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anothers, would. infallibly provoke 
the. resentment of the. Empress: of 
Russia; and draw upon Poland the 
evils which they were undertaken to 
avoid. The event has justified these 
appearances; and they cannot dis- 
semble in the present moment, that 
without toe new form of govern- 
ment for the republic, and without 
the efforts which they have announ- 
ced) for supporting it, the court of 
Russia would not have determined 
on, the vigcrous proceeding she has 
now embraced. 
» Whatever be the friendship that I 
have sworn to your Majesty, and the 
interest that I take in, every. thing 
t,concerns you, you will yourself. 
believe. that the state of things being: 
entirely changed since the. alliance: 
that, I.contracied with the republic, 
and the present conjuncture, brought 
on by the constitution of the 3d of 
May. 1791, posterior to my treaty, not. 
being, applicable to the engagements; 
therein stipulated, it does not belong 
to. me.-to resist: the attack, made on 
your Majesty; if the intentions of the 
patriotic party are still the same; and 
if they, persist in the desire of main- 
taining theirown.work; but if, re- 
tracing their steps, they shall consider. 
the. difficuliies tat are rising up on 
all. sides, 1 shall be ready to concert 
measures with her Majesty the Em- 
press of Russia, and to explain my- 
self at the same time, with the court 
of Vienna, to strive to reconcile.the 
different interesis, and to agree on 
measures capable of restoring to Po- 
land its tranquillity. 
_ I flatter, uyself that your, Majesty 
will frod in these dispositions, and 
in, these assurances, the sentiments 
of.sincere friendship, and of the con- 
sideration with which I am 
rah your Majesty's good brother, 
Fre Derick-WILLIAM, 
o2 
347, 
Official Note delivered, by: M. Chrep= 
towitz, the Polish Minister for Fo- 
reign Affairs, to the: Marquis de 
Lucchesin, the Prussian Amlassa- 
dor at the Court of Warsaw. 
i) ain undersigned has, by speciak 
. command of the King and re- 
public, the honour to communicate 
to the ambassador extraordinary and 
minister plenipotentiary of his Ma- 
jesty the King of Prussia, the Mar- 
quis de Lucchesini, the annexed 
declaration which M, Bulgakow, the 
Rassian ambassador, delivered here 
on the 1Sth instant. 
The entering of the Russian army 
into.the dominions of the republicy, 
which is expressly announced in it, 
and which (with the intention, of 
preventing the transactions of. the 
legislative power of the republic) 
has already iaken place, obliges. the: 
King and the republic to demand 
the assistance of his) Majesty the 
King of Prussia, their ally, in they 
Most’ pressing manner. 
‘The known sincerity; the mode of 
thinking, the principles: of /his Ma~’ 
jesty; and the confidence in the en=) 
gacements. of this prince with Po- 
land, as well asthe amicable dispo- 
sition of which he has ever given 
them so many instances,do not leave: 
any room to the King and the: re- 
public to deubt but that, asithey find 
themselves exactly in the case men- 
tioned inthe sixtbarticleof the treaty 
ofulliance, they may depend on the 
good offices and effectual assistance 
of their illustrious ally; pursuant to 
the entire tenor of the said article. 
The condition of the Polish fron= 
tiers towards Russia, represents the 
danger as sufficiently imminent, to 
shew his Prussian Majesty the im= 
portance of a speedy assistance: 
And whereas the King:and the Po- 
lish nation gratefully recollect, what 
they 
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