Image from page 258 of "History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ..." (1913)

Image from page 258 of "History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ..." (1913)


Identifier: histforreadyr04larn
Title: History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ...
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913 Reiley, Alan C
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : C. A. Nichols Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e same plan took shape in the mind ofthe young Emperor Joseph II., and he persuadedhis mother, Maria Theresa, to consent to it.Negotiations to that end were opened with theRussian court. After tlie foregoing proceed-ings, it ■was easy for Russia and Prussia to cometo a speedy agreement. On February 17, 1772,a treaty ■was signed allotting West Prussia to theKing, and the Polish territories east of theDneiper and Duna to the Empress. The case ofAustria was a more diflicult one. . . . Thetreaty of partition was not signed by the threePowers until August, 1773. . . . The Prussianand Austrian troops now entered Poland onevery side, simultaneously with the Russians.The bands of the Confederates, which had hith-erto kept the Russians on the alert, now dis-persed without further attempt at resistance.As soon as external tranquillity had been re-stored, a Diet was convened, in order at once tolegalise the cession of the provinces to the threePowers by a formal compact, and to regulate 2622

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POLAND, 1763-1773 The Constitutionof 1791. POLAND, 1791-1793. the constitutional questions which had been un-settled since the revolt of the Confederation ofBar. It took some time to arrive at this result,and many a bold speech was uttered by thePoles; but it is sad to think that the real objectof every discussion was the fixing the amount ofdonations and pensions which the individual sen-ators and deputies were to receive from thePowers for their votes. Hereupon the act ofcession was unanimously passed. . . . The Libe-rum Veto, the anarchy of the nobles, and theimpotence of the Sovereign, were continued.—H. von Sybel, Th^ First Partition of Poland(Fortnightly Bev., July, 1874, v. 22).—Onesclear belief ... is of two things: First, that, aseverybody admits, Friedrich had no real hand instarting the notion of Partitioning Poland; — butthat he grasped at it with eagerness as the one■way of saving Europe from War: Second, whathas been much less noticed, that, under anyother hand,


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