430 NOTES
- Listy do Marysienki, ii, 13 Sept. 1683, 214-19. (Translated by Bolestaw Mazur). A dif-
ferent translation of this same letter appears in Morfill, op. cit. 165-70. Pasek has his
own description of the siege and booty, Memoirs (anno 1683), 262-9. - Juliusz Starzynski, 'Wilanow: Dzieje budowy palacu za Jana III', Studia do Dziejow
Sztuki w Polsce, v (1933). After its tasteful post-war reconstruction, Wilanow is one of
Poland's favourite tourist attractions, and houses the national collection of Polish por-
traiture. See W. Fijalkowski, Wilanow (PWN - Zabytki Warszawy), Warsaw 1973. - 'John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart, 1795?-1872' and 'Charles Edward Stuart, 1799?-1880',
Dictionary of National Biography, xix, 104 ff. - Probably apocryphal.
CHAPTER 17.WETTIN
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1858-65), 6 vols. Carlyle protested against those who, like Lord Macaulay, had
denounced the Partitions of Poland as a 'crime': 'Poland was now dead or moribund,
and well deserved to die. Anarchies are not permitted in this world. Under fine names
they are grateful to the populaces and to the editors of newspapers, but to the Maker
of this Universe they are eternally abhorrent... To this condition of a beautifully phos-
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