[p. 584]
|584| from the old constitution should be retained.
As regards, before we go further, the composition of the estates as it appears at their reopening, most of the holders of individual votes had also joined and presented themselves, partly in person – among them six princes -, partly with the transfer of their votes to those present. Twelve of the nobility had already in an address of 3 May (Div. IV, p. 141 ff.) put before the assembly that to which they limit their expectations and wishes with regard to the privileges that were to remain to them from their former ones in the new organism of the state. These demands, moderate in their content and, what is likewise important, stated in detail and precisely, are also composed in an open, frank, yet fitting tone. Consultant Griesinger did indeed read out on 6 June (Div. VI, p. 113) a report commissioned of him on that address, but because this matter would have been a content, the assembly came to no deliberation upon it, still less to a resolution. – To that address the rest of the nobility of the kingdom had attached itself on 26 June (Div. X, p. 24). Likewise on the same day (Div. X, p. 26) another part of the mediatised lords, who (Div. I, p. 15) were awaiting the results of the Congress of Vienna on their relations under the public law of the state and consequently did not wish to take part in the negotiations of the estates, having now, after the conclusion of that Congress, like the Prince of Öttingen-Wallerstein, declared that they would take part in them, – with reference to the rights assigned to them by the Federal Act, namely to be the first mediatised lords in the states in which their possessions lie, or to the rights and powers that may yet accrue to them in future. – Several mediatised lords, however, had again not appeared this time. Also several newly elected members appear in place of former ones, who had laid down their positions as
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