About 400 persons, who are described as being Polish refugees,
have been expelled from Cracow ; and a body of Cossacks has been despatched to scour the neighbouring country of others, who are suspected of being concealed in the woods, and in the huts of the peasantry. The orders of the Northern tyrants u ill be executed without remissness or remorse. It is supposed that these despotic measures have been prompted by the knowledge that another in- surrection may break out in Poland at any time. The Morning Chronicle says- " Travellers worthy of credit, who have not long since returned from Poland, assure us that the whole of that country is combined in latent civil war against Russia. So much is this the case, and to such a height has it inflamed the frenzy of the Czar, that his most confidential Ministers have seldom the courage to name Poland in his presence. The slightest allusion to it maddens him to such a degree, that no man about him is free from the apprehension of the knout or of Siberia, when those moods come upon him which have already gained him the character of being another Paul."
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