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her most ardently desire that the 
republic, by means of a prudent 
balance of the different powers, 
which forms the safest means of 
securing both her. internal tran- 
quillity and her good understand- 
ing with her neighboars, should re- 
cover the solid basis of its welfare. 
Given at Warsaw, on the 
7—18thof May, 1792. 
(Signed) Buxcacow. 
Promuilgation of the Provisional Ad- 
ministrators freely chosen by the 
People of Mons. 
In the name of the Sovereign 
People, 
E declare before the face of 
Heaven and Earth, that all 
the bonds which united us to the 
house of Austria-Lorraine are bro- 
ken: we swear that we will never 
more contract them, and acknow- 
Jedge in no one any right to the 
Belgic sovereignty; for it is our 
will to regain the exercise of our 
primitive, imprescriptible and ina- 
lienable rights. All authority aris- 
ing from the people, we declare 
that the states of Hainault, as well 
as all superior and subaltern judica- 
tore is at an end, inasmuch as they 
have not been constituted by the 
people; and we expressly forbid 
them to exercise any functions what- 
soever, under pain of being consi- 
dered as usurpers of the public so- 
vereignty.—Done in the general 
assembly of the free town of Mons, 
the 8th of November 1792, first 
year of the Belgic republic. 
(Signed) 
A. G. Grenier, Vice-President. 
C. F. Lartvigre, Secretary. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
Address of the King of Poland to 
the Army. 
B* virtue of the constitution, 
enacted 22d March, 1792, the 
supreme and general command of 
all the forces of the republic is en- 
trusted to us in the following terms 
(here the actof legislature is recited): 
thus the defence of our dear coun- 
try is confided to us and to you. 
The enemy that invades it is well 
known to every Polander. So ma- 
ny injuries, misfortunes, and humi- 
liations heaped on us by Russia 
call to God and your courage for 
vengeance. The war is no sooner 
declared than begun, without the 
least justifiable motive. Some de- 
generate Poles, rebe]s to their coun- 
try, have lent a pretext for it. They 
wish, with foreign aid, to restore 
the ancient anarchy, subjection, and 
insignificance, which your King, 
at the head of a virtuous diet, has 
luckily banished from tbe Polish 
territories. Brave countrymen ! we 
are now called upon to maintain 
our possessions, our honour, and 
our liberties—to defend our breth- 
ren, to revenge so many wrongs 
which we and our forefathers have 
suffered, and to protect the honour 
ot your King, who consecrates, with 
pleasure and sincerity, the remnant 
of his old age to his country. The 
nation longed to have a respectable 
army, but anarchy and foreign in- 
fluence always opposed it: at last, 
by cheerful offers, it is raised to 
have in you its defenders, the im- 
provement of whose condition was 
not forgotten by the present go- 
veroment. It was proper to add 
regularity and discipline, common 
and necessary in all armies, to the 
courage of Poles, which, though they 
may seem new, to you, are not the 
less requisite for the strength, ho- 
nour, 
