The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

KOSSUTH.

The following is the text of the diplomatic corre-
spondence between the Austrian internuncio at Con-
stantinople and the Turkish ministry, on the subject
of liossuth's liberation :

The undersigned representative of the Emperor of Aus-
tria at the Porte, has already communicated to you the
commissions transmitted through him from the imperial
cabinet to the Grand Vizier and Minister of Foreign
Affairs, relative to the continuation of the detention of
Kossuth and his most dangerous companions in Kutahia.
The minister may have seen, from the contents of the com-
munications exchanged on this subject, what great import-
ance the Imperial court attaches to this matter, and that
thu Imperial cabinet considers itself entitled to suppose
that the detention can only cease after the joint con-
currence of both powers shall have been obtained.
Both his Excellency Iteschid Pasha and his Ex-
cellency Ali Pacha, have assured the undersigned that
the contents of his communication would meet with due
attention from the ministerial council, and that the result
would be made known to him as soon as it bud received the
sanction of the Sultan. flow great, therefore, must have
been his surprise, whin he learnt from certain sources that
the minister Mid given the chief of a certain embassy the
assurance that Kossuth and his dangerous companions
would be set free in the middle of September, and that in
consequence of this assurance, the above-mentioned diplo-
matists had made certain arrangements is view of the
journey the Hungarian prisoners were to make. These
details have not been denied by his Excellency An Parka,
and the undersigned finds himself under the necessity to
renew more vigorously his exertions in order to turn the
Porte from a determination which it has doubtless
taken without mature deliberation, and which it will,
the undersigned hopes, abandon, when it considers all
the consequences that may ensue from the liberation con-
templated. Before proceeding further, however, it will be
necessary to call the attention of the Turkish ministers to
certain facts which should be noticed in order to a clear view
of the matter in hand. The undersigned does not intend to
detail the circumstances which led to and caused the flight
of the chief of the Hungarian rebellion, although such
details would give him an opportunity of offering numerous
points in reference to the demands of the Austrian govern-
ment, which the Porte ought instantly to grant. At the
value time lie considers it superfluous to refer to the mean-
ing and words of the treaties in force between the two
powers, in virtue of which rebels and criminals who
are Austrian subjects, and fly to Turkey, should
nut be harboured. lu accordance with the special wish
of the Sultan the imperial court abandoned its right to
demand the extradition of the fugitives, although the mean-
ing of treaties clearly gave him the necessary power in the
case. But it is fur this that the Austrian cabinet must,
with so much the more instance, dwell on the following
clauses of the treaty of Belgrade, which (clause 18) says
" When such rebels fly into the Turkish states with the
intention of concealing themselves there, the Porte is to
seek therm out and cause them to be punished ; and also
when the said rebels and criminals shall show themselves
repentant, and promise better behaviour, the Porte is not
to believe them, but detain them and confine them in a
place distant from the frontier."
Nothing can be clearer or more distinct than this
clause. Yet not only did the imperial court abandon its
rights confirmed in these declarations of the treaty, but
showed itself inclined to come to an arrangement with the
Divan relative to the confinement (internirung) of the fugi-
tives. What did the Porte to further so friendly a
disposition? She pertinaciously fixed a limit of a twelve-
month, and forced the imperial court to consider us of non-
effect the negotiations relative to a limitation of the period
of imprisonment, and to take its stand upon the terms of ex-
isting treaties, namely, those which had previously been
concluded by the two states under the hand of his Majesty
the Sultan and him Majesty the Emperor, on the 26 Schewal,
1263 (Sept. 17. 1819), and those which were made between
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish envoys ac-
credited for that purpose in Vienna, with the proviso that
in case of need, the clauses of these treaties would be en-
forced in all rigour.
This last proviso is made known more specially in a
despatch of Prince Sehwarzenberg, dated March 19, 1850,
which Count Sturnier, then iuternuncio, communicated to
his Excellency Ali l'achu. What, indeed, does the note of
the Porte itself, dated the 23rd of Gemasil Evvel (the 6th

April, 1830), say—which serves as appendix to the' above-
mentioned acts? Why, that the Porte, in order to
strengthen the cause of order in llungary, expresses its
readiness to come to a friendly understanding with the
imperial court before it set the captives in question free,
and that the imperial government should therefore express
its views in the matter, and communicate its detcrntina-
tion. - - -

