The 8,000 Bavarians will return home again. The new constitution of the Bund will include all Austria (except Italy), and will have a diet which has no legislative power in internal German affairs. Will Radowitz stay? Send a line in answer. [13.] LONDON, _December 11, 1850._ In spite of the courier, who goes to-day, I must write a few words in answer to your friendly inquiries. I am more and more convinced that you stake _everything_ if you begin the important affair in Bonn without going there yourself; and on the other hand, that the business _cannot_ fail _if_ you go there; _lastly_, that you should go there at once, that Lassen and the government may not hit on something else. Once begun, the thing will, I hope, go exactly as you wish. But I should be _very_ sorry if you were to leave Oxford before finishing the printing of the Introduction. That is your farewell to England, your greeting to the professoriate in Germany, both worthy and suited to you. The Lectures at Oxford appear, by the side of this, as a secondary consideration. I cannot, however, restrain the wish that you should not refuse the thing. It is not expected that a deputy-professor should spend more time than is necessary on the charge committed to him. I should think you could arrange such a course very pleasantly, and feel certain of success, if you only bear in mind Lockhart’s advice, to write as for ladies,—“Spartam quam nactus es orna,” as Niebuhr always told me, and I have always found it a good maxim. I await the sending in of your article for the “Edinburgh,” in order to make all preparations at once. I hope you will be back from Bonn by Christmas Eve, or else wait till after Christmas before you go. As a friend of many years’ standing, you will forgive me if I say that if the journey to Bonn is not financially convenient to you just now, I _depend_ upon your thinking of _me_. [14.] 9 CARLTON TERRACE, _January 2, 1851_. Most heartily do I wish you success and happiness in the new year. Stanley will have told you of our negotiations as to your beautiful article. He will have laid before you the sketch of a genuine English prologue and epilogue promised by him, and for which I gave him a few ideas. You can then choose between the “Quarterly” and “Edinburgh Review.” Pertz has authorized me to pay you £20 on the 1st of January, as you wished. So send your receipt, that I may at once send you the £20 (in four bank-notes), unless you will fetch them yourself. If you can be here on Monday, you are invited to dinner with Macaulay, Mahon, and General Radowitz, otherwise any other day. P. S. (Wednesday). No, my dear M., I will not send your article, but take it myself. Let me have it soon. [15.] LONDON, _March 13, 1851_.