This Napoleon refused to concede until Frederick William demobilized his army, a step that would have once more humbled him in the eyes of this people.

It might even have led to his dethronement.

For an incident had just occurred in Bavaria that fanned German sentiment to a flame.

A bookseller of Nuremberg, named Palm, was proved by French officers to have sold an anonymous pamphlet entitled "Germany in her deep Humiliation." It was by no means of a revolutionary type, and the worthy man believed it to be a mistake when he was arrested by the military authorities.

He was wrong.