2. Since the Roman faith and the freedom of the external nation, as a Catholic and a nobleman, do not allow me to defend myself from being deprived of these two most precious gifts by my intense greed, I am convinced in myself, for the sake of God, faith and national freedom, to unite myself in the closest bond with its defenders, being sure that I will not find such an merciless national citizen who, because of the Catholic religion, would hold the position of in the bosom of the freedom of his homeland, breathing and living with these gifts given by God, he allowed his heart to die. To you, honorable men and knights, indispensable defenders of the faith and of God and his Roman Church, zealous for freedom, heroes, I do not bring tragic misfortunes caused by the violent laws of Christ the Lord, the structure of the Church of God and its pillar, reducing the freedom of the nation to rubble and ashes, I do not bring this tragic action and violence of will, which from the middle of the bowels of our homeland, from the Warsaw Sejm debates, forges of our rights like taking away the soul of a living man with visible humiliation of the rights of the nation, two bishops, a hetman and a senator and envoy from Podolia, these terrible thunderbolts against the enemies of the Roman Church of faith and freedom plunged them into abysmal slavery.
3. You know and see this, all states of the Republic of Poland, that while God and conscience are calling on your hearts to take notice without delay, I am informing you that at the meeting in the town of Podhajce in the Halych Land, Ruthenian Voivodeship, the competent authority in Christ, the Lord of the Roman Church, is situated in the city of Podhajce. JWW. and native-born nobility, clergy and laymen from the Kiev, Ruthenian, Volyn, Podolia, Bratslav and Chernekhov voivodeships gathered and gathered, looking at the universal with the orderly JW. Krasiński, chamberlain of the Roza region, marshal of the confederation, given to me, glorifying God's work by extending the confederation, to unite with it, obliged by the solemn jurament of the rota in the said order, expressed to the unanimity of the council and the jury, and those who did not come as native Poles and zealous Catholics, take an oath before me or a person privileged over me by the orderly, they have and should have a rota in universals above mentioned expressed.
4. I experience the proven virtues of love for God and country in the person of * * by giving this orderly of mine to him * * so that he can arrive at a place suitable for arriving as quickly as possible. YOO. JWWIMciów pp. and born senators, officials and citizens to the place by means of the universals and this order, as well as copies posted in the churches, and through his letters he notified and invited them to the place, he listened to those who came in a group in the universal given place marked by jurament, he declared to persecute those who oppose it, he put people in arms according to God and their conscience as equals without oppressing the weaker or indulging them. Having made a division against the stronger one, he appointed people under his command in one week, ad acta, and ordered them to come together under my upcoming orders to support faith and freedom, and he will use my lesser orders in everything to bring them to fruition.
5. What everyone JOO. JWW. and born to Their Mcie Mr. senators, clergy and lay officials and citizens of the voivodeship should be under the supervision of Confederate courts and declared in casu to oppose the faith and freedom of the homeland as enemies. Which universal is the greater importance and faith, with the simple seal of my hand, I confirm with my signature. Datum in the camp near Podhajce on April 29, 1768.
Rkp. b. Ossol. 329 p. 82—83.
Lviv, June 25, 1768.
Manifestation due to smoke overload in the Przemyśl region.
Actum LeopoU in iudiciis ordinariis generalibus regni sabbato in crastino festi Nativitatis sancti Joannis Baptistae anno Domini 1768.