{London,] 16 June 1860 

Dear Frederick, 

The £10 safely received. Best THanks. 

Your portrait is splendid. You shall have a similar one of me. 

The stuff from Lommel hasn’t arrived yet.” When he com- 
plained, he was told that a parcel of this kind (for economy 
reasons he had sent it par petite vitesse‘) always takes several weeks. 

The following is an extract from Lommel’s last letter: 

4 18 June - > See this volume, p. 155. - © by goods 

‘You will have seen the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung of 8 June. Reading 
between the lines, one perceives in its Berne report, presumably written by 
Tscharner, co-editor of the Bund, a denunciation by the Vogtians to their lord and 
master in Paris and thence, indirectly, to the Federal authorities in Berne, likewise 
to Germany's princely courts. It’s the same old tale of conspiracy-—German 
demagogues trying to stir up trouble between France and Germany in order to 
make possible a central republic. Vogtian intrigue no longer cuts any ice at all, either 
in Federal circles or in Geneva; nevertheless, it still appears to have some effect on the 
limited intelligence of the German princes. This conspiratorial bogey held up to them 
by Badinguet is actually said to have induced the timid fellows to grant him the 
audience in Baden-Baden he so ardently desired.!83 For the past fortnight the 
Allgemeine has been quietly discarding the choicest of the notes I sent it from Savoy 
and Turin, and Vogt, who returned here ten days ago, has told a worker that a stop 
will soon be put to the activities of the fellows responsible for the scrawls in the 
German papers and that people will be in for more surprises before long.’ 

A pamphlet by About has now come out in Paris: Napoléon ITI et 
la Prusse.* In the first place sorr sawoer for Germany. Her great 
men, he says, are all of them novuseHoLtp worps in France, e.g. 
‘Goethe, Schiller, Humboldt, Vogt, Beethoven, Heine, Liebig, etc.’ 
France is completely disinterested, although constantly provoked. 
Then came some rubbish about German unity being brought 
about with the help of France. Then a highly superficial review of 
conditions obtaining in Prussia at present. (Even the Niegolewski 
affair is discussed at length! '**) The only way she can save herself 
is to side with France’s ‘democratic principle’ against Austria’s 
feudalism. In other words, this democratic principle consists in 
basing princely dictatorship on ‘suffrage universel’. Satis superque!” 

However, it’s capital that Royal Prussian court democracy should 
now be getting into a nasty fix; let’s hope that the Prince Regent,‘ 
too, will soon have compromised himself sufficiently. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.