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gave rise to cruel scenes . The disarmed Polish soldiers Fell on the ground , when a regiment of cuirassiers was ordered to rush on them , on horseback , and trample over their bodies , and the infantry struck them with the butt-end of their muskets ! Several lives were lost ; one
non-commissioned officer had his nose cut off by a Prussian , and instead of being * sent to the hospital , he was tied to a waggon and driven on foot ! Such horrid proceeding's exasperated the inhabitants , who were Jews ; they sent their agents to apprize those soldiers , who were yet behind , of the fate that awaited them , and 700 of them dispersed immediately into the woods and villages . There are 400 Polish soldiers in Graudenz , and 5 , 000 in different parts of Prussia .
* Extract of a Letter from , a British Gentleman , addressed to the Society immediately after his arrival in London . Having left Warsaw about the 20 th of June last , I arrived here on Saturday the 27 th instant ; and in all probability , the Poles in Eng- * - landj as well as other people , may feel disposed to hear something of Poland , which I have so recently left , though , in passing through Germany and Belgium , I perceived in the perusal of the English
papers that accounts have not failed to arrive , describing the unparalleled conduct of the Russians , and I affirm that the whole published can be accredited , and nothing is exaggerated during the time I remained at Warsaw . I was anxious to know if the government of England or France could really approve of the oppressive measures the Russians have continued to follow up since their entry into Warsaw ; but could never , like the rest of people , get the sight of either a French
or English paper . Every little privilege the Poles possessed previous to the revolution they are now completely deprived of . About three months ago , a body of sixty men ( I believe they had been members of the Diet ) were arrested in one night , and I could never learn a sufficient cause for it , or if they are yet liberated ; this enraged the inhabitants so much , that had there been arms , most decidedly they would have risen . They continue the arrests daily ; individuals are missing every week , and it is quite unknown to any one where they are removed to .
About eight miles out of Warsaw , the day I left there , I met a lady with her family : she had been to see her husband in one of the prisons at Warsaw . The feelings of this lady appeared quite unnerved , and she seemed in a most unhappy state of mind ; and all that I ascertained he was imprisoned for , was because he had been a member of the Polish piet . It appears most evident , that Russia now wishes to efface the very race of Poles by these repeated banishments of men , and the late removal of the children into Russia . It is quite true , that
orders were issued from Warsaw to the governors of the towns in Poland , to deliver all orphans from the hospitals of these respective places ; and at Kalish , a frontier town , a desperate resistance was made by the people in consequence . Between 400 and 500 were sent from Warsaw to Petersburg *!; 300 died , and the remainder fell sick on the
way , and were obliged to be put into hospitals . The greatest unhappiness pervades the entire of Poland , and every individual , man and woman , impatiently inquires and waits the future events in Europe , as the only possibility of a chance of being again restored . Surely , England and France will do something to remove the Russian yoke
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JRublictitions of the Polish Literary Society . 5 &B
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/17/
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