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before the eyes of all Europe, aluaA§
sibility of this terrible -and el. as
the Prussian Government.
" During the whole progre •
-
that have broken out between the illiveriter
Austria and Prussia the King's Government .
used every effort to appease and arrange the lament-
able disputes. It has claimed for itself no other
rights and sought no other security than those based
upon the German Federal treaties, guaranteed by
the whole of Europe according to the laws of natioss.
In its last vote also, at the Federal Diet, upon a mo-
tion brought in by the Austrian Government for
mobilisation of the Federal -army, the King's Go-
vernment has most strictly adhered to the unequi-
vocal stipulations of Federal right, and it has at
the same time, with the most conscientious desire
for peace and agreement, combined the execution of
its duty with the most friendly consideration for the
Prusian Government—a course indeed which has
brought upon it in various public quarters the re-
Government
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of view has becu espe-
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request,
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through Hanover, permission was ,
for the passage from Harburg to Minden of 15,000
men belonging to the corps stationed in Holstein
under Lieut.-General Manteuffel. These same
Prussian troops, after arriving at Harburg, in con-
sequence of this permission, were then employed for
the hostile occupation of Hanover. The King's
Government is therefore unable, either with regard
to Federal right, or with regard to its especial po-
sition towards the Prussian Government, to recog-
nise even a pretext of justification for the forcible
measures adopted by the latter.
" When the Prussian Government declared its
secession from the Confederation, on recount of a
motion brought forward in legal form, and of a vote
thereupon, in an equally legal shape, it acted in a
most positive manner in contravention of the prin-
ciples of the Germanic Confederation. But when
it attempts to couple with its own illegal secession
from the Confederation the consequence that the
entire Federal treaty has thereby ceased to exist, it
adopts a proceeding by which the existence of all
treaties and the validity of international right
generally would be placed at the mercy of every
state strong enough to break the peace and to op-
pose the right with armed hand.

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would those huge spaces of waste pea
landr which are
obliged to be kept free round these perilous store-
houses, and on which farmers may not venture to
for costly magazines would di
and so also
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As we have said, the Ordnance Select Committee
have tried the mixture in almost every possible way,
and always with the same unvarying success. Bar-
rels of gunpowder thus protected have been placed
on bare fires, have had red hot pokers thrust into
them, and the loose mixture has been thrown by
shovels full into fires, but all in vain. It would not
explode, and, in the great majority of instances,
when tried in tolerably large quantities, it would
not even burn. No experiment on a very large scale,
however, was tried till Wednesday afternoon. This
was made in a condemned Martello tower called the
Pet Tower, No. 37, situated on the beach about
seven miles south of Hastings, and half way be-
tween that town and Rye. General Lefroy super-
intended all the arrangements, and most of the
other members of the Ordnance Committee were
also present with Gen. St. George, Professor Abel,
the Government chemist, &c. For the experiment
five tons of gunpowder had been mixed with 20 tons
of Mr. Gale's composition and packed in 338 bar-
rels. Of these, 100 barrels were placed in the
magazine of the tower and 238 in its upper
wooden floor, the usual passages being left be-
tween the barrels for the purpose of examina-
tion. It was proposed to fire the magazine
under conditions representing as far as
by accident or design.
cans of the magneto
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the mode of action of powder thus protected when
stored in a burning building. A strong body of
police were stationed at first to keep the spectators
o ir
ka coh f n
thee ; towerthen,
at a safe distance from the tower ; but this precau-
tion, though wise,was soon found to be unnecessary,
and after a time every one came as near the build-
ing as he liked. In three of the barrels thus stowed
away were three powerful fusees, each connected
with a small quantity of pure gunpowder. These
were fired one at a time from a voltaic battery in
No. 38, Martello tower, ahout half a mile distant.
On the discharge of the first fusee no visible effect
whatever was produced outside the tower. When
the second fusee was fired, a small quantity of
smoke was seen to issue from the chimney at the
top of the tower roof, and no further effect beyond
this was produced by the firing of the third fusee.
After a short interval General Lefroy, with three
other gentlemen, entered the tower and found that
the heads of two of the barrels containing the fusees
had been blown out, and a small portion of the
contents had been scattered over the surrounding
barrels. The protected powder, however, had
ceased to burn and was nearly cold. The third
fusee had not taken effect at all.
It was then determined to set fire to the build-
ing. This was very easily done, as the floor of the
first story consisted of loose planks, placed at a
little distance from each other, so that they would
rapidly burn as the air could get between them. A

