Manchester, 1 October 1860 

Dear Moor, 

Where has your family been to, if they are now safely back 
home?? I’m completely in the dark. To the srasivr, perhaps, or to 
the country? I hope it has done them good. 

‘Navy’ is most inconvenient just now.‘ I’m having the hell of a 
time with the Lawyers over matters connected with the firm—no 
one in Germany has an inkling of the way things drag on here, 
and it’s precisely this week that the fellows must needs descend on 
me with a mass of files, etc. However, I shall do my best *° but it 
certainly won’t be a quick job, for I'm in no way aw fait. 

Quanto a“ Vogt: I must say that I don’t like your title at all.’ If 
you want to give him a nickname, surely it must be one that is 
comprehensible to people without their having to read the book; 
alternatively it should only appear in the actual book after the 
explanatory bit. To my mind, the simpler and more unaffected 
the title the better, except that Bonaparte, or at least Plon-Plon, 
should, if possible, figure in it as well as Vogt. If you object to 
‘Carl’ Vogt, call him Herr Vogt, though I don’t see why ‘Carl’ 
cannot appear above ‘Karl’—no one is going to make a joke about 
it. 

Printing in London: I have no confidence in a_ publishing 
operation that requires us to advance all or half the money. The 
enclosed letter from Siebel shows that he was far from giving up 

aC. Vogt, Studien zur gegenwartigen Lage Europas. - » See this volume, pp. 195, 196, 
201. -° ibid., p. 196. -4 As regards - ¢ See previous letter. 

the affair for lost, quite the contrary, and was only waiting for 
instructions in order to act (let me have it back, it hasn’t been 
answered yet). I’ve seen only too often what happens when things 
are printed abroad, and I fear that it will be exactly the same this 
time. If Vogt is an exception (and, after all, his thing was printed 
in Frankfurt!), he was also backed up by the press, which certainly 
isn’t going to happen to us. Besides, Mr Petsch is having to pay for 
the advertisements, etc., etc., and hence won’t be particularly keen 
to advertise too much. Tu verras“ At all events, you would 
certainly have been able to find a publisher in Germany long ago, 
had you get Siebel moving properly, and I always prefer it this 
way’; furthermore, Hirschfeld’s little press is not going to be in 
overmuch of a hurry. However, the thing is under way, and we 
shall have to see how it turns out. It would be best, I think, if, in 
addition to the title, you were to include nothing but the chapter 
headings in the advertisement; that would be quite sufficient. And, 
above all, see that the thing gets finished. 

When 3-4 sheets have been printed, you might send me copies. 

Apropos: What do 5 or 10 of Dana’s pages amount to?* I’ve no 
idea. 

Lamoriciére has been ignominiously surprised by the Piedmon- 
tese.”*' He was completely unprepared on that flank, his defences 
were directed exclusively against Garibaldi, and he had manned 
the worthless citadels in the towns with small garrisons fit only to 
deal with uprisings. Hence the succession of surrenders; overall, 
the Piedmontese were 6 to 1. At Castelfidardo the Austrians 
fought very well, likewise at Ancona, which is in no sense a 
fortress on the landward side; but, on the whole, the papal army 
shows how little can be achieved with a force which, though good 
in part, is heterogeneous and commanded by all kinds of foreign 
officers. Admittedly the Piedmontese were 3 to 1. 

From a military point of view, Garibaldi appears to be getting 
short of breath. He has dispersed his good troops among the 
Sicilian and Neapolitan battalions to such an extent that he no 
longer has any kind of organisation, and as soon as he reaches a 
moderately well defended river line with a fortress he does not 
command, as at Capua, he comes to a halt. Not that it matters 
much for the time being, since the 30,000 Neapolitans can’t subsist 
on that small strip of land, and will have to disband in a fortnight 

 You'll see. - © See this volume, p. 191. - © Engels means the size of the article on the 
navy that Marx requested him to write (see this volume, p. 196). 

or advance, which they won’t succeed in doing. But, unless he has 
some really exceptional strokes of luck, it’s hardly likely that G. 
will reach the Quirinal*? so quickly. On top of that, the 
Cavourians are now raising a hubbub; before long, these wretched 
bourgeois will be able to make his position untenable, so that as a 
pis aller* he'll be forced to attack before he’s capable of winning. 
Apart from this, it would be essential to trounce the Neapolitans 
as quickly as possible and then induce the Piedmontese to 
fraternise before Victor Emmanuel joined them, for by then it 
would be too late, and they would stay loyal to Victor Em. But it is 
of the utmost significance that the French in Rome*** should have 
been publicly placed by G. in the same category as the Austrians in 
Venice. Whether their expulsion will or will not be effected 
forthwith is of lesser significance. 

Things in Austria look splendid. A National Association ™* 
philistine, a Rhenish Prussian, who lives in Bavaria (Franconia), 
relates that people from Munich, who recently attended the 
railway festival in Vienna, never doubting the Augsburg Allgemeine 
Zeitungs reports about conditions in Austria, returned quite 
dumbfounded, so different had they found everything. The 
Austrians had told them that it was all humbug and that 
conditions there were no longer bearable. He also said that the 
bourgeoisie in Austria already had a specific for the financial 
imbroglio: in Austria 20% of all landed property belongs to the clergy, 
and this must be confiscated. Can one imagine a more splendid 
revolutionary situation? What is all that supercilious Prussian 
sophistry along with its National Association when compared with 
such a programme? 

The writings of Prince Frederick Charles? and Mr Waldersee‘ 
have convinced me beyond doubt that the Prussians have 
organised and trained their army so splendidly that they must 
inevitably be beaten. In order to remedy the defect arising from 
45 years’ lack of war experience, they have ereated a mock 
conventional war in the shape of manoeuvres where everything is 
different from real war, and where soldiers and officers are 
expressly instructed to retreat on any pretext and where complete- 
ly wrong notions and things are drummed into them. E.g., on 
manoeuvres soldiers are not, of course, permitted to enter and 

a last resort - > (Friedrich Karl, Prinz,] Eine militérische Denkschrift, Frankfurt am 
Main, 1860.-° F. G. Waldersee, Die Methode zur kriegsgemdfen Ausbildung der 
Infanterie für das zerstreute Gefecht..., Zweite Auflage, Berlin, 1852. 

occupy houses; the houses, therefore, are marked as being 
occupied by posting soldiers round the outside. In Schleswig 
during a battle a Prussian captain received the order to occupy a 
farm, whereupon he posted his men round its perimeter fence, 
just as though on manoeuvres! Waldersee saw this with his own 
eyes. Prince Fr: Charles, by the way, is by no means a bad chap as 
soldiers go and absolutely detests the pointless grind of the 
Prussian parade ground. But, whether he’s any good as a 
commander, it is impossible to say. 

Your 
F. E.