PREFACE. 



fallen Into any mistake, we are willing and desirous to correct 

 it, and repair any injury to truth, if any such mistake or such 

 injury shall be pointed out to our conviction, in our subse- 

 quent volumes. 



The affairs of Poland, our readers will observe, are occa- 

 sionally mentioned, both in our history of other European 

 nations, and in the debates in the British parliament. To. 

 have given an account sufficiently copious of these affairs, 

 Interesting and instructive, even beyond the usual tenor of 

 the present times, so fruitful in novelty, would have rendered 

 the present greatly disproportioned to the other divisions 

 of this V/ork. In our next volume we shall resume the his- 

 tory of Poland, and deduce it from the period of the new 

 constitution in 1791, through the second partition of that 

 kingdom in 179S, to its final dismemberment and partition 

 in 1795, when it ceased to exist as an independent nation.— 

 So interesting a tragedy, will be exhibited more properly, and 

 with greater advantage in continuity, than if it were inter- 

 rupted by intervals of time, and detailed in different volumes. 



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