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her commerce , the augmentation of her marine , and , above all , the fittest means of procuring money , without submitting to ceconomical retrenchments . Her pride would not suffer a renunciation of Asiatic luxury , which , from the dawn of Elizabeth's reign , had overspread the court of Russia . She thought , also , that , in order to veil her true situation from foreign powers , until " she could astonish them by her conquests , that very luxury itself was subservient to deception . '
In delineating the character , and exhibiting the conduit of the Empress , the author displays the talents of an acute - and investigating biographer ; in narrating and discussing the many internal and external transactions of Russia , and the various " states with which she had intercourse , alliance , or enmity , he shews the comorehensive mind of an historian . The following account of the spoliation of Poland , we doubt not , will be considered by our readers as a justification of our favourable opinion .
* But an object of hig her importance occupied the attentionof Catharine at this moment . She saw herself at length upon the eve of reaping the fruits . ofthe troubles and divisions which she had sown among the Poles . She had long acted in concert with the King of Prussia , aud left to that Prince the Sole management of procuring the consent of" the court of Vienna to the dismemberment of Poland . She was likewise well assured that no obstacles of importance would arise from the interference of other powers . France had
then a Minister not remarkable for his sagacity . England was nounil to Russia by commercial connections . The states bordering on the Baltic might see , with a jealous eye , the Russians and Prussians possessing- themselves of ports upon that sea ; but hone of them had either the means or the temerity to Oppose their inroads . Were the Turks more to be dreaded than these > . Were they in a condition to afford succours to Poland , at a time when they could so ill defend their own territories , and when they saw themselves attacked in every part of their extensive empire ? No . Catharine had no reason
to be apprehensive but of the refusal of the court of Vienna . The accession of that , however , Frederick had Undertaken to promise . ' Frederick could , without hazarding his word , make such a promise . He had long been made acquainted , ' by the relations of bis own Ministers , with the character of the heir of the house of Austria . ' When Joseph II . in 1769 , had an interview with him at Neiss , in Silesia , the Prussian Monarch , taking advantage ofthe ascendancy he had acquired by his experience and renown , proposed to the young Emperor the first division of Poland .
' Joseph II . p leased with the idea or enlarging Ins dominion , beheld his Majesty ' s project with joy ; but deferred bis concurrence in the plan until lie had taken the advice of the old Prince Kan nit- / ., by whose counsels he was directed . Kaunitz applauded the system of spoliation . Some time afterwards , ( 1770 ) the two Monarchs held a second interview at Neustadt , in Austria , and finally settled the dismemberment of Poland . ' . The plague , that ravaged the frontiers of Poland , -had , since the prehis into
ceding year , furnished tlie King with an excuse for advancing troops Polish Prussia . The Emperor had the s ' : ime . ' pretext for hurdling his into those provinces which lay most convenient for him . ' Joseph II . appeared to second the confederates of Bar . By'his last treaty be was bound to unite with the Turks against tlie Russians . But 'designs far different occupied the attention of this Prince , who so well understood the art of dissimulation , ' that the confederates , deceived by his promises , regarded for a long time the soldiers that were sent to invade their country a ; their greatest protectors and friends .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
her commerce , the augmentation of her marine , and , above all , the fittest means of procuring money , without submitting to ceconomical retrenchments . Her pride would not suffer a renunciation of Asiatic luxury , which , from the dawn of Elizabeth's reign , had overspread the court of Russia . She thought , also , that , in order to veil her true situation from foreign powers , until " she could astonish them by her conquests , that very luxury itself was subservient to deception . '
In delineating the character , and exhibiting the conduit of the Empress , the author displays the talents of an acute - and investigating biographer ; in narrating and discussing the many internal and external transactions of Russia , and the various " states with which she had intercourse , alliance , or enmity , he shews the comorehensive mind of an historian . The following account of the spoliation of Poland , we doubt not , will be considered by our readers as a justification of our favourable opinion .
* But an object of hig her importance occupied the attentionof Catharine at this moment . She saw herself at length upon the eve of reaping the fruits . ofthe troubles and divisions which she had sown among the Poles . She had long acted in concert with the King of Prussia , aud left to that Prince the Sole management of procuring the consent of" the court of Vienna to the dismemberment of Poland . She was likewise well assured that no obstacles of importance would arise from the interference of other powers . France had
then a Minister not remarkable for his sagacity . England was nounil to Russia by commercial connections . The states bordering on the Baltic might see , with a jealous eye , the Russians and Prussians possessing- themselves of ports upon that sea ; but hone of them had either the means or the temerity to Oppose their inroads . Were the Turks more to be dreaded than these > . Were they in a condition to afford succours to Poland , at a time when they could so ill defend their own territories , and when they saw themselves attacked in every part of their extensive empire ? No . Catharine had no reason
to be apprehensive but of the refusal of the court of Vienna . The accession of that , however , Frederick had Undertaken to promise . ' Frederick could , without hazarding his word , make such a promise . He had long been made acquainted , ' by the relations of bis own Ministers , with the character of the heir of the house of Austria . ' When Joseph II . in 1769 , had an interview with him at Neiss , in Silesia , the Prussian Monarch , taking advantage ofthe ascendancy he had acquired by his experience and renown , proposed to the young Emperor the first division of Poland .
' Joseph II . p leased with the idea or enlarging Ins dominion , beheld his Majesty ' s project with joy ; but deferred bis concurrence in the plan until lie had taken the advice of the old Prince Kan nit- / ., by whose counsels he was directed . Kaunitz applauded the system of spoliation . Some time afterwards , ( 1770 ) the two Monarchs held a second interview at Neustadt , in Austria , and finally settled the dismemberment of Poland . ' . The plague , that ravaged the frontiers of Poland , -had , since the prehis into
ceding year , furnished tlie King with an excuse for advancing troops Polish Prussia . The Emperor had the s ' : ime . ' pretext for hurdling his into those provinces which lay most convenient for him . ' Joseph II . appeared to second the confederates of Bar . By'his last treaty be was bound to unite with the Turks against tlie Russians . But 'designs far different occupied the attention of this Prince , who so well understood the art of dissimulation , ' that the confederates , deceived by his promises , regarded for a long time the soldiers that were sent to invade their country a ; their greatest protectors and friends .