Karl Marx 
Affairs in Prussia—Prussia, France and Italy 


New-York Daily Tribune. 
Nr. 6076,15. Oktober 1860 


Affairs in Prussia. 


From Our Own Correspondent. 
Berlin, September 27, 1860. 


The Prince Regent who, as I have already told your readers, since his ac- 
cession to supreme power, is a sullen and dogged Legitimist atthe core of 
his heart, despite the gaudy insignia of liberalism he has been decked out 
with by the official oracles of the Prussian fool's paradise, has just caught 
an occasion of publicly giving vent to his long compressed feelings. It is a 
strange fact, but nevertheless it is a fact, that the Prince Regent of Prussia 
has for the nonce shut out the Garibaldians from the fortress of Messina, 
and saved that important military stronghold for his beloved brother, King 
Bombalino of Naples. The Prussian Ambassador at Naples, Count of Per- 
poncher, a personage as notorious for his staunch Legitimism as Baron of 
Canitz, the Prussian Ambassador at Rome, had, like most of his colleagues, 
followed King Bombalino to Gaeta, where the Prussian war corvette Loreley, 
was placed for the protection of German subjects. Now on the 15th of 
September, the citadel of Messina was on the point of capitulating. The 
officers had declared for Victor Emanuel, and sent a deputation to Gaeta 
in order to tell the King that the place was no longer tenable. On the following 
day that deputation was shipped back to Messina by the war corvette 
Loreley, with a Prussian Commissary on board, who, on the arrival of the 
vessel, proceeded immediately to the citadel, where he had a long con- 
versation with the Neapolitan commander. Beside his personal eloquence, 
the Prussian agent exhibited a bundle of dispatches on the part of the King, 
encouraging the General to resistance, and strongly mveighing against every 
proposition of giving up, even under the most favorable conditions, the forts 


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with a fire of soul still owns his grain of that subtle Italian genius you may 
trace in Dante no less than in MacchiaveUi. Türr, then, having proved a 
miscalculation, such at least he is spoken of in the entourage of the Tuileries, 
Kossuth was tried and dispatched to Garibaldi to bring him round to the views 
of the Emperor, and to bring him off his true scent, which points to Rome. 
Garibaldi used Kossuth as a means of stirring the revolutionary enthusiasm, 
and had him consequendy feasted with popular ovations, but knew wisely 
how to distinguish between his name, representing a popular cause, and his 
mission, hiding a Bonapartist snare. Kossuth returned to Paris quite chop- 
fallen; but, to give an earnest of his fidelity to the Imperialist interests, has 
now, as reported by the Opinion Nationale, the Plon-Plon Moniteur, ad- 
dressed a letter to Garibaldi, wherein he calls upon the latter to concihate 
himself with Cavour, to abstain from every attempt at Rome, in order to not 
estrange France, the true hope of the oppressed nationalities, and even to 
let Hungary alone, the latter country being not yet ripe for an insurrection. 

I need not tell you that here, at Berlin, the shares of ministerial liberalism 
have experienced a heavy fall, consequent upon the impending Warsaw 
Congress; where, not only the rulers by the grace of God are to shake hands, 
but their respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Prince Gorchakoff, Count 
Rechberg, and our own Herr von Schleinitz, are to meet in the snug corner 
of a gilded antechamber, there to give an orthodox turn to the coming history 
of mankind. 

The transactions of Prussia with Austria, as to a new commercial treaty 
between the Zollverein and Austria, such as foreshadowed by the treaty of 
February 19,1853, may now be considered to be broken off, since the Prus- 
sian Cabinet has positively declared that any assimilation, or even ap- 
proximation of tariffs was out of the question. 


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