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the intervention of their powerful and unscru-
pulous protectors ? Farther, it seems that
even the renunciation of these advantages by
their possessor cannot deprive him of them ,
and that, if it is desired to ground a quarrel
upon the violated rights of eitizenship, the
disavowal of all such citizenship will pass un-
noticed. The case may one day be our own :
something analogous did actually occur at
Charleston, and would most certainly have
offered a justifiable case for grave complaint
had it been convenient to the Ministers of the

day to avail themselves of it.
In Turkey it is well known that a Christian
when taken in the actual commission of a
crime may escape the consequences by pro-
fessing his conversi►►n to Islamism. The
pretensions of America to invest the criminals
of other countries with similar immunities, if
admitted, will render all intercourse with that

country intolerable.
The consequences of this unfortunate quar-
rel are not over. The occasion, it seems, was
seized by our own authorities at Smyrna for
one of those offensive displays of hostility to
wards the allies of England which of late have
been so common. On the evening in which
the arrest of the Hungari►un rebel took place,
and before the excitement to which it had
given rise had subsided, three Austrian officers
belonging to the vessel-of-war in the harbour
had the impudence (or the boldness) to enter
a public coffee-house, and to call for the cus-
tomary refreshments. The opportunity was
not to be neglected. While they were quietly
smoking their pipes, relying upon their total
innocence of all offence, and upon the laws of
the country for their protection. they were
suddenly surrounded and assaulted by about
twenty or thirty men, refugees from Hungary
and Italy, but chiefly from the latter. A scuffle
ensued, at the commencement of which one of
the Austrians escaped ; another was killed on
the spot ; and the third, mortally wounded,
sunk in the water, and was drowned in an
attempt to swim to his vessel.
The indignation of the Austrians and the
consternation of the Turkish authorities were
great. The praetice of assassination, which
was once attributed to Italy as her peculiar
disgrace, is now boasted of as a merit by the
Liberals of all nations. It has been adopted
as part of the tactics of the West, and attended
with complete success at Presburg, Vienna,
Prague, and Frankfort ; and nothing but the
timely escape of the victim (the aged General
HAYNAU) prevented our own streets from being
polluted by the same crime.
The bodies of the murdered officers were
recovered, and received a decent burial. The
eldest, Lieut. AUSCHAMMER, was in his twen-
tieth year; the youngest, Baron HACKELBERG,
was two years younger ; and both, we are
assured, were promising youths, and much
beloved by their superiors and comrades.
When the funeral took place, it was less in
sympathy with the peculiarly distressing cir-
cumstances of the ease than in respect to
common usage that the colours of every vessel
in the harbour were hoisted half-mast high—
with the exception of the English and Ameri-
can. Such conduct, so little in accordance
with the good feeling and hmnanity of the
English character, is wholly inexplicable ; and
we are assured that the circumstance is com-
mented upon in Austrian garrisons with a
-bitterness that all the insolence of our hostile
diplomacy. and even the unpunished outrage
on General HAYNAU, had failed to excite. and
with a burning thirst for revenge that must.
we fear, soon lead to an outbreak, which will
still further compromise our relations with the
Austrian Government.
The infatuation of our Government does, we
own, astonish us ; for the Ministers must be
held responsible for the hostility of the Medi-
terranean fleet. However little we might hope
from their equity and courtesy, we should have
expected more prudence, and that the present
moment would not have been selected for
adding to the long catalogue of insults and
injuries which they have heaped upon an
ally on whose cordial and sincere co-operation
they eould calculate in the war which their
imprudence has. humanly speaking, rendered
kogvitable, even if degrading concessions avert
It for the moment.