13 APRIL 1833, Page 13

Russian tyranny is as hateful as any other tyranny :

still, let us call things by thei: right names. The appeal for the Poles in Friday's Times is put in the form of account : showing the confis- cations of the property of the emigrant Poles, the first item is couched thus- 1. Peasants, 37,218, estimated, agreeably to the custom of the country

(where, in selling estates, they are valued according to the num-

ber of serf-peasants inhabiting them, and wha are attached to the

glebe) at 25/. a head £930,000

However the thing may be softened, this is an affair of slaves and slave-owners. What "humanity-man" would listen to such an item in the appeal of a ruined West India proprietor?