The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-11 00:00:00

trance into caged
the country for his ideas re ee
Chinese wall of of the ceniorahip, and dal
forth forth se an independent power among his eons ""011
Against the coarse oppression of the ce ""‘",_
was partly protected by the care that ?detteeeiehc. "'
to preserve appearances, and the caned veee •
felt to all violent measures, except in a cue et
direst necessity, and where there wasa • 0
put of favourable results, partly by the ,Pere-
the Pesth comitat, and the gradually developed ell
of public opinion. He was allowed, therefor., "'"we...
while, to do just aa he liked, and Cow 4-1,4
Dauer:lay was mode editor of the Vilag
It is erroneous to say that here
conservative party the gret
support forili
bottig from the government eernnYmingot a the
got put:
iftilLlisatsl4:
tives, his duty was especially required for the"L forte;
Distinguished Went must certainly be ooneultilka
but how he mi. d have deserved the" title see
rate liberal yoang man." wile which ydc B;7•1a.
konones him, is the more difficult to undersund:7"
his whole effectivity through the medium' odic,
pees", as also by oral dis..ureion in the Pesti
hly,
_never ?arisgressed the bounds of the mew*
W,ed negatives to all the liberal questions above saes,
timed—nay, they were defined by p.m, exactly is by
Mr. Delta, to be "ad captanduni revoluiow,
ideas." In all these written and Gull dw
courses there is not to be found ate 04
of libiralisen, and even moderation is f teeth
lost sight of. The numbers of the Vilag, as ~euit
the protcols of the Pesth comitat, may give middle
of this. Kossuth never made one of such a mesas <t
"exciting suspicion against his rival, appointed is
vice-royal councillor in the king's service," the
teary, indeed, could be much more easily be prow.
But a voluntary, barren, negativing, and heretieleb
of every true liberal idea, even if maneged fig
talent, could never find consonance and approval h,
country like Hungary. The consequence war on
the Vilag was taken in by nobody save the eetheie
clergy and the officials; by " people of the oppretto:
too, though not only from patrictism, but elm fur
a natural antipathy to all reactionary tendenraesee
read. One of the most ridiculous weenie= remainated
" Deesevay's paper compelled Kossuth to act ea As
defensive." Koseuth pereev red untiringly le de
path of reform without noticing that paper; pi
of-en left unanswered eeveral denials and inetimiee
tions of Dessewffy, before he at last felt himself
dined to reply. For the rest, it is very dillealtt,
unriddle what Delta means by the "bolt" that outs
I be "pushed into the staple eo as to stop Bondi
further seditious advances," for certainly thus wan
no signs at that time that " the conservative. bed
mustered up courage in the comitats." Nagy,
however, was an object of hate throughout the coos
try, especially in the Pesth comitat, where in his pas
sionate contests with Kossuth and his friends, the pee
lie often loudly and very unceremoniously weed
the side opposed to him. Aq it was known that
had behaved uncommonly liberally in the parliamet
from 1625 to 1827, nay, had even written G-netu
parliamentary reports to foreign ambassadors in
free-minded manner, he was, of course, often feed
to hear some bitter remarks about his at:eatery, ad
that, too, by so much the more, since, as is wry ail
known, his passion for play kept him in almost use.
dual pecuniary embarrassment, and he was cone-
quently a regular drain on the pockets of his party
and the government—a mill-stone about their cede
' Hence he was loudly declared to be, and pointed oat
as, • " bought" man. His irritable temperament sad
immense vanity were often no match, in the Ion; re;
foe the often acerb and unsparing polemics et
his antagonists, the less so since his forced
labours, in conjunction with his jovial nip,
had remarkably reduced a constitutiou taut
had always been naturally delicate. 84
ravaging effects soon overpowered his rule
ante ; he sank, and his death cat abort a phial
career that promised to become very brilliant As
the favourite of Metternich, whose absolute inspire
tions he helped to realise and carry out con amore, he
decidedly would have become the Hungarian Coat
Chancellor in preference to Apponyi, but he woaldat
the same time have brought on sooner the crisis of
Hungaty, for his proud passionate character wu not
tempered by that noble chivalrous mind that never
deserted Apponyi under any circumstances.
