The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-18 00:00:00

A ROME FOR ROSSUTII.

Dear Lord Dudley Stuart,—My heart sicker, at
these dreadful wholesale butcheries in Hungary.
Never, surely, since the time of Alva have there been
each cold-blooded massacres of prisoners of war;
and he bad the plea of reprisals, but the Hungarian
had in their power during the last year 20,u04) Ars
trian prisoners, 200 of them officers, whom they
treated with unexceptionable humanity. As sure u
this globe shall endure far twenty years longer, as
awful retribution will requite the authors of then
atrocities at Vienna. If Kossuth and his companions
be snatebed from the fatgs of these bloody monster,
it is to the public meetings in England that they will
owe their safety. But for those demonstrations of
sympathy, the governments of England and Feats
would not have made a stand against the inert
demands of Russia and Austria with stack:
promptitude to have insured the resistance of the
Porte. You have the satisfaction of reflecting that it
was greatly owing to your exertions that those de
monstrations were made. Well may the Times rwl
at " platform oratory !" Had it not been for the
spirit of British liberty, speaking from the only
inviolable sanctuary of freedom in Europe, the plc.
forms of our public meetings:, and echoed by the
purehaseable voices of the millions of our countrymen,
the base and venal portions of the press of England
would have prostrated us at the feet of Continents:
despotism. But is there not something more to be
done ?
Kossuth has told us in that letter which has wring
the hearts and moistened the eyes of its readers, nut
he longs to " repose his weary bead for a while open
the hospitable shores of England." When kings
have fled to as for a refuge from their own sabjects
our palaces (I do not refer to it grudgingly) have
been offered to them for an asylum : and shall it be
said of the patriot chief, who bears with his
the blessi gs of his countrymen, and is himself
the embodiment of their virtuous heroism, the,
this generous land, no door stood open, no home was
' prepared, where, in congenial retirement, he cool
find rest for his weary head? No: if the public
spirit of Englishmen should falter, the domestic asap
pathies of our countrywomen can never fail us. They
will garnish the hearth and smooth the pillow for
one who, in the hour of nature's sternest trial, with
the Austrian gallows haunting his vision, with the
insulting alternative of apoetacy or death before him,
thought not of life, but poured forth his eloquence m
behalf of " unhappy Hungary, his poor true-hearted
wife, his children, and his noble old mother." Fall-
ing the men of England, to their wives, mothers, and
children may appropriately be confided the privilege
of preparing a home for Kossuth.—l remain, &c.
Oct. 17. PII 1 LO-31 AGYAR.

JOHN COLLETT, ESQ., AND THE GAME

LAWS.

LIBERATION OF THREE POACHERS FROM
FISHERTON GAOL.
Yesterday (says a correspondent) the parish of
Fisherton Auger was somewhat elated, from the fact
that Mr. Collett had just sent instructions to kis
agent to liberate three poachers, and give them One
law certificates. The following letter will beet speak
for itself:—

Lake House, Cheltenham, Oct. 15, 1849.—Sir,—By the
copy of his conviction, 1 MI that the Wiltshire game hw
preserving magistrates 25th September last, sentenced John
Outteridge to be "imprisoned and kept to hard labour three
calendar months for having unlawfully used two gins for the
purpose of taking certain game (to wit, hares), he not Ming
authorised so to do for want of a game certificate, centrsrl
to the statute in such cue made and provided." The drfi.
Mooney of " game certificate" being therefore, &scorning to
law, Ike only error attributable to this poor man, I bare
pre-
cured the enclosed (at the cost of 41. Os. 10d.) to bear him
harmless till July 5, 1850. I also trouble you with 51.104
the amount required to purchase hie liberty and to relocate
him from the thieves and criminals with whom of late be
has been doomed to associate.—l have the honour to be,
very faithfully yours, (signed) JOHN COLLETT.
P. S. 1 land you also game c.rtificates for Joseph White,
and Aaron Candy, the parties last week prosecuted sad it
by Lord Folk, stone, together with the !hello'
funds to effect their liberation.
The joy of these poor men on their liberation win
only equalled by their gratitude to their benefactor,
Mr. Collett. Gutteridge is a single young man, and
bears a good character but for the stain (?) of elides.
Touring to catch a rabbit—a temptation by the way
very common to shepherds (like himself) who hays
from sunrise to sunset to bask on the Wiltshire downs
Aaron Candy, an industrious man, bee a wife and
seven children, and consequently independent of he
liberty, the parish is relieved from the atiort
of
eight persons ; and Joseph White declared et
trial that he poached solely because he bad ne:ther
money nor food, and had an idiot child wanting
bra.d.