ITS

COURTS, CAMPS, AND PEOPLE.

BY

THE BARONESS BLAZE DE BURY.

"Esa, Señores, es la historia de las Asambleas Alemanas; y sabeis porque
murieron asì? Yo os lo dirè. Murieron asì, porque ni dejaron hacer, ni
hacieron; murieron asì porque ni dejaron gobernar ni gobernaron; murieron
asì porque despues de mas de un año de discusion nada saliò, o saliò humo
solo de sus interminables discusiones."-SPEECH OF DONOSO CORTES,
30TH JAN. 1850.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLA YOR

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1850.

"Here is the history of the German Assemblies. Do you know why they
died as they did? I will tell you. They died because they neither acted
nor let others act; they died because they neither governed nor let others
govern; they died, because after more than a year of discussion, nothing
arose, or there rose only vain vapour and smoke, from all their interminable
discussions."-SPEECH OF DONOSO CORTES, 30TH JAN. 1850.

LONDON:

Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

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CONTENTS

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THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

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COLOGNE AND ITS BANQUETS-FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. AND