Sir,— The Times of Friday last> contains a letter signed “ Anti- 
Socialist’, denouncing to the English public, and to the English 
Home-Secretary,° some of the “hellish doctrines” developed in the 
London German Newspaper, by a certain Mr. Charles Heinzen, 
described as a “shining light of the German Social Democratic party’. 
These “hellish doctrines” consist chiefly of a benevolent proposal for 
killing, in the next continental revolution, “a couple of millions of 
reactionaries”. 

We may safely leave it with you to qualify the conduct of the 
editors of The Times, in allowing their columns to be made the 
receptacle of direct police information and denunciation in political 
matters. We are however rather astonished to see in the “leading 
journal of Europe’ Herr Heinzen described as “a shining light of the 
German Social Democratic party”. ““The leading journal of Europe” 
certainly might have known that Herr Heinzen, so far from serving 
as a shining light to the party in question, has, on the contrary, ever 
since 1842, strenuously, though unsuccessfully, opposed everything 
like Socialism and Communism. “The German Social Democratic 
party”, therefore, never took, nor is it likely ever to take, the 
responsibility of anything said or written by Mr. Charles Heinzen. 

As to the danger likely to result from the “hellish doctrines” 
aforesaid, The Times might have known that Mr. Heinzen, far from 
trying to put these doctrines into practice during the last eighteen 
months of revolutionary convulsions in Germany, hardly ever 

> See The Times No. 20341, November 23, 1849.— Ed. 

during that time put his foot upon German soil, and played no part 
whatever in any of those revolutions. 

The idea, Sir, of a man who never did any damage even to the 
most diminutive of German princes, being able to do harm to the 
gigantic British empire, would be, in our eyes, an insult to the 
_ English nation. We therefore beg leave to move that the whole 
matter be wound up by The Times giving a vote of thanks to Mr. 
Charles Heinzen, for the courage malheureux* with which he 
combated Socialism and Communism. I am, Mr. Editor, 

Yours very obediently, 

A German Social Democrat 

London, Nov. 28th, 1849 

No. 632, December 1, 1849