174 ANOTHEK LOOSE LEAF. 



The next day I dined with the Professor, in company with a Lieu- 

 tenant General of the Hessian army. Said he in a playful style, "One 

 of your countrymen has greatly injured a member of our family." "In 

 what way, Sir.-"' I asked with much concern. "Why, Sir, my father 

 was among the Hessian troops in your revolutionary war and came 

 home minus a leg, which one of your ugly Yankee bullets knocked off." 

 " He had better remained in America as many of his countrymen did, 

 whose children are now among our most respectable citizens," I re- 

 plied. " All ! if he had remained there, I would not have been a Lieu- 

 tenant General in the Hessian army." " But you might have been some- 

 thing better in America, and possibly Governor of a State!" 



The conversation turned on the sermon we had just heard in the 

 Garrison church, A whole regiment and the prince were there, and a 

 splendid mililary spectacle it was, "To-day the Prince suffered some 

 in church — Pastor Martin did lay it thick on him," said the General. — 

 "How so ?" — 1 inquired — " 1 did not observe any thing particularly ap- 

 plicable to the Prince ?" " Did you not hear how forcibly he denoun- 

 ced unfilial conduct ? " " Yes. " " Well, all that was applicable to the 

 prince, probably intended for him who is at loggerheads with his father, 

 and rumor says, he is an undutiful son." 



After church, the prince reviewed the regiment and gave audience in 

 the street. This is the man who literally bought " for a consideration" 

 the wife of another man — married her, and now lives with her. 



I had a letter to Professor P — , and was highly delighted with this 

 world-known conchologist. He speaks English better than any Ger- 

 man Savant 1 remember encountering. Most of them understand our 

 language well enough to read it, but few speak it fluently or correctly. 

 Prof. P — kindly presented me with several Nos. of his conchological 

 journal, and showed me other evidences of polite attention. He is a 

 man of middle age and vigorous constitution. 



I do admire the frank and whole hearted generosity of these Ger- 

 mans at home. There is no disguise in their demeanor — no hauteur in 

 their bearing. In most cases, even without a letter, you are most cordi- 

 ally welcomed, if you are a man of science, and even if you are not, 

 and announce yourself as having come to pay your respects to them as 

 men of science, they are flattered with the compliment and treat you 

 kindly, if they are at leisure. 



There are several naturalists of high distinction, in Cassel, and not 

 a few amateurs. They complain bitterly, if not loudly, that their prince 

 does not foster science. Prof. P— said, ^' Sir, the Hessian soil is not 

 favorable to the cultivation ol' science." "Dut" said I — "it has pro- 



