Few of the Count's Reports which elicited these letters have
been telegraphed, and only one in extenso. In this one, the Count warns the Emperor to keep up his Army, whatever the Reichstag may say, as France hates Germany, and whichever party obtains the ascendency, will be governed by young men, who will have forgotten the lesson of 1870. For the rest, Count Arnim's Reports were apparently very opposite to the opinions of Prince Bistharck, monarchical in bias, full of complaints of the insults he received from French society, and in some instances foolishly hostile to Frenchmen and French leaders. He appears to have considered M. Thiers incapacitated by vanity. Much of this, however, if not all, was the result of temper, and the Count during the trial formally expressed his " deep regret that he should have been betrayed into such language about France." It would seem that he had actually complained to the Due Decazes of some slight offered to him by the Baroness Gustave Rothschild, and it is more than possible that long-continued worry, strongly felt by a haughty and irritable temperament, is the true secret of his final conduct. The French are extremely irritated by his lan- guage, and the parties taunt each other with Bismarck's approval or condemnation. All this seems a little childish. Prince Bis- marck's opinion is his opinion, and that is all, and Count Arnim's is the opinion of a man baited by social alights into savagery. There are Americans who wrote during the ' Trent' affair just as savagely of England. That is no reason for abusing Americans.
