The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a letter from Warsaw, April 10.

"The provincial diets begin to grow tumultuous, and the low procedure of reason and argument has already given place, in several of these assemblies, to abler logick. At the diet of Braclaw, this quarter method of reasoning has so prevailed, that a considerable number of noblemen have been argued out of their eyes and noses, and several of their lives. To speak without a figure, there has been a violent scene of bloodshed in the city of Braclaw, in which the prince Palatine Jablonowsky would have been cut to pieces, had not one of the Czartorinski party made an extraordinary and successful effort to save him; his untimely fate would have been the consequence of his own violent and irregular proceeding; for under the pretext of a public entry, he disguised one hundred and fifty noblemen, in the habit of soldiers, to whom he joined three hundred Tartars, who were to execute a project of a very different nature from that of a public entry. In the mean time the Jesuits, in whose church this scene of throat cutting began, have demanded 2000 marks of silver for this pollution of their sanctuary; for in the opinion of these Holy Fathers, nothing so effectually effaces the stain of iniquity and bloodshed, as pecuniary penance. If this reasonable demand is satisfied, they intend to offer their church to prince Jablonowski and his Tartars for the amicable meeting of the same good company.

In the diets that have been assembled in other parts of the kingdom, there have been also great divisions; and the contending parties have chosen separately deputies for the General Diet; but the primate has declared, that none of these Deputies shall be admitted, such seditious elections being contrary to the laws and constitutions of the republick. The candidates, whose pretensions cause these divisions, are prince Poniatowski, whose interest is espoused by the Czartorinski party, and Count Branicki, the grand General of the crown. This latter maintains obstinately his claims to royalty, and instead of obeying the orders sent to him to march with the army under his command towards the frontiers of the kingdom, persists it is said, in his resolution to assemble these troops at Bialistock, his ordinary residence. This obstinacy has induced the regency to have recourse to the assistance of foreign troops to force this nobleman to obedience, and it is affirmed, that the King of Prussia has ordered a body of troops to march into Silesia, to be at hand to support the Poniatowski and Czartorinski interest, which gathers strength daily and will probably triumph over all opposition. Count Poniatowski gave last week a splendid ball which cost him near 2000 ducats, and at which no cymeters were drawn, although the ladies and gentlemen had emptied above 800 bottles of choice tokay, to warm their imaginations in the good cause."