[London,] 26 June 1860 

Dear Frederick, 

I didn’t read about Izzy’s adventure.* 

You will see from the enclosed letter from Weber how rottenly 
the Prussian scoundrels are behaving.'** It now seems that there is 
nothing to be expected from the High Court, either. 

What splendid jurisprudence! First, ?’'m forbidden my ‘libel 
action’ because it is not in the interests of the Prussian 
government. And then the ‘action for injurid is not allowed 
to proceed in public because there is no ‘indictable offence’ to 
hand. This is tantamount to ‘pleading’ on behalf of the National- 
Zeitung. 

How liberal, by contrast, Bavaria turned out to be with regard to 
Vogt.'*? That’s ‘Prussian progress’ for you. 

Get Heckscher to publish another short notice in the Reform. 
The way the Prussians handled the case must at least be brought 
to the attention of the public. 

From the evidence I sent Weber and which Weber included in 
his indictment it was apparent to the scoundrelly gang that the 
National-Zeitung would inevitably have been convicted had the case 
been allowed to ‘come up’. Hence all this dirty chicanery. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.