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

NICHOLAS' SPEECH AT WARSAW.  POLAND.  The Berlin political Wochenbtail, of the 19th Decernkr, has the following article : " For reasons which the reader will easily appreciate, e e have hitherto taken no notice of the remarkable Speech of the Emperor of Russia to the Deputies of Warsaw, er of the truly unbecoming attacks which the Journal des Debats of tricoloured ill-humour thought fit to make on the language of the Monarch. With respect to the Speech, it seems that we ought clearly to determine the point of view in which aline it can be properly judged of. It is manifestly very different whether a Sovereign (even when he has reason to express disapprobation) addresses subjects that have been attached to his House by ties that subsisted for centuries, or to such as k have lately become his subjects—or, lastly, to the latter— after the quelling of an insurrection, when he, besides, feels convinced that the vanquished are less defigient in inclination than in means to repeat the attempt. The Emperor Nicholas was in the last situation. The second case occurred when the Emperor Alexander regulated the future situation of his new Polish subjects who had come under his dominion by the right of conquest, recognized by all Europe ; for let it, not be forgotten that the Duchy of Warsaw as one of Napoleon's allies in 1812 waged an open war against Russia, that it was conquered in fair battle, and on the conclusion of peace ceded to the conqueror, by its Sovereign, against whose legitimacy even liberalism itself did not venture to. allege a doubt. In what spirit the Conqueror spoke to the Poles, and acted for them, is notorious to the whole world. It knows likewise, that the most favoured subjects of the 'Monarch began these insurrections by an attempt to murder his brother, and confirmed by declaring the deposition of the house of Romanoff. It learns from the speech, that secret instigations, proceeding from foreign countries, are still carried on, for the purpose of bringing about a repetition of those scenes, which have already brought incalculable evils on the country. This is, in plain words, the state of the case, and what is surprising in the matter is chiefly that this (certainly disagreeable) state of things is exhibited clearly and unveiled, whereas in the greater part of the rest of Europe the official assurances of attachment and loyalty, even where their hollowness is notorious, are accepted, at least apparently, at par, and in many places it seems to be adopted as an axiom, that if we can succeed in blinding ourselves and others to a danger, it ceases to be dangerous. Such a mode of treating the subject was equally contrary to the clear understanding and the manly character of the Em' peror ; he spoke the plain truth, and it is not his fault if this truth has a harsh sound. It may be lamented that things were come to this point, but no impartial person will blame the Monarch for seeing them as they really are. Perhaps there are many points in Western Europe, from which the most violent outcries have proceeded, where such language, though not advisable, would be conformable to the truth ; and it is notorious that in sonic cases, that has been actually done there which was here only spoken of prospectiveiy; ,but we are far from intending to institute a comparison, because the difference of personal situations will not admit of it." The Leuchtharme, a new Frankfort paper, has the following remarks on the speech of the Emperor:_" Let us suppose that the Municipal body had made a humble speech to the Emperor—that, in the name of its nation, it had said a Paler peccavi—let us suppose that the Emperor, though convinced in his mind that this was all hypocrisy, had in the usual style promised in gracious terms oblivion of the past, had laid the blame of the insurrection on the ringleaders, who had fled, and shown himself as an easy placable Sovereign to his deluded now repentant subjects—what would the Journals of London and Paris have said then? They would have reproached the Municipal Body with miserable cowardice, and base treachery ; at the best, they would have ascribed the expressions of repentance to fear of the chastisement of Russia ; and they would probably have told the Emperor that he abused his exalted station, in expecting an unhappy nation to feign sentiments which it did not feel, and to pretend in his answer to believe in the sincerity of a repentance, respecting the real value of which the truth could be no secret to him. Thus, however the speech at Warsaw had been framed, it would have been sure of being latterly censured."