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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
The Polish Patriot, Czarteryaki. The death of Adam Czartoryski, a distinguished Polish patriot, at Paris, has been announced. The following brief sketch of his biography is found in a work entitled "Men of Our Time:" "Prince Adam Czartoryski, a distinguished Polish nobleman, was born January 14, 1770. He took an active part in the affairs of his country as early as the period of Kosciusko's attempt to liberate her from Russian domination. After the partition of Poland in 1795, he and his brother were sent to St. Petersburg by command of Catharine II., as hostages. Here Alexander was so charmed with the noble and manly character of the young Pole that he became his intimate friend, and upon his accession to the throne, appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which post Czartoryski conducted himself with so much prudence that the envy that was at first excited soon gave way. In 1805 he subscribed, in the name of Russia, the treaty with Great Britain. He then demande