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6 [See p. 333. Rejtan had taken part in the Confederacy of Bar.

Owing to the disasters to Poland he lost his reason, and in 1780

he killed himself.]

7 [A soldier and poet, of a Wilno family. As a colonel of

engineers he fought in the war of 1792. He prepared and led the

insurrection in Wilno in 1794, and perished at the siege of Praga

in the same year.]

8 [See p. 333. Korsak was a deputy to the Four Years' Diet, and a

leader in Kosciuszko's insurrection. He perished by the side of

Jasinski.]