Star.
London, England, 1831-09-05 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN TREATMENT OF TRAVELLERS.

A Danish Paper, the Post of Copenhagen
(" Kiobenhavnsposten"), communicates the fol-
lowing authentic narrative concerning the adven-
tures of a Danish subject on his journey to Poland :
—" About four months ago I went with a Flens-
burgh ship to Konigsberg, well provided with
passports, with letters of recommendation, as well
to Konigsberg as to Warsaw, and with money, in
order to enter into the Polish army, having pre-
viously received a written promise that my services
would be accepted. My passports were signed at
Pillau and at Konigsberg, and when, according to
the advice of some persons, I inquired particularly
of the public authorities, if I should be permitted
to pass undisturbed to Poland, I was posi-
tively assured that I should, and that no inter-
ruption would be offered me. I then went, accom-
panied by three Swedes (Messrs. Stille, Stenkula,
and Berg, candidates in medicine•), with the
mail to Risenburgh. There we separated,—
they going by Thorn to Warsaw, and I by Stras-
burg to the same place. In a small country cart
(a vehicle which is commonly used in that district)
I came towards evening within an English mile of
the frontiers, when I was suddenly surrounded by
four gendarmes, and transported back to Strasburg.
There I was sent from the military magistracy to
the civil, and again back to the former; and in the
end I was the very same night transported by
gendarmes back to Marienwerder, the seat of the
western Prussian Government ; though I appealed
to my legal Danish passports, which proved me to
be only a private person travelling to Poland.
Previously to this I had been deprived of both money,
baggage, and papers ; all were ransacked
by common gendarmes, who retained my
money to defray their own and my expenses
on the journey to Marienwerder. We jour-
neyed the whole night, during which time
I was in no want of relaxation, as we met 300
waggons, each with four horses, and loaded with
provisions for the Russian army. At Marienwer-
der, accompanied by gendarmes with fixed bayonets,
I was brought from the police to the government,
and from thence to the Oberlandsrecht (Supreme
Provincial Court), and then, without receiving an-
lower to my questions, and without any reason be-
ing assigned for my committal, I was pent up in
company with murderers and thieves, in what is
called the Danziger, a tower which was built in the
times of the Marian or German Knights. Here I
was confined for two days, at the expiration of
which period I was brought to trial by an assessor
of the Government, who recorded my answers
in a protocol. It happened that I found him
to be an acquaintance from the University of
Gottingen. His name is Mac Lean, and he
is of Scotch extraction, and I mention him
publicly, because he behaved generously to-
wards me, and I owe him the heartiest gratitude.
I undoubtedly am indebted partly to him and partly
to an Oberlandrath von Rosenfeld for my speedy
delivery. lam probably obliged to none other
than this Mr. von Rosenfeld for being at length set
at liberty, after the expiration of six days, when
I appealed in writing to my legal papers ; and I
owe it to him also that I was not again imprisoned,
as I was immediately threatened I should be when
I demanded compensation for the expenses of my
journey and imprisonment after my arrest ; and
this threat would undoubtedly have been carried
into effect had not Mr. Rosenfeld effectually inter-
fered in my behalf. A copy of the trial to which
I was submitted was denied me, and no
other reason was assigned for my imprison-
ment, but that " they stood in relations to Russia,
which did not permit them to let any assistance
be brought to the Poles." I give these expres-
sions literally, as they were addressed to me ; and,
by the by, I was also given to understand, that
" my Danish passport did not afford a legal pro-
tection to me." During my stay at Marienwerder,
two Russian regiments that had been routed,!passed
through it, in order to join the Russian army. I
received a passport, in which I was characterized
as a vagabond, in spite of my Danish passport, in
which I was denominated correctly. Then I went
to Konigsberg; here it was promised that I should
be put in possession of those papers which had
been taken from me. 1 also made application from
one authority to the other, but they pretended not
to have heard any thing concerning them ; and I
was informed that I might expect to be imprisoned
again if I did not immediately go on board ship
and proceed homewards,—a hint that I did not fail
to make use of. The charges of my imprisonment
and journey were defrayed with my own money.—
In Konigsberg I learned that the orders concerning
my arrest were sent to the frontiers before I left
that town,—a curious cootradictio in adjecto when
you remember that my passports were signed on
my journey through Prussia.

• It appears teem the Swedish paper Attest,!Met, that
the Prussian attdsoritim sad then young eons of Asada-
phis vied with each ether in lowatty and pffelllferabee
the former in their smisavoms So %state, sad the latter in
striving to disk bramarmand noble undertaking.
The young II areesnsa all the hardship, sad ob-
structions which were append to ism t they ester Poland
by swimming, during the night, over the river Domain,
and ultimately arrived at their place of destination.

FLANDERS AND HAMBURGH MAIL.,
THIS DAY.

WARSAW, AUG 1:1
(By way of Cracow.)
ORDER OF TIIE DAY.
HIAD.QUARTERS OF BOLTWOW.
SOLDIERS !—Called by the choice of the nation, and your
confidence, to exercise the office of Commander.in4 iii„
over you, In the sacred cause of our country, I shared at your
head, in all the glorious privations and dangers to which you
were exposed. Far from all feeling of self love, I nev,r
sought the favour which was confided to nit ; I accepted it,
and have hitherto exercised it, though I was sensible that it
was accompanied with many and great difficulties ; it stag
not my intention to yield to ►hose difficulties ; but I
resolved from the first, to give the example of that per-
severance of which we have so much need in our
present situation. A Deputation, which was named
by the Diet, found it advantageous for the good
of the country, to confide the chief command of the army
to other bands. While I submit with resignation to this
supreme will, I address you for the last time, to testify
to you the entire esteem with which I am filled for your
bravery, your devotedness, and your zeal. Your country
judges. by what you have hitherto done, what it may cx.
pest from you in future. The commander whom the re.
presentative' of the nation have placed over you, is already
known to you by his bravery and his resolution ; and by
overcoming the greatest difficulties, he saved your corn.
rade, from that destruction, which for a less resolute
man would have been inevitable. Let us then sur-
round him with the confidence and affection his me-
rits deserve. Implicit obedience, the first virtue of a
soldier of every rank, will be a powerful support on our side,
to the new commander; and I, who bad the honour to be at
your head, may now be allowed to aspire to another, that of
lighting in your ranks, and giving you an example of that
discipline, which I have hitherto required from you, and to
which I will with you willingly submit.

Soldiers ! Let as always unite unanimity and obedience,
with courage end seal; and, with GOD'S help, Poland will
still rise from its ruins. Poland for ewer !

The Commandema-Cnief of armed natural force,