in 1844, he became a court secretary to the imperial chancellery, and behaved as an enlightened politician in the sense of the english aristocracy. however, he left government service in early 1846, adopted a lively interest in various aristocratic movements and, in 1847, published the second part of the above-mentioned work in hamburg. at the same time, he anonymously wrote tracts displaying the sense of feudal opposition within austria to the metternich system of governance.