Year: 1870

regarded the renuncaton Of the Spanish throne by the
the French Government would have permitted his
occupation OF the but he he feared tna pomd
take place account OF our proceeding The germ must
be rooted out and he regarded 1t from the point Of
served no friendly course toward France,
knowedged as he knew b all the Great & fSse5 rSnGv ,H H
good relations with Prussia and he knew OF me that
working to the same eses ea9 Te n means 10 en


pacfyng influence and he proposed FOR my consider
alton whether Letter from 1ae kng 10 e 70 Ss
chvalrous heart Of your Royal Majesty which would


Thereby could only be said that your Royal Majesty
after having authorized Prince Leopold OF Hohenzoern
approaching to the interests dignity OF the
French nation; the King might unite IN the tae , b
and in the hope that every ground Of between
our two Governments would thereby disappear sncn
would tend to appease the popular disposition be
contained in this letter. still he would previously re
with the Emperor. This argument was peculiarly
offensive.


would be rendered much difficult by his declara-
ton given in the Chamber Of Deputies on the 9Th inst
deeply insulting to your Royal Majesty. He wanted to
contest that said that Prussia was not named at all ana
quiet the excited Chamber; In the mean time the Min
Which the de Brought to his nowedg
NJ. Olivier was earnest In recommending tne
hsas asHs and and n n'fs


instantly in favor of such +, A., letter IL, nit, to


could undertake t, they would consider themselves
obliged to intrust this question 10 Count Benedet,
position they required such a compromise quiet the
excited minds, they added that such a letter would
authorize them To appear defenders OF your Koyai
Majesty attacks not discontinued Both re-
marked me- in conclusion that they could not cOneea
from me that proceeding in the HOhenzoernSpanish
affair has excited the French nation much more thah
has occnpied the Emperor. . ,.,o,
the remark that believed that the Prince OF H0hen
zoern ronOunced at the instance OF your Royal maesl
but contested this, and designated the renueaton s
certainly resting upon the initiative OF the Prince OF
HohenzoIern himself The two Ministers in their great
urgency wished that would make the case known ny
tele graph but found this unnecessary"


To this dispatch Count Bismarck intimated to
Baron Won Werther that he was very much aston
ished that he could erquetly listen to such prop
osition of letter of apology from the King to the
Emperor and that if the French Government had
such communications to make, they should be left to
make them in writing to be transmitted to Berlin.
As they saw that nothing more was to be accom-
pshed in this way they sent instructions to Bene-
detti, who at Ems proposed them to the King with
the result already known.


The Prussians have been taken entirely by sur
prise, and were unable to commence the work of
mobilizing the army before the declaration of
war was already known; but it is astonishing to
remark how quietly and efectually the work of
armament goes on. The headquarters of the army
are at Berlin, and will remain here until all the
troops are on their way to the front As learn
to-day the French unprepared so far as mill
tary matters are concerned, as the Germans Every
days delay of hostility is Of inestimable value to
the Prussians for while their frontiers are open to
the attack of the French in order to protect them
they obliged to transport troops over twice
the ground that the enemy would be obliged
to travel in invading Germany. In week
at the most the French will have lost the best chance
they can have because their military preparations
have not kept pace with their precptate diplomacy.
Ry decree of tie King the districts of the eighth
rhine Province), eleventh Hesse-Nassau), tenth
(Hanover, ninth Scheswig- -Holstein) second Pome-
rana) and first provinces of Prussia) army corps,
are declared under martial law. This includes the
territory near the coming field of battle and the
northern and eastern coasts.