The Annual Register, Or, a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year Volume 78 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...was taken of some ebullitions of feeling which had manifested themselves on the 18th of January, the saint's day of the emperor Nicholas, and which did not express attachment cither to the person or the government of the autocrat. The residents of the three courts addressed a note to the senate of Cracow on the 9th of February, setting forth that Russia, Austria, and Prussia saw, in these new occurrences, only a fresh proof of the continued existence of a deep-rooted evil which threatened equally the tranquillity of the republic itself, and the security of the adjoining provinces, and which could be cured only by the removal of all the Polish fugitives, and other dangerous characters. The government of Cracow was therefore called on to expel these persons from its territory within eight days. To facilitate their departure, they would be allowed to go, in the mean time to Podgorze. Those of them who could show that they had the permission of one of the three powers to fix themselves elsewhere would be permitted to proceed to America. All others would be sent to America. All subjects of other powers likewise whom the powers might point out were to be removed within the same period. If that period was allowed to elapse without these instructions being completely obeyed, the protecting courts would take the matter into their own hands, and effect, by their own means that which it would then be manifest the government of Cracow wanted either the will or the power to carry into execution. In fact, before this note was presented, a body of Austrian troops had been assembled in the neighbourhood of the city for that purpose. A demand so sweeping, and affecting so many persons, many of whom, in the course of four or five years, had fixed themselves in the republic a...