[London] 22 May [1852] 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

The first half of the 10-pound note arrived this morning. 

I intend to leave here on Friday,” this time by ship to Liverpool 
and thence to Manchester. 

Apropos. Citizen Schramm‘ is travelling to America via Liver- 
pool. Well, the fellow proposes, or so he confides to us, to descend 
upon you on Wednesday or Thursday. You must see if you can 
give him the slip. 

Willich has had a rather nice adventure. Mrs von Briiningk, who 
provided him with free board, used to enjoy flirting with this old 
he-goat, as with the other ex-lieutenants. One day the blood 
rushes to the head of our ascetic, he makes a brutally brutish 
assault upon madame, and is ejected from the house with éclat. 
No more love! No more free board! Nous ne voulons plus de 
jouisseurs.* 

Cherval, about whose heroism before the Paris Assizes in the 
matter of the Complot allemand-frangais you will have heard, 
has, as you may also have seen in the English papers (Morning 

a It will be a fine how-do-you-do. - > 28 May - © Conrad Schramm - 4 We want no 
more sybarites. - © Franco-German plot 

Advertiser), escaped from the catchpolls in prodigiously daring 
manner—as it later transpired, with the connivance of the police 
to whom he. betrayed everything he knew. Even the Great 
Windmillers '* were forced to throw out the hero with whom they 
had been parading round London. 

The Cologne people have at last been referred by the Board of 
indicting magistrates to the Court of Assizes. Unless a special 
Court of Assizes is appointed, they will not appear before July. 

Dronke sends his regards. 

Your 

K.M.