The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

PRUSS I A.—The Seßowing is the letter of our cot-
!Monde nt
BERLIN, Arlo. 26.
The Second Chamber was more crowded to-day
than usual, to hear %I. von Radowitm upon the Ger-
man ques'i.m. All the ministers, except You der
Moydt, w ere 'Regent. After the loading of the pro-
ttmol of the -last sitting, the announcement of the
death of Zimmerman, the member for Hettatiidt in
the Saxon province, which took place this morning,
/eying of the papers on the German gentlest on the
table, and other preliminary business, M. von Huta-
wits, oommissioner of the government, rose and ad-
dressed tee house as follows:
Gee arisen, -The government has commissioned me to
gara explanations concerning the German policy of
I squill begin by setting before you the point of
view from which the government set out. Whoever
has followed with attention the great political
movements of last year will recognise, as their
eommon cheracterietie, an impulse towards nationality.
Wherever me political body embraced several Rationalities.,
this impulse was expressed in the effort to burst the bond.
The continuaece of Austria under the same political con-
ditions was menaced by this fancy for nationel separation.
Let us hope that Austria will come forth victorious from this
struggle Where one people is divided among several scams,
the nudes cy ua the other hand is to unite. 83 :n Gee-
mane. But now mueh conscious untrotb, bow much im-
possible I..ogiug has this impulse been attended with. What
the demo re y undento xi by German unity we have seen.
lathe smaller antis the desired incorporation with a power.
11l wh sod adherence to thein:v7trttone of Frankfors,
would be more apparent. Amid all these different stirrings
It the rey..ution n to be stopped, it is imp. ratinly seminary
to arrive •...oet a. some stable political organisation. (Bravo.)
Pm this here wens two ways open: the tnneformatioti of
the coneeleratioa (booed) into a federal state (6undes-seam),
by dicta, ri .1 boroeeediag, as the Frankfort Assembly wanted
to do. A lat.r time will form an unpnjodierd judgment
with resat to the services of that AnesiLly. History will
weg'...,.. 01.11 what that Assembly did for Germany,butwhet
It pr. vent. len being done. (Bravo.) The conmituti in of
the Nat. Ta 4 Assembly affected to excess an unitarian form
of ppuulnf. Ike mu or the Prussian government of the 23rd
of Jaasiary tees shown how the government made every effort
to joie with the National Assembly, but in vain.
Then qui sties was, which should submit
Could the peennzunt 'resign Itself to such submission?
Clear!, n I; would have sacrificed the country, its pre-
sent o..isr, its glorious history, without compensation
(tCheers) .tuff look at the movements in Stuttgardt end
Dread ... losnad of the German empire there would bays
been a U rain anarchy. Neither eou'd the government,
coition cr it. regard to the interests of Prussia, tuns to pro-
fit the utoerressment of other states. That would have
been Mar u svelte. (Cheers.) Therefore the Prussian
goversuisto could and would attain what was pos.ible only
In the w. y .1 free ecneent with the other governments and
nations ...mobiles. Jerks and sense were her guides in
this dlit,:oit task. While one party insistel upon
Prussia • codeine the mere executor of the Frankfort edicts,
the otns r wanted to go back to the old cueederation.
The cap, isl dieletalty In the relation of Austria to Germany,
in the elector. of the middle German EMU OD all a:troy-
:sent. LAI: even in the opinion of highly respectable 'Mho.
friths at htne, that too close an onion of Prussia and Ger-
many would he a stuns of weakness to Prussia-all this
made tn. svurse at action for the government anything but
may. for government has not adopted the course which
stepson re is It will not go back to the old state of
things; it h Ods such an alternative for urjust and unwise.
(Loud .. . en.) The government would, by so doing, furnish
the rt • dionmary party with the most potent allies.
The n-at lustorical Crisis for our esuntry growing
oat id *ode a course would be a war for life
or deco-a war for monarchy or no monarchy. No
ether en-iris remained to Prussia but to fovea a narrower
hderation with the free comsat of the governments, and the
free am pto.ce ci the National Assembly. I need not at
tempt to demosatrato to you that Germany can be no oni-
%aim eta e, either as republic or manarcky. Bat when all
Satre*, imp alibis efforts aro set aside. the true remains. I
will not ra through the history of the Germanic coaferation.
