Star.
London, England, 1831-09-28 00:00:00

HAMBURGH PAPERS.

From the contents of Hamburgh papers and
utters, it is evident that Paskewitsch was deceived
Mien he said, " the Polish army and nation hare
submitted to their lawful Sovereign." This asser-
tion is now proved to be an empty boast. The
Government, the representatives of the people,
and all. the authorities, have evecuated Warsaw
pith the army, and the Poles appear determined
on making a desperate resistance. These impor-
tant facts are announced in the following eloquent
and patriotic proclamation by General Roziski :

PROCLAMATION.

" Head. Quarters at Sorrow, S:pt. 12.

Poles !—Four days ago a moat sanguinary and obsti-
nately contested battle was fought under the walls of our
:3 pits]. Before the eyes of your wives, sisters, and mothers,
undo the view of the whole city of Watssw, the Polish
troops have slain more than 20,000 of the enemy, and the
itmenchments which were formed by the labour of your fel-
low-citizens, have now become the grave of the invaders.
To site the town from destruction, to weaken the force of
the enemy, out troops have evacuated the capital. The can-
non, ammunition, and all implements of defence, the Go-
vernment, the Deputies, all the Magistrates, have with-
drawn with the Commander-in-Chief and the army to Med-
lin. General Krukowiecki is no longer President of the
Government.

In consequence of an armistice hostilities are for a mo-
ment suspended ; but, my countrymen, let not that moment
tv for you a period of repose which might divert you from the
great object of the deliverance of your native land; employ
it rather to redouble your strength in new efforts to establish
;be existence and independence of Poland.
" Is Warsaw for us all our country ? Do its walls and its
inhabitants within so narrow a circuit form the limits of the
salon ? After so many great sacrifices, after so many dearly
achieved victories, which have justly astonished the world,
shall our high thoughts, our feelings, our hopes—shall all
thew be at the last moment of expectation dissipated, as if
the waters of the Wartime, the Vistula, the Dniper, the Bug,
and the Dwina, did not present to us the inheritance of our
lathers, which, again reconquered, we will convey to our
ctuldren ! Who then would treacherously violate the sacred
ca:!1 we have sworn, to shed the last drop of our blood in the
&fence of the last foot of our native land! No ! The Pole
too proud to fail in a pledge given in the face of the
shole world, or to look forward with a doubt of victory
while he still is able to lift an arm. He who can value
liberty, who calls himself freeman, will also know ho-w
to
break the fetters attempted to be imposed upon him,
"Poles ! Yet one moment more of endurance and resigna-
tion, and the end of the glorious contest, whose result will be
the restoration of our freedom, independence, and rights, is at
hand. The scale of victory must preponderate in favour
of the zeal and resolution of our soldiers, and tbe sacri-
fices of our citizens. History exhibits no example of a
united nation, striving to obtain one great object, being de-
ceived in its hopes. Did not our enemies, 19 years ago, lose
their capital, and notwithstanding was not their nationality
aal independence secured ? Never let us forget that we owe
every thing to our country, our common mother. Her ex-
istence is ours ; we wear her chains. Then let us once more
renew in our hearts the already sworn oath, that we resolve
to be a free people : that we will not lay down the sword of
our fathers until we recover liberty and independence.—
Henceforth let our motto be-.., Death or victory !' And
when we shall stand in order of battle, we will meet the
enemy with the cry—' Live the country,' and thus will we
conquer. " ROZISKI."

PARIS PAPERS.
PTRIS, SEPT. 24.—A journal announces _
the Conference at London has just intimated to
our Government, that if, by the 10th of October
.Nt, the day on which the armistice concluded
beNeen Belgium and Holland expires, King Leo-
shall not have acceded to the conditions laid
iu the preceding Protocols, Russia, Prussia,
Austria are resolved to support by arms the
Inds of the King of Holland. Holland, adds
,itite journal, has just assembled 30,000 men
'he mouth of the Scheldt, who, encamped on
shorts of the isle of Walcheren and the left
of the river, may in one or two marches be
the walls of Ghent and Bruges. It is also
it that the two Cabinets of Vienna and Ber

