The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-12 00:00:00

iIANOVER

We have great pleasure in publishing the following ad-
dresses to the professors of Gottingen who signed the protest
against the despotic act of King Ernest, one from the profes-
sors, syndics, and most respectable inhabitants of Kiel ; the
other from about 80 of the literati of Hamburg. It is diffi-
cult to judge of the extent to which a similar feeling as that
embodied in these addresses may prevail throughout Ger-
many, since, owing to the slavish subjection in which the press
of that country is held, no newspaper dare give insertion to
such documents :

TO PROFESSORS F. C. DAHLMANN, E. ALBRECHT, JACOB
GRIMM, WILHELM GRIMM, H. GERVINUS, H. EWALD,
AND WILHELM WEBER, AT GOTTINGEN.
GENTLEMEN—The undersigned inhabitants of Kiel have
been favoured with a copy of the declaration made by several
members of the University of Gottingen with regard to the
patent of the reigning King of Hanover, with the date of the
Ist Nov., 1837, and deposited in the curatorium of this Uni-
versity on the 18th of the same month.
The undersigned are not, it is true, natives of Hanover,
nor subjects of the Prince who has thus arbitrarily taken
from the country the rights bestowed upon it a few years ago
by the justice of its then government. But they inhabit a
German land, which has claimed its right to a funda-
mental law, such as that which has just been abrogated in
the neighbouring state of Hanover, and which for more than
a century has belonged to Schleswig Holstein. They claim
to be Germans—Germans by birth, by sentiments, and by
that love for justice and truth which animates the rest of
their countrymen, and for the rights which have at all times
belonged to German states, and which have lately been gua-
ranteed to them by royal promise. They await the fulfilment
of this promise, strong in hope and in patience, as it is becom-
ing to Germans. In the name of Germans this declaration
is made, so that Hanover, before it arrives at the full know-
ledge of all the circumstances of its position, may have the
example of the past to guide its conduct in a matter wherein
its dearest interests are involved. In this inquiry the name
of that man will guide them on who was once a citizen of
this town and member of the Schelswig Holstein University.
and who always stood forward the bravest in defence of the
country's rights in all its struggles. What he could not con-
qu r for our ancient fatherland, his decided and steadfast
opinions will aid in obtaining for the new. These are the
motives which have induced the undersigned to make the pre-
sent publication of their sentiments.
We are prevented from making known our thoughts in this
matter to all the natives of Germany by the deplorable con-
straint under which the German press at present lies. Even
in the journals of free Hamburg the publication of your de-.
claration was denied. Under these circumstances, we hereby
send to you, most worthy end noble Germans, this acknow-
ledgment of the deep sense we feel of the benefits you have
conferred, not only upon the freedom of Hanover, but of
the German people in general, by your patriotic and manly
declaration ; and our best wishes for a satisfactory conclu-
sion to the good work you have so well begun. The
injustice which has been inflicted on Hanover by the par-
tial abrogation of the Constitution is deeply felt—we dare
not doubt of it—over all Germany ; and this much
at least has been evident from the remarks of the press since
the remission of the patent of the sth of July. In spite of
reiterated assurances to the contrary, we are convinced that
we do not delude ourselves, or make any over-estimation of
the feelings with which the inhabitants of. Hanover regarded
the overthrow of their Constitution, as well when such a con-
summation was as yet but feared as when the threat had
ripened into fulfilment. But from feeling to doing is still a
wide step I You are those whom your fellow-citizens look
up to for one act which you have accomplished without fear-
ing the consequences which might have accrued to you-selves.
Taught by your example, these subjects whose rights
have been thus infringed by the Sovereign see the course
they should adopt, and the legal weapons they ought to
employ, in order to reconcile the duty they owe to the
Prince with that which they owe to their country. Such is
the impression made upon us by the discreet and measured
tone of your declaration. Most fully do we share your
views, that the efficacy of University teachers depends as
much upon the philosophical worth of their instruction as upon
their personal blamelessness, and as deeply as you do we feel
that the self-esteem of men, and their outward honour, can
never be so much degraded as when, acting against justice
and their own conzcience, they trifle with their oaths. Receive
our thanks for the honourable deed, whose high value we feel
in the innermost recesses of our bosoms.
The will that leads men on to deeds it is which can alone
judge what is to be the result. We know this, that your high
minded self-immolating action increases your individual worth,
although the consequences you anticipated may not ensue. At
all events, accept our sincere good wishes that it may not have
been in vain. May your good action and example become as
well known over all Germany as they are here, and may their
consequences be richly beneficial in other States and nations;
then will the power of monarchs who have infringed liberty,
be obliged to give way before the unanimous feeling of their
people, and not only Hanover, but otheir German States,
place, forever beyond the reach of danger, the rights for which
the German people have made so many painful sacrifices.

( Signed)
G. L. Balemann, advocate, and deputy from the town of Kie

to the Diet of Holstein.
Jensen, burgomaster of Kiel.
Burchardi, professor of jurisprudence.
Nitzsch, professor, and member extraordinary of the Counci
of Schlesig Holstein.
Pelt, professor in ordinary of theology.

J. Jahn, syndic of Kiel.
J. Olshausen, professor of Oriental literature.
A. F. Deuckmann, member of the College of the Thirty-two,
A. Friederici, advocate.
.1. Christiansen, doctor of laws.

