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and, what is still better, administered by the enlightened 

 upper classes. D., who is a man of sound intellect, 

 writes me that he believes in the happy issue of the 

 ministerial crisis. Mr. Mole has changed his determina- 

 tion not to resume office ; he will do so if there is a 

 majority of thirty-six or forty votes secured to him. 

 The Jacqueminot party, which is rendering great ser- 

 vice, is working for this. 



Here are the adieux, the last ones of Mr. de Talley- 

 rand at Fontainebleau, on the 2d of June, 1838 : " Adieu, 

 my dear Bresson, stay at Berlin as long as you can ; 

 you are well off there ; do not try to be better off. 

 There will be much commotion in the world ; you are 

 young ; you will see it." I quote these words for you, 

 because they agree with the spirit of your note, for 

 which I thank you once more, and which will become a 

 family title to me. 



NOTE BY HUMBOLDT. Letter of Count Bresson, French Ambassador 

 at Berlin. I kept it on account of the few words of Talleyrand. I 

 had written to Mr. Bresson that the situation of France was very 

 serious, that I still believed in peace, because, besides the wisdom of 

 the rulers, there was an expectant treatment of want of energy and 

 timid prudence. That these things, however, could act only for a 

 limited time, and that those who were young, like him, would see in 

 action what was now spreading its deep roots, as the unconscious and 

 inarticulate desires of the nations. 



