{London,} 13 July 1852 
Dear Engels, 

There being no letter from you, I conclude that the worthy 
Weydemeyer must, for all that,° be still persevering with his 
‘system’. The thing’s becoming really incomprehensible and, quite 
aside from the pecuniary loss, which is just now very perceptible, 
is turning me for good measure into the laughing stock of the 
émigré vermin and of the booksellers whom I had approached 
about this unfortunate affair. 

I have not written an article on the elections because I feel it 
would be better to await the full results.""° From what I have seen 
so far, it seems to me that, apart from 5-6 more votes for the 
Whigs, the old Parliament will rise again unchanged. The fellows 
are in a cercle vicieux" from which they cannot break out. The only 
ones to have suffered any significant losses so far are the 
Peelites.” Meanwhile, in an apologia for Graham, The Morning 
Chronicle declares that only one alternative remains, that Whigs 
are as incompetent as Tories, and that the only capable people, 
apart from Graham and his supporters, are Cobden, Bright and 
Co. And these should govern together. Curiously enough, the 
following day—as you may perhaps have seen,— The Times 
carried an article which likewise contained an apologia for 
Graham.“ 

@ why not? -> why shouldn’t the nephew have his Bourbon shot too? - © from 
Freiligrath’s ‘Trotz alledem!’ - 4 vicious circle - © The Times, No. 21164, 10 July 
1852, leader. 

The great Techow is emigrating to Australia next week, 
together with Madame Schmidt-Stirner. But—and this will wound 
you more deeply—even Damim is no less eager to turn his hand to 
Avstralian Gotp-piccinc. Another few months of peace, and all our 
‘world underminers’* will be busily mining for dirt in the dirt of 
Australia. Only Willich, firmly chained to the coffre-fort,” remains 
faithful to his motto: to live but By xo means work. 

Bangya is now on very close terms with the Orleanist intriguer, 
‘de Rémusat’. Some Hungarian quelconque warned him against the 
man who is said to have ‘betrayed’ the Germans during the complot 
allemand-frangais.'** Rémusat has agents right i in the Paris Préfec- 
ture. So, sans mot dire a M. Bangya* he writes asking for a report 
on this gentleman. The reply, which was communicated to me, 
stated that Bangya was in no way suspect, that he had got out in 
time, otherwise he too would have been arrested. The traitor was 
‘un certain Cherval, nommé Frank, mais dont le véritable nom est 
Cramer.’ © 

From the outset this Cherval is said to have been hand in glove 
with the police. What is more, Rémusat is receiving original letters 
written by Cherval to the Prussian Embassy, stating that, in 
accordance with promises made to him in the Mazas,'*’ and now 
that he had professed the ‘principe’ of ordre, it was ‘leur devoir™ to 
provide him with the necessary ‘moyens. The Prussian Embassy, 
however, declared that since he was being paid as a spy by the 
French, and double emploi was out of the question, he could have 
no claims on the Prussians. He was therefore sent to London to 
observe the German refugees and, in addition, to ‘keep an eye on 
Claremont’.'*' In the latter capacity he called on Rémusat and 
offered him his services as an agent. Rémusat, on instructions 
from Paris, pretended to agree and assigned to him a go-between 
in the person of a valet at Claremont; this man was now entrusted 
with the task of misinforming the Paris police through Cherval. 

So well organised is the Orleanist agitation that the fellows 
possess what amounts to a regular clandestine postal service by 
which one can send letters, parcels, and pamphlets to France as 
safely as innocuous matter by ordinary mail. 

My main concern in all this was to procure an original letter of 
Cherval’s relating to his ‘connections with the Prussian Embassy. 

4 The original has Weltumwiihler by analogy with Wiihler (agitators), the name the 
bourgeois constitutionalists in Germany in 1848-49 applied to republican demo- 
crats. - > safe - © or other - ¢ without a word to Mr Bangya - © a certain Cherval, 
known as Frank, but whose real name is Cramer - ! principle of order, it was their 
duty - 8 means - * double employ 

Such a piéce could topple the whole fabric of the bill of 
indictment." 

I have arranged with Bangya that, as soon as another copy has 
been made, you will receive Szemere’s pamphlet in manuscript.* It 
is a document that is indispensable to your work” since it contains 
letters from Gorgey, Kossuth, etc., which have not been published 
anywhere. 

My wife is very poorly, she has a cough and is losing weight. 
However, the doctor says it is nothing dangerous and has, in 
addition to medicine, prescribed plenty of porter. 

If you can manage to send me another article* by Friday, I will 
try to discount with Johnson the £5 that will then become due 
from Dana. 

Apropos. The Domenichi ‘Orlando Innamorato’ riformato is an 
adaptation. The original is very rare and only to be had in large 
libraries, as here. Even the Domenichi edition is rare. More readily 
available is the Orlando, rifatto’ by Berni. 

Your 
K. M.