Copy of a memorandum from Mikhail Vorontsov to Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, dated 1831
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D3044/F/18/41, ‘Copy memorandum from Count [Michael] Woronzow to Clanwilliam, concerning the Polish rebellion.
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Copy of a memorandum from Mikhail Vorontsov to Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, dated 1831
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Copy of a memorandum from Mikhail Vorontsov to Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, dated 1831 and concerning the Polish rebellion.
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[…] 8thly. The rebellion being now put down, we shall have much talk about what the Emperor must be forced to do, to reorganise an independent Poland and thus by an act of suicide, to create a new and deadly foe in his own bosom. The Emperor from the very beginning of the revolt, felt and declared that Poland had revolted without sufficient cause, (Among the demands made as a justification of the revolt was that of a free and unrestricted public press. A free and unrestricted press in Poland! A country which Voltaire called ‘Un pays gouverné par 100,000 gentilhommes, don’t 90,000 ne saient pas lire.’) and in consequence, not of its own feeling and interest, but of French and Jacobinical advice, instruction and money[…]’
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