Humboldt's Letters. 299 



von Buelow was bribed in the Belgian affair by the 

 French, according to the King of Hanover. In Schoen- 

 ing's very interesting War of the Bavarian Succession, 

 interesting by the correspondence with Prince Heinrich 

 and the reflection cast on the present disputable state 

 of things, there is mentioned on p. 294, a political pro- 

 ject, which was unknown to me, the Austrian proposi- 

 tion to give Burgundy as a kingdom to the Bavarian 

 dynasty in return for a cession of Bavaria. This title 

 of King of Burgundy was the object of the ambition 

 of the Duke of M. in 1815, though he would have 

 contented himself with Lorraine and Alsatia. Napoleon 

 also once had a momentary intention to make the Prin- 

 cipe de la Paz, King of Baetica (Andalusia and Grenada) 

 from recollections of "Telemaque," and the King of 

 Sardinia, Roi de Numidie, although the donor had not a 

 foot of land in Africa to dispose of. 



With warm friendship, always equally incorrect and 

 illegible, your most faithful, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 

 SATURDAY NIGHT. 



NOTE BY VARNHAGEN. As early as the year 1743, Austria offered to 

 the Emperor Charles TIL a kingdom not yet conquered, to be composed 

 of Alsace, Lorraine, and Franche Comte, in return for Bavaria. See 

 "Mem. de Noailles," Tome vl 