It is clear, then, that according to the declarations of the
Sultan and of his ministers, the meaning of these worsts
cannot be understood by the imperial cabinet, or any im-
partial parties, iu any other way than that the confinement
(intentsnutg) should cease only on the joint determination
of the two powers. The undersigned has on several occa-
sions had the honour to bear the Turkish ministers on this
subject declare that in their soul they had not doubts on
this point; and his Highness Rescind l'actia assured him
at the commencement of last summer that the l'orte did

not intend to set the prisoners of Kutahia free without the
consent of the imperial cabinet.
And now what happens? The Austrian court declares
that order in Ilui.gary has not yet reached that state when
it becomes possible to let Kossuth loose without danger to
the peace of the kingdom. The imperial court considers
itself alone competent to judge of the internal state of its
provinces ; hut it assures that, as soon as the moment ar-
rives, it will hasten to inform the Porte, and it will then
make co opposition to the cessation of the imprisonment of
the Hungarians.
. .

In the'meantime the Sublime Porte, under ~11 manner of
pretexts, and taking up its position on an interpretation of
the agreement, which has not been assented to by the im-
perial cabinet, resolves no longer to take account of engage-
ments which it entered into in the most solemn manner, nor
held the righteous and well-grounded objections made to
its proposed course. It persists iu its intention to set at
liberty Kossuth and his dangerous companions at the very
moment when his imperial Majesty has sought to give to his
sovereign neighbour new proufs of his wash to maintain a
good understanding with him, in the nomination of Count
ltechberg to the post of chargi".: &attains in Constanti-
nople.
Ou all these grounds, and in consideration that the
Sublime Porte has proceeded so far as to commence the
execution of its design of liberating Kossuth and his com-
panions at Kutahia, the undersigned feels compelled to pro-
test against the liberation of Kossuth and the other d -
tiinus of the afore-mentioned city. The undersigned re-
peats his declaration which he took OCCPhiOII to make on the
17th of February of this year, namely, that the departure
of any of the detained persons from Kutahia without the
previously obtained acquiescence of the imperial Austrian
government will be regarded as a breach of the agreement
concluded between Austria and Turkey upon the subject of
their detention, as an event which must draw after it the
destruction of that good understanding which has hitherto
existed between the two governments.
It is impossible that the Sublime Porte can shut its eyes
to the fact that by such a misapprehension of its duties (as
well as of the dictates of a wise policy) such a flagrant
repudiation of its own assurance, such complete oblivious-
ness of all the proofs of real friendship evinced by the impe-
rial government, which fill the annals of its history, the
most painful necessities will be imposed on this court, aris-
ing out of its doubts of the sincerity of the intentions of the
Sublime Porte, while finally such a proceeding as that now
complained of, will completely justify Austria in presence
of impending questions, to consider nothing but her own
interest in her relations with the Turkish empire.
The undersigned has the honour, &e.,
Bujukdere, July 29, 1851. EDWARD KLEZL.

The following is the reply of the Turkish Minister
of Foreign Affairs :
His Majesty the Sultan has taken cognisance of the vari-
ous verbal communication, and of the official tote of July
29 of the present year, in which your excellency the Chargé
d'Affaires has notified to me that the resolve of the Sublime
Porte to set at liberty the Magyar fugitives now at Kutabia
at the beginning of September, has not the acquiescence of
his Imperial Majesty. The friendship which has existed
for centuries between the Sublime Porte and the Austrian
court, to maintain and confirm which is, even upon the ground
of territorial proximity, so much the interest of both
states—this friendship upon which the Sublime Porto has
always set the highest value, it has always sought to pre-
serve by averting every occurrence that could cause its in-
terruption. lam not able to express with sufficient force
how greatly the government of the Sultan regrets the ,dif-
ference of opinion which has lately divided the two cabinets

