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solitude and exile till his death, which took place in 

 February 1798. 



' The result of this partition was as follows : 



Square Miles. Population. 



To Austria 64,000 4,800,000 



To Prussia, .... 52,000 3,500,000 



To Russia, .... 168,000 6,700,000 



284,000 15,000,000 



' Of this territory, the partitioning powers appropriated 

 to themselves those districts that lay most convenient to 

 their dominions, the acquisitions of Russia being larger 

 than those of the other two taken collectively.' 



On this occasion, as was remarked at the time, the 

 largest share went to Russia, the most populous to Austria, 

 and the most commercial to Prussia. The portion which 

 fell to Russia contained numbers of inhabitants who were 

 already connected with that country by religious ties ; 

 and I may take occasion to state that while I have heard very 

 severe things said by Polish noblemen against Russia, I 

 have been told by a Pole that there exists in Poland a still 

 more bitter ieeling against Prussia. 



The conquests of Napoleon made great changes in 

 Poland ; and at the great settlement of 1815 the Emperor 

 Alexander I. proposed to form the whole of ancient 

 Poland into a constitutional state under the Russian crown ; 

 but it was ultimately arranged that Galicia should be 

 given back to Austria, Posena to Prussia, and that the 

 rest of the Napoleonic Duchy should be formed into a 

 constitutional state, with the Emperor of Russia as king 

 provinces acquired by Catherine II. at the portion of 

 1772 remaining incorporated with the Russian empire ; 

 and it was governed accordingly. It had its diet, its 

 national administration, and its national army. In 1830 

 an insurrection broke out. When this was suppressed all 

 that was changed, and measures were taken to Russianise 



