The Sun. — 1832-08-29 (London, England)

IVIIGUEL. It appears, however, that the courage and skill of the constitutionalists are not likely to be put to the test by an attack upon Oporto, for the new General appointed by MIGUEL had held a council, at which it was determined not to follow up the plan of the former General in this respect, the forces being unequal to the attempt, and a retrograde movement was ordered. It was intimated that as soon as rein•  forcements should arrive, an attack would be made ; but this was considered a mere boast.  The Marquis of PALNIELLA will return to Oporto to-morrow, accompanied by the Chevalier de BARBOZA, the Secretary of the Legation here, but who has been appointed Under-Secretary of State by the Portuguese Regency. M. de BARBOZA is a gentleman of high character for talent and respectability, and has great experience as a diplomatist. The Marquis of PALNIELLA returns to Oporto well satisfied with the assurances of goodwill that he has received from the British Government.  Again we revert to the question of Poland ; and again and again will we revert to it, and ring it, like an alarm bell, in the ears of the public, till our Whig Ministers think fit to vindicate the rights of humanity, and take some prompt, decisive steps on the subject. As for remonstrance, it is a perfect farce ; as well might one remonstrate with an east wind for breathing too roughly upon us, as with a monster like NICHOLAS, who laughs all treaties to scorn, and by whom the ordinary ties of humanity that bind man to man are set at open defiance. This wretch daily improves in his ingenuity in inventing and perpetrating new atrocities. His talents, in this respect, would do credit to the old Spanish inquisition. Plain murder—. rape—and massacre, are far too tame and common-place for his refined capacity. He has become fastidious in his taste, and must stamp his crimes with the most perfect originality, so that all men, on hearing them, may be enabled to say, " these are of the true NICHOLAS school; no other tyrant now in existence has either the head to conceive, or the heart to execute them." We had thought the annals of tyranny, by this time, pretty nearly exhausted, but whatever limits there may be to Imperial virtue, there are none, it seems, to Imperial enormity. For what is the Emperor of RUSSIA'S latest act? Why, neither more nor less than a plan to subdue Poland by decimating her population, and striking at the first instinct of natute by tearing children from their parents' arms, and driving the houseless heart broken little wretches, like a herd of cattle, to Siberia, careless whether they live or die upon the road. " The escort," say the German Papers received by this day's post, " often leaves behind the children who are too exhausted to proceed, and sets by them bread for three days, as the convoy cannot be detained. Persons returning from Siberia have seen on the road numbers of little human corpses crouched together near the bread which the poor things were unable to eat." Oh ! NERo, what were thy atrocities compared to these ? Oh ! Timoun, what was thy pyramid of human skulls, bleached by the winds of Asia, compared to this pile of " little human corpses,'' for every one of which a happy home was made desolate, for every one of which a mother's heart was broken ? Yet the fiend who commands and chuckles over these atrocities, actually fancies himself a miracle of piety and justice, insults Heaven by a Te Deum, and prays " every night for the King of ENGLAND !" Out upon such sickening cant! It is really less disgraceful to the fool who utters it, than to the fools who believe it.  We call upon Government—upon our liberal Whig Government, many of whom were in old times the sworn friends of KOSClUSKO—promptly, boldly to come forward, and redeem human nature from the stigma which the acts of NICHOLAS are daily and hourly casting upon it. We call upon them to fling remonstrance to the winds, and compel the CZAR, even at the hazard of a war, to elevate himself to the ordinary level of humanity. Often, too often, have we rushed headlong into war upon points of mere official etiquette ; and shall we now shrink from doing so, in a case in which all Ole best and dearest interests of humanity are involved ? For the honour of the British character, we hope not.