F. Kierulff, professor of jurisprudence.
F. H. Hegewiech, member of the magistracy.
Willhofft, syndic.
J. W. Jasperscn, citizen.
Johan Schweffel, citizen.
G. Grube, merchant.
T. E. T. Bargum, citizen.
Dr. Fdlk, professor of jurisprudence.
C. H. Pfaff, member of the states and professor.
M. Tonsen, professor.
C. N. W. Wiedemann, member of the state and professor.
A. L. T. Michelsen, professor. _

T. F. N. Lorentzen, member of the States.
G. Hanssen, professor.
J. W. Karstens, senator.
H. Wolff, archdeacon or St. Nicholas.

G. A. Michaelis, doctor of medicine.

Dr. Behn, professor extraordinary of anatomy and physiology
G. F. Witt, advocate.

G. W. Forchhammer, professor.
J. C. F. Klemm, citizen.
Ohlssen Bagge, citizen_
Christian Klotz, merchant.
Edward Birch, British vice-consul.
W. Rahtler, advocate.
Grabs, justiciary of Kiel.
P. Erichsen, merchant.
E. F. Christensen, syndic of the university.
!gardens, candidate in theology.
Haack, senator.
Count von Holmer.
Dr. Asmussen, senator.
Wistinghauzen, citizen.
B. Schulze, citizen.
M. J. Sehiffe, advocate.
A. R. Clausen, advocate.
H. Schmidt, advocate.
R. C. Lucke, advocate.
G. P. Seippe, advocate.
W. Flege, merchant and citizen.
J. G. E. Eilers, ditto.
J. Bomelburg, ditto.
C. Gange, ditto.
F. J. Ibsen, ditto.
P. Thomsen, ditto.
A. Raljen, professor.
L. Prelter, professor of philology.
F. Koster, doctor of theology.
Dr. Emiel Hermann, professor.
Kiel, Nov. 30, 1837.—Morning Chronicle.

(From the Hanover Gazette.)

We are now able to give the speeches of the deputations o
the University of Gottingen, and of the magistrates and citi

zens of that city, to his Majesty our most gracious King, on
the 30th of last month, at Rotenkirchen, and also his Majesty's
answer to them :

ADDRESS OF M. EBELE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF GOTTINGEN,
AS MEMBER OF THE DEPUTATION OF THE MAGISTRATES AND
CITIZENS OF GOTTINGEN TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING.

" The deputies of the magistratestiii; town of Gottingen
approach your Majesty, in order to express, in the name of all
the citizens, the sentiments of devoted attachment and invio-
lable fidelity (which no circumstances will be able to shake)
to your Majesty's august person, and, at the same time, to de-
clare their sincere sorrow that some professors of the George
Augustus University, wholly mistaking their position, have
taken steps which are universally disapproved by the citizens.
We beg your Majesty to be pleased graciously to accept the
assurance that the citizens of Gottingen, who feel happy at
being subject to the sceptre of so gracious and just a Monarch,
will ever make it the object of their most zealous endeavour to
show themselves worthy of your Majesty's gracious intentions."
His Majesty was pleased to answer :
" GENTLEMEN have never doubted the loyal sentiments
of attachment to me of my beloved subjects, and particu-
larly those of Gottingen. If some professors of that Uni-
versity, unmindful of their situation and their duties, have
expressed their disapprobation of my patent of the Ist of this
month, and it has even happened that an Address of these
professors, intended only for the Curatorium of my Univer-
sity, has been made public, my paternal heart could not but
feel regret, especially for the interest of the University ;
however, I rely too firmly on the good disposition of the
citizens of Gottingen, which, in 1831, suffered, and was made
to waver, by foreign influence only : and it is, therefore, espe-
cially agreeable to me to receive from you, gentlemen, the
assurance that the citizens of a city in which I passed such
happy years in my youth are animated towards me with the
sentiments which are always the brightest ornaments in a
Monarch's Crown. I request you to acquaint your fellow-
citis,ns with what has passed here."
ADD tESs OF THE PRO-RECTOR OF THE GEORGE AUGUSTUS
UNIVERSITY, AS DEPUTY FROM THE LATTER TO HIS MAJESTY
THE KING, IN PRESENCE OF TIIE DEANS OF THE FOUR FA-
CULTIES.
" The University of Gottingen, but lately gratified by your
Majesty's goodness at the celebration of the Jubilee, feels itself
bound, by the inconsiderate step of some of its professors, to
which neither the pro-rector nor the deans here present had
any previous knowledge, to express to your Majesty, by the

organ of us, its deputies, the sentiments of unlimited confi-
dence in your Majesty's paternal intentions, and of inviolable
fidelity to their Sovereign.
" Though it might be safely assumed that these steps of
the professors in question did not properly originate in in,
will, but rather in want of reflection and momentary excite-
ment, and if, also, the conviction of the deputies who have
the happiness to appear before your Majesty is, that the
publication of the memorial of the seven professors o? the
Georgia Augusta, lately addressed to the Curatoritim of
your Majesty's University, did not proceed designedly from
these professors, but may be ascribed to an inconsiderate com-
munication to third parties, the Georgia Augusta, in feelings
of the most faithful attachment to your Majesty's august per-
son, must deeply lament what has taken place, but, at the
same time, believe it might cherish the cheering hope that
your Majesty will continue your undiminished favour to the
University."