on the subjects discussed in your last note. The Sublime
Porte gladly entertains the hope that the cabinet of Vienna
will finally acknowledge the frankness and lemesty which
has uniformly characterised its proceedings in this matter,
and will put away all those prejudicial suspicions which
from the terms of the communication of July 29, it would
seem the imperial cabinet was then inclined to entertain. For
in fact it is not until all engagements taken by the Sultan's
cabinet have been punctually fulfilled, and after taking
most anxious measures for carrying out the sate guardian-
ship of the fugitives, that the Sublime Porte has determined
I to remove them from its tenitorice, considering their deten-
tion no longer necessary. We find it hard to believe that
any one can with fairness characterise this resolution
as a breach of the engagements entered into
with respect to the refugees. Your Excellency
has taken occasion in the note of July the 29th to
allude to ancient treaties, and al.o to the written atiurance
given by the Sultan to his Majesty the Emps,ror on this
subject. But it is superfluous at this time of day to refer
back to those old treaties, since the most explicit declara-
tions have been long ago made to the imperial court as to
the limits within which those engagements were and were
not to find their application. As to the letter of the Sultan
to the Emperor, it contains no more than tin assurance that
the refugees should be so guarded that it should not be in
their power to disturb the tranquillity of his Majesty's domi-
nions. The note addressed by the farkish cabinet to the
Austrian internuncio, April 6, 18.7e0, to which Tour excel-
lency finally appeals, and which contains in the most ex-
press terms the promises of the Sublime Porte. states that,
" after the restoration of order in Hungary, the Porte, be-
fore setting the Magyar refugees at liberty, will inform tho
Austrian government of its intention, and endeavour to pro-
cure its sanction for the act." Now, tranquillity has long
been re-established in Hungary ; and, if there are some few
still occupied with projects of disorder, yet, are they not, by
the express admission of the internuncio, in a situation to et-
cite an insurrection. Besides one might wait in vain tiur the time
when no persons in Hungary could reasonably be suspected
of evil projects, since in all times and countries there exist
such. But although the Sublime Porte has for a long Unto
thought that it might liberate the refugees without injury to
any, yet it has not refused, upon representations made to it,
to protract somewhat the period of their detention, a proof
of the neighbourly feelings it cherished towards Austria.
This alone did the Sublime Porte undertake in its engage-
ments with Austria—to watch sever the refugees in its own
states, so long as any rekindling of insurrection
was to be feared from them. But if on the one
hand, a friendly feeling led it to undertake sad fulfil that
onerous task, the Sublime Porte expects, on the other
head, that, in consideration of such self-abnegation, the
Austrian government will not claiin indefinitely to prolong
an unpleasant state of things, front which nothing but
embarrassments and misunderstaudings are to be appre-
hended. If thus, at length, the Sublime Porte has felt
itself compelled to liberate the d,stenus at the begiuning of
September, this has not been without the complete convic-
tion that, looking at the subjected state of Hungary, no
necessity for their further detention exists, and
that the Porte has fulfilled its utmost duty, of
which conviction the imperial court was informed
without delay, and its acquiescence in the sonic solicited.
Conscious, therefore, that in no particular has it been want-
ing to its engagements, the government of his Majesty the
Sultan does nut surrender the hope that, after a candid re-
' consideration of the facts, and a just appreciation of what
must obviously be the desire of the Sublime Porte, to put an
end to a situation fraught with difficulties and dangers, tho
imperial cabinet will attain to the conviction that the
I Sultan cannot depart front the resolution he hue taken.
I have the honour, sic.,
Constantinople, Aug. 16. ALL rACII.t.

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To this note the Austrian internuncio forwarded
the following reply:
With the deepest regret has the undersigned, Chanel
d'Affaires of his Majesty the Emperor of Au.tria, at tho
high Ottoman Porte, learned by the note of his Majesty the
Sultan's Minister of Foreign Affairs that the government
of the Porte persists in its resolution to set at liberty, on
the Ist of September, Kossuth and the other refugees at
Kutahia, without considering the validity of the weighty
masons urged by the government of his Imperial Majesty
in favour of a prolongation of their confinement. The un-
dersigned must repeat the protestations coutaitied in his
nute of the :nth of July, siddressol to Ali Paella, and at
the same time hold the Sublime I'orte answerable to tho
Austrian government for all the consequences of the libe-
ration of the said refugees without the concurrence of the
Imperial Court.—l have the honour, &c.,
EDWARD KLEZL.
BUjllkdat. Aug. 18, 1851.

KOSSUTII'S LXTENTION TO VISIT EXCLANI)
AND LAND AT SOUTIWIPTON CON-
FIRMED.

