offer
no opposition to the resumption of Hanover by its rightful sovereign,
George III. This contemptuous treachery being ascertained at Berlin, the
ill-smothered rage of the court and nation at length burst into a flame.
The beautiful Queen of Prussia, and Prince Louis, brother to the king,
two characters whose high and romantic qualities rendered them the
delight and pride of the nation, were foremost to nourish and kindle the
popular indignation. The young nobility and gentry rose in tumult, broke
the windows of the ministers who were supposed to lean to the French
interest, and openly whetted their sabres on the threshold-stone of
Napoleon's ambassador. The lovely Queen appeared in the uniform of the
regiment which bore her name, and rode at its head. The enthusiasm of
the people thus roused might be directed, but could hardly be repressed.

Nor was it in Prussia alone that such sentiments prevailed. Split as
Germany has for ages been into many independent states, there has
always, nevertheless, been felt, and acknowledged, a certain national
unity of heart as well as head among all that speak the German language:
the dissolution of the empire was felt all over the land as a common
wrong and injury: Napoleon's insulting treatment of Prussia was resented
as indicative of his resolution to reduce that power also (the only
German power now capable of opposing any resistance to French
aggression) to a pitch of humiliation as low as that in which Austria
was already sunk; and, lastly, another atrocious deed of the French
Emperor--a deed as darkly unpardonable as the murder of D'Enghien--was
perpetrated at this very crisis, and arrayed against him, throughout all
Germany, every feeling, moral and political, which could be touched
either by the crimes or the contumelies of a foreign tyrant.

Palm, a bookseller of the free city of Naumburg, having published a
pamphlet in which the ambition of Napoleon was arraigned, a party of
French gens-d'armes passed the frontier, and seized the unsuspecting
citizen, exactly as the Duke d'Enghien had been arrested at Ettingen,
and Sir George Rumbold at Hamburg, the year before. The bookseller was
tried for a libel against Napoleon, at Braunau, before a French
court-martial; found guilty, condemned to death, and shot immediately,
in pursuance of his sentence. It is needless to dwell upon this outrage:
the death of D'Enghien has found advocates or palliators--this mean
murder of a humble