The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-03 00:00:00

CIRCULAR TO ALL THE DIPLOMATIC
AGENTS OF HUNGARY.

After the terrible actions of which the Austrian
dynasty has been guilty towards the peoples t
at
inhabit its countries, ar.d especially the kingdom of
Hungary, it might be suppised that its blonde) bob.
ness was appeased—that the historic pages of our an,
happy country would have to record no fresh inina.
tice, no cruelty hitherto not perpetrated.
Treason, perjury, breech of plighted f.ith, in,
trigues, excitement to revolt, alliance with bands et
plunderers, incendiaries, and inureFers, arrest of
persons bearing flogs of truce, imprisonment of pi,
trinta, verdict 4 and exeentons, fer•ed cent/J.
butiona, fabrication of false notes, insolence of every
kind, bombarding and setting tire to capital cities
without it ason, savage destruction of property of
individuals as well as of public treasures, trampling
upon the law of nations end on morality—all that
outrages the heart and terrifies the Foul, was com-
mitted against our unfortunete country.
Hungary suffer., but she has never deviated from
the path of justice. She has never all twtd h-raelt to
be cirri d away by a feeling of revenge ; never has
she used similar means under p!ett hc of repiisata
The Hungarian nation was victorious tn.o en bittles
by the heroism of its troops and t•,e Justine cf its
arms; the lowest of hi r private soldiers only poured
nut his blood in derence of his wn person, sparing
the treacherous enemy ev,n is the nrdst of the most
furious combat.

This it is that explains the profound grief felt by
this nation is seeing its unfortunate combatants who
fel as pr'smers into the hand nt a barbarous enemy
treated wit ignominy. There is no opeei. aof inhu-
manity that has not teen committed by dr. mires.
narie. of AIM ria towards these pave Mice.. To be
worn out with famine, to be dragged, without reason,
from one plot° to ano.her; to be attacked with words
of scorn and personal insult —ray, often detvh
itrelf—
was their ordinary lot. Whilt.t.oa the coattary, in the
Hungarian camp the Auetrinn piisoners always
met wiit a humane and generous treatment, toe
which some of • hem publ cly expressed +heir gratitude.
The commander-in-chief r f the Hungarian army,
hop:tig to put an end to such unwortt.y proceedutgs
address-d a memorial to the field-marshal command,
ing the Austria. army, and while etprothinz him
with the want of noble 'intim-144 exhibited by insh
a conduct, he demanded of him no longer to stain is
this m inner the name of the Austrian army er.d that
of its vonmsnders. He further called hia atttstien
tti the citcuinstance, that from six to right thousand
Austrian pris'nerri, as nerd as an crral itenet.t of
sick and wonurcd, were in our lasnda; aid that
am-ng the Austrian captives there are ..rveral Alma
of eu'erior rank, Hungarian by birth, sad cte,
gunntly guilty of the crime of mail to towards thsk
country ; a- d that on the first signal. thd h. ad of a
IMF/Imnd Hungarian will be rvended by the mete
tion of three Austrian pris nets.
lint this appeal c f our general hae rot ire ate
tended with any result. On the con :Loy 1 new
crime wee committed.

The Baron Mtd•iyanszky, tl.e herl*.c : frr and
eameaatidant the fonre sofL•op:d • at ,
as the e_p ain of ..rtillerY, Gruber, fen i. •,tt r ands
of the enemy, a part of the girrian• t
leed. They were dragged for sever 1,,t• •em
one du it, into snceher ; they were t'.. •h, e r..i to
an ill gal trial, end, in spit. of th,.. a :'^a. »re-
In. n.ioned of our commander-in-chic! t vi .1 not
even an answer was returned, the-e ta •.fli r ere
est•euted for havirg, as WAS tiler day, •wiy
deenled the f eiets. And to milt I ere . ion
still more degrading, the rope R.e Fel .4e.. t the
instrument of execution.

liuwever, limitary h. AB al vacs} 11'n if era('
repr'sils. She hada the lf• of h. r
too hi,th to expose them to ge tn..- • r, i . for
this tc.son t! e covertimint l.a deteim i 1.0 sea
in future to deviate from the path 1.... nem
hitherto IMAM shed by humenity.
Be', in the me.iniime, the lot of ou ^ hto •••• H-
ewers is plung.-d in the mist bo• iteutle,
whether they have fallen in the v. nmy
as prisoners of war, or as victims of 't is is
this series that I charge you to make min and
verily these facts to the government to Id 3
a•.d to demlud of it it, t e n me of
hu unity and eirilisaims t.) put a stop to to. v un-
lvard afore-Wes.

