[31] Massari, Il Conte Cavour, p. 268.
[32] Aus der Petersburger Gesellschaft, vol. ii. p. 90.
[33] In 1862, at the moment of definitely leaving his post at St. Petersburg, M. de Bismarck received the visit of a colleague, a foreign diplomat. They were speaking of Russia, and the future chancellor of Germany said, among other things, "I am in the habit, when leaving a country where I have lived long, to consecrate to it one of my watch charms, on which I have engraved the final impression which it has left me; do you wish to know the impression which I carry from St. Petersburg?" And he showed to the puzzled diplomat a little charm on which these words were engraved: "Russia is nothingness!"
[34] M. de Bismarck has since presented these quadrupeds to the zoölogical garden of the former free city of Frankfort.
[35] Constantin Roessler, Graf Bismarck und die deutsche Nation, Berlin, 1871.
[36] Frederick William IV. having died the 2d January, 1861, the prince regent took from that day the name William I.
[37] See the remarkable pamphlet entitled Europa's Cabinete und Allianzen, Leipzig, 1862. It is the work of a Russian diplomat, celebrated in political literature, the same whose book on the Pentarchie had such a loud echo under the monarchy of July.
[38] See in the Revue des deux Mondes of the 1st October, 1868, Les Préliminaires de Sadowa.
[39] See the celebrated circular dispatch of M. de Bismarck of the 24th January, 1863, in which he gives an account of the curious interviews which he had with the ambassador of Austria, Count Karolyi, in the last months of the year 1862, soon after his accession to power.
[40] "Why, then, should not representative institutions be accorded at the same time to the kingdom of Poland and to the empire of Russia?"—Dispatch of Lord John Russell to Lord Napier, 10th April, 1863.