[p. 579]
|579| – because a ruler has so many means at hand to turn away those [who] appear before him with apparent humiliation, so that this act could be attended with unpleasantness for the assembly. – Was it perhaps afraid that its deputation might be cudgelled out of doors? – While the committee was occupied with drawing up the address, the rest of the assembly, in this distress, had addresses read out to it, in part from far distant towns and their districts, which were dated from the previous day, presented “per Estafette” on the 26th, and composed in the sense of the assembly. Of other addresses, of other content, which had not yet come to be read out, only the long list was laid before it, without stating the date of their composition and presentation. Among other essays there was also read out one “desired by several members”, on the allowances – refused them by the district treasurers. – In an earlier sitting, namely, it had been noted that the members refused to accept their allowances from the state treasury and demanded them from the communal treasuries, whose administrators, as it seems, were not all compliant in making this unauthorised payment.
The address now resolved upon by the assembly adheres to its previous demand and concludes, with much pathos, with the customary broad self-praise and self-testimony of its conscience, and that it had done nothing but its duty, that it had received from the people the most touching proofs of gratitude for it, and from all Germany proofs of esteem, and so on. – The King had convoked them, had given the constitution, whose basic features were considered above, had agreed to the recent concessions and, in spite of the assembly’s scornful replies to them, had allowed the continuation of the negotiation that had been set up and begun; the assembly’s being together was itself without any object; it remained reserved to it both to instruct its plenipotentiaries
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