Champion (Newspaper) - August 21, 1814, London, Middlesex THE CHAM PI O % Cannon f A Saturday lkt not forbet hbr op teaching nations how to i. i Edition of this Paper ts but is chiefly calculated for the Country It brings down the of the Week to tbe Moment before the of Edition is calculated for London audits and contains whatever News up to n if ii i it i i i i i mi i r JVV 85. 8M, 1814. the Kino of enfeebled by and sinking under the accumulated weight of so many vexations and and the Members or tbe that being even by the sacrifice of our to relieve our country from the vote of its WE CONSIGN IT TO means may be at some happier to rescue it from oppression and slavery such are not in onr and other countries abandon our White they reprobate the violations which one country hat committed against they can not but the outrages that have been perpetrated against i Solemn Protest of the Polish Kino and 24ih Sept. 1793. It is scarcely we should for any one to read this most affecting and without being moved even to In the sorrows of particular persons we sympathize with keen but our attention escapes from so painful an availing itself gladly of tbe justice of the that the siness of mankind supplies a more dignified as they are of used diabol mulate something hearty than political opinion in her Her by a scries of and disinterested had improved the the mass of his had done much to heal the wounds which intestine divisions and the rapacity of his neighbours had inflicted he placed the government on a foundation which promised and even power to the if it had been allowed to had always pursued an and faithful system towards his had spent a saddened by troubles in the best intentioned endeavours to preserve the and promote the of his The sovereigns surrounding including the detestable Catherine of were and their conduct for to only varied from the craft that would to the violence that would break reference to their state with regard to this useful engagement for the mind of than the affairs of In the calamities that befal governments and we deeply con corn far more frequently with the calm seriousness of an exercised than with that excited emotion which bespeaks a touched There a few extraordinary cases which rouse into combined activity both parts of our the world's annals do furnish a few instances in which the fate of a people affects all those sensibilities that are usually reserved for the closer casualties of private While intensity is given to sympathy by the Importance of the that are by the These cases the highest species of heroism has conferred the interest of venture on a nation's and highest species of patriotism has enlisted the whole force of personal feeling in the public all the earnestness of individual concern has been manifested in direct opposition to the common ceptions of and a multitude of men hate encountered and invited a disastrous common although each might have singly slunk away into the enjoyment of practical at no ex pence but that of certain notions of honour and Such instances are thinly scattered over the leaves of to raise feelings that are unmoved by a perusal of the machinations and manoeuvres of professional politicians and find some of them in the story of early but that pf Rome affords 4ittle, save examples of the stern devotion that may spring from n cold and cruel As we descend into modern times these interesting traits become more for reasons that are to be found in the influence of polished manners Yet they do and when they they deserve to be a higher order of character than that to which they to be traced in former We shall uot here make a display of but proceeding to the immediate object of refer to the late instance of Spanish as one of that have powerfully appealed to the common sympathies of and which has entitled the Spaniards to a better fate than subjection to a cowardly domestic is to Poland that wc must look for the most remarkable and effecting example flat any age virtue and once gracing and embittering the public for is sterling in in interesting conflict ever fine qualifies by adequate mere brutal without single of justice or It we must chiefly for what most raises the and and fpr a to af length cause and * iween and ner is calculated teal and meek urged in the spirit of the when he picked a quarrel with the will shew their characters in the most worthless and cause bitter mortification at the triumph of such baseness and The soldiers on the side of Poland were composed of a chivalrous pressing forward to deliver up their possessions and lay down the national and consenting to resign their ancient but oppressive privileges in favour of the condition of the them under the standard erected in behalf of the national The armies against her were hordes of slaves and devoid of public ignorantly ferocious towards and meanly submissive to despotic The contending leaders were themselves as dissimilar as their and each the apt representative of his a barbarous military the coarse instrument of a whose Savage dictates were In unison with his own but who owned no higher principle of conduct than thai wlych makes the spring at the throat to which his keeper a patriot in the purest sense enlightened in his in his nian equally calculated to adorn society as to defend to whose glory success as ho had a and talents dignity The success of the have added to the beauty and strength of by securing the existence of an and free in a quarter where their influence would have been most useful both in preserving that balance of to the derangement of which we owe so much and as an of liberty and intelligence in the midst of bUntal and stern Iter defeat was the total loss of her to Europe as well as to herself t her dismemberment left but the fragments of an active and noble but in and diffusing but The immediate wero and unparalleled in these wero followed a system of and the misery resulting from which was perhaps even These are facts of aggression ana suffering which it is necessary first to to give a clear Poland's case and foro proceeding to consider the duty that on the states of Europe with regard to that The copious notes added to this will furnish tha and however disgusting tJie detail of such enormities may wc should not shrink froth refreshing our memories with the particulars of from an immediate share of which several of the present generation are not which Contained in the Annual Registers from 1789 to 1195. + The Russians who took Warsaw had just returned from the sacking of where 31,000 and were put .to the sword in. one terrible The aame destroyed in cold blood in more admired for their and result capitul of Poland - was takeni prisoner in ah engagement which he long maintained by the exertions of skill and against a Russian horses were under and when the last feline was at time a was to repent ihe he was who his The who issued a religious proclamation after tire murder of nnd another after the sacking of shewed no magnanimity towards her great was transported up Like other It may not be at this When enormities of are so the subject of ral just to notice some of the legitimate by way of alt oh the the Vmt the Elba Emperor is a monger first of completed ita the of as is well took He on this snys to have ex- the whole of rn finding out ' Wo were no were and lessl 1771, the province of and the ing twelve thousand who with their to 14 wilds of his hereditary table stop taken by this legitimate which not leave to Hamburgh so singularly it has been is thus Void put himself to the trouble of coining base bearing impression of but worth only a of and imitations of then in repute Tor their intrinsic seventeen per beloW In trash the Pules by compelled to under pain of corporal with-it lie first bought up com and enough and then to stock inhabitants of Poland were compelled to tome to their men but where the coin which life king hail ihi cood money I But all we shall be is a com pared with what and ' By very netted the convenient of seven millions of 8<|U amiable traits remain be Ii is heavy actions he church unable to supply In the young mep coin lap p classes were forcibly seized otid sertt off to then escaped the women Vi will bo t legitimate a to the sex a research of the 16 of 4owr*i,,and to to 8'^, h fearer orie she was at first confi wards to he after piping the liberated and an is. told of very illustrative of his passed through here received a who Id him of Pai ( of one of small from his This latterly 1 disgraced brie hep resurrection do to 1
