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 equitable consideration of their dearest rights, was the only guarantee of the permanent relations which it was important to establish amongst the Three Powers, for the mutual security of their possessions and for the peace of Europe.”

“The ambition of a legitimate Prince can have no tendency to promote the happiness of the people, whom providence has entrusted to him, and who can only prosper under the Ægis of perfect security, in a calm but not menancingmenacing [sic] attitude. ''No power can more effectually guarantee the universal repose of Europe, and the pacific feelings of its kingdoms towards one another, than that principle of cohesion, which arises from the attachment of a people for their native land, and from their consciousness of well-being. That such were the bonds by which his Imperial Highness hoped to attach to his Empire, the Poles who should be placed under his government. That it was his ardent desire to behold the realization of the same felicitous result in the states of those of his allies, whose enlightened views and generous intentions he appreciated, and consequently, that his Imperial Highness delighted to believe that the conciliatory system, adapted to the circumstances which had been pointed out in the present negotiation, would be sufficient to banish all anxiety,'' and to dissipate the slightest pretence for it, which might have been given by the union of a part of the Polish nation.”

Prince Hardenburg declared, on the 30th of January, “that the principles laid down by Lord Castlereagh, as to the method of governing the Polish provinces, were in perfect conformity with the sentiments of his Prussian Majesty on the subject: that he entirely agreed in opinion with his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and with the Prince Regent of England; and that he should constantly endeavour to procure to his Polish subjects all those advantages which they could reasonably desire, and which were compatible with the interests of his kingdom, and with the prime object of every government to resolve the different parts of which the state may be composed, into a united whole.”