The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-19 00:00:00

"XTV.

"Let us be permitted to add to those friendly reflections
one last piece of advice—it will prove to what degree
we feel an interest in German unity, and in the future
of Prussia.

"Much as the name of Prussia and her constitution,
such as it is, and the person of her august Regent,
excite sympathy in Germany, it is equalled by the repul-
sion, inspired by her bureaucracy, not only to the Ger-
manic nation, but to honest men of all countries. A
ray of light fell, on the 12th of May, 1860, on the man-
oeuvres of the Prussian police ; and the world then
beheld the strangest mixture of awkwardneis and immo-
rality, of zeal and imprudence, of incendiary provocation
and clumsy Machiavelism.
" XV.

"The following are the facts, as stated at the tribune
of Berlin by M. Niegolowski, an honourable deputy of
the Grand Duchy of Posen. Three Prussian bureaucrats
—M. De Puttkammer, superior president of the province
of Posen ; M. De Bcerensprung, president of police ; and
M. Post, secretary interpreter—sought together for 'a
good means of manifesting their zeal and of meriting the
gratitude of the Government. M. De Puttkammer is
a great personage, much higher than a prefect, and little
less than a minister; M. De Bcerensprung is an important
man ; Post is a poor devil of no note.

Puttkammer thinks, Bcerensprutig dictates, and
post writes. These three men, by dint of digging in
their bureaucratic brains, think to excite a rising in the
Grand Duchy of Posen, in order to have the honour of
repressing it. The character of exciting agents, which
was always the aversion of Vidocq, does not inspire them
with any contempt. They assume the disguise of Poles
discontented with Prussian domination ; they found in
their offices a false democratic committee, and they put

themselves in relation with the central committee in
London. ' Send us,' they write, proclamations,; emis-
saries, and arms !"
‘, They on their side send to London money, the

money of the budget, the, unfortu,nate thalers of the
taxpayers. •A good employment for the taxes ! The
treasurer of the enterprise. was M. Stolzenberg,.eeere-

tar), of police. All letters• were to be addressed to
Mde. Ruch, wife of a judge at the superior tribunal—
or, to speak German, Mde. la eonseillere Ruch.
" The London committee is slow in replying; it hesi-
tates; it mistrusts, arid it might be said that it smelt
treason. But the bureaucratic trio supplicated• so
humbly; it besought in such a mellifluous"tone for the
alms 'of' a few 'letters and a few little circulars. It

speaki'with such adruiration.of General Mazzini, with
so much emotion of the prose of Felix Pyat, that the
revolutionists of London and Mazzini. himself entered
into correspondence with them. This perfidious game
lasted for three years, and it would have still gone on :if
M. Niegolowski had not stopped it by a thunderclap.
" XVI.

" The eloquent Posnian orator deposited on the
tribune The originaltext of twenty-four letters written
by M. Post, dictated by M. De Poerensprung, and
inspired by M. De Puttkammer. The first is dated the
~Pth.Augnst,
.1858,, and, the last 23rd of April, 1860.
No, one has disputed the perfect authenticity of those
doeurnents, not even the Minister,of the Interior, Count
De Schwerin. We have had
.them translated into
French by a sworn translator, and they prove •
" That
.the Prussian police excited the London com-
mittee to send .into the Grand Duchy of Posen incen-
diary proclamations ; that they paid for the printing 43f
them in England ; that they caused them to he dis-
tributed to suspected persons in order to afterwardi seize
them, and show the ardour of its zeal to the detrinaent
of some subjects of' the' King of Prussia.

- .
"That Puttkammer, Bcerunsprung, and their accom-
plices, by dint of solicitations and importunities,
obtained from the committee in London the sending
of an emissary, named Rewitt ; that, they themselves
gave a passport to this unfortunate man ; that they
allowed him to move about freely,,in order that he
might compromise as many persons as possible; that they
at length, arrested him, and had him condemned to two
years' imprisonment After that fine exploiti M. De
13cerensprung, the 'saviour of the order whom he had
himself disturbed, and the conqueror of the agitation
which he had himself excited, offered himself as candi-
date to the deputation, and was not elected. He did net
the less continue his correspondence with the London
committee, swearing to Mazzini that Rewitt had been
betrayed by the Polish nobility (letter of July 5, 1859),
and that many of the nobles belonged to the police (letter
of July 19, 1869).