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tude. My affection for Marheineke, I have myself 

 expressed to him. A thunderbolt in the form of a 

 Ministerial Warrant, inserted in the newspapers, with 

 some specimens of censor cleverness, would have been 

 more salutary than the impracticable law for regulating 

 the press, and a grand inquisitor for establishing the 

 liberty of the press. We have so much to say to each 

 other, and I hope yet to be able to pay you a visit 

 before you leave. And then the cheering sight of four 

 Crown Princes and Heirs Apparent : the one a pale 

 sciatic creature, the next a besotted Icelander, the 

 third a blind political fanatic, and the fourth obstinate, 

 opinionated, and feeble- witted.* Such is the future 

 monarchical world ! Yours, 



A. HT. 



I am going with the King to the Ehine. That I 

 could not allow myself to be paraded at St. Peters- 

 burg you will understand. The Chancellor has the 

 pleasure of being still exposed to the coarse invectives 

 both of the non-invited and of those who were ex- 

 pelled from the banquet. How glass buttons, peacock 

 feathers, and ribbons excite men, to be surelf 



Note of Varnhagen. Marheineke' s article on the Anglican Church, 

 in the " Jahrbiichern fur wissenschaftliche Kritik," with a few 

 stupidities perpetrated by the censor. 



Varnhagen, in his Diary on the 26th June, 1 842, writes, on the 

 subject of the new Order : " Humboldt has given me a circumstantial 

 account of the institution of the new Order. The King at first wrote 

 down a list of names in Sanscrit characters. This list was commu- 



* The Crown Prince of Wiirtemberg, and the Heirs Apparent, now Kings, 

 of Denmark, Hanover, and Bavaria. Tr. 

 j* Allusion to the new Order pour le Me rite. 



