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MALACHOWSKI, STANISLAW (1736-1809)

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MALACHOWSKI, STANISLAW (1736-1809) , See also:Polish states-See also:man, the younger son of Stanislaw Malachowski, See also:palatine of See also:Posen, the See also:companion in arms of Sobieski. From his youth Malachowski laboured zealously for the See also:good of his See also:country, and as See also:president of the royal See also:court of See also:justice won the See also:honourable See also:title of the " Polish See also:Aristides." He was first elected a See also:deputy to the See also:Coronation See also:Diet of 1764, and the See also:great Four Years' Diet unanimously elected him its See also:speaker at the beginning of its session in 1788. Accurately gauging the situation, Malachowski speedily gathered See also:round him all those who were striving to uphold the falling See also:republic and warmly supported every promising project of reform. He was one of the framers of the constitution of the 3rd of May 1791, exceeding in liberality all his colleagues and advocating the See also:extension of the See also:franchise to the towns and the emancipation of the See also:serfs. He was the first to enter his name as a See also:citizen of See also:Warsaw in the civic See also:register and to open negotiations with his own peasantry for their See also:complete liberation. Disappointed in his hopes by the overthrow of the constitution, he resigned See also:office and See also:left the country in 1792, going first to See also:Italy and subsequently to his estates in See also:Galicia, where he was imprisoned for a See also:time on a false suspicion of See also:conspiracy. In 1807 Malachowski was placed at the See also:head of the executive See also:committee appointed at Warsaw after its evacuation by the Prussians, and when the See also:grand duchy of Warsaw was created Malachowski became president of the See also:senate under See also:King See also:Frederick See also:Augustus of See also:Saxony. In the negotiations with the See also:Austrian See also:government concerning the Galician See also:salt-mines Malachowski came to the assistance of the depleted See also:treasury by hypothecating all his estates as an additional See also:guarantee. In 1809 he died at Warsaw. His See also:death was 'regarded as a public calamity, and multitudes followed his remains to their last resting-See also:place in the See also:Church of the See also:Holy See also:Cross. In all the other towns of the grand duchy funeral services were held simultaneously as a See also:tribute of the respect and gratitude of the Polish nation. See See also:August Sokolowski, Illustrated See also:History of See also:Poland (Pol.), vol. iv.

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Vienna, 1900) ; See also:Life and See also:Memoirs of S. Malachowski, edited by Lucyan Siemienski (Poi; See also:Cracow, 1853). (R. N.

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