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Prince Ulrich of Brunswick, the husband of the regent, had asseeneral staff for a secret conference Their dark,

threatening glances were prophetic of rily flashed the

eyes of the prince, who, standing in theirwords of his domestic unhappiness, and of the idle, dreaent had fallen

"She writes ae,

in closing his long speech--"she writes sonnets to her lover, instead of

governing and reading the petitions, reports, and other documents

that come to her from the different ministries and bureaus, which she

constantly returns unread You are overned by a wo her first and holiest duties, and setting before your wives

and daughters the sha

her own son, your emperor and master?"

"No, no, ill not bear it!" cried the wildly excited

the hilts of their swords "Give us proof of her unfaithfulness, and we

shall kno to act as becon!"

"It is an unnatural and unendurable law that commands man to obey a

woman It is contrary to nature that the mother should rule in the

na--the father, whoe as the lord and head of his wife and