The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-15 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

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The following is the address presented to the KING
on the 10th by the Communal Council of Berlin,
beseeching his MAJESTY to abstain from interfering
with the rights and privileges of the Assembly :
Sire,—The conflict in which the Assembly, elected
by the confidence of the nation, is at this moment en-
gaged with the Ministers of the Crown, fills the repre-
sentatives of the capital with great disquietude, and
compels them to address to your Majesty the humble
prayer that you will deign, conformably to constitutional
usage, to dismiss a Ministry which is opposed to the
Assembly legally existing, and nominate a new Cabinet,
which, by its political views, may possess the confidence
of the majority of the National Assembly. The privi•
loges of the residentiary city of your Majesty, which has
already recently made so many sacrifices, are menaced
by the removal of the National Assembly as proposed
by the Brandenburg Ministry, imposing upon us the
duty of addressing your Majesty as urgently as re: pect
fully to be pleased to withdraw this measure."—Signed
by the members of the Communal Council.
On the 11th, the KING issued the following procla-
mation to the Prussian people :
i‘ The state of lawlessness which has for a consider-
able time prevailed in my residentiary and capital city of
Berlin, and which threatens to plunge the whole country
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the very depths of anarchy, has compelled me, by
the advice of my responsible Ministry, to transfer, the
Assembly, convoked for the constituting of the adininis-
tratiou, to Brandenburg, and in order to the carrying
out of that measure to prorogue it to the 27th of
this month. On the same grounds I have considerably
reinforced the armed power in this my residentiary city,
and have also dissolved the Burgher Guard, in conse-
quence of their illegal comportment in reference to sec-
tion 3 of the law for the establishment of the Burgher-
wehr. lam perfectly aware that those measures are
liable to manifold misrepresentation, and will be abused
to such end by a revolutionary party, and may also
excite apprehension in the minds of otherwise
shell-disposed burghers of the state respecting
the positive assurances of the liberties granted
to my people. But I am equally, and decidedly con-
scious that the future well-being of Prussia and Ger-
many justifies them in demanding this step of me and
of my Government. I turn therefore in this decisive
moment to the whole country, to all of you, my faithful
.Prussians, with the confidence that the illegal resist-
ance offered by a portion of your representatives, un-
mindful of their true duty towards the people and the
Crown, against the removal of the National Assembly,
'will be earnestly and decidedly disapproved by
insinuations
which would make you believe that I would abrogate
from the liberties promised in the days of March—
that I would deviate from the constitutional road en-
tered upon. Prussians Iye who stood firm in your
good faith of olden days to me, ye w
houho yet bear in
remembrance the history of my royal se, and its
position to the people, 1 conjure you to cleave firmly
to it in days of prosperity as in days of adversity.
But ye, too, are beginning to vacillate. I conjure
you to halt on the road of that steep abyss, and to
await the result which will follow. To all of you I
again give the inviolable assurance that nothing shall be
abrogated from yoar constitutional liberties; that it shall
be my holiest endeavour to be unto you, by the help of
God, a good constitutional king, so that we may
mutually erect a stately and terrible edifice, beneath
whose roof, to the weal of our Prussian and out! whole
German Fatherland, our posterity may quiey and
peacefully rejoice in the blessings of genuine and true
liberty for generations to come. May the blessings of
God rest upon our work.
(Signed) "FREDERICK WILLIAM.
(Countersigned) "Count VON BRANDENBURO.
" VON LADENBERQ.
" VON STROTHA.
" VON MANTEUFFEL.
" Given at Sans Souci, Nov. 11."
The following proclamation from the Commander
of the Burgher Guard was extensively circulated in
Berlin on the 10th :

" Berlin, Nov. 10.
" The undersigned, as well as the majors of Burgher
Guard and chiefs of flying corps (abolished by the
Burgher Guard law), have, iu accordance with the Na-
tional Assembly, whose wish it is to avert every provo-
cation to civil war, unanimously decreed not to make
the slightest opposition to the military force now about
to enter the city. They request the people of Berlin,
who have given them so many proofs of confidence, to
act in a similar manner. Their passive opposition
against an illegal and overwhelming force will finally
and assuredly secure the triumph of liberty. For these
reasons we conjure our fellow-citizens to act this time all
in unity with the Burgher Guard.
(Signed)

"EEMPLEA."