Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

were brought to light, which qualified him as one of the greatest wits that perhaps ever existed. He also pushed his freedom so far as to write letters to our own Master original: "Hrn." himself; thus, one convinced the Duchess Amalia of Weimar of this. They marked his whereabouts, and she gave permission to have him arrested and brought to proper discipline for one year. This succeeded, and he was arrested in Magdeburg in the disguise of a deserter by a Weimar hussar, and brought to the Wartburg near Eisenach, where he died in 1775 of a stroke, without any remorse.

I turn again to the continuation of the history of our forerunner and of our Order.
A few days before the last appearance with Johnson of Altenburg, a man appeared there who was named Schubarth and was a Royal Prussian War Commissioner. He had, of his own accord, firmly opposed Johnson on behalf of the supporters of French Masonry and also maintained this stance against him. He joined us as a true advisor and a man of upright intentions, having been convinced of our system, and received in O? the name a Meridione from the South. He was a man of some standing; he had much understanding and a gift for expressing himself well. He had gained much respect among those Freemasons in Germany who belonged to the French system, and therefore he succeeded in having those who had resolved to work on the French system, and the next French faction, enter into correspondence with our High Master. Since he was now fully instructed in all their degrees, it became necessary to make use of his assistance. He showed so much interest, loyalty, and zeal in these correspondences that he earned the trust and goodwill of the High Master and the friendship of the

entire membership of the Provincial Chapter. He initially held the dignity of a Delegati ad fratres lat. Observantiae Delegate to the brothers of the Latin observance and sought to connect with all those lodges that wished to enter into the desired relationship with us. In a period of six months, he also succeeded in uniting all Danish, Prussian, Mecklenburg, and Pomeranian lodges with us.

Here he received, to the joy of the human heart, the fruits of the hated envy and that suspicion—which those who had the least respect for the clergy held—of undertaking this important task. It seemed as though he would proceed unblemished; however, he betrayed too much modesty, so that one found nothing to complain of in him, and therefore people were guarded once again. He first worked on a widely distributed, well-intentioned oeconomischen economic plan, which was later worked on by the majority of the a Structione from the structure/organization, and which received general approval and was well-received. The Livonian and Leipzig brothers organized their economy accordingly and are doing very well with it. During this time, envy took hold of some brothers of the Provincial Chapter. They examined the portion he had brought to us. He, on the other hand, seemed to take the reproach regarding his merits a little too much to heart and believed he had the right to speak in too high a tone. A judicial quarrel almost arose here, but since the main flaw of this economic plan lay in the fact that one wanted to withdraw the surplus funds into the Provincial Treasury, which would require much delicacy among the brethren, it was again withdrawn from consideration and left to the Order to accept or not.

As the a Structione had waited, as it were, for approval during the announcement of the mentioned plan in order to present it to the deceived brothers and to establish a separate chapter, he committed various errors against