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_temporary enjoyment of part of his 
spoils,in conjunétion with associates 
more powerful than himself, and 
who certainly would sooner or later 
strip him of that share they had at 
first-found it convenient to allow 
him. Others, however, thought, 
differently. Consulting that strong 
propensity toimmediate gain, what- 
ever may be the aftercast, which 
governs princes as well as other 
men, they hesitated not to predict, 
that the court of Berlin would 
seize with avidity that portion of 
Poland which Russia would offer to 
it, as the price of its dereliétion of 
the Poles. These, unhappily for 
Foland, conje¢tured rightly. 
When this fatal decision was laid 
before the king and his council at 
Warsaw, though fully satisfied in 
their own minds, as to the conse- 
quences that must in all likelihoods 
ensue, from this renunciation of all 
friendship on the part of Prussia, 
they nobly determined 10% to aban- 
dow’ the defence of their country, 
and to persist, to the very last extre- 
mity, in every trial and exertion 
to save it, that bravery and skill 
could suggest to men who were re- 
solved to bury:themselves under its 
ruins. 
Hostilities were now carried on 
with great animosity between both 
parties; .the Poles fought upon 
every occasion witha fury that often 
disconcerted their enemies, andthe 
fortune of war was continually ba- 
lanced by alternate successes and 
defeats. This created no little 
astonishment in the many veteran 
officers that commanded the Russian 
troops, and who had not expected 
to meet with so obstinate a’ resist- 
ance.—-When the Russians first 
entered Lithuania, which was now 
the theatre of war, they-entertain- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
ed no doubt of being before this 
time masters of Warsaw, but obz 
structions rose before them every 
day: the Polish peasantry wasuni- 
versally against them, and refused 
to supply them with provisions and 
forage at any price. These they ‘ 
reserved wholly for their own 
troops; and most of those peasants, 
that could in the least afford it, 
furnished these articles, and many 
others, without exacting payment. 
‘The patriotism of the people, and 
the bravery of the soldiers, retarded 
in a considerable degree the pro- 
gress of the Russians, who were, 
exclusively of their baggage and 
artillery, compelled to load their 
horses and waggeus withall manner 
of necessaries: this greatly incum- 
bered their motions, while the 
Poles, on the other hand, exempt 
from those incumbrances, were able 
to march and att much more ex. 
peditiously. The knowledge of the 
country frequently enabled the Po- 
lish troops to way -lay the Russians; 
who being, in many places, desti- 
tute of guides, fell intoambuscades, 
from which they found it extremely 
dificult to extricate themselves, 
without suffering considerable loss. 
In this species of warfare, much 
time was consumed, and many lives 
lost. It was not till the tenth of 
June, that any a¢tion worthy of 
noticetook place. General Judick, 
a Polish officer, noted for his personal 
bravery, was attacked on that day, 
by a large body of Russians: his 
own was not considerable; butafter 
sustaining several dischargés of mus- 
ketry, they rushed with such im~ 
petuosity upon the Russians, that 
they were thrown into disorder, 
and compelled to abandon the field, 
after a combat of four hours, during 
whith more than five hundred of 
them 