The amnia ell thlrty-three years lie before us ; the result of
the sacra, of the diet Is limited to 'cords. lf that activity
Seals a.st avid to mike itself accepted as • mediating in-
flames between the government and its provincial asses-
bum it availed still less to create something positive. By mei
meets tn. 'lenitive power of the tonfederatioa 101 l into este-
leapt. That Germany should form in her external relations a
whale, that her policy and representation abroad should be a
so that sisals members should hays nothing to do
with toone• countries, does it need any further proof that
the hap ..i.see at he nation depeeds spots this consumma-
tion Who can contemplate without shame the policy
with b augle German states have so often pursued towards
She whom country. (Cheers) But let the total represen-
tation ai...ly only them, where the pe eon of single states were
not a4eq 1a e That the federal state may have the memo to
do this, a legielative as well as executive power is
nemeses". Tin legislative body will tn.intain the in-
terests of lanai, but the executive should be powerful and
and anio a-no fiction, no deneation, but eolith'. of acting
w.te it. ow force. A directory is only possible through
st. Levies. If the members act without commission, they
va p se ori. D. ; it they act according to instructions, we have
the old diet over again. The essentials are thecommon par-
i.t .nd the single espramecentral power vast is
form. Seen are the views from which the government
atm t.-ct 1 *id adds .me remarks to clear the protein irate
of the que•-ion. Great wen the difficulties which arose
from ptiag the prireiple of common agreement. Truly
d t te• goverumest regarded it as a holy duty to
s di.ty et need of the German people for unity, it must
long sec have gine up the task in nee of the self-seeking
and infatitetion which Pave grossed its way. Prussia,
by 1 near delay, would have been the leas: loser. The next
question that others to use is, shall the who!, of Austrian
Gs. may be lost? This question must be solved. Two
gra sr conditions had to be fulfilled, on the ono hand that
the former union should not be destroyed by close alliance ;
sad, on tee otner, that no arcane relaxation of the members
Am& sue• ovens than what was contemplated by the us-
time' sot. The government can speak without reserve
esseeri ing the meaner in which it has endeavoured to fulfil
thin c 3.DitiOnl; ar od consetasos comes to their aid. The
ga vi 7.. t supremacy ha. been commonly but wrongly eon-
Mo..* is the main obstacle to union between Austria and
y Prussia has been accused, with all the virulent.e
of hate, of wi.hilog to drive Austria out; but the conditions
of Proms are sot the result of any selfish aim, were not
dictated 1., oilful intone. Austria would not be able, as a
senaher of the German federal state, to fulfil its
define whether it enters into a directory, or whe.
the the central power be submitted or not to rota-
tion. Pres-is, however, places her whole European exist.
'see in 13.esease. Let us cast a retrospective look on
hostory, let us ask, whether Austria has ever .bowie
keneif to be really a German state, or ever been able to no
to IfAusfrie cried nut do so formerly, can we expect it
from her now that the constitution of March 4 has appeared,
o total-tog atilt mote strongly the Austrian collective state ?
Tre e • jr:oure has been started, that the constitution of
March 4 will have no p rinanest °eminency, and treat this
feet reost he taken into consideration; but Austria has
era file re nosed the assumption of such an arbitrary con-
* seal policy. Were, therefore, the German constitution
au me with the conditions required by Atop
Wien je Ley, the bond of vision would be too
lox; it Germany decides on the close connection
at the Cenral state, Austria will be excluded Hence the
tax imposed noon us cannot be performed with one and the
same stitsteon; a loner and a stricter alliance an both
again d. Prussia has both these tas)vs both are 'gushy
mime rose. ; the das p•rformance of both first restores th•
legrusat < stake albino in the German relations. For this
lo ors. aermtletime were entered up= with the Austrian
gannet prosimm le the epode; of the Drilla coaftreace
they ants ace assmisti with any result. Prussia on
that .00ns on went on the principle, that what
eta .ur..h in common should he ain't& and that what
kit at. nts object as special should be separated. Prussia
h L., to distinguish the essential fr m the linemen-
ii .1, it will not suffer itself to peas over into mere empty
form. Us, the lamentable spectacle be spared us. of seeing
th. G nation's efforts lased num d and ing Into such
knee Jravo.) As soon es Austria and Benno elv,ll
beer de Least themselves, Prussia, with her allies, will ere-
yak. thr 1) et. The further extension of the exiting &M-
-are. elem. e quires ordering and estelement. The central
Power rs' July 12 was recognised it is true; but. mush
as we all esteem and respect the illustrious chief
of
that power, who, in the moat dieted% moments, strews
to raids the destinies of Germany, as mmrtholsee,
all se• that the personage in question is no Wert
liftir pont to the task of this moment.
One lock mme, and that, too, late the hitalas,thil=
k, tar. His Majesty's government Is perfee ly aorioniolllo
what it is doisg, and it will sot &lush from its duty, aye, in
alums mesa. Whether the work undertaken W it will
have a happy hoar, that depend., in addition to God's am
alstmes, tapas whether one mortises will also meet with as.