that

Are both refused to receive the Envoy of Leo.
and that the Emperor Nicholas has expressed
elf in a manner that leaves no room to expect
~)er foil*arance.— Temps.
Pahl'', SIFT. 24.—1 t is reported at Sarrelouis
bat two bridges of boats are being laid over the
bine between Bonn andCoblentz for the passage
two corps of the Prussian army, commanded by
illiam, and that General Borstell, who is
Coblentz, trill command another corps which is
assemble on the right bank of the Moselle, in
.t•iroris of Berkenfeld. These accounts re-
re confirmation.— Conatitutionnel.
M Abu! t,, S r. 15.—(Private Correspondence)
Ve learn from good authority that the diploma-
.its of our Government in France and Eng-
tlat•e been instructed to make known to those
lole:riments, with respect to the intimation
to ours, not to meddle in the affairs of Porto-
Iry assis:ing his Most Faithful Majesty with
. to niaintain him on the Throne of his an-
note; that the moment France or England
attempt by an armed force to overthrow the
I Portugal, and consequently to excite
roles in the kingdom, an event which might
'e vela iiiiluence in Spain, on account of its
tintity to Portugal, his Catholic Majesty will
hider Limself obliged to hinder such results,
causibg an army of 50,000 men to cross the
t'ers• In fact, so long as Don Pedro and the
ugeeb are left to contend with Don Miguel,
e sill be nothing to fear; for experience has
'rated, on different occasions, that his most

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The STAR may, as usual, be had through all
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Office, Temple Bar.

We have now the Polish evidence of Roz Ise 1,
that an armistice, or suspension of hostilities, has
been agreed to between the Poles and Russians.—
We may presume that it was convenient to the
latter, after their enormous losses ; while, to fa-
cilitate negotiation, it was doubtless necessary to
concede to Imperial weakness and vanity the no-
minal possession of Warsaw. We may conclude, I
therefore, that that will be done at last, which
ought to have been done at first ; and the Polish
Constitution will hereafter be respected, but the
political dependence on Russia be re.affirmed !
Such ought not to have been the result : but
while the statesmen of France and England choose
coolly to look on, further sacrifices of the Poles
cannot be expected, in maintaining a destructive
contest, which is as much the cause of all Europe
as of Poland. We therefore consider the Poles
as basely abandoned ; and that no less disgrace
attaches, in 1831, to the independent Govern-
ments of Europe, than, in 1772, the epoch of the
first partition. The age of political justice
has nut yet arrived ; but the outrage of
uniting the Duchy of Warsaw to Russia,
and thereby bringing Russian despotism into the
heart of the Continent, in advance even of Prussia
and Austria, will at no distant period be avenged.
It is true that the Poles are still embodied ; but
e dreed the effect of a truce in a popular cause,
and foresee that it will serve only the party whose
strength consists of slaves and mercenaries. We
are at a loss to reconcile this subjugation with the
assurance of Polish nationality by the French
Chambers ; but while the strength of France is
wielded by men who fear the Holy Alliance more
than they confide in popular principles, the Poks
can have no hope from political equivocation.
Unless, therefore, some propositions are insisted
upon—an unlikely circumstance—insulting enough
to re-arouse the Polish pnpulati, n, we confess we
consider that contest as in course onwards some kind
of arrangement. Perhaps the Poles may be further
afflicted by protocols, and the patience of Europe
may be exhausted by special pleading, till all
interest in their cause is absorbed in the labyrinth
of diplomatic subtleties.

An intense interest, amounting to feverish ex-
citement, pervades the whole nation, in regard to
the alleged doubts ab ,ut the decision of the House
of Lords. As we ourselves have little doubt on
the subject, and consider our assurance as the
highest compliment we can pay their Lordships, so
we regard, as the greatest enemies of the Peer-
age, all these tublic writers who continue
to assert that they will reject the Bill. It
is a gross libel on their intelligence and
public spirit ; while the confidence with which
it is asserted leads to very dangerous hy-
pothetical conclusions, in all popular assem-
blies. On the contrary, we feel convinced that a
party headed by Lords Londonderry and Eldon,
and we will give them Salisbury, Kenyon, Ellen-
borough, and the like, as a staff, can neither be

very numerous, nor very efficient. The public
character of the Duke of Wellington affords some
assurance that, on this subject, he will not com-
proinise himself ; and, really, when we
look through a list of the Peers, and observe
among them, so many high-minded individuals,
whose vassalage to the Boroughmongers must
always have been most offensive, and who can
have no interest distinct from that of the nation,
and no honour but what is allied to the Crown, we
consider the assertions that a great majority will
not support the Bill, as the mere ebullition of
party spleen.
It is nut to be concealed, that if the Reform
Bill has destroyed the borough uigarchy, which
the Constitution demanded, it has engrafted
every practicable security on the forms and
practice of our ancient Government. We believe
that the number of peers who was connected with
borough proprietary did not exceed fifty or sixty ;
while it is known that many of these have, with the
most commendable patriotism, surrendered their
pretensions. Then, with reference to the great
mass of peers, who have no direct concern in cor-
rupt borough jobbing, it has been very properly
stated by several of them, that they consider the
possession of this power, in certain Peers, as a
general scandal on their Order.

