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1847. German by Doctor Asher. The speeches were rather long;
an. 43. and the auditory phlegmatic when compared with an Italia?
dinner-party. Mr. Warren, the United States Consul at Triest®
made the best speech, in German. Alluding to my our I
France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, he said that no English
politician of former times, no Chatham, Burke, or Fox could
have obtained those proofs of public sympathy in foreig™
countries which had been offered to me; in their days the
politics of one state were considered hostile to others; 29%
only each nation was opposed to its neighbour, but city 72°
against city, town against country, class was arranged
against class, and corporations were in hostility to individual
rights: he adduced the fact of my favourable reception *
foreign countries as a proof of the existence of a broader and
more generous view of the interests of mankind.”
“ Berlin, August 1st.—Baron Von Humboldt called, eX
pressed in strong and courteous terms his disapproval of
Lord Palmerston’s foreign policy in Portugal and Greece:
especially of his demanding from the latter a peremptory
payment of a paltry sum of money. I expressed my doubt?
it the Greeks were at present fitted for constitutional self”
government, upon which he remarked that it was much
easier for a mation to preserve its independence than its
freedom. . . . Wrote a note to Dr. Asher declining D*®
invitation to address a party of Free Traders, and expressing
my determination not to interfere in the domestic concer?
of Prussia.”
“ Berlin, August 5th—The Prussian law of 1818, 88d
the tariff which followed it, form the foundation of tho
German Zollverein. The former system of Frederick the
Great, and which had lasted for upwards of half a century
was one of the most prohibitive in respect to the importa
tion of foreign goods ever enforced. The prohibition of the
entrance of foreign manufactures, even of those of Saxony: