The Arkansas advocate., 1831-06-29
LATE OMISSIONS.
From the National Ihelhgeacer.
 ON POLAND


 The late tragical events in a=country which appears now almost effaeed from modern maps and statistical tables, but which will be remembered by geogra- phers Us long as any attention is paid to natural and national divisions, and to the fame which the inhabitants of t have formerly enjoyed in history, whose descendants now are struggling for emancipation from an oppressive foreign yoke, are of sufficient interest to the lo- Eers of universal liberty, to induce me to believe that succlnct geographical and historical sketch, showing the means they possess for resistance, collected from some writers on the history of that unfortunate country, and from my per- sonal knowledge of the country, cannot fail to be acceptable to your readers.
 Warsaw, which is yet the capital of Poland proper, or that part which was at the treaty of Tiisti in iSG7 denomin- ated the Duchy of Warsaw, and at the treaty of Paris in 1915, (with few ad- ditions) the Kingdom of Poland, and piac- cd under the Regency of Russia, with Nicerov for Governor, is situated on the left bank of the river Vistula, about 300 miles from where this river empties ia- to the Baltic, near the city of Dantzig. As that city is now the principal seat of war, l win give more enlarged descrip- ton oft. Warsaw contains about 100, 00O inhabitants, but this is probably oyerrated, and 5000 houses of a mixed character. There are several fine mod ero built palaces, the rest are of an an cient Slavonic style, butt of wood, some are vet matched with straw, and the greater part of the streets are narrow and crooked. 1t is not regularly fortif- ed, having only partial works throwiinp, for the defence of particular quarters of the town, and those were mostly erect ed in i795, by command of General koscusko, when the Prussians were be- seigine the revolted capital, and were repelled. It is connected with a large suburb, called Praga, by a ponton or bridge of boats across the Vistula, on the other side of which, is thrown up bastion fer the defence of the bridge Praga is mostly inhabited by Jews and the lower order of Poles, and contains now. since the frightful massacre in 1795 by the barharous hordes of Suwarow, not more than between 3 or4 900 souls. By the union of Lithunia with Poland, under the Duke Jagellon, Warsaw be- came the occasional residence of the ru- lers of that country, and Sigismond Ill. rendered it permanently so in l5oo by iiae diet of the two states being conven- cd there. About go go years after, it was taken by the S'vedes, whose king claim ed the crown of Poland by an heredlta- " right. Immense booty was taken, but the hatred of the Poles drove the Swedes out of the kingdom the follow ing year, leaving Pomerania in their pos session. The suburbs which haye.slnce that lime been built, form at present the finest part of the city. The part called the old town, is but one long and narrow street, into which the others ter minate. The streets of the suburbs however, are spacious and clean, inter spersed with monuments of modern Sax on architecture. The country arount Warsaw is a great plain, with esayc' bottom. studded with number of pal aces and gardens belonging to the ilo