2. That we, uniting the zeal for the faith of Saints, drawn from the blood of our ancestors, to the hearts of the entire nation. the Roman Catholic Church, which has been happily reigning in the nation for centuries, for freedom and national laws, abruptly abolished, allying itself with the thoughts and spirit of the brothers and citizens of the said voivodeships, principalities and lands in the nine forests of the Lesser Poland province and part of Greater Poland, united into one, warming some of the cold hearts to a quick homeland rescue, others from the enemy's hand and cruelty in the privacy of our homes, supporting and leading to unity, we took our steps in this humanity and slowness, so that all our activities appeared to the whole world to be modest, simple and sincere, and aimed only at the defense of the holy faith and the distressed homeland.
3. For this purpose, the capital city of the Russian metropolis was approached near Lviv, following the rituals of the Ruthenian Voivodeship preceded in Wisnia, serving as an act of election to His Holiness. Potocki, the starosta of Kaniów, and swearing in the church to the citizens of allegiance and ownership of this dignity, wanting to help the city and the landowners living in it to unite and to show allegiance to the confederated voivodeship in its general, and to communicate and talk about the arrangements needed in this respect, we were not so eager to take quick measures to persuade the commandant Ip's fortress Korytowski, to allow us, as authorized marshals, and especially of this free voivodeship, to enter the city and receive the duties of allegiance both from the landowners in the fortress and from the entire city and the garrison, composed of infantry and dragoons of the Polish Republic, but having asked for a worthy landowner and citizen of the Republic of Poland from among himself. We sent the Biki staroste of Verduli with two trumpeters and adjutants to Ip with the surrender points. commander, offering him consideration for the city and humanity and maintaining his character and command. IP. and the commandant, having forgotten his first act, in similar unpracticed circumstances, against the WIMci Mr. Puławy, the staroste of Zazulenice, a regimental commander of the Confederate army party, that in a similar way, being from the above-mentioned WIMci Mr. staroste Zezulenice, invited by a trumpeter and a worthy officer to capitulate and allow free entry, instead of listening and talking to the sent officer, he ordered fire in which the trumpeter in the square was killed and the officer's horse was killed.
4. He took such drastic measures that he would not see Ip. he did not want to be the starosta of Werdal, nor did he allow him to go to the city for a conversation, and indeed he fiercely turned his heart and eyes away from the duties that he owed to his homeland by blood, citizenship, character, pay and maintenance, which he owed to the most holy religion, which was drawn from the blood of his ancestors, and finally, strenuously despising the landowners in the fortress, and the city and monasteries with petitions and remonstrances, and having agreed with Ip himself. starosta of Lviv to a strong and scandalous nation, and in spite of the abomination of the outsiders, he took up the garrison and forcefully forced the city to put up a vigorous resistance to the Confederate army consisting only of cavalry, so much so that from seven o'clock in the evening of the first day of June, when the attack began, until six o'clock in the morning, it had to last with some loss of men from both sides, especially the Confederate ones, after having been driven from the ramparts three times. Finally, he came to an careless resolution that, after chasing the confederates coming back from the Krakow gate with heavy cannon and rifle fire, he ordered the gunner to set fire to the manor house opposite the embankments next to the Jesuit church, which, thanks to this fire, led to many divine sanctuaries, monasteries, manor houses and palaces in perfect condition.
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