1066) ANNUAL REGISTER, i815. 
of the part remaining to the King. 
A battalion of grenadiers of the 
guard, andaregiment of grenadiers 
of the line, who had for some time 
exhibited a disorderly spirit, on 
the hearing of this intention, 
broke out into open mutiny, and 
attempted to force their way into 
Prince Blucher’s hotel, but were 
prevented by the centinels. This 
state of mutiny continued for 
three days, when it was sup- 
pressed by the arrival of some 
Prussian troops. The guilty bat- 
talion and regiment were dis- 
armed, the latter was disbanded, 
seven of the most criminal of 
the mutineers shot, and others 
were condemned to perpetual im- 
prisonment. The other Saxon 
corps quartered in those dis- 
tricts are said to have expressed 
indignation at the conduct of their 
countrymen, and their bebaviour 
was praised in a proclamation 
issued by Prince Blucher on the 
occasion. 
' This incident perhaps hasten- 
ed an event which might before 
have been with certainty pre- 
dicted; that of the final sub- 
mission of the King of Saxony to 
the conditions imposed on him. | 
A treaty between him and the 
King of Prussia was ratified on 
May 21st, by which the cessions 
to the latter were marked out, 
together with the conditions un- 
der which they were made. The 
acquisitions of Prussia are in ‘a 
general way expressed in the 
titles assumed by the King on 
account of them: these are, Duke 
of Saxony, Landgrave of Thurin- 
gia, Margrave of both Lusatias, 
and Count of Henneberg. The 
King of Prussia at the same time 
published a proclamation to the 
people of Prussian Saxony, in‘ 
which, announcing their union’ 
to his crown, he says, “ The ge-' 
neral agreement of the powers 
assembled in congress has assign- 
ed me your country, subjected by 
the fate of war, by way of in- 
demnity for the loss which has on 
one side diminished the eircuit 
of the states guaranteed to me.” 
It will therefore never be a mat- 
ter of question by what tenure 
this part of the Prussian domi- 
nions is held. The King of 
Saxony also issued from Dresden 
a valedictory address to the same 
portion of his former subjects, in 
which he excused the session, as 
the only condition by which he 
could obtain the restoration of 
the rest of his hereditary states. 
The following lines must: touch 
every reader capable of feeling 
the simple pathetic. ‘ All my 
efforts to avert so painful a sa-’ 
I must 
crifice have been in vain. 
part from you, and the bonds 
which your fidelity and attach- 
ment to my person have render- 
ed so dear to me, the bonds which 
have formed for ages the happi-' 
ness of my house, and of your 
ancestors, must be broken.” Such 
has been’ the fate of that so- 
vereign who’ had the misfortune 
of being the last of those who in 
the same year supported the cause 
of the French emperor! 
The new kingdom of Hanover, 
though safe in its main interests’ 
under the powerful protection of ' 
Great Britain, partook, during 
the greatest part of the year, of ' 
the unsettled condition prevail- 
ing throughout Germany, whilst 
waiting the final determinations of ° 
the Congress at Vienna. Of its 
intermediate state a view may be 
