MODERN HISTORY. 175 



account, that this country was originally govern- 

 ed by dukes or princes, of whom there were 

 twelve from Craco and his brother Lechus I. 

 during 450 years : that is, from the year of 

 Chrift 550, to 999 : that on the laft named 

 year Poland was erected into a kingdom by the 

 emperor Otho III. that it had afterwards four 

 Polifh kings who reigned during eighty-two 

 years : that the laft of theie kings, Boleflaus II. 

 called the Cruel, occafioned this country, by his 

 bad conduct, to loie the title of kingdom j and 

 that it was governed from 1081 to 1370, by 

 twelve princes x among whom was the renowned 

 Piaft : that in the year 1370 it relumed the 

 rank of a kingdom , and that it has fined had 

 eighteen c kings, who have been chofen 



as well from toreign houfes, as from the Pialts, 

 or original 1 of the country : that the firft 



of thcle elective kings was Lewis king of Hun- 

 gary, and the laft Auguftus II. elector of 

 ony i and that this prince dying in the year i 763, 

 the ftates of Poland have placed on the throne 

 Staniflaus II. of the family of Poniatowiky, a 

 prince in every fenfe worthy to wear that crown. 

 The Hiftory of Lithuania is comprehended under 

 that of Poland. The hiftory of P, like- 



wife included, in part, under that of Poland, in 

 part under thofe of the orders of the 1 rutonic 

 knights, and the knigh; , and in part 



under that of th< of Ikanden! 



hiftory of Finland, Livonia, Ejlberia and Contend* 



is 



