[p. 597]
|597| appointed on 13 May 1815, thus eighteen months before), it laid before the King only a committee opinion on provisional means, which it moreover had not made its own, and on this too it had not now, on its side, brought about any proposals for remedy. After the King on 6 December (Section XXXIII, p. 150) had given the estates to understand that he had entrusted to the Privy Council the examination of the draft of a constitutional charter and of the counter-draft that had resulted from it, and had adjourned them until 15 January 1817, the assembly dispersed.
After this so lengthy exposition – whose object one would misjudge if one wished to ascribe to it the purpose of a defence of anything other than the concept of the estates of the realm, bound up with the highest interest, against the actuality, so unsuited to it and yet so presumptuous, which has depicted itself to the public through the printing of its proceedings and set itself up for judgement – there remains only to cite the remarkable final result, the fate of this assembly namely, through the whole course of its long and costly sitting together, not to have brought about an agreement with the King in any case, but neither, within itself, a resolution on any content of any object of the constitution.
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