Cologne, May 15. No sooner had the Holy Alliance of the knout 
imposed a brand-new state-of-siege Constitution on Prussia? than it 
favoured us today with a second document of no less interest. Those 
nationally-assembled milksops of Frankfurt, who by their radical 
philistinism, cowardice and doltishness so faithfully assisted the paid 
traitors of the German people for a whole year in working for the © 
counter-revolution, are now reaping what they sowed.” If it were 
possible for some glimmer of light to occur in the minds of our 
National Assembly deputies, and for their breasts to be filled not 
merely with indignation inspired by March beer, but at least with a 
small degree of revolutionary indignation and energy, then that ought to 
be effected by the following “royal order” of the subordinate knyazin 
Charlottenburg ***: 

“Royal Order 

“We, Frederick William, by the grace of God King of Prussia etc. etc., hereby, on the 
proposal of our Ministry, order the following: 

§1 

“The mandate of the deputies elected iri the Prussian state to the German 
National Assembly on the basis of the Decrees of the German Confederation of 
March 30 and April 7, 1848, and of Our Order of April 11, 1848, has ceased to 
be valid. 

§2 

“This Our present Order is to be put before the deputies by Our 

Plenipotentiary in Frankfurt am Main for their guidance and with the 

@ See this volume, pp. 430-31.— Ed. 

directive to refrain from any participation in the further 
proceedings of the Assembly. 

“Given in Charlottenburg, May 14, 1849 
Frederick William 

Count von Brandenburg, von Ladenberg, von Manteuffel, 
von Strotha, von der Heydt, von Rabe, Simons” 

to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 299, time 

May 16, 1849