If foreign powers will not asiest ns, I,t em at
least assrrt the insfee of heaven and the rat.rod
of nations in making Austria fetl the shmi, f such
proceedings, whi,di are only w..rthy of it ,va re riks,
and this save the livta of several humored, f m nof
every party, or at least al7eviaro their soft. lines.
Lastly, tn-ko known that the pee-:meat
with every good wish to restrain the 1' (plc) .ru the
soldiers, wilt in the long run not be able to subdue
the exasperation which such misdeeds have given
bir th to, and thy. nothing wall be more terrible
than a war to the dia,h, 12 which everyone would
execute justice for himself.
COUNT CASIMIR BATTIIYANY,
111inister of Foie:gn Affairs.
Perth, June 18, 1849.

THE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.

TO THE RIGHT 110 N. LORD JOHN RI:SqELL.

MI Lone,—l date say you think it great presump-
tion in so humble an individull as stye •If addresming
her Motietry'.4 Prime Minieer, but I can aeaure your
lordship I Cal actuated by no other lid ng than the
public go iil. I have tried all other meals of correct-
ing the oils that are now evident to everybody in
vain, and I lull bsck on your lordship as the last
resort.

If your lordship doubts any of the statements I
made in my last letter. it would lei very easy to ex-
pose them; but, my lord, they wand uncontradicted,
for I do not call the letter of the Duke of Portland any
contradiction at all, and the press, with the exeeption
of one piper, supposed to be the organ of the Admi-
ralty, acknowledges their correctt ess.
It is now my duty to explain to yt,ur lordship the
causes of the evils of which I complain.
The whole mischief proceeds from th- c institution
of the B sird of Admiralty, and even if your I ir•lebi p,
wi h all your talents, was to place yours. if at its
head, cocstituted as it now is, and chocs • the cleverest
men in the navy to assist you, I do not believe you
would mend the matter. Bad as the naval adminis-
tration was before the Navy and Victualling Bards
were ab3lished, it is ten times worse now. The Ad-
miralty have taken upon themselves more duties than
they can perform—hence the delays, blui.de re, confu-
sion, and waste ; and lam quite cert in had the Nay
Board, bed as it wan, been in existence, they never
would have permitted, without remonstrance, the
wasteful extravagance that has been incurred by the
various Admiralty boards since their extinction.
What Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Clerk,
and, I believe, Sir Byam Martin, foretold, has
come to pass. There is no respoesihility whatever.
So the reaponsiblity of six gentlemen comprising
the Board of Admiralty is not worth a straw. May
I ark your lordship who is responsible for the millions
of money thrown away in building an inefficienc a eam
navy—who is responsible for the iron steam fleet that
the Admiralty do not know what to do with ? It
was only the other day that. raisieg a ta:l and the
dunnage under it, in one of those precious vess:ls, they
found a hole in her bottom, through which the water
passed, and a fish with it, on which, if I am not mis-
taken, one of their lordships breakfa-ted.
Who is responsible for (I belie ve) four frigates of
800-horse engines that they do not know what to do
will, end ply annually for taking eve 01?
Who is responsible for all the bad ships that have
been built and broken up in the last 50 years ?
How comes it that the best two-decked ships we
have are copies from the French?
Who is responsible for all the cu'ting and carving
of ships' bows and sterns, for turning four
battle ships and as many frigates into screws, before
trying one—three of which, alter three or four years'
bungling, and an enormous expense, are now ready,
the rest were suspended by the prpent board
though " &to," who writes in one of the morning
papers, and who I shall reply to by-ard by, regrets
they were not all brought forward. It 1 ate notmus-
taken, he will turn cut to be one who had a courtier-
able hand in these ships, and in the coward:lion of
the iron fleet.
Who is responsible for growing so many stripe to
be built after the plan of the la. i
surveior, which s
ticAv abandoned ? Etth•r his plan is go rd or hid. If
'aid, why were so many ships bu 1: ate.' it? It gad,
why is it diecontinued? Why are the sups Ivd down
by the late surveyor (and not toe far telcanc.d) polled
to peces to be built ufter another plan'.?
Who is responsible for carrying on the oor 'erection
of some of these ships (ordered to be stopLeed) t.ll too