Paris, 7 June [1849] 
45, rue de Lille 

Dear Engels, 

I am not writing to you at any great length in this letter. First I 
want you to tell me in your reply whether it arrives intact. I 
believe that letters are again being opened con amore. 

4 Reference to F. Freiligrath’s ‘Abschiedswort der Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung’ 
published in the newspaper’s last number (No. 301, 19 May 1849) printed in red 
ink. - b Good-bye and farewell. - © enthusiastically 

Here a royalist reaction is in full swing, more barefaced than 
under Guizot, and comparable only to that after 1815. Paris is 
morne.” On top of that the cholera is raging mightily. For all that, 
never has a colossal eruption of the revolutionary volcano been 
more imminent than it is in Paris today. Details to follow. I consort 
with the whole of the revolutionary party and in a few days’ time | 
shal] have all the revolutionary journals at my disposal. 

As for the Palatinate-Baden envoys here, Blind, alarmed by a 
real or pretended attack of cholera, has moved into the country 
some hours away from Paris. 

Quant a” Schiitz, the following should be noted: 

1, The Provisional Government has placed him in a false 
position by failing to keep him informed. The French demand des 
faits’ and where can he get them from if not a soul writes to him? 
Dispatches must reach him as often as possible. It is clear that at 
this moment he can achieve nothing. All that can be done is to 
throw dust in the eyes of the Prussian Government by enabling 
him to have frequent meetings with the leaders of the Montag- 
nards.?©° 

2. A second, unpardonable mistake on the part of the Gouverne- 
ment provisoire du Palatinat is their entrusting a crowd of rotten 
Germans with this or that mission behind the back of the official 
envoy. This will have to cease once and for all if Schütz is to 
maintain at least the prestige of his position vis-a-vis the 
Montagnards and just now—vis-a-vis Prussia—that is the whole 
point of his mission. 

Apart from that, it goes without saying that he doesn’t learn 
very much, since he consorts only with a few official Montag- 
nards. I shall, incidentally, keep him always au courant“ 

For my part I must ask you to write to me at least twice a week 
regularly and immediately every time anything important 
happens. 

The Kélnische Zeitung feuilleton on the Palatinate movement, 
dated Dürkheim an der Haardt, states among other things: 

‘Some anger has been aroused by Mr Marx, editor of the Rheinische Zeitung! 
He is said to have told the Provisional Government that since his time had not yet 
come, he intended temporarily to retire. 

a dreary-> As for -¢ facts - 4 provisional government of the Palatinate - 
¢ informed -f Neue Rheinische Zeitung - 8 ‘Briefe aus Baden und der Pfalz. IV. 
Dürkheim a. d. Haardt, 1. Juni’, Kélnische Zeitung, No. 136, 6 June 1849. 

_ How does that fit in? The miserable Germans here, with whom, 

by the way, I avoid any meeting, will seek to proclaim this 
throughout the whole of Paris. I therefore think it advisable for 
you to see that an item appears in the Karlsruher Zeitung or the 
Mannheimer Abendzeitung stating expressly that I am in Paris as the 
representative of the democratic Central Committee. Another reason 
why I think this would be useful is that for the time being, as no 
immediate results are to be obtained here, the Prussians must be 
made to believe that the most frightful intrigues are going on 
here. Il faut faire peur aux Aristocrates.* 

Ruge is a complete nonentity here. 

What is Dronke doing? 

You must, by the way, see that you raise money for me somewhere. 
You know that I spent the latest sums received pour faire honneur 
aux obligations de la ‘Nouvelle Gazette Rhénane’, and, in the present 
circonstances,, I cannot live a completely retired life, still less get 
into financial difficulties. 

If at all possible let me have an article in French in which you 
sum up the whole Hungarian affair.**! 

Show this letter to d’Ester, to whom my best regards. If I am to 
write to a different address, let me have it. 

M. 

Write to me at the following address: M. Ramboz, 45 rue de 
Lille 

(On the back of the letter] 

Herrn Fr. Engels, inquire at Dr d’Ester’s.