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184 [Kazimierz Malachowski (1765-1845); he lived to share in the

insurrection of 1831. Compare note 35.]

185 [Romuald Giedrojc (1750-1824); in 1812 he organised the army

in Lithuania.]

186 [Michal Grabowski (1773-1812), killed at the siege of

Smolensk.]

187 A book now very rare, published more than a hundred years ago

by Stanislaw Czerniecki.

188 That embassy to Rome has been often described and painted.

See the preface to The Perfect Cook: "This embassy, being a great

source of amazement to every western state, redounded to the

wisdom of the incomparable gentleman [Ossolinski] as well as to

the splendour of his house and the magnificence of his table-so

that one of the Roman princes said: 'To-day Rome is happy in

having such an ambassador.' " N.B.-Czerniecki himself was

Ossolinski's head cook. [The information given by Mickiewicz does

not quite agree with that furnished by Estreicher, Bibliografia

Polska (Cracow, 1896), xiv. 566, 567. Czerniecki was apparently

the head cook of Lubomirski, Wojewoda of Cracow, etc., not of

Ossolinski.]