Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-11-05
Fail Of ~ arsa,o-h Impression produced at Paris
-Dgeat Of Perisr.
TO the Editor Of the London Morning Chronicle.

Sir: Warsaw has capituated! The White Fla.
ole has fallen. dyed in the blood IF the brayest.
the nublest, and the best; and the Grand Duke
Michael occupies he former palace of the Grand
Duke Constantine! Do you tremble as you read
these lines? Do You turn pale with rage, and
does your hear, cease to beat, and your warm
life blood does il chill in your veins: This is
natural, juseand patriotic. But your tears will
be unavailing; your slghs will not reach the iron
heart Of the Tyrant of Russia and the Despot of
the North: and the Poles will refuse tie sympa-
thy of all men; for they have received the protec-
ton of none Warsaw has fallen! The Russian
army has feasted its rapaCIiy on the treasures oil
the c,ty-pillaged. sacked, burned. ravlshed. de-
s,rored. The father and the husband have led
the CITY. to associate with their breihreh, III Of
der TO defend at Modln the last vestige oil nation
al independence, add have lett their wives anu
their little ones to the tender mercics OF savage
. Cossacks, and the fatherly humanity aud sympa-
Inv of the Russian Despo They were not merely
justified but cOmmcndable for this sacrince' 'hey
abandoned all Tor their country; ana i'oef'y Is
now seeking an asylum IN the entrehc.eu camp
of the Polish army, under the walls oi Modi'h'-
10 not imagine that she viii demand sheileT III
ENGLAND, or ask for protection in France. Let
rs hear no more of the wretched trash of England
being the classic land Of liberty" and LET US
reserve all our praises for the Poles. all our re-
qrets for France and England, and all our coura-
,Se snI resolution for the hours of danger and OF
noe which approach us
Do not suppnse that we shall longer follow
your discussion on your Reform Bill, or take an
interest in your local discussions: do not suppose
Tint We expect even the immense topic oil an He
redi,arv or Non Hereditary peerage in France
70 Interest the real friends of freedom IN Europe
or the world. No, no; we have now subject
more pressing than these for IN the tate OF Poland
Is involved the fate of liberty OF the eSstence OF
free institutions, aud of Constitutional Govern
ments. as well as the principle OF popular sover-
eighty. We are not to abandon Poland because
Warsaw has fallen; and though the White Ea-
yIe NAV for a while be crimsoned with the blood
az thousands Of victims, yet II shall! re-appear as
the standard of universal freedom, and the butch
cries of Warsaw shall be avenged by the inde-
pendence of more countries than Poland. War
saw has fallen. Oh how the Metternchs oil Eu'
rome have reia ced! how the halls have rung with
rapture, and how the goblets have sparkled with
wine! To the triumphs OF Despotism!'' dr'nEs
the Nero of Warsaw. who has shed the blood of
the brave, the virtuous and the Tree. - 10 the
long life of the Emperor Nicholas" drink the
Courts at Berlin, at Vienna and at the Hague;
and the humane. pious, and inteilcctual Monarchs
of Spain, Portugal, Rome and Naples Will EN-
re Deans for The successes OF the Russian arms.
And what will be felt-what will be said and
dim, nj the Palace OF St. James: VIII Lord
Grey now regret that. before 1t was too late, he
,lid NOT raise his voice in favor OF Polish indie
nendencc. and thus have sverted the jail of war
saw. and the Union of despotism against liberty
and of priests and tyrants against the rights Oh
men. and the honor and happiness OF natlons!-
Will Lord Broughama now feel that ne has
disappointed Europe and the woodland tnat IL
is not enough tor such man as he To discharge
with zeal and talent the duties oil LORD Chan-
c.,lor. aud to get through his list OF. remanetS,
leaving nothing for the next Term, but that he
owed il to himself, to his Country, to Liberty
and Tn ustice, 10 have demanded-and that with
cannon AZ the Baltic and in the Black Seattle
indenendpnre Of Poland? Will Lord AithOrp
and my Lord John Russell imagine, that when
history shall sill in Judgment on their acts, ana
their pnlcy, and IN the events OF the years 1850
and 1881, she will apprtve their INDIGESTION, their
coxarJce and their slusgishness as to the hottest
and hest of causes?-and do they believe that the
progress of the reform Bill will atone Tor all the
errors and disgrace Of their foreign policy:
When the programme OF the CORONATION sna''
he Forgotten, and all those gaudy and golden
fr;,neries which ornamentcd the heads or adorn-
ed the shoulders of the Court of st. James IN the
mon.h of September, 1851 .-shal' have mouldered
aud decayed-and when even the names OF the
courtiers shall be obliterated by time from the
brazen monuments which will erelong be erect
ed to all their memories, will succeeding gene
ra,ions not speak of the events Of Warsaw WIN
horrors and when the history OF the .reisns OF
William the 4th and of Louis Philip shall be read
by our great grand children, will they not desire
10 change their heraldic ornaments. and not 10
bear the names of those who allowed warsaw 10
he ravaged-Italy to be occupied by Austrian
tr.ons. in order to crush the spirit of freedom,
and Belgium to be protocolled out OF her lnde-
pendence by the representatives Of absolute 60
rerpments In those certain though distant
times. the majorihes and minorities on the Re,
form Bill will be forgotten-the subdivision OF
the Counties in the interests OF the Arstocracy
will be unknown-other more NATIONAL general