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very much ; but after all they will not find a reason to 

 dismiss him, although the King would like very much 

 to do it, and the Minister urges him on to it." 



On the 31st March Varnhagen adds : " Humboldt told 

 me but yesterday that the King was firmly believing the 

 restoration of Don Miguel, Don Carlos, the overthrow 

 of the July dynasty, and that he would yet go to Paris, 

 to salute the legitimate king. Also, that he, Humboldt, 

 was deemed a Jacobin, who carried the tri-colored 

 standard in his breeches pocket. As for myself, I was 

 considered a royalist, but the King had prejudices 

 against me. They think it strange that my old friend 

 Canitz should not have enlightened the King on my 

 behalf; that they did not ask my advice, and avail 

 themselves of my services in the present situation. Witt- 

 genstein also has talked in this manner with Humboldt. 

 They forget only one thing : that I neither can nor will 

 the one and the other, with equal determination. 



The nobility is terribly excited ; the change is remark- 

 able ; self-esteem is mightily roused. The devil him- 

 self could not have invented more efficacious ways of 

 provoking the hostility of this whole class than this 

 monstrous " Herrenstand." 



A. Dream. I saw the King weeping bitterly, and 

 crying : so far it has come. Well, I will resign ! May 

 my brother take charge of the whole, and be happier 

 than I was ! 



