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 ''care that my Polish subjects shall have no cause of complaint. You are dissatisfied in Lithuania, and so you ought to be until you are amalgamated with your countrymen, and enjoy the benefit of a constitution; and then only will your union with Russia establish perfect confidence and concord between the two nations. I shall have still more reason for accomplishing this project, if I am satisfied hereafter, as I am at present, with the civil and military state of the kingdom—hitherto I cannot say too much for itwhen I can cite this government as a model, and it becomes evident that no inconvenience to the empire results from it, I shall easily accomplish the rest.''”

The same language was always made use of in the diets, and they were continually exhorted to show themselves worthy of greater favours and to serve as a model.

If the Poles have been duped by the cabinet of St. Petersburgh, England, Austria, France, and indeed all Europe have been equally duped. The barrier which the Polish provinces although dependent, were to oppose to the colossal power of the Russian empire has been destroyed. The danger to which Europe is exposed from the Russians is increased since the last war with Turkey, and since the last residence of Marshal Diebitsch at Berlin. It is well known that the insurrection in Warsaw was a temporary interruption to operations which threatened the liberty of nations, and which will be immediately resumed should Poland be subdued.

The Poles, by the very fact of their insurrection, have removed the obstacles which obstructed the benevolent views of the Powers, at the Congress of Vienna, and Europe is now at liberty to resume the thread of those negotiations which were unwillingly abandoned.