hose I know. I have not yet
looked at yours, but I shall ask ---- about them. I recommend you to be
cautious in your intercourse with him. Could I not be of use to you in many
ways here? These printers, or rather _misprinters_, as they ought to be
called to deserve their names, pirate your works, and give you nothing in
return; this, surely, might be differently managed. I mean to send you some
choruses shortly, even if obliged to compose some new ones, for this is my
favorite style.

Thanks for the proceeds of the _bagatelles_, with which I am quite
satisfied. Give nothing to the King of England. Pray accept anything you
can get for the Variations. I shall be perfectly contented. I only must
stipulate to take no other reward for the dedication to your wife than the
kiss which I am to receive in London.

You name _guineas_, whereas I only get _pounds sterling_, and I hear there
is a difference between these. Do not be angry with _un pauvre musicien
autrichien_, who is still at a very low ebb. I am now writing a new violin
quartet. Might not this be offered to the musical or unmusical London
Jews?--_en vrai Juif_.

I am, with cordial regard,
Your old friend,

BEETHOVEN.

347.

TO HERR GEHEIMRATH VON KOeNNERITZ,--DRESDEN,[1]
DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL ORCHESTRA AND THEATRE IN SAXONY.

Hetzendorf, July 17, 1823.

SIR,--

I have too long deferred sending you a signed receipt and thanks, but I
feel sure you will pardon the delay from my great pressure of business,
owing to my health having improved, and God knows how long this may
continue. The description given by my dear friend Maria Weber[2] of your
generous and noble disposition encourages me to apply to you on another
subject, namely, about a Grand Mass which I am now issuing in manuscript.
Though I have met with a previous refusal on this matter [337], still, as
my esteemed Cardinal, H.R. Highness the Archduke Rudolph, has written to
H.R.H. Prince Anton, requesting him to recommend the Mass to his Majesty
the King of Saxony, I think this fresh application might at all events be
made, as I should consider it a great honor to number among my
distinguished subscribers (such as the King of Prussia, the Emperor of
Russia, the King of France, &c.) so great a connoisseur in music as the
King of Saxony.

I leave it to you, sir, to decide from this statement how and when you can
best effect my purpose. I am unable to send you to-day the application for
a subscriptio