Received your letter together with £5. 10/- given to Dronke. 

The time when we had to be coy about writing openly to each 
other’s actual addresses is now past. On Saturday (30 October) the 
lawyers received the bulk of the documents, on Sunday, the 
second letter from Frankfurt, and yesterday my last letter with the 
DECLARATION before the magistrate.* Today I have sent by registered 
post direct to Schneider II the declaration” which appeared in 
today’s Morning Advertiser, not so much because there was still any 
necessity to do so, as to show the Prussian government that we 
possess the means to insist on the integrity of its mails or, failing 
that, to expose it before the London public. 

The lawyers received all they needed in good time, i.e. before the 
prosecution closed its case. At present I am of the opinion that, 
unless some incident should prolong the trial and thus necessitate 
renewed intervention on our part, nothing more should go off to 
Cologne. 

Herewith a letter from Imandt to Cluss, which contains more 
details about Kinkel’s and Willich’s escroquerie“ Up till now I hadn’t 
had time to read the letter and had done no more than have it 
copied out for you by Pieper. It went off to Washington last 
Friday.* 

Fleury, a merchant in the Crry, says that he can bear witness that 
he and other businessmen have been invited by Kinkel and Willich 
to purchase Loan Notes. 

Just now that chevalier d’industrie, Willich, is living on the bounty 
of the Russian, Herzen. 

From what Freiligrath told me yesterday, it would appear that, 
before his departure for Manchester, Kinkel had been grovelling 
with renewed zeal before a crowd of Crry ALDERMEN, merchants, 
etc., in his role of fund-raiser, rhetorician and lesson-giver. 

a Wingham - > K. Marx, ‘The Trials at Cologne. To the Editor of The Morning 
Advertiser’. - © swindle - 4 29 October - ¢ swindler 

As for the scrap of paper wrongly attributed to me,”™ all I still 
need is the address of Moses Hess, who is living in Liége. For I am 
going to write to him and say: “Tell me who it was you gave the 
Catechism to and who hawked it round Germany. Otherwise I shall 
denounce you as a Forcer in the Indépendance. Moses is bound to 
spill the beans, if it transpires that on this occasion it was not the 
police but Kinkel-Willich who imitated my handwriting, I shall 
have them up in court here for imitating another’s hand. 

Don’t forget to send me the last bit for Dana.* Parliament 
assembles on Thursday.” The article is already somewhat out-of- 
date. But after Friday it will be completely worthless. 

Kind regards to Weerth and Strohn. 

Your 
K. M. 

The merchant, Fleury, further testifies that, almost every week, 
Willich extorts pounds from him and his English friends on the 
plea that he needs this for the refugees. Now, it can be proved 
that Willich-Kinkel rudely turn away all refugees with the remark 
that they have not a centime to spare for such purposes. Willich 
tells them that he hasn’t enough himself for his daily bread; 
Kinkel points with emotion to his children, and at most gives away 
a waistcoat cast off by the late Julius, the absent Schurz or his own 
august person.