The Sun. — 1836-01-22 (London, England)

HAN OVER, JAN. 16.—Exchanrre on London, 1511; months, 1518.—Franlifort Paper, J- 17.  caper, Jan. (From the Isar.) Since the la!t insurrection in Poland, numerous publica. tons have appeared, representing, more or less in detail, its origin and its progress. The impartial observer, however, will not fail to be sensible of their defects, as soon as he looks at the sources of which the authors have availed themselves. The well-known friend of the Poles, Dr. Spazier, states them himself, in his Letters on the Polish Revolution. These are letters, verbal communications of the most distinguished Poles who participated in it, and official acts of the Revolutionary Government. Dr. Spazier, however, has not mentioned any .Russian work on the same subject as having been referred to by him, to compare the statements of the parties, and hence to deduce an impartial and correct result. This, however, would be indispensable, since the assistance Of the Poles as the vanquished party, guided by hatred and vexation, must naturally be in their own favour at the expense of their adversaries, and not impressive of truth. If we add, that the author is 6%1deafly *destitute of the will to represent the. events'intpartially, we may reasonably deny his work. any great value as a historical composition. Other workS of less importance and less extent are written with the same partiality. The writers of them being, enthusiastic friends to the cause of the Poles, were unable or unwilling to develope the natural consequences, that the Polish revolution, if it had succeeded, would have had on the other States of Europe. If this had been done, it might have brought some of the advocates of the insurrection to cooler reflection, and the proceedings of the Russian Government and the Warsaw speech would not have appeared so extraordinary. With respect to the speech, it is necessary to put the question,—" To whom was,:it addressed ?" To the descendants of the same Poles, who, guided by ancient hatred to Russia, took advantage of the time of their supreme power (at the beginning of the 17th century) to cover Russia with blood and smoking ruins ; to the same Poles who executed the Warsaw vespers, that is to say, who treacherously murdered, the garrison under Igelstrom in their sleep ; to the same Poles, who, in the 1812, entered Russia with the Grand Army, and committed the well known excesses in the temples of Moscow ; to the same Poles who projected treacherously to seize the august person of the Monarch and his family during a review at the time of the coronation ; a monarch who publicly showed himself among them with confidence and affection ; to the same Poles who began their rebellion with the fixed purpose of murdering the brother and representative of their Sovereign, and when this purpose was defeated by the flight of the Grand-Duke, massacred at least the unarmed Russian generals about his person. When the morality of a nation rests on such foundations, we must be prepared against new treacheiy. In such a case, an Alexander's citadel is indispensable. The English journalists could not be ignorant of the historic facts here referred to ; yet they attacked in the most violent manner the Warsaw Speech, which merely contains a necessary warning. It is easy to account for this conduct by the aid of history. The bombardment of Copenhagen, a feat which was performed not a very long time ago, is also a kind of Warsaw Vespers. It may be called the English Vespers. It is therefore natural that a sympathy, founded on mutual administration, should prevail between the performers of such Vespers, and that the erection of an Alexander citadel, and the declaration that it will prevent the future execution of Vespers, must appear very unjust in their eyes.