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That France was to have no hand in it whatever, no tool of France to be King; or, as they more politely expressed it, having their eye upon Stanislaus, No Piast or native Pole could be eligible. That neither could August's Son, the new August, who would then be Kurfurst of Saxony, be admitted King of Poland. And, on the whole, That an Emanuel Prince of Portugal would be the eligible man."
Founded in the Twelfth Century, and, during the Piast period, the seat of the appanaged Dukes of Masovia, Warszawa, replaced Cracow as the residence of the Polish kings and therefore as the capital of Poland, on the election of Sigismund III. . It has now a population of about 445,000, not including the Russian garrison of 31,500 officers and men.
These three Sons, of the late Polish Majesty who died in exile in Holstein, are the "Piast Dukes," much talked of in Silesian Histories: of whose merits I specify this only, That they so soon as possible strove to be German.
Christianity was introduced in the tenth century, and the earliest records of the people were preserved by the monks. We know but little, with certainty, until the time of Piast, who united the various states, and whose descendants reigned until 1386, when the dynasty of the Jagellons commenced, and continued till 1572. Under the princes of this line, the government was arbitrary and oppressive.
Kaiser has his troops assembled over the border, in Silesia, 'to protect the freedom of election; Czarina has 30,000 under Marshal Lacy, lying on the edge of Lithuania, bent on a like object; will increase them to 50,000, as the plot thickens. "So that Emanuel of Portugal is not heard of; and French interference is, with a vengeance, and Stanislaus, a born Piast, is overwhelmingly the favorite.
Let us be thankful for her that she has been granted this elasticity of temper, and that she is willing to the last to cheer gloom of whomsoever will be cheered in return for a little tenderness and protection. The small dollar 5 Tun. piast. The large dollar 3 metagals. One mahboub 7 Tun. piast. The drâa is an arm of strips of cotton stuff, about two inches long.
He was the last sovereign of the Piast period. On the death, in 1572, of Sigismund II., Augustus, the last of the Jagellons, the power of the king, already limited by that of two chambers, was still further diminished, and the crown became elective.
They were Progenitors of all the "Piast Dukes," Proprietors of Schlesien thenceforth, till the last of them died out in 1675, and a certain ERBVERBRUDERUNG they had entered into could not take effect at that time.
On that subject we could expend much talk! I remember that my friends the Pulawskis used to say, as they gazed on Dumouriez,217 that Poland needed a Polish hero, no Frenchman or Italian either, but a Piast,218 a Jan or a Jozef, or a Maciek—that’s all. The army! They say it is Polish! But these fusileers, sappers, grenadiers, and cannoneers!
There are legends of a first duke, Piast by name. A dynasty which bore his name continued in Poland until 1370; in Silesia, until 1675. Miecislas I. was converted to Christianity by his wife, a Bohemian princess. He did homage to the Emperor Otto I. . Boleslav I. aspired to the regal dignity, and had himself crowned as king by his bishops.
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