d'être ravagés of to-be ravaged par Charles Douze, Twelve, of having their country laid waste by Charles the Twelfth, justement outragé, ils ne formèrent qu'un cri formed than one cry justly outraged, they not contre la guerre, war, war, qu'ils crurent déclarée à euxwhich they believed declared to themwhich they believed to be declared against mêmes plus qu'à la Suède. same more than to the Sweden. Ils regardèrent les They regarded the themselves rather than against Sweden. They regarded the Saxons et les Moscovites comme les instrumens de contre leur de la Lithuanie, ils éclatèrent of the Lithuania, they broke-forth of Lithuania, they burst out into open hostility to their their souverain, avec d'autant plus de liberté qu'il étoit sovereign, with of so-much more of liberty that he + was sovereign, freedom, because he was Deux partis divisoient alors la Lithuanie, celui then the Lithuania; that-he Two parties at this time divided Lithuania, des Princes Sapieha et celui d'Oginsky. of-the Princes Sapieha and that-he of Oginsky. of the Princes Sapieha and that of Oginsky. ces troubles et le défaut d'argent réduisoient à un these troubles and the defect of money these troubles and want of money had reduced to a + reduced to a petit nombre, étoit en partie dispersée par le vainlittle number, t was in part dispersed by the vicsmall number, was partly dispersed by the con queur. Le peu qui tenoit pour le Roi de Pologne tor. The little which held for the King of Poland quered. The few who adhered to the King of Poland étoit séparé en petits + was separated into little were broken up into small corps de troupes fugitives, troops fugitive, fugitive bodies of qui erroient dans la campagne, who + wandered in the country, troops, et subsistoient de and † subsisted of who wandered over the country, and subsisted on rapines. Auguste ne voyoit en Lithuanie que de rapines. Augustus not + saw in plunder. Augustus found l'impuissance dans son the impotence feebleness in in Lithuania than of Lithuania only parti, de la haine dans his party, in his own party, of the hatred in hatred from ses sujets, et une armée ennemie conduite par un Il y avoit à la vérité en Pologne une armée; mais an army; but It is true there was an army in Poland; but au lieu d'être de trente-six mille hommes, nomto-the place of to-be of thirty-six thousand instead of consisting of thirty-six thousand men, num men, the num of eighteen bre prescrit par les lois, elle n'étoit pas de dix-huit ber prescribed by the laws, she not t was ber prescribed by law, it did not amount to eighteen mille. Non-seulement elle étoit mal payée et mal she + was ill paid and ill thousand. Not only thousand. Not only armée, mais ses généraux ne savoient armed, but her generals not + knew paid and ill armed, but its generals knew not as yet what bility of him to-follow ; bility to follow him; à un refus qui s'exposer himself to-expose did not dare to expose himself trop découvert, et par to a refusal which might-have too-much discovered, and by to a refusal which would have revealed too much, and con conséquent augmenté sa foiblesse. consequence augmented his weakness. sequently increased his weakness. Dans cet état de trouble et d'incertitude, tous les In this state of trouble and of uncertainty, all the In this state of anxiety and uncertainty, palatinats du royaume demandoient palatinates of-the kingdom palatinates of the kingdom unanimously demanded of the King une diète, de même qu'en Angleterre, dans les temps a diet, of same that in England, in the times in times of difficiles, tous les corps de l'état présentent des all the bodies of the state difficult, difficulty, the several bodies of the state present to-convoke of-the adresses au Roi pour le prier de convoquer un paraddresses to-the King for him to-pray of addresses to the King, praying him to assemble a par a par lement. Auguste avoit plus besoin d'une armée Augustus + had more liament. want more in want des rois sont of-the kings are of the kings are fallut bien cependant was-necessary well nevertheless qu'il la that he her discussed. It was, nevertheless, absolutely necessary for him to convoquât, pour ne point aigrir la nation sans retour. might-convoke, for not to-sour the nation without return. convoke it, if he would not irremediably disgust the nation. It was therefore appointed to be held at Warsaw on the second de Décembre, mille sept cent one. Au pour s'apperçut bientôt que Charles Douze avoit himself perceived well-soon that Charles gustus soon perceived that Charles the Twelfth had at le moins autant de pouvoir que lui dans cette as semblée. Ceux qui tenoient pour les Sapieha, les Lubomirskys and their friends, the palatine Lubomirskys and their friends, the trésorier de la couronne, et sur-tout les partisans treasurer of the treasurer to the crown, crown, and over-all the partisans and, above all, the partisans tachés au Roi de Suède. tached to-the King of Sweden. tached to the King of Sweden. Le plus considérable de ses partisans, et le plus The most considerable of his partisans, and the most considerable of his partisans, and the most qu'eût le Roi de Pologne, dangereux ennemi qu'eût dangerous enemy that might-have the King of Poland, dangerous enemy of the King of Poland, étoit le Cardinal Radjowski, archevêque de Gnesne, + was the Cardinal Radjowski, was archbishop of Gnesna, Cardinal Radjowski, archbishop of Gnesna, primat du royaume, et président de la diète. primate of-the kingdom, and president of the diet. primate of the kingdom, and president of the diet. rité dans sa conduite, entièrement gouverné par une entirely governed by а lation in his conduct, entirely governed by an rity in his conduct, dam the Cardinaless, dame la Cardinale, who incessantly ser à l'intrigue et à la faction. push to the intrigue and to the faction. into intrigue and du primat urged him L'habileté The ability faction. The ability for which consistoit, dit-on, à profiter + consisted, says one, to to-profit the primate was remarkable, is said to have consisted in taking of-the primate des of-the conjonctures, sans chercher à les faire conjunctures, without to-seek to them to-make advantage of conjunctures, without seeking to give them VOL. I. X |