reconciled to being dominated by foreigners, by just
and liberal treatment which alone would make them satisfied. His note,
which is most remarkable for its far-sightedness, wisdom, force, and
restraint, was worded as follows:

The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs and Plenipotentiary to the
Congress of Vienna, in desiring the present note concerning
the affairs of Poland may be entered on the protocol, has no
intention to revive controversy or to impede the progress of
the arrangements now in contemplation. His only object is to
avail himself of this occasion of temperately recording, by
the express orders of his Court, the sentiments of the British
Government upon a European question of the utmost magnitude
and influence.

The undersigned has had occasion in the course of the
discussions at Vienna, for reasons that need not be gone into,
repeatedly and earnestly to oppose himself, on the part of his
Court, to the erection of a Polish Kingdom in union with and
making part of the Imperial Crown of Russia.

The desire of his Court to see an independent power, more or
less considerable in extent, established in Poland under a
distinct dynasty, and as an intermediate State between the
three great monarchies, has uniformly been avowed, and if the
undersigned has not been directed to press such a measure, it
has only arisen from a disinclination to excite, under all the
apparent obstacles to such an arrangement, expectations which
might prove an unavailing source of discontent among the
Poles.

The Emperor of Russia continuing, as it is declared, still to
adhere to his purpose of erecting that part of the Duchy of
Warsaw which is to fall under his Imperial majesty's dominion,
together with his other Polish provinces, either in whole or
in part, into a kingdom under the Russian sceptre; and their
Austrian and Prussian Majesties, the sovereigns most
immediately interested, having ceased to oppose themselves to
such an arrangement--the undersigned adhering, nevertheless,
to all his former representations on this subject has only
sincerely to hope that none of those evils may result from
this measure to the tranquillity of the North, and to the
general equilibrium of Europe, which it has been hi