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|590| addresses of the previous style and breadth, and a plain draft of Dr. Weishaar for an address, composed without bitterness, self-righteousness and calumniation of the royal intentions, was accepted by the assembly by 57 votes against 49 in the sitting of 23 November. In it it is acknowledged, with expression of reassurance and thanks, that the obstacles to an agreement have been removed, and the appointment of the plenipotentiaries of the estates for negotiations toward a settlement is announced. – Herr Bolley, after this resolution had been taken, endeavoured in the following sitting, while the ballot papers for the election of the negotiating commissioners were still being handed in, by presenting his scruples to secure the insertion of some reservations into the address, through whose all too great diplomatic subtlety the estates had not remained true to their previous character; – in fact the plainness, openness and simplicity of it stood out sharply against the opposite character of the previous ones. – The assembly nevertheless stayed with its resolution.
In the instruction of the estates’ commissioners it was to be included as the purpose that a merely accessory recess should come about; this was rejected, but instead Herr Bolley nevertheless carried through the fine additional article (Div. XVI, p. 47) that the estates’ commissioners should seize a suitable opportunity to declare themselves definitely on the chief purpose of the treaty in the sense of the earlier submissions; – in these, as cited above, a settlement was restricted to such a recess. The
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