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henceforth to be read , not in our own language , in Polish , but irt Latin . The reading of Polish books is prohibited ; the libraries are no more allowed to lend them out , nor are they allowed to be sold in bookseller ' s shops . Mr . Zawadzki , bookseller of the university , was
consequently obliged to shut up his shop , and is resolved to settle abroad . From the kingdom of Poland , we only hear that nobody is permitted to pass the frontiers , unless he is provided with a passport , signed by Prince Paskewitch himself . The whole country is blocked up ; and the inhabitants of one palatinate , or district , cannot go to another without a special passport * . '
* Extracts from several Letters from the frontiers of Poland and Prussia , Thousands of Polish soldiers remain still in Prussia . The government , wearied with so much perseverance , would have been glad to send them to France , had Louis-Philippe shown the slightest wish to have them ; but he remained mute and indifferent .
* The insurgents in Lithuania increase daily in number , owing to the inhuman conduct of Russia , in seizing the inhabitants , and sending them into the deserts . The population is thus diminished , but the exasperation increases . * In Poland , all those who have served in the army—those even who , on the faith of the amnesty , returned from abroad—are forced to
enter into the Russian service . Those , however , who have money may rescue themselves , as venality prevails as much among the civil as the military officers . Horrid scenes occur during these violent levies ; many destroy themselves by drowning or otherwise . —The carrying away children continues still . There is a separate Board of Police established in Warsaw , to watch the children , seize them in the streets , tear them from their mother ' arms , and send them to Russia ! From
Warsaw alone 2 , 000 children have been sent already ! Imagine the cries and the lamentations of mothers !—The Court Martial in Warsaw has not yet begun its operations ; but an Ukase has been issued , ordering that all those who were tried in 1825 shall be tried again , as fresh proofs of their guilt have been discovered . ' * June 29 .
* The Prussian Government has ordered all Polish soldiers to return to Poland , promising that they would not in anywise be molested , but , on the contrary , would be allowed to return to their respective homes . Prussian officers harangued them , told them they were betrayed by their leaders , who do not find any support from France—that those
who retired to France have been sent to Algiers , and made slavesthat France , for whom so much Polish blood has been spilt t > is entirely devoted to the Russian and Prussian system . The poor Poles yielded to these remonstrances . Divided into small columns , they took their way towards Poland , but on approaching the frontier they heard how their companions had befen treated , and refused to march . This
* Since this letter was written , the university of Wilna has altogether been broken up , in pursuance of the tyrant ' s ukase of the 12 th of June . The library , containing upwards of 200 , 000 volumes , is being transported to Russia . Only a college of medicine is left . . . f No less than 92 , 000 Pules have shed their blood fox French interests since 1792 *
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592 Publication * of the Polish Literary Society .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/16/
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