The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

XV.

The following are the facts, as stated at the tribune of
Berlin by M. Niegolowski, an hon. deputy of the Grand
Duchy of Posen. Three Prussian bureaucrats, M. De
Putt kammer, superior president of the province of Posen ;
M. De Beerensprung, president of police; and M. Post,
secretary interpreter, sought together for a good means of
manifesting their zeal and of miffing the gratitude of the
Government. M. De Puttkammer is a great personage,
much higher than a prefect, and a little less than a minis-
ter; M. De Bccrensprung is an important mar.; Post is a
poor devil of no note.
Puttkammer thinks, Bcerensprung dictates, and Post
writes. These three men, by dint of digging in the bureau-
cratic brains, think to excite a rising in the Grand Luchy
of Posen, in order to have the honour of repressing it. The
charpter of excitinc, agents, which was always the aversion
of Vidocq, does not nspire 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, emissaries, and arms 1"
They on their side send to London money, the money of
the budget, the unfortunate thalers of the taxpayers. A
good employment for the taxes I The treasurer of the en-
terprize was M. Stolzenberg, secretary 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 Conseillere
Ruch.

The London committee is slow in replying; it hesitates;
it mistrusts, and 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 speaks with such admiration 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 per-
fidious game lasted for three years, and it would have still
gone on if M. Niegolowski had not stopped it by a thunder-
clap.

XVI.
The eloquent Posnanian orator deposited on the tribune
the original text of 24 letters written by M. Post, dictated by
M. De Bcerensprung, and inspired by M. De Puttkammer.
The first is dated the 19th August, 1858, and the last 23c1 of
April, 1860. No one has disputed the perfect authenticity
of those documents, not even the Minister of the Interior,
Count de Schwerin. We have had them trans'ated into

French by a sworn translator, and they prove :
That the Prussian police excited the London committee
to send into the Grand Duchy of Posen incendiary procla-
mations ; that they paid for the printing of them in England ;
that they caused them to be distributed to suspected persons
in order to afterwards seize them, and show the ardour of
its zeal to the detriment of some subjects of the King of

Prussia_
That Puttkammer, Bcerensprung, and their accomplices,
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 unfor-
tunate 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 this fine exploit, M. De
Bcorensprung, the saviour of the order whom he had himself
disturbed, and the conqueror of the agitation which he had
himself excited, offered himself as candidate to the deputa-
tion, and was not elected, He did not the less continue his
correspondence with the London committee, swearing to
Mazzini that Hewitt had been betrayed by the Polish no-
bility (letter of July 5, 1859), and that many of the nobles
belonged to the police (letter of July 19, 1859).
X VII.
These functionaries leagued against public peace, de
nounce to the London committee at one time the nobility and
the clergy (Feb. 16, 1860), at another the nobility alone,
who, they say, are always incorrigible and ready to sell the
country; at another the deputies of Posen; taen Prince
Czartoriski ; next the whole body of landowners (Dec. 7,
1859). They hold up to the hatred of emigrants all the
great names of the country ; they coolly discuss the division
of their estates, and ask how many acres will be necessary
for each peasant, for each Custom-house officer, and for each
soldier. They excite hatred in order that citizens may be
ready to cut each other's throats. When we read these
monstrous excitations we are reminded with terror of the
events of Gallicia and of that revolution of 1846 which was
drowned by the peasants in the blood of the nobles, thanks
to the foresight of the Austrian police. We ask ourselves
whether the police of Germany are not sisters like the
Grecian muses. We feel that the Germanic nation would
find but slight advantage in uniting with the kingdom of
Prussia if it were to fall into the hands of Puttkammer,
Boerensprung, and Post.