American Publishers Circular and Literary Gazette 1856 (taken from the Gentleman's magazine)
"Professor Dindorf allows that he advised
Simonides at first to try and sell the Uranios MS. in England, where it might be
disposed of to most advantage : but says that he afterwards withdrew
from any thought of a personal agency in the affair, and that he neither
offered the MS. for sale in England nor in any other place, except at
Berlin . We know its history there, and how Simonides was apprehended
at Leipzig, when on the point of starting afresh for England ,
with all his packages and effects ready for the journey ; how he was
transported to Berlin, put in prison there, tried , and acquitted , to the
surprise and astonishment of all. The reason assigned for this unlookedfor
escape of Simonides from merited punishment, is said to have been
his ignorance of the transaction of Professor Dindorf with the Berlin
Academy, which purchased the MS . of " Uranios " for 5000 dollars, by
the advice of Dindorf ; and in consequence of this ignorance, Simonides,
by the law of Prussia, was held not amenable to punishment. On the
29th of March Simonides made his triumphant appearance at the Café
Français in Leipzig, boasting of his innocence, and declaring his resolution
to have satisfaction for the unjust persecution he had suffered from
the Leipzig scholars. The Professors of Berlin, he said, ( teste Lykurgos),
accompanied him as a guard of honor to the railway-station, and
Lepsius offered him money, should he have occasion for it. He was
even offered the choice, he affirmed , of receiving back his MS. , or money
in exchange for it . This state of things, however, did not last long ; for
on March 30 the police gave him notice to quit Leipzig, and to bend his
steps homewards ; and at 3 P.M. on the same day he took his departure
for Vienna, with a guard of police on this occasion to do him honor."