250 Humboldt's Letters. 



the latter wrote in his diary : " Humboldt called. He 

 thinks it absurd in the ministers to talk of meeting the 

 Chambers, when they cannot find men to make up their 

 own number. Even Kuehl wetter disdains to join them. 

 My opinion that the constitution imposed by the govern- 

 ment is merely a husk concealing the germ of a new 

 revolution, which will shortly burst forth, startled him a 

 little ; but he was much pleased with the notion that the 

 King has been embroiled with the canon of logic for the 

 last eight years past. He says the King was disposed to 

 return to Canitz as Minister of Foreign Affairs ! Eich- 

 horn also vouchsafes his advice, and, like the lady of 



Privy Counsellor , talks of the Pietists as if he 



had never belonged to them. 



" The ' Staats Anzeiger' publishes the Austrian note 

 in regard to the German question. Austria will not 

 withdraw, but will have a voice in the counsels of the 

 empire, and will not tolerate a variety of things, such as 

 popular sovereignty, or any leadership except its own. 

 A fling at Prussia, a fling at Frankfort, and particularly 

 at Gagern. There it is ! Everything plays into the 

 hands of the revolution I" 



