406 MEETING OF MUNCHEN-GRATZ. 



On hearing his late announcement in their favour, Baptiste and 

 Lily flew to him full of thanksgivings. 



11 But I believe we keep the clergyman waiting/' said he presently. 

 " Here Baptiste, my boy, take your pretty bride's hand, and away to 

 the church ! Come, my friendsto the church ! to the church ! 

 Ah ! my pretty Antoinette !" said he, as he passed her, " 'twill be 

 your turn next, I suppose, You see I can keep a secret. Come 

 along come along !" 



" They went to the church, and were married they say, 

 And went to the father the very same day, 

 Saying, honoured father, we tell unto thee 

 That we are m-a-r-r-i-e-d !" 



And the tf honoured father/' in the shape of Monsieur Claremont, 

 was not displeased thereat, as his son brought him a discharge from 

 Delcourt for the 3,000 francs. 



MEETING OF MUNCHEN-GRATZ : THREE AND THE 



DEUCE ! 



Meeting of Despots Diet of Frankfort Apparent Disposition of the German 

 People Political and Literary Their Supineness Emperor of Austria's 

 Fears of a German Revolution Ordinances of the Diet in Consequence 

 Last Argument of King's Duty of the Princes of Germany to Resist Noble 

 Instance of the Grand Duke of Baden in 1818 Sketch of Principal 

 German States Wurtemburg Hesse Cassel Bavaria Hesse Darmstadt 

 Nassau, &c. 



WE hope that Germany will yet make an effort to emancipate her- 

 self from the degrading thraldrom that now, like an incubus, weighs 

 down her energies. Swayed by a set of petty tyrants, who in their 

 turn worship in abject fear the rod that smites them, what hope of 

 freedom can exist for numberless brave men that now writhe in their 

 chains, unless it be by a unanimous exertion of their own to demand 

 a constitutional exercise of their own laws. They have a glorious 

 example in France, and the ordinances of the Diet of Frankfort were 

 not worse than those of Charles X. 



The despots of Europe are now congregated to wage war against ".< 

 the rising liberties of the Continent. The chains of Germany im- 

 posed by the Frankfort Diets, will now be rivetted, and even allowed 

 by the people themselves ; who present the anomaly of a nation 

 singing, with an almost ferocious earnestness, their songs of liberty, 

 and dancing to the clank of their fetters ! When tyrants confer, it 

 behoves men to whom liberty is dear, to be upon their guard. Then is 

 the time to make a stand. France by such means is already on the 

 high road to freedom ; England has made a glorious step in advance. 

 But Germany remains in almost feudal barbarity, still crouching at 

 the feet of her detested task-masters. 



Despotism throwing off the mask, has made a solemn declaration 

 of its principles. Through the organs of the German Diet, the 

 monster has already proclaimed aloud what are its intentions and its 

 prospects, what blessings it has in store we shall shortly see. It is 



