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subjugate Poland to the yoke of a 
government monarchic and demo- 
cratic at the same time. Our diet 
alone has seen the birth of so many 
different laws, that when it became 
necessary to digest and apply them, 
the difficulty of the enterprize caus- 
ed it to be renounced. Besides, 
the basis which was given to this 
new constitutional government, too 
‘weak to support it; was directly 
‘contrary to that legislative system 
»which can alone secure the existence 
.of Poland. But now, when every 
‘true Polander acknowledges the 
errors of those who misled him, 
-after being themselves misled by 
ambition, I declare, both asa King 
who ought to be the chief of this 
‘generous republic, and as a Poland- 
‘er who cherishes his countrymen, 
-that the republican government, as 
-established by our ancestors,: can 
-alone eternize the «duration. and 
‘glory: of Poland. In fact, whenever 
‘a nation, instead of correcting the 
defects of its former government, 
“endeavours totally to overthrow it, 
it draws upon itself those ‘terrible 
‘disasters which must end in a sud- 
‘den:and forcible shock of the whole 
~state. 
» After having acknowledged in the 
‘face of a republican nation, the wis- 
.dom 2nd truth of these maxims, I 
-abandon the confederation formed 
-in 1788, and the diet convened in 
consequence at Warsaw, uoder the 
presidency of M. Stanislaus Mala- 
-chowski, Grand Referendary of the 
crown: a diet which, to form and 
eestablish the more firmly a danger- 
-ous and impolitic revolution, was 
prolonged to the term of four years, 
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contrary to the constant custom of 
the republic, and in contempt of its 
most express laws. 
I accede freely, and join myself, 
heart and mind, to the new confe- 
deration, formed, according to the 
wish of the whole country, at Tar- 
gowitz, the 14th of May, in the pre- 
sent year, by the care, and under 
the auspices of M. Stanislaus Felix 
Potocki, Grand Master of the Ar- 
tillery to the crown: a confeclera- 
tion to which that of the Grand 
Duchy of Lithuania has united itself 
by a solemn and public act. I re- 
gard the operations they avow as 
those only which are legal ;' I pro- 
mise to conform to all the laws they 
may proclaim, and swear to second 
them in all their views which have 
“only the publie welfare for their ob- 
ject, in concert with a republican 
nation, which has been free for ages. 
J agree the morerwillingly to this 
step, as the plan of reform projected 
by this confederation, offers to the 
impartial eye of good citizens no- 
thing but what is just and salutary, 
and particularly because the gener- 
-ous and disinterested protection of 
her Majesty the Empress of all the 
Russias restores tranquillity to the 
bosom of the republic, becomes a 
new source of prosperity, and most 
efficaciously guarantees its rights, 
and preserves it entire. 
In consequence, I require that the 
present act of adherence be register- 
ed in the chancellary of the geueral 
confederation of the two nations, 
and in those of the territorial yuris- 
dictions of the states of the republic. 
Done at Warsaw, Aug. 2, 1792. 
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