How some were honored,
some deceived in the observance, need not lengthen out our present
pages; suffice it to say that there were stars then rising on the
horizon which promised fairer elements.
It may be recollected that at the signing of the partition of Poland
by the benumbed Senate, on the fatal day of its political decease the
young prince Adam Czartoryski, the eldest son of the justly-renowned
and virtuous palatine of Vilna, who had been so signal a benefactor
to his country by the endowment and reformation of its chief schools,
was sent out a hostage to Russia, in seal of the then final
resignation. His education had been noble, like the principles of
those schools in the foundation of which the brave, illustrious and
also erudite Lithuanian family of Krasinski had been eminent sharers.
[Footnote: Count Valerian Krasinski, a distinguished son of this
house, has long been an honored guest in England, and held in high
literary respect for his veritable and admirable works, written in
fine English: "The Times of Philip Augustus," and "The History of the
Protestant Reformation in Poland." The writer of this note knows that
he has in his possession some beautiful manuscript tales, descriptive
of the manners of Poland; one called "Amoina," a most remarkable
story; another, entitled, "My Grandmamma," full of interesting
matter, written as a solace in occasional rests from severer literary
occupations.
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