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badly by the peasantry that he would not accept an estate legs,
Ya gift, to be obliged t+ work it upon that system. He Zr. 43.
“ld me an anecdote of a man engaged in the manufactory
of iron in that country, who complained of the competition
°F the English, who ‘paid the freight to Hamburgh, and
‘hen the expense of carrying it up the Elbe to Bohemia, and
‘hen,’ pe added, ‘they undersell me twenty-five per cent. at
¥ own door, and be d—d to them!’ In consequence of
Which he went off to Vienna to call for higher protection
0 the iron manufacture, by way of supporting ‘native
Ndustry’| . , , In the evening was entertained by a party
°f about seventy merchants and others of Lubeck at a public
dinner, After dinner went to ‘the cellar’ under the Town
Hall, q famous resort for the people, where they drink beer,
ing, ang listen to music. On descending into these vaults,
[wag enveloped in clouds of smoke. At one end was a
ang of music; in another recess was a festive meeting of
he German sawvans, some of whom, with their wives, were
“ated gf tables ; others were crowded round a speaker,
"ho wag addressing them, whilst almost invisible in a
cloud of smoke, Tt resembled a midnight scene in a ‘coalhole?
 or ‘finis’ in London—ryet in this odd place was to
found a hundred of the first professors and literary
Ten of Germany. I was introduced to Grimun, the famous
Title ang linguist.”
“Hoamburgh, Oct. 5th, 1847.—In the evening dined with
bout seven hundred persons at a Free Trade banquet; Mr.
Ruperti in the chair. Sat down at half-past five, and the
dinner and speeches lasted till ten. The speakers were free
2 the range of their topics, advocated the freedom of the
Press, quizzed the regulations of the city of Hamburgh,
"d turned into ridicule the Congress of Vienna and the
Sermanic diet”