The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-04 00:00:00

A LETTER FROM KOSSUTH.

11, Kensington-park-terrace, Notting-hill.
TO CAPTAIN NAYNI REID.
My dear Sir,-1 thank you very much for having
drawn my attention to the letter of Martini published in
the journals of to-day, which otherwise might not have
come under my knowledge, u, unfortunately, 1 cannot re-
gularly read the newspapers.
You are quite right in supposing that there may be found
men who will be waiting to avail themselves of ltlazsini's
Letts:. as a pretext fur spreading the sneculativs rumour
that there is a dissension between my friend biamini and
myself.
But I am sure that with intelligent readers and straight-
forward public opinion such • stratagem will lied no
credit.

Maszini and I, Italy and Hungary, are and will be united
for ever. That is not only a neccuity of the community
of our interests, but also the free choice of our mutual
affection, which we both sincerely entertain, and will, I
hope, centinue to entertain throughout our lives.
There is really no material difference between the sub-
stance of Mazzini's letter and my former letter to you,
which you have published.. I expressly and emphatically
stated that I not only do not disavow the sentiments of that
proclamation, but acknowledge that I may have written the
very words of it for different exigencies lung ago, probably
when I was yet a prisoner at Kutnhia ; but that it was used
on the present occasion without my knowledge or consent ;
and that I addressed from English soil no proclamation to
the Hungarian soldiers in Italy, engaging them to join in
any rising in Italy now; the more so, because I was always
convinced, and have always expressed it to be my :envie-
tion, that it will be wiser for the Italians to wait; because,
in my opinion, at the time of the late Milan insurrection, no
revolutionary movement could have succee.!ed in Lombardy,
but would tura out to be but a deplorable emeute (an anti-
cipation but too mournfully confirmed by subsequent fact.);
and convinced as I am that any great national moninent
of Italy should and will be seconded by the Hungarian,. I
was equally anxious and careful that the Hungsrian forces
should not be entangled in a mere emaciate—which. how-
ever valiantly fought, can only increase the number of brave
martyrs, without doing any good to the cause of liberty.
This is what I have written.

Now, sir, what is it that Mazzini writes in his letter ?
That be has in his hands a proclamation signed by me,
which I have sent him from Kutahia, Turkey ; that a copy
of this proclamation was deposited by him at the time with
the central internal direction of the national party in Italy,
in order that in case he should be prevented from joining
the movement, and I should be far off at the time, • docu-
ment of alliance and an appeal important to the success
of one indissoluble national causes should not be lost. That
the Dire sting Internal Committee having decided upon action,
availed themselves of it now end printed it clandestinely,
(as Mazzini writes me) in au Italian town ; inserted—he
should have said " substitta,a"—the date of February,
185:3, for 1851. That they omitted some paragraphs which
MaraMi thinks only indicated the more remote date, and
that they circulated it. Finally, that it was only on the
9th (more correctly, 10th), after the insurrection woe over,
that Nfaszini wrote me these particulars, and that be wrote
them " regrettingly."
Well, let who ever may plena compare what Mazzini
states with what I have stated, and no one will find an ar-
gument to make men believe that there is a difference be-
tween us. Mazzini explained the particulars of what I had
judged sufficient to explain in generality.
But I know those who would be glad to create a dim-
Millen between us will insist upon my not hav-
ing retracted the proclamation written at Kutahia
in 1951, and in consequence having consented to
its being used whensoever. This would be strange reason-
ing indeed. When I was a prisoner at Kutahia, I was net
free to judge and to act for myself, and therefure ft wu
natural to entrust the document to those who were free to
judge the exigencies of any arising opportunity, and to net
accordingly. But this authority has, according to every in-
terpretation of social duties, and of mutual conditions be-
tween allies, ceased, in fact, to exist the very moment when
I became free to judge and to act for myself. Flom that
time no one remained authorised to use my name without
my consent, and, above all, there was no one authorised to
say in my tame that the " moment is at hand " when I had
always said the contrary. Even on the 2nd of February I
wrote to them that the moment is "not yet at hand," and
pressingly entreated them " to wait—to wait."
It is true they may have had mighty reasons for not
waiting. They must have had such reasons, indeed ; they
are not men to trifle with the cause of their nation • but
certainly :.11 their reasons cannot have entitled the Direct-
ing feu real Committee of Italy to put upon my lips the
wordy, " The moment is at hand," when I was just saying
the contrary.
I might say alTthis, and more yet, but it ie not necessary,
because there is a fact which clears up the matter perfectly,
and I am the more glad to state that fact, that whilst it
Isarfectly corroborates the denial which you were the fleet
to give to the authenticity of the document in question, it
at the same time shows that my friend Manuel himself
stands perfectly clear in the matter, aad acted and wrote
perfectly in good faith, as he always duel. The fact is
this _

Martini writes that the original of that proclamation,
signed by me, is in his hands.
Now, the proclamation be has in his hands, is
written in the Hungarian language. Ho gave a ge-
nuine copy of it, at the time it was written (that is in
11551) to the Directing Italian Committtee, and u he him-
self unfortunately WAS prevented from being present at
31 i:an at the outbreak, it was not he who had the document
printed. Those who had it dose, subsequently reported to
him, that they printed the proclamation, which he had scat
them in Hol, and as he does not speak the Hungarian
language, therefore he believz I candidly that the proclama-
tion circulated at Milan is a correct copy of that which be
has from me in his hands, and thinks that only the dads
was elicited, and only two such pm agrsphs omitted as i:s-
dicatc.. .he more remote date. lie cannot think otherwise,
not undentinding the Hungarian langu?;te in which this
circulated proclamation, as alas that which he has in his
band:, is written. But there is precisely the netake—that
is the point in which he, as well as I myself have been
abased by those who have originated the circulation.
I have in my hands the orginal of that original proela-
mation which I sent to Maasini in 15.51, and which he now
has in hie bands. Besides I have a printed copy of thie
proclamation in my hands, one of those copies which were
printed in 185 l by the order of 7,llzzini himself, and upon
this double authentic evidence, I say that the proclamation
in my name which was lefty plated in Italy and used at
Milais (provided it is the very same which was published in
alum' every English newspapci), is erritglertso....
front that original which M., szini '
which he candidly and in goal faith beliereslis *are Zeus . •
pub, "B at Milan, so much esseatiallOtealltittTelSairS

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