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|577| themselves in the position of complete non-satisfaction. Original in this, but wholly in the style of the course so far (IX. Div., p. 3), is that in the following session, after the resolution had been taken, the examination of the royal resolutions was now brought up in a paper of a single member, Dr. Weishaar, and a committee appointed to examine this paper. This committee reported on 28 June, yet made no mention at all of an investigation and of the finding on this paper, but only moved that it be communicated to the royal commissaries of negotiation. This resolution of 28 June also appears in the main address, although this is dated 26 June, just as on the 28th the decision taken on the 26th to mention in it the high guarantors of the Old Württemberg constitution, namely the three powers Prussia, England and Denmark, is withdrawn. – On 21 July followed the royal resolution that was to be foreseen (XX. Div., p. 13), the adjournment of the assembly from 26 July, with the motive that the grievances of the land laid before him must be of far greater importance to the king than the present disputations over constitutional matters, and that he was minded to subject those to a strict examination and investigation by the ministers and authorities, – that, since the estates of the realm in their submitted papers had exhausted everything which they could conceivably be in a position to bring to the king, there was no matter before them suited to a deliberation with the assembly. Further, the king directs it to leave plenipotentiaries behind for the continuation of the negotiation and so to instruct them that an agreement could be looked forward to. – One will have to admit that this resolution, with regard to the two matters before it, was in keeping with the state of the matter.
The estates, on the contrary, testified in their address of 24 July (Div. X, p. 15) that they were not so
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