SHORT CHRONICLE 



©F EVENTS. 



August 29. 179a. 



Foreign. 

 Fo/arJ. 

 The struggle in Poland is now 

 ■over. Justice has been obli- 

 ged to give way to force. The 

 Rufsian troops, supported by 

 continual reinforcements, bore 

 every thing before them, so. 

 that necefsity constrained the 

 king and the nobles of that 

 unfortunate kingdom to sub- 

 mit to the laws the emprefs 

 has thought proper to impose 

 upon them. The particulars 

 have not yet reached us ; but 

 it is probable that her eager- 

 nefs to join the confederacy 

 against France, may induce 

 the emprefs to be more mo- 

 derate in respect to Poland, 

 than (he otherwise would have 

 been. Should the confede- 

 rated armies prove succefsful 

 in France, it is not at all im- 

 pofsible but they, at a future 

 period, may differ among them- 

 selves as to the final settle- 

 ment of the constitution of Po- 

 land. 



TTic Warsaw gazette of the 

 25th July informs us, that the 

 combination of three powerful 



neighbouring states, while the 

 Poles were left without the 

 aid of a single ally, reduced 

 them to the mortifying necef- 

 sity of agreeing to an accom- 

 modation vifith Rufsia, to pre- 

 vent a partition of their terri- 

 tories among their unfeeling, 

 and, we may say, treacherous 

 neighbours. 



The king, finding not only 

 that his ally the king of Pruf- 

 sia had deserted him, but that 

 he had joined the emprefs in 

 het ambitious and tyrannical 

 views, called a meeting of the 

 deputies of the diiferent pro- 

 vinces upon the 23d of July, 

 to deliberate on the best mea- 

 sures to be pursued for the 

 welfare of the country. Of two 

 evils they were obliged to 

 choose the least ; either to have 

 their country entirely destroy- 

 ed by the immense armies 

 which were overrunning it, and 

 perhaps to have tlieir existence 

 as a Slate annihiiated, or to a- 

 gree to the haughty terms im- 

 posed upon them by their too 

 powerful neighbours. 



The king was obliged to an- 

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