y blushes, the great longing I had to join the Tyrolese.
Stadion told me to depend on _him_; he would take a knapsack on his back
and go into the Tyrol, and do all I wanted to do instead of me. This was
the last mass that he could read to me, for his departure in a few days
was settled. Ah me! it fell heavy on my heart that I was to lose so dear a
friend. After mass, I went into the choir, threw on a surplice, and joined
in Winter's Lament. In the mean time, the Crown-prince and his brother
came in--the crucifix lay on the ground--both the brothers kissed it, and
afterwards embraced. They had had a quarrel till that day about a court
tutor, whom the Crown-prince had thought ill of, and dismissed from his
brother's service. They were reconciled in the way I have said, in the old
church, and it was a delightful thing to see it. Bopp, an old music-master
of the Crown-prince, who also gave me some lessons, accompanied me home.
He showed me a sonnet composed by the Crown-prince that morning. It speaks
well for his 'inner soul,' that he feels this inclination to poetry in
interesting circumstances. Nature assuredly asserts her rights in him, and
he will surely not let the Tyrolese be hardly dealt with. Yes, I have
great trust in him. Old Bopp told me many things that raised my opinion of
him to the highest pitch. On the third holiday, he carried me to the
English garden to hear the Crown-prince's address to the assembled troops,
with whom he was going, to serve his first campaign. I could hear nothing
distinctly, but what I did hear, I did not at all like; he spoke of their
bravery, their perseverance, and loyalty, and that he, with their
assistance, would bring back the Tyrolese to obedience, and that he
considered his own honour conjoined to theirs, &c. &c. As I went home,
this worried me very much. I saw that the Crown-prince, in the hands of
his generals, would do all that his heart rebelled against. I thought, as
I returned from the show, that no man in the world ever speaks truth to
one in power, but rather that there are always flatterers to approve of
all he does; and the worse his conduct, the greater their fear that he may
doubt of their approbation. They have never the good of mankind in their
eye, but only the favour of their master. So I determined to take a bold
step, to satisfy my own feelings--and I hope you will excuse me if you
think I did wrong.

"After expressing to the Crown-prince my love, and respect for