Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-09

in regard to Inc charge against the magistrate -
The object OF the counsel was to discrehlt her
testimony, by endearoring TO show that she must
necessarily be woman of loose character,in CON
sequence offer being the wife OF felon. Her
firmness and deneanor on that occasion were We
~ remarkable; and the sensibility she evinced
when appealing to the Court for protection against
improper interroga tories from the counsel. pro
duced decided impression among bn'h the
Court and assembly that however wretch"d her
condition was, and however perhhousi, her hus-
band had acted towards her, yet that she had ev-
err adhered TO him through evil report and good
report with an unsulied fidelity .-BoSton .7flas.
PolanG-C Campbell the Poet.--We have re-
ceived, says the Phiiade phia Inquirer, through
the poiteness of friend in Europe, an English
journal containing an address to the people OF
Great Britain in behalf Of Poland, from the pen
of Campbell, the celebrated Poet. 1t is elo-
Quent aud spirit stirring: CALCULATED to awaken
the sympathies of every lover of human right in
behalf of an oppressed and PROSTATE uation.-
We fear, however, that the appeal has been made
in vain.
We annex a passage from the eloquent and
spirited appeal OF Mr.. Campbell. 1t may not be
read on this side oc the water without emotion:
We declare, that the fate of Poland has im.
pressed Us with sentiments. which we find the
aaw er Of lang &c scarcely adequate to express
We are fi.eI with grief that there has not been
humanity enula', in the whole world TO have IN
terposed between the Polish nation and its de-
stioyers: aud We IRE sui more struck with aso-
nshment. tie; all civilized Europe mas been so
bind to The .irs. ,aw If nature, to the Law nf self
preservation, az to permit this aggression %! Il
despotic Government or a country whuse fate is
interw oven with European safety and civiiLa-
ton, with the interests of the world, and with
the cause Of human nature.
In that outraged cause OF human nature. we
find il sacred duty, not only to utter our own
alb ,orrence of the atrocities committed, aud still
continuing 10 he committed in Poland; but to
ask for universal expression OF British senti-
inents respecting ,his unparalleled public crime
We conceive, that the barbarity and perhdy Of
the Northern Autocrat towards this brave and
blameess people has been motkery OF all laws
and principles that ensure the safety OF nations,
and the civilization of man. We defy the SUBJ
tlest casulst 10 give his crueltes the slightest sha
dow of Justification. They are crimes which
polute our sight. and on which it is criminal to
look with Indifference. They are sins which
must be expiated They are stains on the annals
of our species. They are an affront to the civil
lied world; but, above all, they are an atfront to
Great Britain. whose Government is solemnly
bound by treaty to prutec, the last remains Of the
Polish nation.
Bv the Treaty of Vienna, Great Britain made
some small atonement land small it was. indeed)
to the once glorious kingdom OF Poland for the
robbery Of her national greatness. and Tor three
guilty past partitions Of her territories. 1t was
stipulated by the treaty of Vienna, that all the
portions of that Polish population. amounting to
nearly twenty millions, which had been seized
ny Russia, Prussia, and Austria, should retain
their nationality in representation and civil nsti
tdtionsj though unfortunately, their constitution
al freedom was then, most probably. for some
sinister purposes. very lmperfectIy drfned.-
Bnt the Dutchy OF Warsaw received by the trea-
ty of Vienna the mos, definite and solemn guar
antees of being suffered to remain an independ.
ent and free Polish kingdom II was expressly
stipulated that the Emperor of Russii was 10 be
King Of Poland IN the right OF its Constitution
only. BY that treaty, positive national and
political independence was guaranteed by Europe
to q remnant Of the Polish nation IN the Duchy OF
Warsaw-Suaranteed by Great Britain herself;
but Russia, in mnckery of all this, has set aside
every engagement on the subject. First of all,
the Emperor Alexander repen,ed Of his liberal
ism in having promised Constitutional Govern
ment to Poland; aad he behaved even more in.
consistently THAI Nicholas towards the Poles, for
he began by midness, and ended by sending his
brother Constantine to rule over them: Still, as
long as Alexander lived, things were not so bad
in that country as after his death Nicholas as
cended the Russian throne, and Constantine was
made virtually King of Poland. He swayed
with rod of iron. His dominion was utter, and
reckless, and lawless despotism. He committed
crimes and cruel.es which admitted of no better
apology than that he was half maniac. At the
'ery moment the Emperor Nicholas, by his coro.
ration oath. had solemnly sworn to the Poles to
MAINTAIN their rights, as they were guaranteed to