Dembiński Bronisław POLSKA NA PRZEŁOMIE

Brief table of contents:

• Preface.
• Foreword. The task of the Polish historian.
• Chapter One: Before the Great Sejm. The principle of political balance. Prussia, Russia, Poland. Frederick II. The alliance with Rosya. Frederick William II. Hertzberg. Catherine II. The eastern war. Prussian proposals and intentions. The left bank of the Vistula. Anlogies of 1772. Prussia's conciliatory disposition toward Russia. The replacement plan. Mediation. Catherine II's reluctance. Joseph II. Prussian king estranged. Prussia, and England. The new Russian deputy, Count Nesselrode, in Berlin. The spirit of Panin. Cancellation of the Prussian deputy in St. Petersburg. Gustav III.
• Chapter Two: The beginning of the Great Diet. The sense of nationality. Polish character. The new life. Prussian declaration. Throwing out the paragraph on guaranty. Prussian army on the Polish border. Prussia's difficult game in Warsaw. Confederacy. Primate Poniatowski and Kołłątaj.
• Chapter Three: Before the conclusion of the alliance. The taking of Oczakow. The triumph of Catherine II. The appeasement in Berlin. Lucchesini's alarms. Potemkin. Prussian hopes. Secret objections to Poland. Ignacy Potocki. Polish diplomacy and diplomats. Rev. Józef Czartoryski. Prussian envoy, Count Goltz, in St. Petersburg. Secret instructions.
• Chapter four: The Polish-Prussian alliance. The position of Europe in 1789. Austrya seeks a peaceful exit. Austrya and Russia approach England. Russian demands in Berlin. Outrage. Arrangements with Poland vs. secret indirect insinuations in St. Petersburg. Prussia's treaty with Turkey. Lucchesini in Berlin. Agreement according to Hertzberg. Lucchesini in Dresden. The matter of succession to the throne in Poland, unmoved. Lucchesini's anticipation. The tranquility of I. Potocki.
• Chapter Five: Prussian arrangements vs. Polish resolution. Two principles in the Prussian cabinet. Leopold II. England and Prussia. Frederick William II towards Poland. Polish distrust. Potocki and Stanislaw Augustus. Lucchesini a Galicya. Kalkreuth and his memoryal. Memoryal to Kalkreuth. Reichenbach. The decisive moment. Tadeusz Morski. Conferences. Lucchesini. Disappointment.
• Chapter Six: On the eve of action. Peaceful currents. Prussia, and Russia. Illusions of the Prussian deputy in St. Petersburg. The congress in Sistovo. Lucchesini. Striving for the dominant role of Prussia. Rosya stands reluctantly. The federation system. England, and Poland. Hailes. Change in view of Poland. Poland's existence needed. Consul Durno. Differences between Prussian and English policy. Lucchesini, and Hertzberg. Suspicions of the English deputy as to the aims of Prussian policy in Poland. Oginski in London. Hopes and warnings. Prussia's approach to Austryia. Bischoffwerder's misya in Vienna. A reminder of the political catechism of 1770. The Polish case. The question of "indemnification" of Prussia. News of Habsburg intentions in Poland. Prussia's vacillation. The return of Bischoffwerder. Prussia's dependence on England. Fear of war with Russia. Hertzberg's defeat. Generals against the war. Hope of a change of throne in Rosya. Misfortune of war inevitable. English Parliament. Pitt shaky and shaken. England's retreat. Departure of England and Prussia from the federal system. Tragic knots tied. Polish parliament. Resolution of April 1, 1791. by I. Potocki, and Pitt. Prussian and English deputies satisfied. Kalinka's court. Rumors and projects, hostile to Poland. Count Moustier's partition project. The Saxon Elector wants the consent of the three partitioning powers to accept the Polish crown. Gustav III thinks about the Polish crown. Piattole's project of turning to Austryia. Malcontents. Rzewuski and Szczęsny Potocki. The need for fortification on the part of the powers. I. Potocki. The resolve of the deed. The oath. "Assekuracya".
• Appendices. I Memoryal to Kalkreuth. II Memoryal of Ewart.
• Footnotes.