Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

was also a means, and he involved himself in a business deal which, instead of freeing him from debt, placed him in an even more unpleasant situation. He did not let himself be stunned by this, as a once-blazing court-flag had too much of a share in this. He was therefore forced to transfer the remaining part of the estates, after payment of all debts, to the account, and indeed at the preferred price—this lack of heart and skill to see, to renounce punctually. Yet [he acted] according to the best, as assured, that it was to him when an opportunity [arose] with it.

Nothing but a steadfastness of soul and an inviolable love for the state moved him to continue to attend to the business of the Chapter with help and joy. He found this external unrest among the members of the Province, of the seven provinces, which gave him the opportunity [to see] that the affairs could not be treated as he wished, all the more so since no work achieved its fruitfulness, which the comparison with the Stribes-Recess likely a reference to a specific legal settlement or accord proves, which had to be held up from 1757 until the Cologne Convent, despite the fact that Mr. von Pfau had already been sent to the French Council in Weimar in this matter in 1758. He therefore found it necessary to remove from himself the government of the seven provinces, which had been attended to by him until then, in order to, as he believed, bring about a better advancement of business if the disgruntled members hoped that they would take less part in it. A convent was therefore called in Köhle, for which a collective assembly was different—Stampel, who had founded a closer union in Stettin the winter before and at which he had been involved, had a large share.

The outcome of this convent is sufficiently known through the protocol conclusion.

January, Year 1772

The good dissensions that had arisen among the members of the province were almost still simmering. Now, to resolve doubts about the dignity of our spirit and virtue, [he called] a commission of four of the most respectable confidants, who entered into a special conference with him, and then brought back to the plenum the assurance that they would henceforth be convinced by him that he was the legitimate R. M. Reverendissimus Magister / Most Reverend Master, even if the others voted grumpily.

Now he had more leisure to show himself as Visitator Generalis Visitor General, as a large part of his provincial work had been taken from him by the government established at the last place at Gomera. Baron von Weiler, who had formerly been a major in Imperial service, with a foundation-related business in Saxony in Ganert a spica aurea Brotherhood of the Golden Ear of Corn, who had also been consecrated into the Order in Rome in the seventies, was introduced to him by the superiors at Gomera as a skillful, zealous, and loyal brother. He still came into confidential correspondence with various superiors in France and Italy, who [could] see nothing else but that the Order was not completely lost to them either, but that they had to be provided with the same means, following the example of their German brothers, to work for its restoration.

Our High Master therefore accepted this expression with much pleasure and often spoke very uprightly with them, until they finally agreed with him, our lively Mover, as he considers the precedence of his duty, to send the mentioned brother a spica aurea there as Commissioner Visitor. He restored the precedence [of] the fifth province, which was on the footing, and with that, voted to be unanimously recognized as Master. He then traveled to Bordeaux and Lyon as the second and third provinces, which then, for that reason, [received] the Visitor General...