In the meantime, that the adverse party may I,
lose one favourite argument, we consider the
meetings that are taking place all over the coun-
try, at once salutary and necessary. Their Lard-
ships ought to be made acquainted with the una-
nimity of the independent population, and be able
to discriminate in such declarations between the
feelings of the people, and the flattering unction
of the sycophants who too commonly surround
them. It is not to be concealed—whatever
Lord Eldon may say to the contrary—that the
people of England do not recognize the veto of
their Lordships, on a question which involves their
own legislative representation. This point was
very ably explained by the Marquis of Westmin-
ster; and it mingles so intimately with the entire
question, that we are persuaded it will have con-
siderable weight in producing the decision.

In the House of Lords on Monday night the Mar-
quis of Westminster presented the petition from the
late Westminster meeting, which he supported by
a very able speech ; and then presented a petition
from Chester numerously signed. He stated that
the Reform bill was not a subject for their Lord-
ships' interference, which Lord Eldon warmly
resented, and stated that he advised their Lord-
ships to do their duty, and that he would rather
die than admit that the Peers had no interest in
the question. It appeared that his prejudices on
the subject are aroused.

Lord Dacre presented a-petition from the Coal-
meters of Surrey, praying for compensation for the
loss of their employment.

The Archbishop's Pluralities bill was passed.

The Marquis of Londonderry expressed his dis-
satisfaction at the absence of the Lord Chancellor,
which led to a discussion, in which Lord Plunkett
concurred with Lord Londonderry, stating that the
house had never considered even attendance upon
the KIN° as a sufficient excuse.

In the Commons, among other petitions, one
was presented by Mr. O'Connell in favour of Poor
Laws in Ireland, which led to a conversation pro
and con on the subject. The same patriotic Mem-
ber presented a petition against the Irish Yeo-
manry, which produced some strong observations
from Mr. Ruthven, At.
Mr. Robinson moved that the writ for Pembroke-
shire should be suspended for a week, owing to the
miseonduct of the Sheriffs ; but this was opposed,
lon the ground that another returning officer might
be appointed; and the motion was lost by 24
lagainst 120.
On the Lunatic Asylum Bill there was a division
on an amendment by the lords, which was nega-
tived by 66 to 95; other amendments of the lords
were also rejected, and a conference agreed to.
It appeared that Sir Robert Inglis had presented
a petition against May nooth College, which he
had merely received by post, without knowls dge of
the parties ; while the signatures proved to be very
irregular. On moving for the usual grant to the
College, Mr. Perceval, Mr. Young, Sir R. Inglis,
Mr. Lefray, Lord Mandeville, Mr. C. Pelham, Sir
R. Bateson, and Colonel Sibtborp, opposed it ; but
on a division, the,/ was 147 few it, against 47.
In the House of Lords last night, Lord Lon-
donderry renee ed his observations on the frequent
absences of the Lord Chancellor—mentioning one
case of ten days. and quoting the ►tanding order
on the subject. Tne Chancellor, in reply, stated
that no man had ever been so blinded by party,
when he charged him with negligence ; and on
assuming that other Lords might be of the same
opinion, a general cry of " No, no," proceeded
from both sides, on which he state) that it
appeared he had only the Marquis to satisfy. He
had, he said, devoted a week to bringing up arrears
in the Court of Chancery, and another to those in the
House of Lords. Since the 22nd of November, be
had frequently sat in the Court of Chancery till
twelve at night, besides his duty in the House of
Lords; that he even sat on the Saturd y before,
Easter Sunday, and on Easter Monday, to bear
appeals; and on one occasion, he had heard three
cases after the bovines, of the House was i.ver.
In consequence, he bad been seriously ill for three
weeks past—felt ill—and had a very bad coagb,
but never felt better than this day. He also stated


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' the standing orders merely provided that the
Chancellor should be ordi arily present.
Lord Eldon spoke on the question, and a . id, that
in the next session be should make a motion to
provide against similar inconveniences. Lord
Holland fully exculpated the'Chancellor from all
blame.

