Providence Patriot, Columbian Phenix

PARIS, June 22.

The Messager des Chambres contains the following remarks on the death of Marshal Diebitsch—'The chagrin caused by the dismissal from his command, which immediately preceded this event, joined to his excessive indulgence in the use of intoxicating liquors, appears to have occasioned the apoplexy which destroyed him. Marshal Diebitsch partook much of the character and manners of General Blucher. He was rather more capable of combining a plan of tactics; but, like Blucher, had the complete manners of a soldier, and an active spirit. He was a great eater, and had this deplorable habit of daily drinking after dinner, several bowls of punch, in order, as he said, to promote digestion and keep off the cholera. His military operations in Poland were all unfortunate, either from miscalculation or bad execution. It is, however, but just to take into account the unforeseen difficulties by which he was assailed; in the first instance by the sudden thaw, and afterwards by the various insurrections which cut off his communications. At the same time, thwarted by the Russian Generals, who were his secret enemies, and by the Grand Duke Michael, a Prince brave as any other soldier, but incapable of command except upon parade—seeing an extensive conflagration in a part of the empire lighted by his own faults, or, at least, vexed by the failure of his attempts to pass the Vistula, his mind became distracted. A disposition to apoplexy could not but be increased by so many overwhelming cases, and by the immoderate use of spirits, and the news of his dismissal and the substitution in his place of Paskewitsch, must have been a finishing stroke to him. Paskewitsch is said to be the perfect contrast to his predecessor,—reserved, cool and sober. He has hitherto only distinguished himself by his conduct in the war against the Persians, as Diebitsch was only known by his campaign against the Turks. There is every reason to believe that Paskewitsch as well as his predecessor, will find in the Poles very different warriors from the Asiatics.'