The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

THE HUNOARIAN CROWN JEWELS.-HOW

THEY WERE RECOVERED.
THE recovery of the above regal insignia may be
well called an event, as the Emperors of Austria,

always beginning their coronations with that at
I luala-Pest, could nut have begun this cycle of affairs
as long as the crown and crown jewels of Hungary
were wanting. Various reports were in circulation
as to their loss, which, at one time, was considered
irreparable. It is said that only three persons,
amongst whom is M. de 4—, late Minister of the
Magyar republic, knew where they were secreted ;
and there is cogent reason extant that, after all, they
have not been recovered iu their integrity. The his-
tory of this late recovery is one of the most interest-
ing samples of a fact discovered and arrived at by
mere inductions, some based on physical premises.
fhe informations, obtained by dint of great skill by
M. de Kargor, majoreuditeur in the Austrian army,
made it appear at find that M. Kossuth had con-
veyed the Hungarian' crown insignia originally to
New Orssowa; but, seeing that he could not conceal
them there, he went to the Hercules baths of Meha•
(ha; and, finding there tallness opportunity for con-
cealment, he again returned to Old Orssowa, and,
after having them kept there a short time, had them
conveyed by trusty persons in the night over the
Czerua, towards the Wallachian frontiers. it had
been ascertained also that his followers had bought,
on the Sallie day, instruments for digging at Old
Orssowa, and hail proceeded in the night towards
the Czer na.

The winter, which set in with great severity on the
Northern Danube, covering the whole country with
snow several feet deep, did not permit of any im-
mediate research in the vicinity of Old Orssowa, and
when, in the month of April, MO, the snow had
melted, all the traces of any digging had vanished,
while, at the same time, the Republican party, to
whom these researches had not remained unknown,
did not fail to mislead the Austrian Government by
false reports. So things slumbered three years,
until, in the spring last past, M. de larger received
orders to reassume all the threads of the former in -
fonuation, and to seek after the lost crown. M.
larger started from various premises, which, by the
final result, prove to have been mostly correct. He
conjectured that the persons hiding the crown and
insignia had certainly selected a place which, even
after the laps.. of years, would be recognised by them
or their emissaries and messengers. He further
thought that, as the Magyar fugitives had taken the
road over the Czerna, it was not very likely that
beyond this the jewels could have been secrete'''.
Having acquired a thorough knowlege of this locality
in former years, M. de harger strained every nerve to
ranssck the country in all weather and in all hours
of day and night, leaving no stone nor rock, no tree
nor bramble unsearehed and unexamined. After
having thus gone to and fro a hundred times over the
same ground, a theory arose in his head that it was
only fissures of the soil and trees or shrubs that the
Magyars could have selected as a hiding-place for
their crown. The difficulty of effecting any efficient
hole or ditch in the deep alluvium of the Allion in a
short time was the main support of this hypothesis.
After having repeatedly examined all tufts of trees in
the neighbourhood he found that in a sequestered
place of the Allion-Au there was an oasis of trees
exhibiting strange decortications, arrangement of
branches, A.T. The fact, in tine, that many of the
branches were lying astray around a certain locality
proved that they had not been broken by peasant
people for fuel. The accidental finding of an
elegant watch-key, and the handle of a pickaxe,
showed to M. de Komar that a person of the higher
ranks of society had been there for some particular
work. The softness of the ground, the loneliness of
the place, as well as its easy access from the I►anube,
and the opposite Turko-Serbian shore, corroborated
the major's belief, and alt bough he had strict orders not
to excavate the ground but after the most certain
indications had been obtained, he at once proceeded
to that operation on the 6th September instant.
After the locality hail been accurately surveyed and
mapped. and a sort of uej,work laid down to enclose
and bisect the whole oasis of trees, having an area of
twenty square fathoms, by seven parallel ditches. and
to prolong them to the length of the Au, it was on
the mill of September, at 5.25 a.m., that the hoe of a
workman struck some metallic substance, being that
of an iron well-secured chest, which, on being fern-
bly broken open, was found to contain the losterewn
of the Magyar kings.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1853.

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