He came from an influential magnate family. From 1771 to 1776, he attended the Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw under the supervision of Adam Naruszewicz. He contributed to Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne [“Pleasant and Useful Games”]. In 1782, he became deputy to the Sejm from the Novogrudok Province, then from the Volhynia (1784), Bratslav (1786) and Podolia (1788) Provinces. He was the Polish king’s envoy to the Danish court (1789–1790). From 1790 to 1793, he was the Castellan of Vitebsk. During the Great Sejm, in which he sat as deputy, he cooperated with the republican faction, which guarded traditional freedoms and feared absolutist conceptions of monarchic power. After the third partition, he served as Marshal of Nobility of the Kiev Governorate (1809–1812). He died in 1825 in his Volhynian estate of Pohrebyshche. His most important work was O formie rządu republikańskiego myśli [“Thoughts on the form of republican government”] (Warsaw, 1789).