110] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815, 
CHAPTER -XI. 
Kingdom of Poland under the Emperor of Russia.—Sweden.— Norway. 
—Swedish Pomerania annexed to Prussia. — Switzerland.— The Part 
taken by tt in the War.—Disturbance in Unterwalden pacified. 
N April the 30th, the Em- 
peror Alexander addressed 
to the President of the Polish 
Senate at Warsaw, a letter, an- 
nouncing that the fate of their 
country had been unanimously 
decided by the Powers assembled 
m congress, and that he had as- 
sumed the title of King of Poland. 
“The kingdom (said the Em- 
peror) will be united with Russia 
by the bond of its own constitution. 
If the great interest of general 
tranquillity has not permitted the 
union of all the Poles under the 
same Sceptre, I have, at least, 
endeavoured to alleviate as much 
as possible the pain of the sepa- 
ration, and to obtain for them 
every where the peaceful enjoy- 
ment of their nationality.” We 
learn afterwards, that far the 
greatest part of the Duchy of 
Warsaw was thus made over to 
the Sovereign of Russia. 
In the month of December an 
account appeared of that national 
constitution, under which the 
Kingdom of Poland is allowed 
to maintain an existence in its 
unequal conjunction with amighty 
empire. The still subsisting sta- 
tutes of the Duchy are preserved 
in all points, with the exception 
of such modifications as are neces- 
sary to conciliate them with the 
spirit of the nation, and approx- 
imate them to the constitution of 
May, 1791. The Roman Catholic 
is declared the religion of the 
State, but with the free exercise of 
all other modes of worsbip. The 
Executive Power and the func- 
tions of Government are exclu- 
sively vested in the Sovereign. 
No person can be arrested but 
according to legal forms, and in 
cases determined by the law. The 
grounds of imprisonment are to 
be communicated to every person 
in custody, and he mustbe brought 
before the competent tribunal 
within three days. No change is 
to be made in the taxes and im- 
posts without the consent of the 
General Diet, convokedaccording 
to constitutional forms. In fu- 
ture, all civil and criminal laws, 
and all respecting the finance, 
and even relative to the functions 
of the constitutional authority, 
are to be submitted to the exa- 
mination of the General Diet, and 
not to have the force of Jaw till 
assented to by them, and sanc- 
tioned by the Sovereign. 
This newly-created Kingdom of 
Poland, with the Prussian Duchy 
of Posen, and the former annex- 
ations of the three partitioning 
