Manchester, 18 December 1860 
Dear Moor, 
In addition to Szemere, my brother-in-law‘ also descended on 

me on Sunday. Sz. is off to Liverpool today and may return; 

 K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. - > See K. Marx’s Herr Vogt, 
present edition, Vol. 17, pp. 328-29, and this volume, pp. 234-35. - © Karl Emil Blank 

my brother-in-law leaves tomorrow—so I’ve been in no position 
to do an article. Something on Austria* for Saturday” if pos- 
sible. 

As a person, Sz. is quite a decent chap; he has an Austrian’s 
bonhomie and, at a time of revolution in Hungary, might even be 
energetic, resolute and clearsighted; but en dehors de son pays‘ he 
certainly has little in the way of knowledge or ideas. At any rate, I 
couldn’t extract a great deal of sense from him in this respect. It’s 
odd that, having adopted such a decidedly Bonapartist stance in 
his pamphlet,” he should now have performed a complete 
volte-face. He made me, inter alia, the following conciliatory 
proposal: What, he inquired, would my attitude be if, given the 
disintegration of the Empire, the Habsburgs were to remain 
merely Kings of Hungary, and German Austria revert to 
Germany?* Whereupon I told him, of course, that such a solution 
might be perfectly acceptable to us and that we would gladly make 
the Hungarians a present of the whole robber band. His 
negotiations regarding the wine business here went off quite well. 
Cobden’s recommendations and the acquaintances he struck 
up chez Cobden in Paris have made things much easier for 
him. 

If at all possible, I shall send you another two pounds 
tomorrow; unfortunately it’s too late today. 

Regards to your wife, who is getting better, I hope, and the 
girls. 

Your 
F. E. 

Apropos port! [’ve none left that’s drinkable, but shall try and 
lay my hands on some decent stuff tomorrow and send it off 
straight away.