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. . were with the Poles,
and he had regarded the partition of their country as a crime. . . . As a
very young man liberty was his only religion; but he had now learned to
hate and to fear that term. . . . He had no desire . . . to be the Don
Quixote of Poland by reconstituting it as a kingdom. To fight Russia by
the re-establishment of Polish independence was not, therefore, to be
thought of.
"]

[285] [The final partition of Poland took place after the Battle of
Maciejowice, October 12, 1794, when "Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko
fell. " Tyrants, _e. g. _ Napoleon in 1806, and Alexander in 1814 and again
in 1815, approached Kosciusko with respect, and loaded him with flattery
and promises, and then "passed by on the other side. "]

[286] [The reference is to Charles's chagrin when the Grand Vizier
allowed the Russians to retire in safety from the banks of the Pruth,
and assented to the Treaty of Jassy, July 21, 1711. Charles, "impatient
for the fight, and to behold the enemy in his power," had ridden above
fifty leagues from Bender to Jassy, swam the Pruth at the risk of his
life, and found that the Czar had marched off in triumph. He contrived
to rip up the Vizier's robe with his spur, "remonta a cheval, et
retourna a Bender le desespoir dans le coeur" (_Histoire de Charles
XII. _, Livre v. _s. f. _). ]

[287] {552}["Naples, October 29, 1822. Le Vesuve continue a lancer des
pierres et des cendres. "--From _Le Moniteur Universel_, November 21,
1822. ]

[dz] _For staring tourists_----. --[MS.