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are still in the womb of futu- 
rity, and will be gradually dis- 
Played by succeeding events. 
Poland.- 
Affairs in Poland wear an 
»unfavourable and melancholy 
aspect; and never did the in- 
trigues of princes display them- 
selves under a more ungracious 
form. The revolution in’ Po- 
land seems to have been con- 
ducted with so much cordiali- 
ty, unanimity, good sense, and 
sound policy, by the nation at 
large, as to leave no room to 
.doubt that it is agreeable to 
a very great majority of the 
people themselves, who are to 
be governed, and that it will 
have a necefsary tendency to 
promote the general welfare of 
the whole ; nor doesit appearto 
infringe upon the rights of any 
external power. It is entirely 
a private regulation of police 
which concerns the Poles alone. 
Yet not only has Rufsia at- 
tacked that ill-fated nation 
with a powerful force, but 
Prufsia, and-the court of Vien- 
na, have openly avowed their 
intention to force upon the 
Poles that barbarous system of 
government, which has made 
them so long the pity of all 
other nations. One would 
think that foreign powers had 
as good a right to prevent 
people from cultivating whole- 
some food for nourifhing their 
bodies, as to prevent them 
from adopting such a salutary 
system .of government as -fhall 
bistoricalcchroniele, 
enable them to perfect their 
mental powers,. 
The king of Poland exhi- 
bits, at the present moment, 
one of the noblest spectacles 
that ever can attract the atten- 
tion of mankind. A’ man 
whose long life has been: spent 
in trying to heal those divisi- 
ons which rendered his people 
miserable, and who had, at last, 
nearly succeeded in ‘his desire 
of making.them all happy, now 
in his eld age, to be called 
forth to battle, in defence of 
that internal freedom, which, 
with much solicitude, he has 
so long endeavoured to pro- 
cure for his family ; for go he 
emphatically calls. his “eh 
people, 
The following thbisrestlll 
proclamation deserves to be 
preserved to all future ages: - 
‘ We acquaint you, there- 
fore respectable citizens, in our 
names, and that of the afsem- 
bled confederate states, that 
the present state of Poland is 
that of self-defence against the 
Rufsian power; that Rufsia’ has 
declared war against Poland. 
But-at the same time let us in- 
form you, that, confident of the 
courage and spirit of the nati- 
on, the more efforts our ene- 
mies make to destroy our go- 
vernment and country, the 
more vigoreus will our: mea: 
sures be to repel this forties 
invasion. 
‘ Worthy citizens, the fate of 
your dear country is now at 
