Austria and Prussia's heated disagreement over the…
1797 CE
Since Poland no longer exists as a national entity following the Kosciuszko Rebellion, the conquering powers find no need to force approval from a Polish representative as they had done with the previous partitions.
The partition coalition had forced King Stanislaus to abdicate and he retires to St. Petersburg as Catherine II's trophy prisoner, where he will die in 1798.
Austria, Russia, and Prussia seek to permanently erase the existence of Poland, even down to the country's name, as proven by a secret and separate article signed by the partition coalition:
"In view of the necessity to abolish everything which could revive the memory of the existence of the Kingdom of Poland, now that the annulment of this body politic has been effected ... the high contracting parties are agreed and undertake never to include in their titles ... the name or designation of the Kingdom of Poland, which shall remain suppressed as from the present and forever ..." (Davies, Norman. God's Playground: A History of Poland. Revised Edition ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.)