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London, England, 1817-12-10 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

BERLIN, NOVEMBER eO.
M. Chalks Von Ess, Commissary of the Prince
Bishop ani Catholic Priest, has published it Hal-
berstadt, in two sheets, •6 Plan of .a short History •t
Religion," ace. In a prayer appended to this Plan,'
and conceived in the spirit of it, he supplicates GOD
" to let all men see that what they have hitherto
named Reformation, has been the most dreadful Re-
volution on earth; that they may cease to praise 0 hat
began with the rejection of several doctrines of thy
Sox, and is now on the point of wishing to unite the
world in unbelief in the same."

The name of the student, who on the 18th of Oc-
tober, on the Wartburg. read over the titles of thirty-
Ai: works in alplabetical order, and called to the by-
standers to commit the m with the various ensignia of
degradation to the flames, left this University su early
as the 27th of September. to visit other Universities
and pieces of totunament. The came of the student
is Maffroan. _ _

It is said the accounts of "hat took place on the
Wartburg, have pro iuceda strong sensation inVienna

BILRLIN, NOVIIMBER !t.

By repeated endeavours, they have at last succeed
ed in exciting in the mind of the King, suspicion with
respect to the celebration of the 18th October on the
Wartburg. The Stud-ots of this place, who took a
part in it, have been subjected to an invtstigation, as
also an Officer of the Guards .who was present at
Eisenach. Those who have set on foot this exami-
nation, are partly persons who are knowing enough
to wish to advance their cause by purposely exciting
a suspicion ; but partly also persons who really be.
lieve that a conspiracy was actually formed on the
Wartburg. They will not be convinced, that a secret
onion was not formed there, and suspect the worst,
because the young men took the sacrament. The
suspecting line politicians, with all their acuteness
cannot penetrate into the secret. On account of the
sacrament they are in dread, lest the investigation
should lead to no discovery ; and the more cunning
of the servile party have thereby found means to jus-
tify themselves, for having excited the suspicion and
effected the investigation. eg Nothing could be
brought out, because the young men who were
seduced have taken the sacrament by way of sealing
the bond of union."
'the ideotsl they seek for a secret, and endeavour
to extort it by the terror of the Police, which is no
other than the secret, and the property and the con-
viction of every honest man in Germany I The secret
which ye seek is written in the bloody years of the
Revolution ay war, the oppression of Germany, the
liberation from a foreign yoke. a liberation not effec-
ted merely by Imperial and Royal Guards. What
if you learn, that on the Wartburg, on the 19th,
when all those who were not students were removed
from the large room, there were read :-Ist, The
Proclamation from Kalish; 4d, The 13th Article of
the German Federal Act 1.3 d, The History of the
Revolt of the Netherlands from the Spanish Despot,
in a true translation from the Tableau of Ancillon,
which underwent the purification of fire l —What it
you learn the very marrow of the secret—that the
German youths believe in the sanctity of the word
even to them by their Prince I That they attribute
the blame of the delay not to the Princes, but to the
Councils, which place themselves betweerrthe Princes
and the People, frequently calling themselves media-
tors, and not unlrequently are such mediators as the
greyhound is between the hunter and the bare.
Truly the German youth are not deficient in good
will and reliance on their Princes; but it is impos-
sible to believe that Councillors, who are imbued
with French principles of government, can be worthy
foremen of the people ; it is impossible to believe
that Frenchmen and Jews, or the friends of French.
men and Jews, can be the best administrators of our
foreign affairs and our finances.,
By several men in high office the severest censures
have been passed on the burning of several °diem
• works on the Wartburg ; in how far these men have
- spoken from conviction, or merely officially, is doubt-
ful. Neither will I attempt to defend the whole pro-
ceeding ; when the, censures. speak out and name
themselves, there will be no want of defenders. But,
the observation Inky here be permitted, that one thing
may be becoming•in youth, and another in mature
age. But if the censorship of fire /floes nut become
yotalt, we wish to ask—What age does the censor-
ship, stealing in the clatk, become ? The youth or
the ouse.—'flie minor or the major ?
If as open, frank, and hied decision, doei not be
come youth, what age, what rank, what character,
does the secretly listening, the lying in ambush to.

discover persfm% and th:ngs, Cie espionage and secret
reporting, 'he accusing and calomniAtiog, the break
ing open of letters, the invention of malicious lie,
such as that the act of the Holy Alliance in Eisenach.
Whom does this become

Prh.ces ut Germany, fulfil the 13th article, or you
tear the German Union, and give yourselves up singly
and without protection to/the hatred and the arms of
the enemy, the suspicion of the pod, the distrust of
the bad. It you wish that the Act of the Congress
of Vienna should be a regulation, act up to it your-
selves. It the 13th article of the Federal Act is not
carried into execution, jostler must be look• dto before
Ana beyond the Federal Act ; and the mediatised are
not wrong in dating their right prior to the time t'f the
Federal Act. This one will take one year of Ger-
man history for his rule, and another a different year ;
thus the discontented will appeal to imprescriptible
rights, and the powerful to the law of the sword.