The Emperor of Austria did arrive at Vienna on the
12th; and was re- ceived with "the grateful love and unshakeable loyalty of his people." On landing, rows of beautiful damsels strewed his path with flowers. The Diet addressed him with loyalty, but with significancy and firmness- " The Diet, representing as it does a free people in a constitutional mo- narchy, consider it their duty to preserve not only their own dignity, but also the sanctity and inviolability of the constitutional throne."
The 15th of August was a day of reviews and festivities at Cologne. The Regent of the Empire and the King of Prussia together reviewed 4,000 burgher guards and 6,000 troops; then went in the same carriage to the Ca- thedral, and witnessed the magnificent ceremony of consecration. In the afternoon a grand banquet was served in the Giirzenich Hall: two hundred and forty sat down at the Princes' table, and nine hundred at the other tables. The first toast Was proposed by the King in the following words- " I propose the health of a German, a faithful and tried friend, the man of your trust, who also possesses my affection and full confidence. May he give us a free and united people, and free and united princes! To the Archduke John, Administrator of the Empire!" The Archduke re- plied with this toast—" To the Prince who has just proposed my health, to the King of Prussia! May God long preserve him' and may our union and perseverance remain as unshaken as the cathedral of Cologne!" The two Princes then embraced each other, amidst the enthusiasm of all pre- sent. Baron Gagern, the President of the Assembly, drank "to the Re- presentatives of the German People; and above all, to the National Aa- sembly of Berlin." The Regent and the King, on leaving the hall, went to Bruhl ; where another grand dinner was given to three hundred guests. Thence they departed in the evening, severally, for Frankfort and Berlin.
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