text:  Thus at the very moment that France during the intoxication consequent on the triumphs of Jena and Friedland was losing the last remnant of the free institutions which had been called into existence during the fervour and crimes of the Revolution Prussia amidst the humiliation of unprecedented disasters and when groaning under the weight of foreign chains was silently relaxing the fetters of the feudal system and laying the foundation in a cautious and guiltless reformation of experienced grievances for the future erection of those really free institutions which can never be established on any other bases than those of justice order and religion