The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-04 00:00:00

AN AUSTRIAN MADIAL

(From the Christian
A German piper, of the 13th tat., publish
following letter :
" JOHN EVANGELIST BORZINSKY.
" Restrictions lees contrary to justice hays repl
those latter days, in Austria, the shackles of tyrant
=y interfered with the liberty of Protestant
these ameliorating measures is a law, made
which permits any Austrian subject of the Roman
religion to embrace the protestant faith either acorn
the Lutheran or the reformed confession, upon the
dition that he shall, on two occasions, ;take a prey
titration to his parish priest. A number of Fin
dosed the Roman church immediately on the prom
of this law, which till the present day retain all in
force and value. A recent facts
, us however, patent
protestant. and catholic., show how the law
observed for the last four years.
" A brother of the Order of the Monks of Men
provincial physician to the convent of that order at
arrived, after a long spiritual struggle, at new religi
victims, and refined to subscribe to the reforms
introduced into his order, for which—u mac
brethren partook of his sentiments—he wu regan
black sheep, and met with very harsh and bad ti
Belying upon the law referred to above, he d
entering the evangelical Lutheran church, bat th
to whom he applied in order to carry out his in
frankly told him that, notwithstanding the law
flop he had no power to receive him into his
seeing, said he, that the high Roman clergy have
ears past adopted the practice of seizing and i
lug any eadosisatie who shows that he is about
the evangelical church (apostatising, as they
Then, he added, they torment the prisoner,
position of all kinds of rough penance', in ads
him swear that he will remain in the church, oat
they affirm there is no salvation. This, then, nu
tion of Brother Bortinsky if be presented to I
print a declaration which the law plainly allowed
awe was to be admitted, and the poor fellow coal
on the protection of governmeot, for the hi rte
that in inflicting punishment it only corrects in
ebildren—a practice which it claims es its undoul
Every attempt upon the part of a priest or a mem
of the religion' orders to quit the Romish chit
rendered impossible. The friends of Borsinsky, I
lice and well•intentioned people, counselled hie
the empire for the realisation of his project, fie
the laws authorise any Austrian subject to dc
foreign land which he is not permitted to do
country.
" Anordingly, Brother Borsinsky, of the 01
Brothers of Mercy, was received on the 17th o
in the present year, in due legal form, into the
Church at Peterahain, in Prussia, and on the
abjuration set off on his return to his native cow
sink y and his Mende hoped that as everything
with his evangelical profession had been legally
would, as a Protestant Christian, remain t
But a short time after his return, Bortinsky
staying with his parents at Prosnits, in Mc
nddealy arrested at night, in his father's ho:
military and pollee agents, by whoa he mu
to the convent at Prague, and there delive
his superiors. The Carton DMA*, Aposta
of the Order, at Prague, there told him tl
committed a worse crime than if he had made c
memaster, with 10,000 florins (it is said that*
hem of the Order have thus decamped), and h
couly Imprisoned. The prisoner hu hitherto
allurements, threats, sufferings, and promises.
only aggravated the rigours of his captivity. 1
account of his minks& 'bitty, he has been de
'sad,' ad is Mind with the insane in a
joining the entreat recoptaele for filth.
" As the Austrian government may not be s
brutal treatment inflicted on this Evangelic
whale abjuration was perfectly legal, we give
the fact as briefly as possible, and we eases
Who are animated by Christian 'principle their
interest on behalf of this faithful prisoner of Is
"DB NOWOT2I
" Petenhain, near Nicety, Key 9, 1856."
The editor of the paper in whin the above
pnblished—Dis Zeit ("The Times ")—adds :
Nowotay is prepared to give further details I
may in any way wish to contribute to the d
this martyr to the evangelical faith. Dr. Merl
is communicating the letter to a French pros)
mia'j'aThe ogee appears to me to reenibl
." The facts have been already in'
Protestant Alliance by M. Yon Bothnia=
celebrated Prussian statesman, who heliProsi
in his power for John Borziasky's deliverance