Manchester, 27 November 186] 

Dear Moor, 

Have the Yankees gone quite out of their minds, playing such a 
mad trick on the conrepeRATE commissioners? °° The racr that even 
over here in the Channel, a warship was lying in wait for the mai. 
STEAMER Shows that general instructions had gone out from 
Washington. There could be no clearer casus belli* than to forcibly 
seize political prisoners on board a foreign vessel. The fellows 
must be completely crazy to saddle themselves with a war 
against England. If war should really break out, you could send 
your letters to New York via Germany or Le Havre, under cover 
to a third party, but you’ll have to take care that you’re not aiding 
and abetting the enemizs of the Queen. 5 

I was delighted to hear that Bakunin had bolted. The poor devil 
must have been very much the worse for wear. What a way to 
make a journey round the world! ** 

Monsieur Bonaparte would also seem to get no money and 
Fould pretty well at his wits’ end.*™ J can’t help wondering what's 
going to happen there. 

Things are going swimmingly in Russia and Poland, and now 
there’s also a chance that good old Prussia may at long last be 
involved in a crisis, provided the electors don’t allow themselves to 
be intimidated again.** But the purse, the purse! That may well 
serve to keep the few ‘men of Progress’ afloat a little while longer. In 
Cologne it is even rumoured that good old Heinrich Burgers might 
stand for Parliament. 

Varnhagen’s Tagebticher‘ must be quite interesting. All the same, 
the fellow was a scurvy, cowardly knave. There was quite a witty 
article about the thing in the Kreuz-Zeitung,—full of spite and 
malice, of course.* 

4 cause of war - > Victoria - © K. A. Varnhagen von Ense, Tagebiicher. Aus dem 
Nachlaß Varnhagen’s von Ense, Bd. I-II, Leipzig, 1861. - 4 ‘Varnhagen und seine 
“Pulverkammer”’, Neue Preussische Zeitung, 24 November 1861 (supplement). 

On 1 December, I shall send you another fiver, 
Many regards, 

Your 
F. E.