STATE PAPERS. 
and’ the presence of a diet’ in ‘ts 
ver will be necessary. - And 
he Russian declaration insists up- 
‘on a meeting of ‘a new diet, which 
‘being controuled by a foreign ar- 
‘my, would only be subservient to 
‘the commands of Russia, so the pre- 
‘servation, integrity, laws, liberty, 
‘and independence of the republic, 
‘Yequire ‘that the same diet, a diet 
‘truly free, shail continue itscare and 
‘deliberations. © 
~ "You'see, citizens, what is your 
situation ; you see what measures 
‘your King ‘and ‘diet undertake for 
‘the common safety. Let the de- 
fence of your country engage ‘all 
your thoughts and attention ; let the 
strictest peace and union ‘prevail 
amongst you in such a critical mo- 
‘ment as this; follow’ your King, 
your father, your commander ; fol- 
‘low him whom you’ have ‘raised’ to 
‘the throne from amongst yourselves, 
“and who; in his'advanced age, is go- 
‘ing with youlto expose his ‘life in © 
“the common’ defence of his country. 
‘Let us encovrage each other by 
words and examples; let us boldly 
‘encounter'all danger in support of 
ourlaws’and liberty; let us con- 
quer all difficulties and dangers by 
“our courage and ‘fortitude.’ “Let 
_every man consider, that -on ‘the 
abt of the republic depends 
“his own, that of his children, and 
“his ‘latest progeny —Thou, God of © 
armies, God of our forefathers,’ who 
“seest the imnocence and the justice 
of our cause, who knowest the pu- 
rity, of our intentions, infuse and 
“maintain the spirit of union and 
_ concord inthe Polish nation ! Grant 
“success to those arms whose object 
“is not to shed blood for the sake of 
“ambition, unjust spoil, or dominion 
“over others, but solely to defend 
“our ‘national laws and liberty, 
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which evén thou’ allowest to free 
and rational beings—to defend that 
country which ‘thy Almighty pow- 
er has so often protected, and which 
even now thou hast rescued from 
the brink of destruction, by the 
‘spirit of thy wisdom and councils’! 
A faithful King and nation implore 
thy assistance, and will praise ‘in 
hymns of gratitude thy providence 
and mercy. 
Wishing that this our address ma 
the sooner reach the public know~- 
Tedgé, we recommend to-all crdinal 
commissions of the palatines and 
districts, to insert this circular let- 
ter in all public records: likewise 
to have it read’from all the pulpits, 
and published in all the parishes and 
charches four following Sundays. 
- Warsaw, May 29th, 1792. 
‘The Answer of the Republic of Poland 
to the Declaration delicered at War- 
“saw, May \8th, 1792, dy M, de 
— Bulgakow, Envoy of Russia. 
WYNHE declaration which M. Bul- 
JL ogakow,. envoy -extraordinary 
‘and minister: plenipotentiary of her 
“Majesty the Empress ofall the Rus- 
ssias, delivered: at) Warsaw ion the 
£8th of Jast month, while: it presents 
astate of things umexpected, and 
-ealculated to impress with senti- 
ments of grief a free mation, the 
friend of peace and of justice,— 
solely occupied in providing for 
her own conservation, safety, and 
independence,—offers at the same 
time, in the series of motives al- 
leged in support of its result, a 
consideration very capable of soft- 
ening the aspect of consequences 
afflicting to humanity, which on the 
first view seemed attached to that 
declaration. It is, that the impulse 
xs by 
