, 1888-09-02
Foreign Affairs.

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BERLIN, Sept. 1.-The testimentary
notes of the late Kaiser William, abstracts
of which have just been made public by
the present emperor, although Of merely
historic value, have been scanned with the
deepest interest as revealing the light in
which he desired to be viewed by poster
ity. Each was written at a critical point
in his career and all are permeated with
deep piety, which characterized his public
dispatches. In the first, written shortly
before he was made regent, after quoting
a passage from scripture. he says:
when this writing falls into the hands
of my friends | shall have departed this
last moments to commend my spirit into
the hands of God. Should sudden death
overtake me, my whole life has been a
preparation for the world to come"
The second note, written after the war
with Austria, commences:
Since in 1857 | wrote to my surviving
friends my last farewell, fate has deeply
affected my life.
1t contains touching illusions to the
death of his brother, and expresses heart
felt thanks to the people of Prussia for
the sentiments displayed towards him.
In it he prays that God will allow his sue
cessors to preserve to Prussia the position
plainly assigned her by Providence. The
note concludes:
May god, in his grace will it so.
WILHELM"
MIDNIGHT, 1886. 1887"
The third note commences 1S70-7l with
the words:
God was with us. To Him be praise,
honor and glory" A memorable massage
runs: If ever the finger of God was
clearly manifested in history it was in the
years 1867, 1870 and 1871"
This and the fourth document %conjure
up a brief vision of events which marked
each year and loving references to the
kindness and magnanimlty of his people,
and both end with the prayer:
Lord, Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven. Amen.
The last, referring to Nibling's attempt
to assassinate him, says:
MY bodily sufferings are small in com
parison with the grief that a son of Prus-
STA should have perpetuated the deed,
which will be doublY hard to bear until
the close of my life and which will cast a
gloom over my heart and spirits for the
remainder Of my days"
With meek submission to God he per-
ceives in it a design to prove to him be-
fore appearing at the great Judgment
seat. He offers the warmest thanks to
his consort, family and the people for the
sympathy which they had given him.
The appointment of Herr Won Ben
nigsen to the g%overnorship of Hanover
has deeply annoyed the ultra Conserva-
tive party and pleased the Liberals, who
are hopeful that it is the first step toward
a place in the cabinet. At the last cleo
ton in the sixth district of Berlin Herr
Hazenclever received &c, 1000 votes, but
there was no anti-Semitic candidate.
The socialists, therefore, consider that
Herr Tiebknecht's election proves that
although there is a numerical decrease of
1000 votes there is no actual decrease,
but rather a slight increase. only half of
the electors having voted.
Hohenburg, who was arrested at Nice,
when about to mail a package containing
a Lebel cartridge, was a classmate of Her
bert Bismarck in the Cadets military
school. He has been a correspondent of
the Konische Zeitun0. He has followed
closely the French and Italian manoeuvres
in the Alps aud is reported to have sent a
detailed report to an intermediary at
Paris. 1t is doubtful, however, whether
anything can be proved agaitst him.
Several Berlin papers and Berlin cor
respondents of the Austrian journals are
making i'll natured remarks about the
prince of Wales. The Vienna DeutSche
Zeitumg, which is generally well informed
by the German ambassador and Berlin
inspirations. published a story of an al
legged misunderstanding between Emperor
William and the prince of Wales. The
latter is reported to have declared that it
was the late Emperor Frederick intention
to restore the duke of Cumberland to the
kingdom of which his father was
deprived and to retrocede Schleswig-
Holstein to Denmark. The journal further
pretends that Emperor William had the
prince of Wales in view, when In his
Frankfort speech he said that Emperor
Frederick policy bad been traduced and
proceeds gravely to assert that the meet
ing between the princess of Wales and
her sisters was brought about by this
affair. Little credence is attached to the