CHAPTER X.

The Period of Ruin (1800).--The condition of Germany--Courts and cities of the Empire--People and armies of the Empire--The emigrants--Effect of the revolution on the Germans--The Prussian State--Its rapid increase--Von Held--Bureaucracy--The army--The Generals--The downfall--Narrative of the Years 1806-1807, by Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe--His life