1801.4 
and hardly any thing remains for us todo, 
but to give an account of the fucceeding 
fortunes of their editors. 
The writers and proprietors of the Ga- 
zetta narcdowa y ¢bca, in which concife- 
nefs was joined to force and elegance of 
expreffion, were all three deputies to the 
diet, and took an active part in the pub- 
lic affairs of their country. ‘This national 
journal was annihilated by the final partir 
tion of Poland. One of the editors, 
Thaddeus Moffow/ky, cattellan of Razions, 
whom the Contederation of Targowitz 
had removed from his fphere, again ap- 
peared on the political {cene of action, 
when Kofciufko was-chofen commander in 
chief by the nation, in their lait ftrugele 
for independence. Moftowfky was ap- 
pointed a member of the council in War- 
faw, and of its committee for foreign af- 
fairs ; foon after the capture of Praga, he 
was condufted to Peterfburg, and there 
fuffered a rigid imprifonment till the ac- 
ceffion of Paul III. to the Ruffian throne ; 
when he was liberated at the fame time 
with Kofciufko: and he has fince refided 
in his magnificent houle at Warfaw, free 
from the cares and toils of the journalift 
and ftatef{man. | 
———— Niemcewitz, the Polifth Shake- 
{pear, was a man of no property, and 
every where attended Kofciufko. . When 
that general was commander in chief, he 
was with him as fecretary. He was like- 
wife imprifoned at Peterfburg; and fet at 
liberty again along with Kotciufko, whom 
- he accompanied to America. 
Weiffenhof, the third proprietor 
af the above-named newfpaper, refided 
during the time of the Confederation of 
Targowicz, under another name, at Zu- 
rich, and from time to time made excur- 
fions into other parts of Switzerland. He 
lived entirely tor the fciences ; during the 
laft convulfions of expiring Poland, he 
howeyer took fome active part in politics. 
At prefent he is in Drefden. 
Baron de Glave-Kobielfky, who 
eftablithed and was proprietor of the Ga- 
xetta de Varfovie, was in Holland during 
the infurreftion under Kofciufko ; having 
been fent thither with a commiflion frem 
the court of Peterfburg. On the partition 
of Poland, the part where his eftates lay 
was allotted to Auftria; and he himfelf 
entered into the fervice of the emperor. 
The fate of the different conductors of his 
newlpaper was ftill more dfingular.—Mehée 
de la Touch is ftill in France! a zealous re- 
volutionift ; ‘the fame whom the journals in 
the pay of the Directory, often depictured 
Account of Newfpapers in Poland, 
1gy 
with the blackeft colours. —Tombeur ace 
cepted, during the Confederation of Tar- 
gowicz, the place of tutor to the children 
of a rich Polifh nobleman, by. which he 
fecured to himfelf and family a tranquil 
retreat in the country.—Fauvelet de Bou- 
rienne, on quitting Kobielfky’s newfpaper- 
office, received an appointment in the de- 
partment for foreign affairs at Paris, and 
was Secretary of Legation at Stuttgard, till 
the dethronement of Louis XVI.; after- 
wards fecretary to Bonaparte, with whom 
he was in Italy, at Raftadt, and likewife 
in Egypt. Bonaparte admitted him into 
the number of fele&t friends, with whom 
he returned to France.—As for Pinabel de 
Verriere, another of the writers in Ko- 
bielfky’s, gazette; he has been appointed 
proteflor of the French’ language at 
Wilna. 
During the infurreCtion under Kof- 
ciufko, feveral new pelitical journals ap- 
peared at Warfaw ;—the natural confe- 
quence of a governments’ verging towards 
democracy. None of thefejournals, how- 
ever, furvived the final defeat of Kofciuf- 
ko. They deferve to be preferved, as 
their contents may ferve to throw light on 
the hiftory of that period. 
The former Gazetta Warfzaw/ka, 
whole editor, | Luxina, is tince 
dead, continues however, to be publithed 
under the protection of the King of Pruffia, 
in large quarto, with the paginal numbers 
running on, and many appendices. The 
revolutions of ftates have little influence 
on newlpapers which are nothing but new/~ 
papers: the ftorm is deftru&ive only to 
fuch as are made the engines of party to 
influence the public opinion. This-newf- 
paper, indeed, fometimes inclined to the 
French party, and even gave occafion to 
complaints from the ftates of Gallicia, 
on account of the calumnies publithed in 
it againft the brave armies of Auffria. 
And its incorrigibility in this fingle point 
caufed it tobe prohibited in the Emperor’s 
dominions. 
At the fame time with the ju(t-men- 
‘tioned, a German newfpaper-was likewife 
printed: but the period of its exiftence was 
very fhort. 
A third newfpaper, publiflied at War. 
faw, in forall folio, feems to be the fuc- 
ceflor of the Caxetta Narodowa. Its 
title it, Gazetta Korre/pondenta Warfzaw- 
fhicga i xagranicanego (we Wtorek). fol. ; 
andis mentioned, among others, in the 
Pruffian Court ‘Calendar for 1799,' p. 
P72: . 
At Pofen, the bookfeller Decker began 
to 
