[London,] 2 October 1860 

Dear Lassalle, 

Forwarded your letter to Freiligrath forthwith. 

When I wrote saying you should ‘muster’ a quota, I was, oF 
coursr, deliberately using an ambiguous term. Only do not enlist 
the help of anyone who is not a personal friend of mine. I should 
be glad, by the by, to receive the contribution at an early date. 
Come to that, I don’t believe it will be a fonds perdu, for we shall at 
least recoup the cost of production. 

Engels wrote an essay on the English Rifles for the Darmstadt 
Militar-Zeitung, which he subsequently translated for the Manches- 
ter Volunteer Journal. It has been reproduced and discussed by the 
entire London Press.*”° 

From letters that have come to me straight from Garibaldi’s 
camp, things would seem to be in rather parlous state. Cavour is 
actually Bonaparte’s tool and controls Victor Emmanuel. Garibaldi 
is in a difficult position vis-a-vis Bonaparte and the Piedmontese 
army, the more so in that all the bourgeois and aristocratic 
riff-raff in Italy are on the side of Cavour. Somewhat to the 

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detriment of his own army, G. has been compelled to disperse his 
best troops amongst Neapolitan riff-raff and Piedmontese 
troupters.* 

You will forgive me, if I do not reply to your letter this time, 
nor, indeed, write more than a few lines. Besides being taken up 
(agreeably) with proof-correcting” and my habitual tasks, I have 
the added blessing of a most frightful catarrh, affecting the whole 
of the left side of my head. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

The Supreme Tribunal has not yet reached a decision. As soon as 
the case is disposed of and I am debarred from public proceedings, I 

shall publish a sheet (pamphlet), Prussian Justice*”’ over here.