Sir: My letter of 28th of September last, containing revelations 
as to the movements of Kossuth and Mazzini,’ has, I perceive, 
elicited considerable animadversion, and given the Democratic 
press occasion for a vast amount of superfluous declamation, 
abuse and bluster. 

I have ascertained that Kossuth has no part in this clamor. If he 
had himself ventured a denial of my assertions, I should have 
returned to the subject, and given incontestable evidence for the 
facts adduced. 

However, my letter was not intended as an attack on Kossuth, 
but rather as a warning. In politics a man may ally himself, for 
a given object, with the devil himself—only he must be sure 
that he is cheating the devil, instead of the devil cheating 
him. 

As to the gentleman who has taken upon himself authoritatively 
to refute me, I beg to remind him of an old proverb: Amicus 
incommodus ab inimico non differt. 

To the gentlemen of the Democratic press, and especially of the 
German Democratic press, who, as usual, have yelled the loudest, I 
say they are all bigoted Crypto-Royalists. These gentlemen cannot 
do without kings, gods and popes. Scarcely got out of the leading 
strings of their old rulers, they manufacture new ones for 
themselves, and grow indignant at those “infidels and rebels” who 

render themselves obnoxious by publishing unpleasant truths, 
revealing compromising facts and thus committing lese-majesty and 
sacrilege against the newly-elevated Democratic gods and kings. 

London, November 16, 1852 

Your private correspondent 

No. 3627, December 1, 1852