The Czar has apportioned a number of estates belonging to
Polish patriots, among sixteeen Russian Generals; whose tenure is to be as if hereditary and in perpetuity.
"The estates," says the Imperial ordinance, "shall on no account whatever be parcelled in portions by succession, or be charged with any new obligations, Cr mortgaged, or alienated in any way. The right of inheritance is confined to all legitimate descendants professing the religion of the Greek Church ; and in particular, it shall always descend on the eldest child—on the sons in preference to the daughters. In default of a lineal heir, the inheritance is under the same conditions to descend on the nearest collateral branch of that family. In case of extinction of it, the estates shall return to the public treasury. This is like- striae to take place in case no successor of that family, of the Russian nobility and of the Russo-Greek Church, should remain alive. The endowed have to bear all the costs arising from the circumstance of the grant."
This decree is a violation of the treaty of Vienna; but what cares the Autocrat for that ? It may yet happen, however, that these Russian interlopers will be disturbed by the rightful owners of the confiscated property.
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