STATE PAPERS. 
X. The two high contracting 
powers shall send ambassadors re- 
ciprocally to each other. 
XI. Allthe Russian forces, either 
appertaining to the sea or land ser- 
vices shall quit the Ottoman terri- 
tories on or before the 10th of May. 
XII. The ratification of the 
Count de Besborodko and the Grand 
Vizier shall be interchanged within 
fifteen days. 
XILI. That of the respective so- 
vereigns in five weeks, reckoning 
from the day of the signature of 
the present treaty. 
Declaration of M. Bulgakow, Rus- 
sian Ambassador at Warsaw, deli- 
vered to the Diet on the 18th of 
May. 
sear liberty and independence 
of the illustrious republic of 
Poland, have at all times attracted 
the attention and concern of all her 
neighbours. 
Her Majesty the Empress of all 
the Russias, who, together with this 
claim, still unites the right of her 
formal and positive engagements 
with the republic, has endeavoured 
in a more peculiar manrer to watch 
over the inviolable preservation of 
these two precious attributes of her 
political existence. 
These continual and . generous 
endeavours of her Majesty, being 
the effects of her love for justice 
and order as well as her affection 
and good wishes. towards a nation 
whom the identity of origin, lan- 
guage, and so many other natural 
relations with the nation she reigns 
over, rendered dear to her, did 
doubtless repress the ambition and 
avidity of those rulers who, not sa- 
tisfied with the share of authority 
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assigned to them by the laws of the 
state, aspired at a greater extent 
of power at the expence of these 
very laws. 
With this intent they have, on 
one hand, neglected nothing to 
weary out the active vigilance of 
the Empress over the integrity of 
the rights and prerogatives of the 
illustrious Polish nation; and, on 
the other hand, to defame the pu- 
rity and munificence of her inten- 
tions, and placing them on every 
occasion in the most odious point of 
view. 
In this manner they have had 
the perfidious dexterity to cause to 
be declared, as a cumbersome and 
humiliating yoke, the act by which 
Russia guarantees the lawful con- 
stitution of this nation; whereas 
the greatest realms, and among the 
rest the German empire, far from 
rejecting ‘such like guarantees, have 
considered, sought, and accepted 
them as the most stable founda- 
tion of their property and independ- 
ence. 
Events of a recent nature shew 
better than all proofs, how indis- 
pensable and efficacious such a 
guarantee might be; and that the 
republic without them, after hav- 
ing been involved by the practices 
of her internal enemies to recover 
her constitution, could have no 
other claim on the intervention of 
the Empress than solely her friend- 
ship and generosity. 
Meanwhile, those who very long 
since meditated the degradation and 
ruin of the ancient liberty of the 
republic, grew bolder and bolder, 
when part of the nation proposed 
all sorts of perverse and erroneous 
notions, and only waited for a fa- 
vourable moment to execute their 
ruinous designs. They thought 
they 
