Star.
London, England, 1817-09-27 00:00:00

PRICE SEVE -PENCE,

GARMAN PIPERS.

BERLIN, sItFIF.MBER 7.

In N0."245 of the Bremen Goviee great impnrtann
is attached to the arrest of Massenbach, wltich is
styled that of A tree German in a free German city.
That event has, howeveo. excited no great surpriss
here even aniong the moat decided opposition charge-
'Massenb ech is nu (re.- G rman, bit, a. Prussian
Officer and subject. In 1808 hr would. with many
of his ASS,3I; sires, hay been •ried by
had r:e not sought refit.-- in PIII4II / His miens and
niistleireanouts would long .inc•• have been l-irgot.
tett. had he nit revived the rec•.lt,ction at is. by
thr.ater.ing to sell state docume.• s. of which he (mist
have gained p.ssession by unl. • tut means. 'Chi taws
tegotte that his case should immediately undergo a
criminal isivestipti:ll.
Many rumours prevail here respecting a ehangeof
administrAtion: they have origin ,ted sn cotisi (Intense
ut the serions diners of Prince H rd• • berg. whit re.
mains at Pyrtnont. The Privy Cotinsell r R rhea,
who olficiAtcs in his stead in the fin inciat lepars.
meat, has .viitten to infirm the K,ng that Ire cAmlot
uccompatiy his M .j:sty on his purity), r,r aft: provin-
ces on the Rhitio. All these reports ate extremely
precipitate, and serve only to make m Anita- t the s fishes
of one or the other party. The Privy Cotinselibek
in con,eguence of illness, (he hws for a lang
rime .titY. red from • disorder of the liver,7 has been
obliged to ..bandon ihe Crown Prince on his journey,
A:kJ is at present in this city. This incident
,is also
rn 4.4 e the grott.id of talee representations.
l'itough the calling out of Ike horses of the Land-
web,. C produced no disturbance here, yet it
has excivil cors:,Licrahl2 dissatisfaction ; and As this
tbabati.taci.on apiwar% justifiable:, it is expected that
nec,:sstity Norse.: t. iif b hired by the C..t p nation
itt the City, acid the expense coliec:ed fr ttie inha-
,L 'Mains Along with the rent-tax. We have ca:letl
dibsithi.:r.tioss jogai ible, as the raising or wctlY
tatty forfora tortt.ight's err:ere:sing must be useless, tot
in that time thither the arse our his rider car.
1 Any mine. A Landwelsr Cavalry should be raised
rit die country among the peasants, who have Irons
I}otitis been acenstornedso ride and manage herwr..

'F10.•.1 A GERMAN PAPER.

Amorl the &clam .eons to the Da t, that of the
States of the Principality of Uppe•Detmold are par.
titularly deserving of notice. The very .ilsl Cnnsti-
tut;orsot 114 country secured to the States distir.
guisheil priiileges, and breathed a praise-worthy-
h ,ernolie •Itweenthe Government and the Stetesfor
temmon:Rood , a general concerience in the
Legislation, even in matters of Police regul.tion, by
meens of Committees of the States; an express Veto
n lawe relative to taxation; vigilance and pietection
f r he Couseitutims. and the constitutionxl rights of
all classes of subjects; a perticipetion by deputed
assessors lb the'Supremil Tribunals of the land; par.
ticipation in the title dining the minority tit the
if near. by nears .4 tour C', Tutors from the States;
mediation, and the power of settling the disputes
amo.ig the various lines of the ruling House; pard-
civation in the guarantee of nearly all contracts
etf„sii.g to ti.e Counts y and that House; and, finally,
a p erliCipatit+ll in the directian and administration of
all taxes. These various rights and privileges were
eeereised by the States in virtue of the most solemn
coi.t,acts, and insAinated in that spirit of legal (me-
d..= which, from the earliest times, was the heritage
of ail the triers of the German race, and particularly
of iii- old Saxons. but, since the digs ilution of the
Eartere the reigning Princess has, with respect to the
Constitutional; of the States, which have hith-nto
tuen consideted as sactrd, entertained very tiiffetent
views hum the States The Ptincess, without at-
touptiog Lorna:illy to email the Constituttou, Las
s:nce In- accession to the Confederation of the, Rhine
ny beg conduct evinced that she does not consider
heeselt any longer bound by it, Notwithstandieg
the events which shoe ICiIS have taken place in
Germany. the dissolution of the Confederation of the
and the Federal Act. she still considers her-
self bound to no other acknowledgment than the in•
truductien of a new Constitution, quite independent
of the old one. The States again, while they have
repeatedly declared themselves ready to accede to any
modineation of the old Constitution which the spirit
of the times, or any decree of the Diet may render
necessary, pee.ist at the same time in maintaining,
that by the obtaining of sovereignty the old Constitu-
tion lost nothing of its validity, and did not cease to
bind the Government towaids the States, and that
this was more partieularly the case as the territories
of the Lend of Lippe have remained unchanged. In
the Memorial presented to the Diet, it is said, in sup.
port of these views, " The existing Constitution with-
held horn the country by the Piincess may not, per.
haps, be absolutely the best; buttrons time immemorial
the inhabitants of the country of Lippe have lived
happily wider its protection ; it may not, perhaps, be
the most proved and ipproved, but it has been proved
and approved of in joy and sorrow during the vicis.
situdcs at centuries; and, at all events, it has strong
claims to preference over' those ephemeral Ccnstit
tions which, in times of hasty Legislation, the morn.
log. calls fortis to disappgat in the evening.
this legal Constitution, which, if not the best, has at
least the merit of having been, long ;tied, and rests
on the solemn ohligatioas, and from its venerable
antiquity is entwined in the history of the country
and the love of its inhabitants, may be made still
better than it is, the first step can be no other than
this, that it should brefirst acknowledged in its punt?.
and recalled to life. This justice, ditty, a respect to
antiquity, and the sacredness of contracts, equally
mand." And again : •' What confidence could we
have in a new Constitution, whetlier better or worse
than the old, it iu the very mower i.t its estaisiistititerit
st proved that the sanctity c.f contracts is mere!, a
ay, walnut ceremony, be
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