Czartoryski

Adam, Prince, a prominent actor in the Polish revolution of 1830; born at Warsaw in 1770. When the revolution of 1830 broke out, he devoted all his energies to the service of his country. As president of the provisional government, he summoned the Diet to meet in December, 1830, and in the following month was placed at the head of the national government. He resigned his post after the terrible days of Aug. 15 and 16, and served as a common soldier during the last fruitle struggle. He was excluded from the amnesty of 1831, and his estates in Poland confiscated.. His latter years bg spent in Paris, where he died in Czechs, the extreme W. branch of the great Slavonic family of races The Czechs have their a in Bohemia, where they arrived in the 5th century. The origin of the name is unknown. The total number of the Czechs is about 6,000,000, nearly al! of whom live in the Austrian Empire. The Czechs proper, in Bohemia, nunber about 2,700,000. They speak a Slavonic dialect of great antiquity and of high scientific cultivation. The Czech language is distinguished as highly inflectional.