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benefit of the Empress. Miendzyboz[1] was the head-quarters of the Russian armies cantoned, under the command of Soltikoff, in the provinces lately seized from Poland. We stopped there for a day, and were lodged in a convent. Soltikoff, under pretence of indisposition, did not come to see us himself, but sent his aide-de-camp, with compliments of condolence, who told us, by his general's orders, that we should keep our minds at rest, that the clemency of his sovereign was boundless, and that we had nothing to fear. Whilst sending us these assurances by his aide-de-camp, he was giving at the
- ↑ The extensive estate of Miendzyboz, in Volhynia, confiscated to the family Czartoryski, under the Empress Catherine, was afterwards restored to them, and belonged, in 1830, to Prince Adam Czartoryski, who sacrificed it again, by taking part in the last Polish revolution. The town of Miendzyboz is remarkable for its antique chateau, which the Prince caused to be repaired for the establishment of a High-School. The Czar has just destined this fine property to be a military colony.