In the House of Commons Mr. O'Connell post-
poned his proposition for a call of the House till
the 10th of October, which after a long discussion
was agreed to. Some of the usual Parliament try
interruptions took place while Mr. O'Connell wa:
speaking, in the part in which sat Sir It. Vyvyan,
whose conduct was reprobated by Mr. Hume.—
The Speaker interfered, and Sir R. Vyvyan dis-
' claimed the interruption.
Mr. O'Connell brought forward 0-c rase of
John O'Leary, of Cork, who had been hastily con-
victed of murder ; but the punishment was com-
muted to transportation, though the charge had in
effect been abandoned.

Mr. Mildmay presented a petition from the in-
habitints of Winchester, in justification of the
conduct of the Baring., in the affair of the Deacles.
This led to an impassioned debate, during which
Colonel Evans moved for a select committee,
to inquire into the wh-ile subject. Mr. Le-
fevre seconded this motion ; but Lord Altl.orp
opposed it, and in referring to the Manchester
massacre. he quoted i.s magnitude and enormity.
and the unjustifiable conduct of the Magistrates, but
this was the case of an individual Magistrate. The
debate was prolonged till nearly three o'clock, when,
on a division, there were 31 for Colonel Evans's I
motion, and 7 against it—among the latter of
whom was Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Hume, Mr.
O'Connell, and Mr. Hunt .p ite with great energy
in favour of the Committee.

The anxiety of the people about the Reform
Bill is evident in the zeal with which many of the
livery of London are seeking the re-election of the
present Lord Mayor, in preference to the next
alderman in rotation, whose attachment to the bill
has been questioned. The friends of reform, and
the friends of corporate usage, are therefore at
issue, and a memorable contest is threatened.

ROYAL liXC ANDS, O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 82 il,
opened at the same price, and remain so at present.
This is settling day in the Foreign Market, and
all is going on favourably.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols have been during the whole of the
morning at 82b to * for the Account, with little or
nothing doing.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock, abut. Three per Cent. Reduced. shrt.l
Three per Cam. Consols, 82g 2. Three and a Half per
Cent. 1818, shut. Three and a Halt per Cent. Red.
shut. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 891 1. Four
per Cent. 1818, shut. Long Annuities, Jan. 1880, shut.
India Stock, —; do. Roods, I dis par. 11000 Exchequer
Hills, 9 8; £5OO do. 8 ; ilOO and 4'200 do. —. Consols
for Account, 81; g.
This day the king came from Windsor to St.
James's Palace, where His Majesty held a levee ;
after which there was a Privy Council. at which
the Lord Chancellor and all the members attended.
An investiture of the Order of the Bath tonic place
at the levee, on which occasion the Knights and
Knight Commanders received their respective
badges.
The following resolutions were passed in various
parts in Jamaica, and a general Congress from the
West India Islands was proposed, to consider the
grievances complained of, and the feasibility of
separating from the Mother Country if they were
not removed :—Resolved, " That his Excellency
the Earl of Belmore be solicited to call an early
meeting of the House of Assembly, in order that
a deputation of the same may lay a statement of
our grievances at the foot of the throne, humbly
to pray if our Sovereign and the British nation
consider us unworthy of the protection of our just
rights, equally with all his Majesty's subjects, we
may be allowed to seek that protection from another
nation, which is so unjustly and cruelly withheld
from us by our own."
New CHURCH
RATES.—This oppressive im-
post, as it is termed, will meet with a most decided
opposition in the extensive and highly respectable
parish of Islington. The most influential of the
parishioners have canvassed the parish, and a pub-
lic meeting has been announced at IVllite Conduit
House this evening, at six o'clock
On Wednesday last, the election of a member of
Parliament for the county. of Sutherland, vacant by
the death of the late Sir Hugh limes, Bart. took
ylace at Dornoch. The only candida'e uas Mr.
Macleod, younger, of Cadboll, who was proposed to
the freeholders by George Dempster, Esq. of Skibo,
and unanimously chosen their representative.
Mr. Jobard, of Brits ell+, is said to have disco-
vered a machine I' r boring the earth with the
greatest faciity, in any soil, and to rny depth. If
such 1 e really the cis-, Mr. Jobard will become the
greatest bore In Christendom.
Among the pubtshed I eads cf expense attemiing
the formation of the Manchester and Liverpool
!tails*, is tire fol:owing :—" Parliamentary and
Law Experditure, 28,46(1 7s ! !"
Mr. Van Buren, Minister from the United
States, the Spanish and Belgian Minlatets,
Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign
Office. The Baron Zuyler de Nyevelt, on a special
mission from the Netherlands, and the Right lion.
Sir Stratford Canning, had also inte views with the
Noble Viscount yesterday.
ELECTION OF LORD MAFOR,-.lhe strut g!e
on the present occasion for this highest civic ho-
nour will be the most arduous 01 record since thr
memorable contest of the re-el cte.n of Alderman
Wond.—The friends of b .th gentlemen (Sir P. t
Laurie and the present Lord Mayor) are
mined to maintain t'le field to the la-t nostient.
Some idea of the spirited mintier in w'ich the
battle will be fought may be formed from the
fact, that the e hole line of roads from the city up
to Hackney, Islington, &c. were this day cans as-
sed by both parties. The ground of contest
is the Reform Bill, to which the Lord M tyo
is considered as more dev..ted than Sir Peter.
while the latter makes professions and adduces
&eta in proof that he ranks among the Mends of
the bill.

