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he received a present of Byron's cavalry helmet,--certainly a rare trophy.1
Doctor Howe's mysterious imprisonment in Berlin in 1832 is the more enigmatical since Berlin has generally been the refuge of the oppressed from other European countries.
The Huguenots, expelled by Louis XIV., went to Berlin in such numbers that they are supposed by Menzel to have modified the character of its inhabitants.
The Salzburg refugees were welcomed in Prussia by Frederick William I.,
who had an official hanged for embezzling funds that were intended for their benefit.
In 1770 Frederick the Great gave asylum to the Jesuits who had been expelled from every Catholic capital in Europe; and when the brothers Grimm and other professors were banished from Cassel for their liberalism, they were received and given positions by Frederick William IV.
Why then should the Prussian government have interfered with Doctor Howe, after he had completed his philanthropic mission to the Polish refugees?
Why was he not arrested in the Polish camp when he first arrived there?
The futile and tyrannical character of this proceeding points directly to Metternich, who at that time might fairly be styled the Tiberius
1 This helmet hung for many years on the hat-tree at Dr. Howe's house in South Boston.
1905. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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