[...] What, among other things, really amazes me, is that my miserable relations with the Saxon Government, which condemn me for all time to the apparent status and dependence of an adventurer, should have been left entirely unaired by the press, which is more or less friendly to me! [...] In Dresden they ask me, after fully ten years, to submit to trial, the King reserving his decision as to my pardon till after judgment has been delivered. I have recently pointed out to the Minister of Justice the senselessness of imposing the torment of such a trial and examination upon a man like myself after so long a time. Eventually, however, I made the state of my health a pretext, and begged that the conditions should be dispensed with, as an exception in my case, on that account. Hereupon—no answer whatsoever! Are these not matters worthy of being brought forward in, for example, the Prussian Presse?
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 426