MEETING FOIL THE POLES. — It is very difficult to conceive
any set of men combining for a nobler purpose than that of rescuing the Polish Patriots, now pining in this country, from bitter want—from the last stage of destitution, brought upon them by a brave defence of their rights as a people. We can- not do every thing—it is proved we cannot-even save our own poor from mi.ery: these are the details of social misfortune—the dross precipitated in most states of a refined society: but in standing up for the Poles, we are raising our voices for a principle of vast comprehensiveness—the principle of national independence. They who pride themselves on feeling that in distress the patriot has a last home in Britain, will not surely let him come here and remain forsaken and dis- appointed. All our regard for the national honour, all sympathy with liberty and right, forbid that the last and bravest defenders of their country against the overwhelming force of Russia should starve on our shores. A meeting is to be held on this interesting subject on Tuesday next, the 26th instant, at Free- mason's Hall. Sir Francis Burdett, a kind of patriarch of liberality on the large scale, is to take the chair. Let those who cannot attend provide a sovereign substitute.
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