London, 5 March [1852] 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

1 received the £5 on Monday, although Lupus lives at 3, not 4, 
Broad Street. Also today your very felicitous article for Dana.* 

Your package containing the Revolution and the Tribune had 
been opened. They had not even taken the trouble to do it up 
again. 

From the enclosed letter you will see how we stand with the 
police.*° The facts are wrong, save that Lupus took the chair 
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2 F, Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, XII. 

instead of myself on 5 February and that the denouncer mistook 
our letter to The Times* for a reply to Mrs Daniels.*' The spy is 
‘Hirsch’ of Hamburg whom we had already thrown out of the 
League” a fortnight before. He became a member in Germany 
and, since I never really trusted him, I never mentioned anything 
in the least compromising in his presence. 

With regard to Weydemeyer’s anti-Heinzen article,” Jones has 
sent him by today’s post an official letter in which he treats 
Heinzen avec un dédain supréme and enlightens him on the ‘war or 
ciasses’."? The day before yesterday the National Reform League ™ 
held a big meeting with an audience of at least 2,000. Jones 
subjected Messrs Hume, Walmsley and Co. to some rough 
treatment and scored a real triumph. London and Manchester 
now seem to divide the work between them in such a way that the 
bourgeois there tend to launch political attacks, and those here 
commercial ones. 

A few days ago a manifesto by Signore Mazzini written in 
Italian fell into my hands. He is the holy bourgeois quand méme* 
and fumes at the ‘profane’ French bourgeois. He shifts the 
initiative from Paris to Rome. ‘Il materialismo’ and ‘il egoismo’ have 
ruined France. The workers have inherited both vices from the 
bourgeoisie. Since 1815 France has no longer been the country of 
initiative. Italy and Hungary are now the chosen countries. 

While ‘signore Mazzini, as Peter the Hermit, castigates the 
wicked French, he licks the boots of the English Free travers who 
doubtless personify ‘le dévouement’ and ‘la foi’. L’imbécile!' 

Please return the enclosed letter. Only very little today because 
what with getting things off to America my hands are full. 

Your 
K. Marx