{London,}] 1 December 1851 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 
1 enclose herewith: 1. Extract from Cluss’ letter (from 
Washington) to Wolff*; 2. Letter from Pieper from Brussels. 
As to No. 1, Lupus forgot to extract two more items of 
information which you will find not uninteresting. Firstly: the 

a Wilhelm Wolff (Lupus) 

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article ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany’ has 
appeared in German in the New-Yorker Abendzeitung, has been 
reprinted in various papers and has created a furore. Cluss doesn’t 
say whether or not this is a translation from the Tribune. Ive 
written direct to Dana about it. Secondly: Mr Wiss, Kinkel’s 
principal tool, has publicly declared that ‘economically’ he shares 
our views. You can see how the curs operate. 

As for Mr Tupman,* he mentions neither our letter from 
Manchester nor a subsequent letter written him from here by my 
wife at my behest.*’? 

But as to the people in Cologne? it is typical of these dastardly 
émigré swine, who root about in all the cess-pits of the press, that 
they should maintain la conspiration du silence in this matter so as 
not to detract from their own importance. This must now be 
counteracted. Today I have sent letters to Paris attacking Prussian 
justice, in order to raise the matter in the press there.*'' Lupus has 
undertaken to do the articles for America and Switzerland. 
Maintenant you must hammer out for me something for England, 
along with a private letter to the Editor of The Times, to which the 
thing must tentatively be sent. If The Times, which at present is 
seeking to regain its popularity and would certainly feel flat- 
tered if treated as the only influential paper on the Continent and 
which is in any case hostile to Prussia—if The Times were to 
accept the thing, we could exert some influence in Germany. Stress 
should be laid on the state of the judicial system generally in 
Prussia. 

Should this attempt not succeed—it can in any case do no 
harm—then write from Manchester direct to The Sun. If they 
receive the thing before The Times, the latter would not accept it 
under any circumstances.*”” 

You can hardly be aware that addresses have reached O’Connor 
from almost every city in England and have been published in The 
Northern Star and Reynolds’s Newspaper in which Thornton Hunt 
was described as ‘infamous’ and the scene at ‘Copenhagen Fields’ 
roundly denounced.’ In addition there was a meeting of all the 
Chartist sections in London at which abuse was heaped upon Th. 
Hunt, who was present. When the executive committee is 
renewed, he will definitely be thrown out. In his desperation, this 
allié of the great Ruge now publicly proclaims himself a 
‘communist. 

a Wilhelm Pieper - > the Communist League members arrested and under 
investigation - © Now 

J 
E. Jones—drawing on my letter *'*—has attacked Kossuth sans 
miséricorde. 

* ‘T tell him that the revolutions of Europe mean the crusade of labour against 
capital, and 1 tell him they are not to be cut down to the intellectual and social 
standard of an obscure semi-barbarous people, like the Magyars, still standing in 
the half-civilisation of the 16th century, who actually presume to dictate to the 
great enlightenment of Germany and France, and to gain a false won cheer from 
the gullibility of England.’*> 

You'll have seen that Kinkel will, tout bonnement, set himself up 
here, after the pattern of the provisional government in France. I, 
for my part, believe it would be a good idea if, as soon as we know 
that Weydemeyer is editor of the Abendzeitung, you were to 
communicate, initially in the form of pamphlets, fragments from 
K. Schnapper,**” whose first confessions I long to see. (See 
continuation after Pieper’s letter.*) 

Apropos! I'd almost forgotten an important item in the chronique 
scandaleuse. Stechan, Hirsch, Gtimpel, etc., in short the working 
men who have arrived from Germany, have announced their 
intention of calling on me. I shall receive them today. They have 
already considerably fallen out with Schapper and Willich. Stechan 
has publicly denounced Dietz as a spy before the Workers’ 
Society **’ and, though a few voices declared him to be an agent of 
Marx, effected the establishment of a committee in which, 
however, the chief role is played by the friends and patrons of 
Dietz-Schapper and Willich. At all events I shall use these 
Straubingers *° to precipitate fresh crises in the wretched hostel for 
tailors and idlers. 

I herewith acknowledge receipt of the £3. 

Salut. 
Your 
K.M.