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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 3, 16 November 1863, Page 3

Oat of derision Mouravieff orders the gihbit to be hung unusually high, and at the foot a large hole is dug "to receive priests and nobles." In spite of this revolting cynicism the executor of Lithuania has met with a master who has made him recoil in alarm. A rich proprietor of Wievsupa, a suburb of this place, had refused the payment of a new tax, saying that Mouravieff would not dare to ask him for it persona 1 •, the pro consul, to whom this refusal was reported, summoned tire proprietor, M. Massalski, lo appear before him. As a measure of precaution he was searched, and placed between four Cossacks who are charged to closely watch all his movements. The following dialogue took place :—" Is it true that you boasted that you would shut my inouih ?" —" Boasted I No; no one boasts, except when he obtains a victory over a man, and you are not a man, Mouravieff, but a tiger!" —j " Insolent! Well, then, I, Mouravieff IF, generalissimo in Lithuania of his Majesty's j armies, summon Massalski to ——" —" Do not finish the sentence ; it is twenty-two years ago that the same Mouravieff of Wilna arrived at Warsaw, leaving- behind Lima track of blood; that Mouravieff slept at the palace of the ancient King of Poland, lint he was afraid ——" " Yon lie!" "He was afraid, I repeat, and I j wish no other proof than a certain wiiting " Silence!" cried the general becom- i ing as pale as death: "that writing- '" Altis in a safe place; but if I <lie by you, publicity will avenge me." The Cossacks were about to> rush on the audacious proprietor for daring thus to insult his excellency, but Mouravieff stopped them "In order to prove io Poland," he said " how unjust she is, I will grant your life. Our magnanimous sovereign does not tax madmen. Depart —depart —leave —why do you not depart ?" And the man was then let free, Mouvavieff not having dared to demand from him the payment of the tax. Massalski has been much questioned as to the secret-which had effectually closed the mouth of the executioner of Lithuania, bat he remains inflexibly silent, and only answers that his pi'operty has been respected " by superior order."