Star.
London, England, 1831-06-10 00:00:00

POLAND.

BORDERS OP TEE BALTIC SEA, MAY 19.—We have
already spoken of the English Cabinet interfering in favour
of the heroic Poles. It appears now, that overtures have
already been made, which will not be without influence at
St. Petersburg ; and that they tend to assure to the Poles
their independence as a nation. The English Ministry
invoke the stipulations of the ingress of Vienna, which
will assure to the Poles a political existence.— Gaulle
d'Augsbourg.

War is fruitful in changes: the party, brilliant in the morn-
ing, is sometimes disastrous at night ; fortune passes more
than once from one camp to the other, before it fixes itself ;
and its tarrying. are not of an irrevocable character, until such
time u it shall be pronounced by one of those great and in-
comestible victories, which cut off, at a single blow, the
destinies of nations. The partial events of war are only vi-
cissitudes, without definitive results. These partial events
must be appreciated, besides, in a very different manner in a
war of opinion and nationality, than in those armed quarrels
of sovereigns, who make their men fight to conquer territo-
ries : and they will be very different still, when it is agitated
with two enemies very unequal in numbers; for then the
resistance of the weakest party is nearly equivalent to a vic-
tory ; and the non-success of the army superior in forces,
probes that it encountered an incredible opposition, that
disabled it from finishing in a decided manner.
It is necessary to make these reflections, in order not to be
alarmed at the nature of the last news from Poland, and to
represent the true state of things. For the first time, since
the opening of the campaign, Marshal Diebitsch has had to
take precautions against the enterprise of the Polish General,
upon his extreme right. He quitted Siedlec in time, and
marched with all his forces, united, to the succour of that
right wing. Here is that which forced the Poles to evacuate
Ostrolenka.

If the Poles supported, before that city, a furious combat,
which appears to have cost very dear to both parties, it was
to give time to different divisions of the Polish army to re-
pass upon the right bank of the Narew ; and not to expose
them to greater losses still, which would have been the case,
if they had allowed all the Russian army to debouch at lei-
sure by the bridge of Ostrolenka.
The official publication of the Polish Government ex-
plains very well the fears and the efforts of Marshal Die-
bitsch. The Polish army were going to enter into commu-
nication with the insurgents of Lithuania : be understood,
then, that it was necessary that be should bear, by forced
marches, with all his troops, upon Ostrolenka, in order to
prevent a junction, which would perhaps have decided the
fate of the war. The bulk of the Polish army has had to
fall back upon Pultuak and Sierok. But neither the Polish
General has failed entirely in his aim, nor has the Russian
General entirely fulfilled his. Before the union of the
masses of the Russian army, the Polish General, Chia.
powski, was detached forward towards Lithuasia, and
already has rejoined the insurgents; and at the moment
when Marshal Diebitsch appeared, the Polish General,
Gielgud, with another auxiliary corps, bad passed Lonna,
to proceed equally into Lithuania. It was even partly to
give him time to gain the advance, that Skrsyneeki fought
so obstinately before the bridge of Ostrolenka.
There has masked from these movements, the penetrating
into Lithuania of two Polish brigades, carrying to their bro-
thers, arms, ammunition, and so elite body, around which
they will come, and group themselves more formidable than
eves. Things rest in Poland in the same state as before
the last expedition. There have been anal losses; bet those
of the Russians must have been the most heavy, since they
debouched, by gross masses, upon a single point, where was
concentrated all the defence of the Polish army, which do.

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Ostrolenka. Things are then the same—ratikr bt,tri„g
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advantage for the Polish cause, from haring carried auxil -
&ries into Lithuania, which will make diem more fotlid.x-
to the Russians. —3lessager des Ckambres.