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as genuinely Spanish, and revolting. It is that the 

 culprit would " himself acknowledge." Neque aliud 

 reges, aut qui eadem ssevitia usi sunt, nisi dedecus sibi 

 atque illis gloriam peperere. 



I send you a " Don Juan." The language is very 

 beautiful, and there is much imagination. I am 

 curious to know how you like it. The constitutional 

 Roi des Landes* said yesterday again at his table, 

 before forty people, the Grb'ttingen professors had 

 spoken in an address of their patriotism : " Profes- 

 sors have no country at all. Professors, whores (that 

 there should be no mistake in the matter, he added des 

 putains), and danseuses were to be had anywhere for 

 money ; they will go wherever they are offered a few 

 groschen more." What a shame Jo call that a Ger- 

 man prince ! 



Yours faithfully attached, 



Wednesday Night. A. HT. 



LXYII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 7th April, 1842. 



Our unknown friend is very amiable. I have ceased 

 to feel any anxiety. You know how to heal every 

 wound. I send you with pleasure a copy of the few 

 lines which, as I intended, reached the King's hands 

 on the following morning. I made use of that round- 

 about way because I was thus enabled more freely to 

 express my discontent in writing. The matter is now 



* King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. Les Landes is a flat tract of country 

 near Bordeaux, in physical peculiarities similar to the Hanoverian territory. 

 TK. 



