Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-03-08
From Shapes Magazine.
THE MILL OF MARlEMONT.

stS%ftiHe. NOuilt SOOleSki, u ueSCenudnt OF JOln
Sobieskl, King of Poland, and who seemed to
have inherited the spirit of the great monarch:
In the year I'LL, when instigated by the
Courts of Vienna and Constantinople, the con-
federate Lords of Poland were }aying waste
their country, from one end to the other, and
perpetrating all kinds of outrage on the loyal
inhabitants, plan was laid for surprising and
taking the Kings person. Forty conspira-
tors met at Czetschokon, and In presence of
their commander, Pulaski, one of the most dar-
Ing OF these rebels, swore, with the most horrid
oaths, to deliver Stanislans, alive or dead, into
his hands. About month after this meeting,
these noblemen, at the head of band of assas-
sins, disguised themselves as peasants, and con-
cealing their arms in wagons of hay, which
they drove before them. entered Warsaw unex-
pected. On the Sd IF Sept. l77I. they found
an opportunity execute their schemes At ten
o'clock at night they placed themselves in those
avenues of the city through which they knew
his majesty must pass in his way from Villa
now, where he rad been dining with me. HIS
carriage was escorted bv feur of his own atten-i
dants and twelve Of INV guards. We had
scarcely left VillanoSv, when the consprators
rushed out and surrounded us, commanding the
coachman TO stoN and beating down tie men
with the butt ends of their maslsets. Several
shots were fired into the coach. One passed
through my hat, as was getting out, sword il.
hand, the better to repel an attaAL, .L--..~s;-o7
of which s---i,f NOT divine. A cut across nv
rtgnt leg, with a sabre, seen lay me Under the
wheels: and whilst lay there, heard the shot
pouring into the coach like hail, and felt the
villains stepping over my body to finish the
murder of the king. 1t was then that our friend,
Button, who was at the period private in my
service, stood between his sovereign and the
rebels. In an instant he received several balls
through his limbs, and thrust from bayonet
in his breast. which cast him welterng in his
blood mon me. By this time all the persons
who had formed the escort, were wounded or
dsrersed. Being now secure IF their prey,one
of the assassias opened the carriage door, and,
with shocking imprecations, seizlng the king
bv the hair, exclaimed, 'Tyranr, we have thee
now: thy hour is GOMEZ" and discharged pis-
sol so near his majesty's face that he felt the
heat of the flash. second villain cut him on
the forehead with a sword, whifsr a third, who
was on horseback, iaying hold of his collar. be-
tween himself and another, a, full gallon drag
ged him along the ground, all through the sub
urbs of the city,
During the latter part of this outrageous
scene, some of our frighted people returned with
detachment: and seeing Butzcn and ME al
p1aSt Lfolnss, carried Us the royal ualaca- here
all was commotion and alarm. The foot guards
Immediately followed the track that the con-
spirators had seemed to take. In one of .be
streets thew found the kings hat. dyed i'm blood,
and his pelisse, perfectly reticulated with bull
let-holes. This confirmed their apprehenslons
of his death; and they came back, filling all
Warsaw with dismay. The assassins, mean
while got clear of the town: finding, however,
that the king, by loss of blood, weakness, and
wounds i'm his feet, was not likely to exist much
longer. in their manner of dragging him to-
wards their employer, they set him on horse,
and redoubled their speed. When they came
to the moat which surrounds Warsaw, thew
compelled him to leap across it. In the attempt
his horse fell twice, and, at the second fall,
broke its leg: they then compelled him, faint
ing as he was with pain, to mount another, and
spur it over. Tire consprators had no sooner
passed the ditch, than they threw his majesty
down, and held him, whilst Lukwaski tore from
his neck the ribbon of the black eagle, and its
diamond cross. Lukwaski was so foolishly
sure of his prisoner that he quilted his charge,
and repaired with his spoils to Pulaski, mean
ing to show them an incontestible proof of
his success. MANY of the other plunderers toll
lowed his example, leaving seven only Of the
the unfortunate Stanislaus.
The night was become so dark that they
could rot be sure of their way, and their horses
stumbling at every step over stumps of trees.
and hollows in the earth, increased their fears
to s,ch degree that they obliged the king to
keen up with them on foot, in doing this he lit
terally marked his path with blood, his shoes
having been torn off in the struggle in the car
rage Thus they continued, wandering back
wards and forwards,and round the skirts of War
saw, without any exact knowledge of their sit
uatiun. The men who guarded him became.
at length SO much afraid that their prisoner
would take advantage of these circumstances
10 cscupr, that they repeatedly called on Kas--
inski for orders to put him rrath. koslnski
refused: but their demands growing more VIC
lent and imperious, the king :nomentarily ex-
pected to receive the points of their bayoDets in
his breast.
As for myself, when recovered from swoon
and nv legs was bound up, felt myself able to
stir: and questioning the officers that stood a.
bout nv couch,I found that general panic had
seized them. They knew not how to proceed:
they shuddered at leaving the king to the mer-
CIV of the confederates. and vet were fearful by
pursuing them further to increase them. Anx-
ious, at anv rate. to make another attempt to
preserve him, though could not ride myself,
strenuousiv advised an immediate pursuit on
horseback: and that neither darkness nor dan
ger should be permitted to impede their course.
A little snirit on the part of the mobiles soon
brouuht hack hope and animation to the ferrih-
| ed soldiers and nv orders were instantly obey
ell. bnt, must add, almost as Instantly d'sap-
| rti,tpd: for i'm less than hall an hour thew re-
t, led in dispair. showing me his malesty's
coat. which thew found in the fosse. IT was
rent in several places, bnt so wet with blood,
that the officer who presented tito me declared
! II as his ornion that they had murdered the
| kinp there and had drawn awav the body; for.
hv the ;ioht of rhe torches, he conid trace the
drans oe hlool 70 considerable distance.
| Meanwhile the king was driven before the
snvnn consi,irators so far int" tho wood of b.
CLANCY. that not knowing withrr thev went =
| they came to one Of the guarAhorsos, md to theii
extreme terror were accosfed ny ratrol.-
Four of tbs handitti INSTANTLY aiSanrra-"' leav-
| ;nc two only with Xosinski:whr,no much alarmed
| $500 Lie ,r;eonov fo tvalk ,aStnr. and keen