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and lately on the same occa- 
sion in the exprefsion of your 
patriotic sentiments, so dear to 
our ‘paternal feelings. 
who have brought a foreign ar- 
my against your country, de- 
serve your vengeance, and not 
your confidence. That army 
which comes for the purpose 
ef destroying your govern- 
ment, prepares only the return 
ef your former slavery instead 
of liberty. You have already 
experienced at how deara rate 
Rufsian protection is obtained. 
Violently carrying off from our 
residence, and during the Diet, 
senators, ministers and nuncios; 
the contemptuous treatment of 
our nobility ; the violation of 
property ; the opprefsion of the 
towns, the seizure and forcible 
transportation of peasants and 
their families; and finally the 
dismembering of the republic— 
these are effects of the guaran- 
tee imposed upon us by Ruf 
sia. And can you expect any 
better at present. from’ this 
power ? As soon as Rufsia has 
seduced you, fhe will renew 
the ancient wounds of your 
country, fhe will renew all our 
misfortunes. The nobility and 
citizens will only feel the hea- 
vier the prefsure' of a newly 
enforced’ yoke, for having da- 
ted to become free and inde- 
pendent; the poor villagers, 
our labourers,.and husbandmen, 
whom the law (benefitting all 
the Polith inhabitants) has re- 
ceived under its protection, » will 
be driven in numbers from 
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their fertile fields, into desart’ 
wastes ; and lastly, the parti- 
tion of the republic, and the 
final extinction of the Polifh 
name, will be the fatal con- 
sequence of the disunion of 
‘Polanders. 
‘ Citizens and dear country- 
men, this is the advice and 
warning you receive from 
your king and father, and from 
the confederate states of the 
republic. But your virtue, the 
love of freedom,'so natural to 
every Polander, afsures us that 
fraternal concord will unite 
you in the defence of your 
country ; that, inspired with 
the same spirit which guides 
your king and father, you will 
afsemble around him, and will... 
make a rampart impenetrable to 
all the attempts of the enemy. 
‘You see, citizens, what is 
your situation, you see what - 
measures your) king and Diet 
undertake for the common 
safety. Let the defence of 
your country engage all your 
thoughts and attention, let the 
strictest peace and unity pre- 
vail amongst you in such a cri- 
tical moment'as this. 
your king, your father, and com- 
mander; follow him whom you 
have raised to the throne from 
amongst yourselves 3 and who 
in his advanced age, is going _ 
with you to expose his life in 
the phar ache defence of his 
country.’ 
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prevent the insertion of miscel- 
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