The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-19 00:00:00

TO TILE ZDITOI OP TIM 111.11114.

Offices of the Society of the Friends of Italy,
10, Southampton-street, Strand, Nov. 18, 1851.
Slit,—The Society of the Friends of Italy in
authorised to communicate the following facts in contra-
diction to the charge brought against hi. Kossuth, of
having proposed, iu the name of the Emperor of Austria.
in the Hungarian Diet, a large levy of troops to be ear
ployed slaughtering the Italians.-1 am, sir, your obis-
theta servant, DAVID MASSON, Secretary.
The Hungarian constitution was based on the pragmatic
sanction, according to which tha Emperor of Aus
as King of Hungary, was bound to send troops to the aid sir
that country, it tereatened by a foreign enemy ; whilst
Hungiuy, on the other hand, was bound to furnish insa
and Lumley to maintain the integrity of the House of Aua-
tria,
it any of its possessions were menaced by a foreign
enemy. The cabinet of Vienna, having incited the rebel-
lion el the Serbs, took the opportunity of the war with
Sardinia, and the disasters of the Austrian arms in Italy,
to unbars*, the Hungariu ministry, presided over by
Count Louis Batthyany, and in which Kossuth held neat
as finance minister. 11 was the opinion, and known to bo
the opinion of Count Batthyany then, that Mau
gary was not yst in • condition to resist Au.
tria. Even at a subsequent period, when Jellachish
invaded Hungary, Count Batthyany still believed mistimes
impossible; and later, as is well known, when the army of
indischgratz (afterwards defeated and driven out of Hun-
gary by Kossuth) invaded that country, he became am
victim of that opinion. Now, the Emperor of Austria, Id
the month of June, 1848, required, as King of Hungary,
that his Hungarian ministry should demand a levy of Me. 1
winch, in rut, was not intended to exercise an immediate
influence on the affairs of Italy—as these affairs must have
received some solution before the levy, if granted, could
ever have been gut together. But it was supposed that if,
on the one hand, Battnyany's ministry had unconstitution-
ally refused to make that demand, it might eouritutioually
and without danger, have been dismissed; and that so
Hungary, at a critical juncture (and, in fact, whilst
the Austrian cabinet, as the event proved, was plot-
ting with Jellachich) would have been left with-
out a ministry. On the other hand, if Battlayany's
ministry had made the proposition, it was thought that
they would have forfeited all popularity in Hungary.
From this seemingly inextricable dilemma, which was fully
understood upon truth sides, that ministry was extricated
in the tollowing manner by Kossuth, who, as finance
sinister, had to make the proposition. Alter noticing
:
UMW of the crown, that a rebellion raged in the
parts of Hungary, and that the King of Hungary was
still engaged in a foreign war in Italy, he asked for a levy
of 80,000 men, and then added that, atter having made
this demand as utinister, as a Hungarian he recommended
that the grant should be accompanied by the express snow
lation that none of these men should, under any pretest,
be employed beyond the Hungarian frontier till Vac
Serbian war was over. In this manner the ems
ment of Hungarian troops in Italy was practically stopped
but the same evening a cabinet council was held, and
Batthyany argued that it was impossible, constitutional,
not to concede the principle that the King of Hungrily MA
a right to uemand, and to obtain, Hungarian troops be die
defence of Italy—supposing, fur instance, the Serbian rep
bullion to have been quelled, which had afforded the lq;itl-
mate, but accidental and temporary, pretext .or refuels,
them to Austria. 'lbis consideration was incontrovertible ;
but it was agreed to meet the didiculty by discussing the
question as a matter of pnaciple, and annexing the further
stipulation to the eventual employment of the Hungarian
troops in the defence of the Austrian possessions in Italy,
after the Serbian or any other rebellion, that these troops
should only be so employed, alter reasonable attempts at
reconciliation had been made with the King of Sardinia,
and on Use condition that the Italian provinces should re-
ceive • separate administratien and free constitution in all
respects nendielt to that enjoyed by the Hungarians. Thus
conditions were propeeed by Kossuth, and peeved in the diet
on the Mow* day.

SUICIDE OF A FEMALE AT DULWlCH.—Yeaterday 1 ,
Mr. Cuter held an inquest at the Crown Tavern, Dulwich,
on the body of a female unknown, who was found dead on I
Saturday last, under the following circumstances:--Joseph
Watson, a labourer, deported that, oa the day named, he
was engaged gathering scorns in the " Five Fields," when
his attention was drawn towards some articles of female
attire which were floating on the surface of a pond. Oa
, wing these with a stick, he discovered the body of the
I deceased woman ; bat the hank being abiut tour feet high, ,
I he was tumble to bring it ashore until be had obtained
farther assistance. On this being accomplished, there ap•
to be some warmth ;that the presumption is, the
a as
female had not bog been in the water. On a subsequent
examination by Mr. Ray, surgeon, it was ascertained that
the deceased had been pregnant, and was within a short
period of her confinement when her death took place. A
small sum of money, a knit, and a key were found in her
pocket; but there was no ideotilkation of the body till near
the clots, of the inquiry, when it was stated to the emcee!
that a female had bean down and reongnised deceased as
' Mary Out, lately in the service of a patleman residing at
19, Renley-voad, Islington. Mr. Carter Dien suggested that,
as important evidence might now be procured, it would be
j better to adjourn the inquest for that purpose. The jury
r , took the same view, and the further inquiry was adjourned
i . till Friday next.