nine in the morning
Amidst these bipeds and quadrupeds , Lenhart went up and down relating what fine things he had seen in Paris , and holding everybody 's attention . He it was who had devised this meeting of his fellow inhabitants of Sachsenhausen , and who , by whispered instructions , had invited them to bring their dogs . Men and dogs alike gazed towards the window from which the proclamation was to be made . They had been waiting there since nine in the morning . At eleven the members of the Senate , the Christian and Jewish clergy , the professors , the chief officials , and Major-General Boyer , with the officers of the garrison , were gathered together in the Hall of the Emperors in the Roemer , to witness the taking possession of the formerly free town of Frankfort by His Gracious Majesty , the King of Prussia . The civil governor , Baron Patow , and the civil Commissioner , Herr von Madaï , came from the Senate Hall -LRB- once the hall in which the Emperors of Germany were elected -RRB- into the great hall . After some little preamble on Baron Patow 's part he read to the persons present the patent by which the former free town of Frankfort was taken into possession , and then the royal proclamation which announced that the town had been added to the Prussian dominions .