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EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONERS.
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lect, these questions were to the following effect:—

“What motives induced the rebels to raise insurrection?”

“What was the object of the revolution, and what would they have done in the event of being successful?”

“What relations had the rebels with France and Turkey, and what was their disposition towards Austria, Prussia, and other powers?”

“Who were the Poles in the provinces lately united to Russia, and, consequently, subjects of the Great Sovereign, that were in correspondence with Kosciuszko, and had promised to rise with him?

N. B.–It is insisted on that the prisoner answer this question without any reserve, and name them all, else he may repent it.”

“Whence had the rebels money to pay their troops, and defray the expenses of War?”

“What were Kosciuszko's relations with Prince Adam Czartoryski, and what is the

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