[London,] 24 April 1860 

Dear Frederick, 

Herewith a letter from Weber. From that letter I learn for the 
first time (what the jackass might have been kind enough to tell 
me earlier on) that he did not originally file a civil but a criminal 
action for injuria against Zabel, which means that, under Prussian 
law, the application has to be countersigned by the Royal 
Procurator’s Office. Since this has been refused, he has appealed. 
It is, of course, ‘an issue of public importance’ to the Prussian 
government that we should be traduced to the utmost. 

From his letter you will see that he also instituted the civil action 
on the 18th. 

Will you ‘let Dr Heckscher know about this business and give 
him some notes (a few lines) on the subject for the Hamburg 
Reform?” He has himself repeatedly offered to do me a service of 
this kind, and the matter has got to be brought out into the open 
(if only to instil a little caution into the Prussian government). I 
am also writing to Siebel to this effect. Indeed, the public must not 
be allowed to suppose that the matter has lapsed. 

The stuff from Lommel (I have got six or seven more 
documents from him)? contains ample circumstantial Evidence Of 
Vogt’s bribery. Vogt no longer feels safe in Geneva and has 
therefore applied for Schwyz citizenship. I hope, by the by, that 
one of these days you will write me a proper letter telling me just 
how your affairs are going. It’s not very friendly of you to treat me 
with the reserve that might be appropriate in the case of others. 

How goes it with your health? I’ve been most anxious about it. 

Your 
K. M. 

The Perrier business had been prearranged with Bonaparte, but 
never attained the dimensions originally envisaged.'°’ J. Perrier 
was in Paris with Fazy, and was seen there by Becker’s son.‘ 

4 See this volume, p. 134. -» ibid., p. 123. - © Gottfried Becker 

No answer as yet from Fischel, to whom I wrote* on the subject 
of your pamphlet* (Schily has also badgered him about it). 

While, in the West German Strassburger Zeitung,” the literary 
_Zouaves keep up the skirmish, so too do the literary Cossacks in the 
German Baltische Monatsschrift (Riga); we “Teutons’ are thus under 
attack on both flanks.‘