Much business; the Americans very importunate as ever; a new patron, Jacques Blumenthal. The medalist Scharff to dinner, who relates much concerning the hopeless condition of affairs in Austria—for what does the Austrian fight, when he goes to war? In Hungary all who speak German are dismissed! In Bohemia, three Jews are the leaders of the German party—“one returns more and more to this”, says R., “that how Goethe and Schiller were not up-to-date with the current situation, in that they did not trouble themselves with the political nonsense”.—The uprising of the Bocchesi [1] in the year 1869, quelled in Austria with thirty gulden per man! … Walked up to the theatre.
[1]In October 1869 the Slavonic Bocchesi, aided by Montenegrins, rose up for the first time, being burdened with taxes during their integration into the Landwehr; they defeated the Austrians under General Auersperg, but in the end of December 1869 submitted upon receiving forty florins for each man—this is the circumstance to which R. W.’s remark here refers.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.