, 1866-07-06

telegraph INES WHICH eXlenu through
their territories. This alone shows how
impossible it was for Prussia at the pre-
sent moment to allow ia her rear coun-
tries intersecting her dominions on whose
neutrality she could not rely, and which
were arming in consequence of the reso-
luton of the Diet. So soon as Hanover
had given her adhesion to the proposal
for the mobilization of the Federal forces,
it became impossible for Prussia to act
otherwise than she has acted. Hanover
will be held responsible by the country
for having rejected the treaty Of neutrali-
ty with Prussia, and preferred the Aus
trian to the Prussian alliance"
June II.
A Royal Proclamation has been pre-
pared for distribution by the Prusslans
among the inhabitants of the German
States through which they may pass.
The most important passages are as
follows =
"An endeavour has recently been made
to abuse the powers of the Federal Diet,
which during half a century has repre-
scented, not the unity, but the divisions,
of Germany, and thereby lost the conf
dence of the States, by making it the in
strument for calling Germany 10 arms
against that member Of the Bund which,
by its proposal for the convocation of a
German Parliament, had taken the first
decisive step towards satisfying the de-
mands of the nation. The war which
Austria is ~endeavouring to excite against
Prussia can find no support in the Fede-
raj Constitution. By the Diets resolu-
ton of the 14th inst, the old Bund rela-
tions have been dissolved. Nothing now
remains of the Confederation but lis
sound basis-vTZ the vital unity Of the
German nation. It is now the duty of
the German Governments to seek o new
constitution which shall be a vigorous
expression of German unity. In the case
of Prussia, that step is bound up with
another-viz, the defence of her indie
p%endence, which has been threatened by
the late resolution of the Diet. For
this end the Prussian people offer their
whole strength, resolved at the same time
to take up arms on behalf of the national
development of Germany, hitherto so
powerfully hindered by Individual inte-
of the Confederation Prussia proposed a
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condition of material protection and par
%ticipation in the national exertions. This
proposal was refused. Prussia cannot
now tolerate either enemies or doubtful
friends on her frontiers. The Prussian
troops do not come as the foes of those
populations, with whose representatives
Prussia hopes yet to deliberate in a ma
tional assembly upon what shall be the
future destinies of Germany. May the
German people keep this lofty aim in
view and meet Prussia with confidence,
and help to forward and secure the peace
full development of the united Father
land !"
The commanders of the Prussian corps
which have entered Hanover, Saxonv,
and Hesse Cassel hare received the strict
est orders to observe the most friendly
attitude towards the populations of those
States, and, in the event of their coming
into contact with the troops, to avoid
bloodshed as much as possible by endea-
vouring to induce them to lay down their
arms on account of their numerical in
feriority.
It is semi-oficially stated that several
of the Middle States which voted against