Manchester, 6 July 1852 
Dear Marx, 

It’s a good thing that the manuscript” has gone off. I hope that 
copies will arrive in 3-4 weeks’ time. You must have been really in 
the soup if, as antidote, you had to take Pietro Aretino’s porcherie“ 
Cazzo di Dio, queste sono forti." 

I am up to my eyes in work here. I still have eleven business 
letters to write today and it is nearly 7 o’clock. However, I will do 
an article for Dana,° if possible today and if not, by. tomorrow 
evening at the latest. 

a O twice magnificent Ser Agnello, Dispel for me the doubts, I pray, 
You who of all the why and wherefore Which in the brothel raised strife 
know, today. 

Whose mighty mind can grasp 

the fate Some folks seduce and others 

Of Bartolo’s and Baldo’s earthly frame are seduced 

And whose keen fancy apprehends But one and all by lust are ruled. 
the laws How many souls through arses 

Of heavenly bodies and their course! go astray... 

- b K. Marx and F. Engels, The Great Men of the Exile. - © obscenity - 4 God's prick, 
this is strong meat. - © Probably article XV from Revolution and Counter-Revolution 
in Germany. 

6* 

I am just tackling Mr Gorgey. At that time, drawing on Austrian 
bulletins, we of the N. Rh. Z. made splendidly accurate guesses as 
to the course of the Hungarian war, and prognostications, if 
cautious, proved brilliantly correct.* Gérgey’s book” is truly 
wretched, nothing could be more pettily invidious, infamously 
mesquin and mediocre. The military part is good, Gdrgey to the 
life,— sudden transformation of talented ex-lieutenant into gener- 
al, still bearing unmistakable traces of the company officer and 
tactical tyro. Hungarians who maintain that Gorgey is incapable of 
having written this are jackasses. The genuine Gorgeyesque and 
Austrian elements are as easily distinguishable here as are the two 
heterogeneous elements in Chenu.’ But otherwise the book 
may—with some caution—very well be used as a source. The 
fellow’s malicious mediocrity is such that he cannot help making a 
fool of himself, witness the affair of the proclamation of 
Waitzen'*’ in which he reproaches Kossuth for having been 
shrewder in practice than in his bombastic speeches, or again, the 
very inept descriptions which lead the author, always involuntarily, 
into compromising himself. This mediocrity never permits Gorgey 
to draw a true portrait of any one chap, but the thing has some 
pleasant traits and individual comments on Kossuth and most of 
the others. Despite the mediocrity of his malice, Gorgey—as is 
everywhere apparent—was after all superior to any of the 
others—so what must the others be like! 

At all events, I shall write about the Hungarian war.'” 

Judging by the facts, the Paris plot’ would seem more likely to 
have emanated from our carrément and cranement* sinister 
Barthélemy, etc.—the daring artillery preparation is something 
qui sent son Willich de vingt lieues. It is more than likely that Ruge, 
etc., also had a finger in the pie, but those cannons fashioned out 
of gas pipes and draped with tarpaulins are of Hohenzollern 
origin. 

Your 
F. E. 

a F. Engels, ‘The Kélnische Zeitung on the Magyar Struggle’, “The War in Italy and 
Hungary’, ‘Hungary’ and also reviews of military operations in Hungary published 
in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung from February to May 1849. - > A. Gorgei, Mein 
Leben und Wirken in Ungarn in den Jahren 1848 und 1849. -° mean - 4 fairly and 
squarely - © which smells of Willich 20 leagues away 

As for the Orleans, pourquoi pas?* To see the estimable Joinville 
or whomsoever treated @ la duc d’Enghien '** would be delightful, 
and pourquoi le neveu ne ferait-il pas fusiller aussi son Bourbon?”