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 plenipotentiary, Count Rasoumofski, replied, on the 19th of January, 1814, “that the just and liberal principles which it contained, were received by his Imperial Majesty, with the most cordial approbation, and that he had been delighted to recognize the generous sentiments which characterize the British Nation, and the enlarged and enlightened views of its government. That their conformity with his own wishes, and more especially the resemblance of the plan which his British Majesty’s plenipotentiary had traced in this document, to his own political maxims, as applied to the present negotiation, had appeared to him to be very favourable to the conciliatory measures which he had proposed to his allies, with the sole end of ameliorating the condition of the Poles, as far as the desire of protecting their nationality is compatible with the maintenance of a due balance among the Powers of Europe, which ought to be secured by a new division: and that to these considerations should be added others not less important, demonstrating the impracticability of reviving the previous combinations of the former political system of Europe, of which Poland in its independent state formed a part.”

“That his Imperial Majesty, for these reasons, had confined his solicitude, on behalf of the Polish nation, to the single object of procuring for those Poles who were subjects of the contracting princes, such privileges as might satisfy their reasonable expectations, and assure to them all the advantages compatible with the respective relations of each of those kingdoms; that this spirit of moderation had regulated all the proposals he had deemed it fitting to make to his illustrious allies on the subject; that by favouring, and supporting with amicable co-operation, all measures tending to the amelioration of the condition of the Poles, and consequently to cement their attachment to the different governments under which they were placed, the Emperor thought that he had fully proved the rectitude and purity of his intentions. His Imperial Majesty being of opinion that the submission of the Poles to their respective sovereigns and governments, in return for an