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of science, would never do anything great. Herder's 

 works were morbid matter, thrown off from his system." 

 (It reads exactly like a passage from Zelter's* letters.) 

 In an autograph, from a collection in Augsburg, which 

 was offered to me as a present, and which I returned, 

 my friend, Prince S., writes to Koreff : " Alexander H. 

 again accompanies the King to the Congress of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle in the sole capacity of bloodhound (Spiirhund)." 

 Such are the representations on the stage of life for 

 the benefit of a gullible posterity. The Emperor 

 Alexander told the late King that my brother had, at 

 the Congress of Vienna, undoubtedly been bribed by 

 the Jews to make himself useful to them, just as, ac- 

 cording to the King of Hanover, Baron Billow was, in 

 the Belgian affair, by the French. In Schoning's very 

 interesting " War of the Bavarian Succession " inte- 

 resting by the correspondence with Prince Henry, and 

 the reflex on the present shameful state of affairs 

 there occurs (p. 294) a statement concerning a political 

 scheme, which I had not known before : the Austrian 

 proposal to give to the Bavarian house, for the cession of 

 Bavaria, the Netherlands as " Kingdom of Burgundy." 

 Such a title of King of Burgundy was tried for by the 

 Duke of M. in 1815; but he would have contented 

 himself with Lorrain and Alsace. Napoleon had also 

 entertained a thought of making the Principe de la 

 Paz ~j~ for the nonce King of Baetica (Andalusia and 

 Granada) a reminiscence of "T&emaque" and the 

 King of Sardinia Eoi de Numidie, although the dis- 

 penser had not an inch of ground in Africa of which 

 to dispose. 



* A musical composer, the friend and correspondent of Goethe. Tu. 

 f Godoy, the Prince of Peace. TR. 



