The Belgian Question in Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski’s Political Activity Related to Great Britain (1831-1833) ; Sprawa belgijska w działalności politycznej księcia Adama Jerzego Czartoryskiego wobec Wielkiej Brytanii (1831-1833)

From the very beginning of his emigration Prince Czartoryski paid his attention to the political game of powers concerning the Belgian crisis. The Conference of Ambassadors in London tried to find a peaceful solution of that problem, but at the end of 1831 an international tension around it still existed. The main aim of Czartoryski’s diplomacy was to convince Foreign Secretary - lord Henry Palmerston that Great Britain should not only support Belgium in her existence but also Poland in her right to political independence. In his memoirs and notes for the British government he maintained that... Mehr ...