The King's Government can, therefore, not ad-
mit the right of Prussia to secede from the Con-
federation for the reasons she has adduced, still less
to declare the Confederation dissolved in conse-
quence of that secession ; nor, lastly, to forward to
an allied Government with which she is upon a
friendly footing an ultimatum containing unaccept-
able conditions, and upon the refusal of those con-
ditions arbitrarily to commence war. But in proof
that the conditions required by Prussia were unac-
ceptable, the undersigned need only refer to the
comments in the annexed reply forwarded to the
Prussian Government :

" Every one acquainted with the circumstances
is aware that the demand for the reduction of the

Hanoverian armyto a peace footing is merely a pre-
text. it is apparent that a resolution neither ought
to nor can be arrived at in a few hours apart from
the Diet upon the motion for a Parliament
brought in by Prussia—a motion affecting the exist-
ence of the entire German nation in its very roots.
Not less is the demand that Hanover should relin-
quish in favour of Prussia important, nay, the most
important, sovereign rights—viz., disposition over
the military force of her own country—opposed to
European international law as well as to Federal
rights. For the full and free sovereignty of the
kingdom of Hanover was indubitably recognised by
the whole of Europe before the establishment of the
Germanic Confederation, and the Hanoverian Go-
vernment entertains the hope that rights all Europe
has admitted will not be allowed to be sacrificed to
the one-sided good pleasure of the Prussian Go-
vernment.

pile of dry firewood was placed on this floor at the
edge of the barrels of gunpowder, and on this

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the vapour, that the gunpowder was being slowly
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was irregular and sometimes very dense, nothing in
the slightest degree approaching to an explosion

occurred. General Lefroy was soon so far satisfied
of the non-existence of danger that he allowed
several gentlemen to look in at the door of the
tower, to see how the gunpowder was burning.
Two barrels of protected gunpowder were then
plead on a pile of faggots which were lit. From

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this a huge bonfire soon rose, an its flames were
fanned into an intenso fierceness by the strong sea
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broke up and let loose their contents in the midst of

" While the undersigned entertains the hope that
all. Europe will take note of this solemn protest of
weaker right against temporarily stronger wrong,
he embraces this opportunity to assure, Sze.
(Signed) "ADOLPH() ZU PLATEN HALLERMUND."

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fizzed and spluttered like a bad portfire. During

this time the ire in the tower continued, and smoke-,
but no flame, steadily issued from the openings.
Occasionally a sudden increase in the volumes of
smoke indicated that a barrel had burst and exposed
an unusual quantity of powder to the flames; but

so confident had the gentlemen become who had
witnessed the experiments that [they continually
looked into the building and actually went inside
the door to see how the powder was burning. This
they were enabled to do from the strong in-draught
of fresh air which entered at the bottom of the door-
way, while dense columns of smoke issued from the
top. So totally was the explosive character of the
gunpowder mastered, that after the fire had been
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Apparently, however,-even this considerable accces-

sion of air produced no effect. The barrels kept
smouldering from one to another, emitting the most
dense volumes of suffocating smoke, but no more.

In spite of the interior of the tower having been

fired, and the immense mass of burning embers which
the beams left, the conflagration, if such it may be

called, continued steadily to diminish as the barrels

burst, and the powder literally smothered out the

fire. Before nightfall the light in the tower bad

quite dimmed down, and it was generally believed
_ _

that in a few hours more it would go out of itself,

leaving half the barrels untouched and their contents
in powder, when separated from the mixture, as
little injured as if they had never left the magazine.

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