Prussia and the empire showed more deference to the king's intentions.

These two courts disbanded the army collected by the princes, and ordered to be punished in their states all insults offered to the tricolour cockade; but at the very moment when the emperor thus gave evidence of his desire to maintain peace, war was about to involve him in spite of himself.

What human wisdom sometimes refuses to the greatest causes, it sees itself compelled to accord to the smallest.
Such was Leopold's situation.

He had refused war to the great interests of the monarchy, and the strong feelings of the family which asked it from him, and yet was about to grant it to the insignificant interests of certain princes of the empire, whose possessions were in Alsace and Lorraine, and whose personal rights were violated by the new French constitution.

He had refused succour to his sister, and was about to accord it to his vassals.