The Arkansas advocate., 1831-05-18
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM
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 LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM
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 ,ii'ile packet ship iiibernia arrived at New i Sork, brings Liverpool papers to March T, and London to March o. They contain q variety of interesting in- 5ellisence.
 Poi71,d.-Ifosti,ities commenced be- tween Poland and Russia on the 4th of February, and there was incessant fight ;ngup 10 the 2tth. The details are con- fused and unsatisfactory, but, tltis much is certain, the Russians failed in great effort to possess themselves of Warsaw. Finding 1t impracteable to force thepas- sage of the Ylstula from PFaga to War saw direct, the Russian army had filed of, ln two divisions, one towards Ploch, and the other towards Cora, leaving only acorpso of obseryationnear Warsaw. The latest direct intelligence from Po- land, is Warsaw, March 1. Accounts from Berlin to March 3, and from Ham burgh to March II, contain no farther Information from Warsaw. This is con sidered decisive that nothing uniayora- lie had occurred to the cause of Pc land.
 We esubjoin the most intelligible and interesting details;
 The French papers of Friday week contain private letters from Warsaw 10 the lst inst. which give q connected view ofthesanguiaary engagements ofthe 9th ut. and preceding days, and render in= ;elligible the confused detached notices deprived from the German papers, on the state of the Polish capital, and the position of the Polish army. From this source we learn that the Polish troops, after sustaining the shock of l0G,900 Russians on the 2fth of Feb.retreated under the Notifications of Praga. and that on the night of the 25th, the Com mander-in-Ghief, Prince Radzyille, led the whole of them 10 the left bank, or Warsaw side of tic river, r,ieayng m Praga the artillery and infantry necessa- " to defend the works of the etete du pont. 1t was this detachment which set fire to the houses of praga, because they embarrassed the defence of the bridge. The army which thus so braYelY with stood superior numbers from the 10th 10 the 23th, is still united and efficient, though it has sustained great loss in kil- led and wounded. The cavalry have taken up a position along the banks of the Vistula, above and below War saw, and the infantry is stationed in the barracks of the cts, or in camp lit- lebeyond the barriers, where they pass ed.last summer. The greatcstactivity is shown in repairing the losses which the army have sustained. and re-organziag the corps which have suffered most The resignation of Prince Radzyille, af- ter tho retreat witch, when uaexplain- cd, was considered the result of de- spar on his part, or ofdissention between him and his brother officers, HOW turns out to be a display of patriotism and selfdcnial. that affords the best omen of the success of the Polish cause. The Prince finding that he did not inspire the confidence necessary in his exalted position aaa paFeeising in a younger general officer, transeendent military ca pacity, gave up the command in favor of his junior, General Skizqnecki. and is now serving under him. This distin- gaished officer, to whom the fortunes of Poland are now entrusted-a second kosciusbo-was only Colonel of a regi- ment of the line at the breaking out of the instruction in November last. The Russians, it is supposed, will immediate ly commence their attack on Praga. and the fortress which protects the bridge over the Yistula.
 This tete du pont cannot hold out long, but the Poles, before they surren- der 1t, will naturally burn down the wooden bridge which conaects Praga with Warsaw. The Russians will then, itis thought, have corps of obscrpa- tion at the former place and proceed to cross the Xistula at some other point.- These operations must necessarily occa- sion a great loss of time, as the RHssians have no pontoons, and mnst cross the. Wis tuia by boats or rafts, made in tine woods in which they are encamped. If it is necessary for the goyernmentto to evacu- ate Warsaw, it will retire 10 a distant fortress along with the Diet and hcpub- lie treasures. The Emperor Nicholas has, according 10 report at Warsaw. ar rived at the head quarters of the Rus siaH army. He will there he delight