The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-24
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE
From our London correspondent
LoNpos. Oct. 1.

EDIIOKS CORRESPONDENCE.
From our London correspondent
LONDON, Oct I, l845
Since writing my regular letter of yesterday, W,
have received the papers Of the continent which ar,
many, and her trip to Treport, together with her
flying visit to the Chateau d'Eu. The Journal de-
Debats asserts, through its correspondent from the
Rhine, that the Queen went TO Eu because she
was piqued with the reception ofthe Germans; and
that she especially vexed at Prince Albert moi
receiving the title of 'royal highness," bestowed
ON him by Parliament. The Globe affects not to
believe the story. Il cannoi magne that the Queen
could ever have been separated from Prince Albert
or that the German princes could venture on meas
uring their preiensions TO royalty with his In the
meanwhile, the official publication of the diplomatic
note addressed by the Earl of Aberdeen to the Earl
of Westmoreland, Prospecting Baron Bulow, has
created an intense feeling Of bitterness in Germany
against Great Britain and her Queen. The .assgs-
burg Journal, in a semi-oficial article, agNed bs
the editors called the remarks of the French gov
eminent journal "fudge!" 'If the rites Of hos
Of England" says the Journal, "it is not on the
GERMAN side that these laws were infringed
upon" This is saying enough for the leading
journal Of Germany, and the official organ Of the
Austrian government The editors then revert to
the Earl Of Aberdeens communication to his col
mockery, and contempt for the Prussian govern
ment. "This diplomatic note of the noble earl, y
they say, "was the programme of the Queens
journey" but It was not the King Of Prussia
who could answer in person this overbear-
ing note of the British Minister of Foreign
Affairs: il was the Congress Of the Zoll-Verein,
assembled at Carlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden,
on which devolved that task" "Aas" they
say, 1--WE have reason to believe that the Congress
has done nothing, (has not increased the duty on
English manufactures, and especially twist) nay,
it is only some twenty weeks after an insult of the
kind is offered, that the German public are made ac-
quainted with the fact through the public prints"
The meaning of this editorial is easily deciphered.
The southern states of Germany bear with impa-
tence the guardianship of Prussia In matters rea-
ting to commerce and manufactures, of which the
present cabinet Of Berlin Gas is shown by every one
Of its measures) is profoundly ignorant the Hot
tentots at the Cape of Good Hope. Beuth--a man
totally unfit for his place, and whose conscience al
last upbraided him for filling place to good pur-
pose whatever, when it might be occupied by a
man of capacity, who would serve the country, and
who on that account resigned-was almost forcibly
retained by the King. Beuth is not only weak man,
but so much in favor Of Great Britain that various
assigned for his preference Of the interests
of that country to those of the ZolL- Verein The
present insult offered to Germany and to Prussia in
particular, by the Earl of Aberdeen's note and the
silly conduct Of the Queen-who, it is said, eyed
cal monuments, with an opera-g ass--have incensed
the German people; while Austria long ago jealous
of the political ascendency of Prussia in the Ger
man states is trying her best to fan the fame Of dis
content and to break up the Zoll-Verein; as it now
exists--placing herself at the head of southern
union. think this may, in the end, be accomplish
ed. The King Of Prussia, already sufficiently UNI
popular in the German states has lost further caste
by the subordinate part he played in regard Eng
land-a part not only unworthy Of himself, but Of
the people over whose destinies he is, unfortunately
called to preside.
have in former letter, alluded to the fact that
Prussia, whatever her professions may be, is much
more favoraby disposed toward England than tow
ard the United States. The present King of Prus-
STA is a most thorough hater of democracy in any
shape, and would rather pocket dozen aggressions
from England, than compromise his chance of Brit
sh subsidies in of continental war. 1t is,
therefore, quite mistake, when some American pa
pers that Prussia is anxious for treaty with
the United States. She has shown such anxiety
to Mr.. Wheaton, and has only been urged into
the treaty by the southern states, who would have
otherwise threatened her, they threaten her now,
with dissolution of the league. Prussia in fact
not the people, but the King-has shown herself
totally incapable of taking the lead in German af-
fairs. The present King is a man who, when a
child, learned to talk by the conversations of the
brothers Humboldt and Rancke, and whose dry.
nurse was the prince of the romantic school of Ger
many, Ludwig Tieck. He was, therefore, brought
up in the romantic school, and fed with bons n,ots
which Alexander Won Humboldt had brought from
Paris. Imagining himself genius, he could not
but ape his great grand uncle Frederic. But Fred.
working man; while the present King of Prussia is
nothing but hard-drinker. The courters aver,
with oath, that he drinks nothing but champagne
He drinks it, however, at all times; and is not only
in a continual state of blessedness, but absolute
glory:
kings may be blessed; but Tam was glorious
Ger all the ills Of life victorious!"
The King Of Prussia has had several very lumn.
GUS moments, for he is neither without talent nor
without heart; but his aziness and his love OF
wine destroy BOTH Neither is he hypocrite; on
the contrary, he promises bona Jfde, but has moi
courage or character enough to keep his word. He
is not like George III, Of whom Junius said "Na-
ture only intended him for good-natured fool; bu,
long practice, and systematic education, have
made him a consummate hypocrite." Nature has
merely made mistake with William Nv; for, had
he become dealer in wine, he would have eclipsed
Mumm e. Co. at Frankfort-on-the- Maine and been
called clever man at his business The late EN-
peror Of Austria would have made excelect linen
draper, but prevented by the to follow the
trade. No one, certainly, can call the King ofPrus
STA guilty Of premeditated falsehood double deal
ing He has not enough of the Machiavelian
spirit about him to be cunning. He does every
thing by fits and starts he changes his mind and
timents. His very body-servants know his foes
for he still continues the practice in which he in
dulged as prince royal--of boxing their ears when
he is angry, and of asking their forgiveness when
lie is sober. Such scenes may be exceedingly
touching; and they may occasionally put few
louis-d'ors in footman's pocket; but they are
not dignifed. As a man Of genius, he hates
nothing SO much as to be stared at At CO.
logne, where gentleman poked his head into
the Kings carriage, to see whether he actually
did resemble the Great Frederic William, he with
his own hand took off his own hat, reminding him
of his royal presence. It's said that at Magdeburg,
where he arrived with an extra train from Berlin,
the citizens stared at him. and that vexed with their
impudence, he showed his tongue, not in the way
of a speech, but merely for the sake of ornament.
But this, of course, I don't believe. But you know
the old Italian proverb, "Se non zero, ben
fropafo."
Another fault of King William is, that he is too
easily offended. The crime of offended majesty is
punished dozen times at every quarter session. and
the poor offenders, principally poets and literati
of all descriptions, incarceraed at the different for
L.. ia E.