Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-15

Goth teOrualV last, anu vi tWc Uieou'S
which it refers, and also for a copy or eatrac.
from the despatch Of the British Ambassador az
ST. Petersburgh, communicating the same 10 n's
Majesty's government. .L.
Lord Viscount Murpeth said it had been ms
fortune to receive much kindness and hospitality
in Russia, aud he was not without some Pe,soha.
predilec,ion for that country. But, said he' II
all or much of what we hear is true,-and mucn
alas. we know must be,-if the design 10 on FOOT
to apnibilate the Polish nation, NAME ConS'i'u-
tion. language-ail but her Immortal memory
the land of Casimirs and Sigisn,unds, OF Sooeiskos,
that first resisted the torrent OF Mahomedan ID.
vas;on. and secured the liberties and relig'on ot
Eurone:-if her Princes, and Mobiles. and Sena-
tors are consigned to the dungeons, the mines, the
graves Of Siberia; if her noble ladies' travel to the
foot of the throne-and | am told their very pre-.
sence has even sent a chill into the tesuVlties OF
the capital-and sue, not for pardon, but tor pity
unon those whose fault it was to act with conscien-
tious and heroic, tho perhaps, despairlns devo-
ton, IN the cause Of their country, while they
thought they had one-and that SUIT is denied
them; if, while confscation and exile thus track
the course of her Czartoriskys and her Sarsus'
kos, her rising and spirited youth are daily draf-
ted to swell the ranks Of the Russian armies, and
to prepare re Deums for future trIumphs over
the world, If further-oh browning horror!-Iet
il be well attested before we credit t-chidren
are carried off to lose the memory OF their noble
country on the frozen banks OF the lrtisk. or
among the mountainous stePpes OF Caucasus; u
these things be, we may, without much compro-
missing ourselves, say that a case IS made out ior
the energetic intervention of England and oil Eu-
rome; we may, perhaps, without presumlng, add,
that whatever becomes OF tina. Intervention, great
room is left for the righteous retribution OF hea-
ven.
Mr.. O'Connell said he was almost afraid to
trust himself in the expression of his sentiments
upon a subject which naturally must induce one
to adopt language unbecomins the character OF
these de deliberations He could not conceal from
the house the sentiments of disgust and abhor-
renee with which he had heard the details OF the
c~ruelties p~ractised by order of the Russian Au.
tocrat upon this generous and brave nation. He
had heard talked to.night of the rights conferred on
Poland by the Treaty Of VIENNA. Rights! Had
she no rights antecedent to that treaty! Had not
that Congress proved they were themselves rob-
bers and partners in guilt Poland had taken
no part in the antecedent struggle. France and
Russia had both run over her, 1t was true. But
Poland had rights antecedent to the infamous and
iniquitous spoilations of l772 and 1891. That
spoilation had rendered unsafe and insecure those
very Thrones, which looked with delight on the
unjust territorial acquisitions that political iniqui-
ty had procured them. There were two distIn'
guished and prominent features in the case OF the
brave Pules-their great merits and their great
wrongs. Untouched with admiration for the
one. or pity for the other, the mlscreant conquer
or had gone on trampling on the PROSTATE people
Of that country-violating every institution they
respected--wantonly wounding the better feel
ings OF both sexes-nay, with a barbarity unheard
of IN all history, tearing from their parents the
little children, to transplant them to the wild
wastes of Siberia. Gracious God! what must
have been the feelings of a Polish mother, at this
sacrifice Of her loved offspring? Then a lady,
the wife Of a Polish General, within this fortnight
had been announced as having plunged a knife
into the bosom Of her little children. rather than
suffer them to be torn from her arms, and Danish
ed at the inhuman mandate Of the tyrant. lie
heard with sorrow and regret, a noble lord,--
avowing the respect he personally entertained Tor
the Sovereign alluded to. He should be asham-
ed to know, in private life, a man who had been
guilty of only one hundredth part of those enor-
mites, which rendered it positively a disgrace to
be his acquaintance. Was the load Of guilt re-
,noved from such man because he wore a crown?
lie would not hesitate to say that such was his
~grasping and lawless ambition, that if he could
only arrange his finances and his treasure, so that,
for a couple Of campaigns he could maintain
200. 900 Of his barbarous hordes in the heart of
Europe. nothing would save the civilized world
from his designs, short of all Europe rising to
check the barbara irruption-(loud cheering for
some time. Had not the Treaty Of Vienna been
violated from it's commencement Excess Of in
suit and oppression had reused the Poles to re-
s~istance, but that was no palliation to the cruel
ties and oppression heaped on them Uy this mo.
dern Goth, who, like Attila, might with justice
assume an equal title TO that which he delighted
n,-..t the scourge of Gnd'-(hear, bear Great
as had been their suffrrings, this noble people
had never since i772. despaired of the issue when
things should be ripe. Nor did he despair for
them-though at the crisis of their fate we were
too much occupied with the Reform Bill; now
that was settled, 1t would be seen that the people
Of this country were actuated BY the most lively
sympathy for the people of Poland. Despite of
the apathy which characterized our conduct for
merly, and despite of the Indifference of Louis
Philip, whom he regarded as an equal traitor to
the cause ofliberty as any other Sovereign in Eu.
rope, these two great nations wolld never be in
duced tamelv to look on and see Poland. once
the barrier of Christian Europe against the infdel