Star.
London, England, 1820-11-01 00:00:00

POLAND.

WARSAW, OCTOBER 14.
1N.., • Tile ibllowing is the speech pronounced by his
bkitliest
the Emperor and King, at the Sitting of
the two Chambers, assembled at the close of the

Diet, on the 13th .f October, 1820:
" REPRESENTATIVES OF THE KINGDOM OP POLAND
.When I opened your deliberations, I manifested to
you my thoughts as to the means of developing and
strengthening your national Institutions.
" Arrived to-day at the period when the labours
must stop which should have conducted you by de-
grees to that important end, you may easily compre-
hend how nearly you have approached it. Ask your
own consciences, and you Must know whether, in
the course of your discussions, you have rendered to
Poland all the services which it expected from your
wisdom ; or whether you, on the contrary (led away
by seductions too common in cur- days, and sacri-
ficing a hope which would have realised my previous
confidence in you), have not retarded, in its progress,
the work of the restoration of your country?
" This grave responsibility will weigh heavily upon
you ; it is the necessary consequence of the indepen-
dence of your suffrages. They are free; but pure
intentions ought always to determine them. Mine
are known to you. You have received good for evil;
and Poland has regained her rank among nations.
I will persevere in my designs in her behalf, whatever
may be the opinion formed of the manner in which
you have exercised your prerogatives.
" Nevertheless, disagreeable impressions may en-
feeble her still more; and the Members of this As-
sembly, who are animated with a sincere love of
public good, will consummate their honourable mis-
sion by carrying to their fire-sides the words of peace
and concord, and by propagating that spirit of calm-
ness and security, without which the most beneficent
laws will remain always sterile.
" You have voted those things which the necessi-
ties of your country most imperiously demanded.
" An unavoidable delay is necessary to prepare the
&radual re-establishment of the ordinary connections
between the creditors and the debtors.
" The forms which will henceforth surround the
sacrifice of private possessions to the interest of the
public meal, will strengthen and verify that respect
for property which is the best encouragement to all
useful enterprises.
" I abstain at this moment from judging of the
motives which have induced you not to receive the
projects destined to complete your legislative system.
" I leave to your fellow-countrymen the care of
pronouncing whether your only end in giving that
vote was to procure to the laws, which ought to go-
vern you, those perfections which a more grave and
profound examination might bring to them.
" Representatives of the Kingdom of Poland !—I
quit you ; but when far from you, I will watch over
your well-being with the same .constancy, and the
same solicitude ; and the only object of my wishes
will be to see the Government, which I have given
you, consolidated by your moderation, and justified
by the example of your happiness."
The following is the Speech of the Marshal of the
Chamber of Nuncios, Raymond ltembielinski, at the
close of the Diet, and in the Sitting of the iwo
Chambers, assembled on the 13th of October, 1820:
" SlRE—Being at the moment of the close of the
Session fixed by law, and, by the will of your Ma-
jesty, obliged to render an account of the delibera-
tions of the Chamber of Nuncios, I present myself
before your Majesty's Throne with that calmness
which the importance of my mission, and which
truth demand.
" In order to present that truth in all its openness,
as well relatively to causes as to their effects, permit,
Sire, that, far from every species of flattery, which
never approaches your Majesty's Throne, and with
a heart full of admiration, I should render you ho-
usage-as to the Legislator and the Guide of Nations.
" wr Majesty. having deigned to grant to the
Kingdom of Poland a Constitutional Charter founded
upon the balance of the Powers established by it,
wished that we should at the same time enjoy this
great benefit with glory to its august author, and
with utility to ourselves.
" Strong in the sincerity of your wishes, and in
the desire of rendering us really happy, you have
yourself, Sire, undertaken to form the public spirit
of the Polish Nation.
" Who can contest this brilliant truth, that your
Majesty has neither wished to influence the elections
of Representatives, nor their opinion, nor their votes,
at the two Diets which have already taken place ;
and that you have deigned to convoke the Represen-
tatives for a second time, with a rare confidence,
and at a moment when troubles have arisen in a
part of Europe from •the effect of developing con-
stitutional principles, and founding institutions ema-
nating from them?
o Your wishes, Sire, have been fulfilled. A sin-
cere zeal and pure intentions have animated the
Chamber of Nuncios. It was with these sentiments
we entered the lists; but it is only great experience
which, with time, can perfect the Representatives of
the Nation in this difficult career.
" The first object of the deliberations of the Nun-
cios, has been the Project of Law respecting Penal
Proceedings, introduced by the Council of State.
" Immediately after its presentation the fear seized
all minds of falling into error by toe much precipi-
tation, in a project of such great importance,_ and
which came so near to the honour and lives of our
fellow-citizens. The time fixed for the deliberation
of the Chamber was not sufficient to go gravely and
profoundly into the Project ; but the Representatives
did nevertheless employ themselves in bringing for-
ward observations, as well general as special, which
might contribute to perfect it.
" Having confined iteelftcrthir accomplishment of
its duties, the Chamber unanimously wished to de-
posit, at the foot of your Majesty's Throne, its hum-
ble prayer that you would deign, Sire, to cause thin
important muter to be remitted to the next Session ;
but the regulations in force permitted it not to clia
so. Your Majesty will deign to recognize the true
motives which have directed the Chamber in dis-
carding 'is. subject in question.
6! In the Project respecting Civil Proceedings, a
vask figth more extensive-that, the first,. the Repre-
sedtatkvcs per4sized the paternal solicitude of your
Siajesti wkegislaeolu. Th.is rroject. consi-
dering list sW. the time,, 11-g