The following important and interesting communi-
cation, dictated by Kossuth himself, to the Mayor
of Southampton, was received by that functionary
yesterday afternoon:
" Marseilles, Sept. 27, 1831.
" Excellency, Governor Kossuth (my
chief), with thankful sentiments acknowledging tho
lively interest and the high-minded sympathy which
the generous city of Southampton, and you, sir, par-
ticularly, were on so many occasions honouring,
the Hungarian cause, the fate of its exiled leader,
and of all Ilungarian exiles who chanced to land on
your hospitable shore, has entrustedme with the agree-
able duty to present you, sir, his hearty com-
pliments, and respectfully to infiwns you that,
embarked, with the generous consent of his Majesty
the Sultan, without any previous condition whatever,
but rather with illimited liberty, on hoard the United
States steam-frigate Mississippi, sent over by tho
Congress and government of the United States pre-
cisely for his and his associates liberation from Ku-
tayah, stopped at Marseilles, with the purpose to
pass through France directly to England, and to land
from Havre at Southampton, having the warm desiro
to thank personally for the protection which the public)
opinion of the high-minded people of England pleased
to throw in the balance of his destiny.
" Arrived here yesterday, his Excellency imme-
diately applied to M. lc Prefet of this department to
grant bins and family free passage through France.
M. le Prefet judged convenient to report to Paris by
telegraph to the ministry, but the action of the tele-
graph being hindered by the misty weather, an answer
has not yet arrived.
"So not being able to give you exact
information about the issue, or in case of granted
passage übout the time of his excellency's arrival at
Southampton, still I feel gratified to be the organ of
communication of his said design, and of his firm in-
tention to go, in every ease, for some few days, to
Englund ; which, should he be not permitted to exe-
cute directly from Marseilles, he has decided to pro-
ceed immediately to Gibraltar, and hence to visit
England and ask for an asylum to his children them
while he proceeds to the United States, to thank
personally for the most generous aid and assistanoo
which the people, congress, and government of the
United States honoured him with.
his Excellency left Kutayah with the confident
hope that the sacred cause which it is his Klory to
represent cannot fail to have a future yet, being ho-
noured as it is by the powerful sympathy of tho
English lace that mighty, great, and glorious
guardian of justice, right, and freedaa on both
hemispheres.
" I have the honour to sign myself to be, with tho
most distinguished consideration, Sir, your humble
and obsequious servant,
"J. lI.VSKE, L..ColoneL
J. Andrews, Esq., Mayor to the
City of Southampton."

The news (says a Southampton correspondent,
writing
.yesterday) that the mayor had received a
communication from Kossuth, spread like wild-
fire through the town, and all are on tho
tiptoe of expectation that the illustrious !dog-
yar will shortly arrive here. In fact, if
he is allowed to go. through France he may bo
hero to-morrow morning. A Havre steamer arrives
here every morning. If he is not allowed to go
through France, he will most probably reach South-
ampton by the Peninsular Company's steamer Jupi-
ter, which will leave Gibraltar about to-morrow. No
doubt some news of Kossuth will be in the French
correspondence of the Daily Niws to-morrow. Tho
following address to Kossuth, when he lands at
Southampton, was for signature in the town yester-
day, and received immediately numerous names of
all classes of persons. A meeting will be instantly
called here, to make araangeraents for his reception,
with befitting grandeur and enthusiasm. Hu and
I his family will be the honoured guests of the Mayor
during his stay at Southampton, from whom he will
receive a welcome and hospitality worthy of an
Englishman to show to one of the noblest and
aublimest assentors and defenders of human liberty :

ADDRESS TO LOUIS KOSSUTH, LATE GO-
VERNOR OF HUNGARY.

Honoured Sir,—We, the undersigned inhabitants of the
town and county of the town of Southampton, cordially bid
you welcome to the shores of Britain, where your name is
well known and dear to thousands, us being identified with
the same principles on which the liberties, social order, and
prosperity of this country arc founded. Be assured that the
feelings with which we hail your arrival amongst us aro
designed to express something more than the ordinary for-
malities of civility. We have been deeply interested in all
the patriotic enterprises which your love of freedom and
truth so eminently contributed to originate, fur the porpoise
of maintaining the ancient indepen dente and free constitution
of your native land, and which your wiidini and disinterested
energies, for so long a time, served to promote ; and in
your endeavours to obtain for them a successful issue, you
have shared our aincerest sympathies mel been the object of
our most constant and heartfelt solicitude. We forbear