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for the present, be recalled from Brussels ; at some 

 later day Canitz will be appointed, or Bunsen, say I. 

 Count Alvensleben is to go to Vienna ; Radowitz first to 

 Carlsruhe, until the embassy to the German Diet become 

 vacant. Perhaps there is hardly courage enough as yet 

 to take Bunsen and remove Buelow. Every month, how- 

 ever, every week must improve the courage, and then 

 both these appointments will be done. There is no 

 hope that Maltzan can recover ; the better days have 

 again been followed by the worse, and light gives way 

 to renewed darkness. Sad state of things. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEtf. 



BERLIN, MONDAY, 2Sth February, 1842. 



I AM anxious to hear a few words about your health, 

 dear friend. 



I have succeeded in procuring a pension of three hun- 

 dred thalers, a miserable sum, but it is only a beginning, 

 for the impoverished but talented poet Freiligrath at 

 Darmstadt, involving no obligation on his part, and allow- 

 ing him to live out of the country. Can you lend me 

 his poems ? 



A. HT. 



