[London,] 24 January 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

No more than a few lines, since a letter has just arrived from 
Bermbach in Cologne which I would like to be in your hands 
tomorrow. It is essential that you 1. send me a letter ro THe Eprror 
or Tue Times on the Cologne affair, together with a few lines which 
I shall send in advance of the corpus delicti*; 2. that you do the 
same in your own name to The Daily News although, of course, 
the actual corpus delicti, i.e. the insertion itself, will be signed ‘A 
Prussian’ or some such. I think that for The Times ‘Doctor’ and for 
The Daily News ‘Manchester Mercuant’ would do better, 1.e. have 
more chance of being accepted. Refer to people by their titles. 
Dr Becker, Dr (!) Burgers, Dr Daniels, Dr Klein, Dr Jacobi, Otto 
(a chemist well known in German scientific circles), R6ser and 
Nothjung. The Board of indicting magistrates at Cologne is the 
nec plus ultra” of cowardice. By the way, under the terms of the 
new disciplinary law, judges are, at least nominally, no longer 
‘irremovable’. 

Your article for Dana‘ is splendid. 

Of course I have only been able to send poor Weydemeyer one 
more article’ since you were here. This time my piles have 
afflicted me more grievously than the French Revolution. I shall 

aK. Marx and F. Engels, “To the Editor of The Times’ (see present edition, 
Vol. 11, pp. 210-11). - > the extreme - © F. Engels, ~ Revolution and Counter- 
Revolution in Germany, VII. - 4 K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 
II. 

11. Marx to Freiligrath. 26 January 1852 2) 

see what I can do next week. The state of my posterior does not 
permit me to go to the Library yet. 

Confiscation of the estates begged or stolen by the Orléans! 
Resignation of Fould! Persigny!*° Bravo! Ca marche!* 

It is strange how army, NAVY, COLONIES, FORTIFICATIONS AND THE WHOLE 
ADMINISTRATION have gone rotten under the rule of this curious 
regime of an aristocratic clique which the English bourgeois have 
by tradition lugged along with them at the hedd of the Executive 
power ever since 1688.*° After all that English presumption and 
liberal outcry inspired by Kossuth, after the cosmopolitan- 
philanthropic-commercial hymns of peace during the Exurtion,”’ 
in short, after this period of bourgeois megalomania, it is 
refreshing when the canaille now come to discover that not 
something, but everything, is rotten in the State of Denmark.? 
And then, too, these gents take an altogether too complacent view 
of the struggles on the Continent. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Send back the two enclosed letters by return, Cluss’, at any rate.