514 LIVES OF THE POLISH HEROES. 



exchanged for gunpowder and other munitions of war. At the head 

 of his little band, kept on foot by his own resources, Julius, in several 

 rencontres, signalized his chivalric courage. He surprised and cut to 

 pieces several of the enemies detachments that infested the country, 

 and obtained a high reputation in this guerrilla warfare. 



At a later period, when Gliegud made his appearance in Luthania, 

 with a detached corps of the Polish army, Julius was one of the first to 

 join him, and was immediately detached " en observation," in the direc- 

 tion of Zeltze. Always actively employed during the course of this 

 fatal campaign, he rejoined, at Mankunny, the Polish corps that was 

 retreating after their unsuccessful attempt upon Wilna. It was he, 

 who in order to cover the retreat, executed a brilliant charge against 

 a Circassian battalion that continually harassed their rear. After this 

 useless effort he retired with Gliegud into Prussia. 



Since this period, evil and persecution have pressed heavily upon 

 this young and heroic Lithuanian. And yet how happy was his exist- 

 ence in the bosom of a family that adored him surrounded with all 

 the enjoyments of this world nursed in all the illusions of age, and 

 yet new to her pleasures. When such a brilliant career was open 

 to him, he sacrificed all, life, fortune, tranquillity, all were laid at the 

 feet of his heroic country. 



And now that in his retirement in France, Julius Gruzeweski can 

 cast a look back upon the past, and compare his present with his former 

 condition ; we must not suppose that the young Spartan regrets the 

 " felix otium" of Kelmy, his farms, his peasantry, all, in fact, that he 

 has left in Lithuania. No ! his family may sometimes claim a sigh ; 

 but if you question him " I have fulfilled a duty," will he answer, 

 " and if I had it again to do, my conduct would be the same/' Noble 

 devotion to the sacred cause of country, which the diplomacy of Europe 

 is daily endeavouring, but let us hope unavailingly, to extinguish, and 

 which the children of Poland yet preserve in all its primitive freshness 

 and vigour. 



