(Manchester, after 28 June 1860] 
Dear Moor, 

Encl. an article on the rire parade*; the subject occurred to me 
just when I was about to despair. Go over it thoroughly; I haven’t 
the time to do so myself. 

Those Prussians really do have a ‘nice style’ just now. Since the 
action against the National-Zeitung could only serve to introduce a 
strident note of discord into the general constitutional harmony, 
the case must be stopped at all costs. The judges, ‘and there still 
are such in Berlin’, are being got at and I’m quite positive that 
Mr Weber has been got at, too. It’s quite plain to me from the 
whole tone of his letters. All the more need, then, to press on with 
the pamphlet” so that the noble Prussians can be shown that they 
are not, after all, able to suppress such things. Those swine. Might 
it be, perhaps, that they quietly affected such a liberal attitude 
towards me,° in order to behave all the more abominably to 
yourself? 

If possible, I shall do Bohemia this evening.’ Incidentally, you 
should devise the pamphlet—difficult though this may be—in 
such a way as to make it absolutely impossible for the Prussians to 
ban it. And above all be quick, for it is probable that between now 
and 1861 the daydream of peace will gain ascendency and hence 
interest in high treason wane. Do try and be a bit superficial for 
once, so that you get it done in time. 

Your 
F. E. 

Lommel’s parcel there yet?!” 

Lupus leaves next week for a month’s holiday in Ireland, etc., 
etc.