gable of grave and profound deliberation, your Ma-
ray "feigned to permit that conservative measures I
should be presented by the Conseil of State ; and
they have been adopted by a majority of voices.
"We acknowledge, Sire, that a gradual delay
will preserve the citizens, • who bare suffered very
considerable losses, and will give to the Government
time to advise upon preparatory means, in order
that the hopes conceived on the subject of a system
of credit may be realized.
" The Chamber has given, on this occasion, a rare
example of a true solicitude for the public faith and
interest, in so far as the decisions. of the Representa-
tives have not been directed either by personal inte-
rest, or that of any single elms. The Project pre- ,
seined concerning the expropriatimi on account Of
the public utility, by means of; previous indemnity,
has been adopted by the Chamber with admiration'
and gratitude, as a proof of that morality which
characterizes all your Majesty's acts.
" The Chamber of Nuncios finally deliberated on
the project of modifications upon an organic Statute
of the Senate. which had previously obtained a ma-
jority in the Senate.
" I do not feel myself sufficiently capable of ex-
pressing to you, Sire, the sentimeats which pene-
trated the Chamber during the discussion of this pro-
lett. The general conviction of the goodness of this
aw has been balanced, perhaps. by a too great soli-
citude to conciliate two laws equally obligatory; and
by a natural uneasiness lest the purity of our inten-
tions should be suspected. The non-adoption of the
law by a feeble majority must be reckoned among
those incidents in a Representative Assembly which'
are difficult to be foreseen.
" A longer experience will, doubtless, prepare fox
tha future an approximation of opinioas on such im-
portant objects.
" As to myself, I have constantly endeavoured, as
President of the Chamber of Nuncios, to maintain a
spirit of moderation in their debates, and scrupulously
to fulfil the duties which were imposed upon me. I
deposit at the foot of your Majesty's throne the Mar-
shal's baton, which, according to the feelings of my
conscience, I conceive myself to have borne during
thirty days, without stain ; and whatever judgment
your Majesty may deign to pass npo'n my conduct,
it will neither add to nor diminish the boundless
fidelity and attachment with which my beast is pene-
trated towards your Majesty's person and throne.'