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Efforts by Horace Walpole and others to sell the collection to either Parliament (for the British Museum) or George II failed, and in late 1779 the collection left England for St Petersburg. Hearing of ‘the approaching fate of the Houghton collection,’ Josiah Wedgwood – rather ironically, considering his own dealings with Catherine – lamented the loss to Britain: ‘Everything shows we have past our meridian, and we have only to pray that our decline may be gentle . . Russia is sacking our palaces and museums, France and Spain are conquering our outposts, and braving us to our very doors at home’ (239).
That savior ‘who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band’ has been read as a religious and as a revolutionary figure (2: 13; E 61). In 1794 a Polish military leader would take his place in the Romantic imagination beside Washington and Lafayette as revolution broke out once more. 2 ‘A Patriot’s Furrow’d Cheek’: British Responses to the 1794 Ko´sciuszko Uprising . . to have seen Kosciusco would have been something to talk of all the rest of one’s life. Robert Southey, June 1797 (Collected Letters) In an 1831 article of reminiscences, the poet and novelist Amelia Opie described a remarkable 1802 encounter with Tadeusz Ko´sciuszko.
12 In fact, liberals and radicals also welcomed the revolutionary changes in Poland. As early as January 1790 Thomas Paine had written to Burke with pleasure at the ‘contagion’ of revolution spreading through Europe: ‘Here are reports of matters beginning to work in Bohemia, and in Rome . . Something is beginning in Poland, just enough to make the people begin to think’ (quoted in Hawke 216). After the 3 May reforms, he told Thomas Christie that ‘though an adversary of monarchy, he would be prepared to strip all monarchs of their powers and transfer them to Stanislaw II Augustus’ (John Keane 447).
