In your number of the 2nd September, your Berlin correspon- 
dent publishes “the translation of an interesting article on the 
International, which has appeared in the Cologne Gazette,’* which 
article charges me with living at the expense of the working 
classes. Up to the 30th August, the date of your correspondent’s 
letter, no such article appeared in the Cologne Gazette, from which 
paper, therefore, your correspondent could not translate it. On 
the contrary, the article in question appeared, more than a 
fortnight ago, in the Berlin National Zeitung>; and an English 
translation of it, literally identical with the one given by your 
correspondent, figured in the London weekly paper, Public 
Opinion, as far back as the 19th August. The next number of 
Public Opinion contained my reply to these slanders,* and I hereby 
summon you to insert that reply, of which I enclose a copy, in the 
next number of your paper. The Prussian government have 
reasons of their own why they push, by every means in their 
power, the spreading of such infamous calumnies through the 
English press. These articles are but the harbingers of impending 
government prosecutions against the “International” .— 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
Karl Marx 

Haverstock-hill, Sept. 4, 1871 

September 6, 1871 

’ “Die Internationale”, National-Zeitung, No. 351, July 30, 1871, Morning