Supplement to No. 141 of the “Neue Rheinische Zeitung”

Extra-Blatt  
No. 141, 12 November 1848.  
Extra-Blatt  
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.  
to No. 141 of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.  
Sunday, 12 November, 10 o’clock in the evening.  

(*) B e r l i n, 1 1 Nov., evening, quarter to 8 o’clock.  

Towards 6 o’clock it became known that an order had been sent to Rimpler to deliver up all the weapons of the Citizens’ Militia by 4 o’clock tomorrow morning. The Assembly nonetheless decided:  
1) that General Brandenburg is a high traitor; 2) that the Citizens’ Militia is not to give up its weapons and, in case of necessity, is to repel force by force; 3) that every officer who orders firing upon the citizens is to be indicted for treason. – In addition, a commission was appointed to deliberate on the refusal of taxes.  
The Assembly had already appointed a commission in its morning sitting to deliberate on the refusal of taxes.

When the National Assembly appeared in front of the Schauspielhaus, it found the entrance barred. Inside, a company of soldiers was bivouacking, whose captain refused Herr von Unruh entry. The National Assembly then proceeded to the Aula, where entry was likewise denied. It then held its sitting in the Hôtel de Russie.

11 November, evening. The National Assembly transferred its afternoon sitting to the Schützenhaus in Lindenstrasse. On Monday it will move into the Cologne Town Hall. I hear that the Stock Exchange has offered credit, and the city councillors are willing to guarantee the daily allowances. Several deputations [from Spandau, Magdeburg, Pomerania] have arrived to recognise the right of the Assembly.

In the course of the day a “proclamation” of the King appeared, countersigned by the ministers. This proclamation, reminiscent of similar proclamations of Dom Miguel, seeks to justify the adjournment of the National Assembly. A second royal decree dissolves the Citizens’ Militia, and a third appoints Rintelen, chief president of the High Regional Court in Naumburg, as Minister of Justice.  
The Royal Supreme Tribunal, after Herr Bornemann had submitted to it the question: whether the Crown is entitled to adjourn, transfer, or close the National Assembly assembled here in the name of the entire country, has unanimously answered: “No!”

In Berlin a rumour circulated that in Breslau the military had been driven out of the city and Brandenburg’s hotel destroyed.

We give no credence to this rumour, since a letter from Breslau just now received, dated 11 November, one o’clock at night, contains nothing of it. The main content of this letter is as follows:

The Central Committee of the Citizens’ Militia, at its meeting of 10 November, resolves to request the Magistrate (and the city councillors) to immediately effect the general arming of all men capable of bearing arms and to declare that it recognises and protects the National Assembly under all circumstances and sees in it alone the seat of government.

To a deputation sent to him, the Chief President declared that he would not abandon the legal ground, but would never undertake anything against the National Assembly, nor lend a hand to any such undertaking. He would resign his office as soon as anything contrary to law was demanded of him. He did not recognise the necessity of adjourning the National Assembly.

To these declarations the Police President who was present subscribed. He conceded no right to dissolve the Chamber and would immediately resign his office if anything of that sort should happen.

The Central Committee of the Breslau Citizens’ Militia declares itself permanent.

Since the National Assembly has declared Prime Minister Brandenburg a high traitor, the obligation to pay taxes ceases of itself, for one may not support his treasonable administration with taxes. – The payment of taxes is therefore now high treason, refusal to pay taxes the first duty of the citizen.