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Updated: May 1, 2025
I have not read this dispatch, for I considered it more in accordance with the dignity of this body that the seal should be broken in your presence, and I now beg that you, Professor Bierman, as the secretary of the Senate, will read to us this dispatch from the General Assembly."
As Bierman broke the seal, all eyes were turned on him, and in this moment of expectation the professors were aware that their hearts beat louder and more rapidly. Suddenly Professor Bierman uttered a cry, a cry of horror, which awakened an echo in every breast. "Proceed," commanded the president, with stony composure. "I cannot," murmured Bierman, as he sank back powerless in his chair.
"Yes, refused it; he declares that he will not allow the actors to be expelled from Halle, until it can be satisfactorily proved that they have occasioned public disturbances in our midst." "This is unheard-of injustice," exclaimed Professor Bierman. "It is a new proof of the king's utter godliness," said Professor Heinrich.
Professor Bierman instantly summoned assistance, and the insensible form of the president was borne from the room, and a messenger sent for a physician. When the professors had become somewhat composed, Bierman announced to them that he had a proposition to make which he hoped would meet with their approval.
President Franke received with the utmost composure the official dispatch, containing the decision of the General Assembly, and called an immediate meeting of the Senate for its perusal. Whilst awaiting the opening of the meeting, Professor Heinrich was expressing to his friend, Professor Bierman, his impatience to know the contents of this dispatch. "I am not at all impatient," replied Bierman.
The proposal of Bierman met with entire approval; and the petition was prepared, signed by all the professors, and sent to Berlin by one of their number. The king, however, declined to receive him, and his only answer was that in eight days the Senate would be made acquainted with his final decision. The professors convinced themselves that there was comfort in this answer.
"Ah, then," cried Professor Bierman, "our troubles are at an end!" "Not so," said Professor Franke, gloomily; "the wishes of the servants of the Lord do not always meet with the approbation of kings. King Frederick the Second has refused our petition which was presented to him by the General Directory." "Refused it?" exclaimed the two professors.
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