his real character, nothing should ever induce me to travel with him; justly indignant that, without consulting me, he had stated in the bills that all the arrangements for the concert were most defective.  His own despicable want of patriotism too is proved by the following expressions:  “I care nothing at all about L.; if it is only said in London that people have paid ten gulden for admission here, that is all I care about; the wounded are nothing to me.”  Moreover, I told him that he might take the work to London on certain conditions, which I would inform him of.  He then asserted that it was a friendly gift, and made use of this phrase in the newspapers after the second concert, without giving me the most remote hint on the subject.  As Maelzel is a rude, churlish man, entirely devoid of education or cultivation, it is easy to conceive the tenor of his conduct to me during this time, which still further irritated me.  Who could bear to be forced to bestow a friendly gift on such a man?  I was offered an opportunity to send the work to the Prince Regent, [afterwards George IV.] It was therefore quite impossible for me to give away the work unconditionally.

He then called on a mutual friend to make proposals.  He was told on what day to return for an answer, but he never appeared, set off on his travels, and performed the work in Munich.  How did he obtain it?  He could not possibly steal it; but Herr Maelzel had several of the parts for some days in his house, and he caused the entire work to be harmonized by some obscure musical journeyman, and is now hawking it about the world.  Herr Maelzel promised me ear-trumpets.  I harmonized the “Battle Symphony” for his panharmonica from a wish to keep him to his word.  The ear-trumpets came at last, but were not of the service to me that I expected.  For this slight trouble Herr Maelzel, after my having arranged the “Battle Symphony” for a full orchestra, and composed a battle-piece in addition, declared that I ought to have made over these works to him as his own exclusive property.  Even allowing that I am in some degree obliged to him for the ear-trumpets, this is entirely balanced by his having made at least 500 gulden in Munich by my mutilated or stolen battle-piece.  He has therefore paid himself in full.  He had actually the audacity to say here that he was in possession of the battle-piece; in fact he showed it, written out, to various persons.  I did not believe this; and, in fact, with good reason, as the whole is not by me, but compiled by some one else.  Indeed the credit he assumes for the work should alone be sufficient compensation.

The secretary at the War Office made no allusion whatever to me, and yet every work performed at both concerts was of my composition.

Herr Maelzel thinks fit to say that he has delayed his visit to London on account of the battle-piece, which is a mere subterfuge.  He stayed to finish his patchwork, as the first attempt did not succeed.