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deposit this curious, good-natured letter among your 

 psychological curiosities ? (The man who is entirely con- 

 vinced of Bernadotte's salvation, circuitously informs 

 me that Satan wields the baton of command in my heart, 

 as in that of Goethe, that of the pious Kant, and that of 

 Wieland.) And our parliament ! ! If necessary the 

 cities must be expunged from the face of the earth 

 such is the desire of our diplomatist at the Diet. 

 With heartfelt attachment, 



Yours, 



A. HT. 

 TUESDAY, late at uight. 



The enclosed letter from August. Grau, of Mont- 

 gomery County, Ohio, dated February 6, 1852, contains 

 the following : " A gentleman who has travelled over 

 a large portion of the earth, who, by the publication of 

 so many excellent writings, has erected for himself so 

 durable and so resplendent a monument on the field 

 of literature and science, is not to be named by 

 any German without the greatest esteem. When the 

 names of great warriors who have spilt the blood 

 of their fellow-men upon the battle-field shall be 

 forgotten, your name will blaze for hundreds and 

 thousands of years in the annals of history. But it 

 is singular, at the same time, that the greatest natu- 

 ralists, philosophers, and astronomers who have occu- 



