap-
plied to him for succour against Belgium, that he v.00..1
afford him succour on condition that his allies consented to O.
I come now to the question of peace and war. Gentlemen,
in laying down a generous principle, France never pre--
tended that this principle was a cases Belli. (General
laughter.) It never could Lave entered into the thought
of rational men, that France would thereby deprive
herself of the power of' considering, before she msde war,
whether it was for her honour and dignity to declare it. The
entrance of the Austrians into Modena is, we are told, a ca,e
for war. Gentlemen, we know when nar commences, but
we know not when it finishes. When we speak of the
assurances of peace that are given to us, it is replied
" The Powers .!c:..eive you ; vou will have war in ail its
fury." No, gentlemen; if such was their calculation they
would deceive themselves—(laugliter)—for they would be
forced to assume the oflensive, and all the cualitiens
would come but to expire, for the soil of the country
would not be long polluted by their presence. The orgy
war that you would have it in your power to make would
be a war of invasion ; and have you calculated,
gentlemen, what it would cost were it necessary to
us to cross Piedmont or the Rhine ? As to the affairs of
Italy, I will merely say that the Bolo4m-se themselves vio-
lated the principle of non-intervention, b) forcing Aluclo,a,
which still defended itself, to capitulate. It it not a idiom
regret that I bring this reproach against th• m—(sensation).
We will make war, gentlemen, when honour otel dig-
nity of France shall require it ; but n hen we ar • and that
we are called to defend all the nations tt bu shake all the
yoke of oppression ; that we are condemned t d fur
them the blood of our children, and to waste our treasures,
it is seeking to involve us in an eternal war ; and I hope that
this does not enter into the intentions either of the Chandler
or of the country—(cheers from the centres.)
General LAFAYETTE—I thought it was the cligni.y and
interests of France to support the principles slie had laid
down. I would ask the Minister for Foreign Affa'rs whether
he has not written that France would never con,ent to see
the Austrian forces enter into Italy.
M. SEBASTIAN' made a sign in the affirmative—(strong
sensation.)

Gen. LAFAYETTE—I would then inquire what he under-
stands by the words " France will never consent."
Gen. SEBASTIAN[—Not to consent, and to make war,
re very different things. (Laughter on the left.) (General
Lamarque shrugged up his shoulders; and another Metuber
exclaimed, " 'Ti. pitiful.")
M. DE SEHONEN—'Tie a word without meaning.
Gen. LAFAYETTE—The words " I will not consent,"
signified, in the eyes of the French people, " I %%ill pre-
vent you doing it. For some time a strange abuse has woe',
made of words. After having confounded the tririisuus of
the popular throne with republicans, we are n.‘w diviced
into the partisans of war and the partisans of p ace. This
manner of thus accusing one another must Le renounced. 1
would again ask the Minister whether he endeavoured to
throw any hindrance into the way of the Au trians eat, ring
into Italy ?
M. SEBASTIANI replied that negociatious being en foot,
the secrets of them could not be revealed.

M. Mauguin and General Lamarque rose to speak ; but,
on the proposition of M. Dupin, the Chamber decided that
the further debate should be postponed to the discussion of the
Finance Bill presented to the Chamber.
The Chamber then resolved Itself Into a secret Committee.

SATURDAY, !Women le.
In consequence of the determination taken by the Chamber
yesterday, of deferring the continuation of the diplomatic
discussions, provoked by the new bill for 4-12ths of the taxes,
until the deliberations should come on relative to the new
financial bill, the deputies were to-day in a very small num-
ber at the sitting, which did not commence till half after
2 o'clock. M. de Lessen (Vice-president) was in the chair,
and the Chamber immediately adopted the order of the
day, which was the report of the commission charged with
the examination of petitions presented to this house. The
few members present were completely callous to the reading
of these reports, and presented somewhat the appearance of
men exhausted by the excitement of a preceding day's ex-
traordinary exertions, and it may be easily conceived that
none of the parties composing this house could have retired
in composure, or enjoyed much indifferent repose, after the
interesting, and indeed, important truths laid before them.
relating equally to the interior and exterior policy of the
country. None of the petitions that were read are of sufficient
interest to be noticed by us, and we will confine our report
to the above remarks upon the outward appearance of the
house.

=iminesonssw
Prince Leopold gave a grand dinner on Friday evening, at
Marlborough-house, to the Landgravine of Hesse Hou., erg
and the Duchess of Kent. The Duke and Duchess of Gor-
don, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonde,ry, Cie
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Dowager Mar-
chioness of Salisbury, and a numerous party of the nobility,
were present to meet their Royal Highnesses. The Peter-
tainmeet was on the most splendid scale. The pages of b.s
Royal Highness appeared in new and handsome uniforms of
blue and gold. The Prince entertained a select party at
dinner yesterday.

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