As for the " defeats " which he, in coque:ice
with Bzechenyi and Zeedenyi, is said to have give
the agitator in the Path comitat meetings, the publie
has never heard much of them. He of coutsehadoften
to sustain attacks from these gentlemen,but was guys
armed and pi epared to repel them with sums. The
attempt of Szechenyi at length" to invalidate the
influence of Kossuth's doctrines by hie bo k, Kekt
"merciless,
regardedumessus,tubliesparini,
phetic Tie
bit-
mind," however, consisted in a fruition Wes.
ra
lilies Ph eb
or thw unothingcontemptiblem ol
satire,"
more
roe than
des "adi"edg u saesrlone dgg failure
,obtiP es the
n lc"
p ro
your to cloak the repudiation of his own former doc-
trines in a decent manner. The public was no !eager
to be gulled. This book gave the coup de grate to
the all eady tottering influence of this political cha-
meleon ' • even what was really good about him wet
overlooked, and when on the breaking out of
the insurrection that bad been merely bodied
position stbi nosi
lic
trick, such u indeed the whole muceuvre very Ka
turned out to be.
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The way in which Kossuth retired in 1843 fromthe
editorship of the Pesti Kirlap is, upon the ;dole,
correctly given, only it must be allied that Kossuth'i
suspicion that the proprietor of the paper wanted
to get rid of him" was perfectly well founded. After
the government, for instance., had waited in 'slayer
after year for the promised coming over or rattiagol
Kossuth, seeing too all the while how his
finence daily increased, voices and murmurs were
raised in the cabinet against Landeret's cube,
which looked very much like a mystificatielt
a regular job for filling his own pockets.
Timely ioformedof this, the letter (that is, Lander(T)
promised to get rid of Kossuth in a way that should
appear a spontaneous act, but so that it would rather
affect public opinion prejudicially for him than other-
wise. Convinced that at the opening of the elision,
when not only the work of the editor, but the
number of the subscribers would be doubled, Kw
truth would very fairly require a rise in his salary, be
managed to give the negotiations such a turn, that
Kossuth waxed impatient at last, and condttionedhis
remaining as editor upon the acceptance of his ulti-
matum. This was just what Landerer was aiming at.
He declared he could not accept it, and the raptors
ensued in the way he had intended.
Kossuth wished now, in compliance with his nate•
nl inclinations, to continue a journalist. Prince Met•
teroich also was not disinclined to accede to his wish,
but Lander. r's friends contrived to quash it, through
the secret pollee ; for they feared a dangerous rivalry
to the Pesti Hwlap. Thus Kossuth was a &coed
time driven by the government itself into the field of
agitation.
Much as the biographer attempts to depict the
g at-
tempts of Kossuth to und the Hunarian tie*
company, the union for protection and industry sued
on the dark shadow side, and to bring into the relief
of the front ground the defects of these first expetit
meats, even the most superficial observer must do
ljustice here to the approved seal and activity of the
founder ; he who looks deeper, he who observes with
an ampleknowledge of the then state of thing' will
discover in all these undertakings the fruitful ran
for the complete emancipation of Hungary. it the
greater part of these undertakings did fall through
the moral, material, and political impediments of the
time, the scattered seed-corn nevertheless remained
in the bosom of the nation, and the necessary
the
quenoes of the insurrection itself will bring again
snapped threads for rejoining.
All the rest that Mr. Delta' drivels about Ids
relations to Ludwig Battbyani, to the election tricks
and intrigues, is partly untrue, partly misrepresented,
partly so insignificant and humdrum, that it really is
not worthy of an observation. The main object lull
of the biographer, that of exciting hate against
Kossuth, is rather thwarted than promoted by au this
palaver.
The last diet held at Presburg from its dispositiou,
talent, conduct and results belongs already
history of Hungary's social development. o decries
it after Mr. Delta's fashion would be to imitate the
conduct of those young urchins in the streets, wh°
throw stones at the windows of honest people. Soh
a frivolous mode of treating so serious and eventful
subject, can only inspire disgust and cont.upt. No
man can rationally be expected to sit down to the Iv
to the