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Picture of Poland after the partition.
In the years immediately after the partition, Poland
as it may easily to guess be concluded represented a sad picture. Imprisonment – Confiscation of the
estates of Nobles – Transportations of and
exiles of the patriots, were every day's occurrences.
The wrongs did not stop here. The lives and fortunes
of the individuals did not satisfy the spoilers.
They extended their acridity to the national
estates of the corporations. The Emporer Joseph II
confiscated the estates of the Monastic Orders.
His present successor pillaged the riches of
the Polish Churches of – in gold and silver; and
even the Royal tombs of in Cracow were
not spared – The m Not only the immobelier
but also the mobelier property of the Poles
was valued taxed. The first in order to aggravate
it with taxation, which now have risen to such
a height that the many proprietors instead of having
a revenue from their are scarcely able to pay
taxes. The second (namely the utensils in silver
and gold were requested as loan to the government which was paid by notes, whose value in some years afterwards
was reduced.

In the Prussian part of Poland a great deal
was systematized; for it is the virtue of the
Germans to systematize. The german language
introduced into the courts of justice and administration,
– poor, rapacious impertinent Officers often without principles

Identifier: | JB/110/123/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 110.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	110	Main Headings
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a4 / / /
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wilmot 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	36113
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