It is the forcible suppression of a national movement of reform, the hurling back into the abyss of anarchy and corruption of a people who, by incredible efforts and sacrifices, had struggled back to liberty and order, which makes this great political crime so wholly infamous.

Yet here again the methods of the Russian Empress were less vile than those of the Prussian King.

Catherine openly took the risk of a bandit who attacks an enemy against whom he has a grudge; Frederick William II.

came up, when the fight was over, to help pillage a victim whom he had sworn to defend."[1] After this the end came rapidly.

The heroic patriot Kosciuszko headed a popular rising against Russia; but after a remarkable resistance to the combined forces of the three partitioning powers, the insurrection was finally suppressed in torrents of blood.