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building Union at Bonn, or of the Committee of the 

 Union of this place ; how can you expect me to be 

 able to obtain a hearing in this affair ? Anything that 

 might be proposed by word of mouth concerning these 

 really very desirable matters, even by those reputed to 

 have influence, remains now unnoticed and ineffectual. 



To produce any effect, it will be necessary to address 

 directly to the King a simple official expose of the pro- 

 posed plan, signed by the committee, and exact esti- 

 mates for the work. No decision is formed, except in 

 Cabinet meetings, on the report of Ministers ; for this 

 reason, the application is to be made, concisely and 

 accurately, in a letter to the King. In these stirring 

 times, in which the King resides at Potsdam only for 

 a week or so at a time, such a mode of proceeding is 

 more requisite than ever. Of painter Eatti's Titian, 

 political aspersions, and of " exalted incogniti " I hear 

 of them all now for the first time, and I shall be glad, 

 on my part, to do my best in neutralizing the effect of 

 those aspersions ; although, owing to my well-known 

 political bias, such " essais de blanchir" are but a very 

 feeble support. Amidst so many painful feelings, 

 which, with your ardent noble love for everything that 

 is true, free, generous, and good, you so unswervingly 

 foster, you have just now, to my great joy, besides 

 the victories of the Turks, two other causes of cheerful 

 satisfaction. Your Goethe monument is ensured, and 

 the grandson of the great man has obtained a congenial 

 position at the Prussian embassy, in Eome. 



With unalterable esteem and friendship, 



The Old Man of the Mountains, 



A. v. HT. 