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THEIR AIkiIESTIES.
VINDSOU, SEPT. 27.—Their Majesties drove
from the Castle at three o'clock this afternoon in the pony
harouche, and were attended by Countess Brownlow, Miss
Wilson, Lady F. Fitzclarence, Prince George. and the Rev.
31r. Wood. The royal party proceeded by the Long Walk
to Virginia Water, and returned at five o'clock. [Joni
Adolphus Fitzclarence arrived at the Castle last ere:ling to
dinner. This morning Earl Brownlow and Lord Brougham
left for London.

CITY OF LONDON REFORM PETITION'S.
At a Special Court of Common Council held yesterday,
it having been resolved that the Lord Mayor, attended by
s.tch members of the Court as chose to do is s. should forth-
with wait upon Lord Brougham, and request his Lotdship to
present the petition of the Common Council, praying their
Lordships not to reject the Reform Bill, the Lord Mayor
announced to the Court that the state barge was in attend-
ance to convey them to Westminster fur that porpoise.
A deputation of 24. appointed to present the petition
passed in the Common Hall on the seine 'whites, being also
in attendance, were invited by the Lord Mayor to join the
other lardy for a similar purpose.
About 120 gentlemen proceeded up the water to West..
minter, with colours flying, and amid considerable cheering
from the people. A salute was fired on their arrival off
Westniinster-bridge, and on landing they walked in pro-
coition, headed by the Lord Mayor, to the Painted
Chamber, where they were received by the Lord Chancellor,
to whom the Lord Mayor thus addressed himself:—
" My Lord,—We wait on your Lordship to request that
you will have the kindness to present to the House of Lords
this petition of the Common Council of the city of Lonihar
in favour of the Reform Bill now before that honourable
house. We are aware that we are deviatiog from the usual
course in enlarge an attendance upon your lord hip. hut we
beg you will attribute it to its true calm, namely, the great
zeal felt In favour of that bill. A feeling that we live in
no ordinary times, and that it is necessary, in no ordinary
manner, to give a public expresstor to our sentiments, has
inducedl spontaneously the full attendance of the members of
the court now before your lordship. We beg to place this
petition in your lordship's hands, not doubting the must
aeslous exertions on the part of your lordship to support its
prayer and assuring you of our firm conviction that the
peace, safety of the public credit of the country will be
placed at hazard unkss this bill be passed into a law."
The Lord Mayor then also placed in the hands of the
Lord Chancellor the petition paused at the Common H
explaining, that, in purport and object, it was the same es
the petition of the Common Council t and Lord Brougham
receiving them both, addressed the Lord Mayor and the de-
. potations, assuring them that he accepted with pleasure the
office of presenting the petitions, and would support the
prayer of them by every means in his power.
The Lord Chancellor, then bowing round to the assembly,
withdrew, and the Lord Mayor and the two deputations re.
turned by water in the same order in which they went. The
whole it excited considerable attention, and attracted a
great number of persons to the bridges and the banks of the
river.

Their Maje.ties have invited a select and dis-
tinguished party to meet them to-morrow at Blaek-
water, on which occasion they purpose visiting the
Royal Military College. A dejeune for thirty will
be given on the occasion, to which some of the Fo-
reign Ambassadors and their Ladies are invited.
Sir W. Scott is about to take a trip to the Medi-
terranean, in his Majesty's ship Barham.
The Committee of the estates of the Earl of
Pojtsmouth have, within these few months, had no
less than seven of his Lordship's farms in Hamp-
shire thrown upon their hands.
A celebrated Commoner has acquired the clas-
sical appellation of " Brutus," from the unrele•ot-
ing sternness with which he lies immolated his two
sons on the altar of anti-reform.

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