The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

I, the governor or inthappr Hungary, alter having,
I believe, as a good sitisen and lamest man, fulfilled
to the list my duties to my country, had no choice
left me between the repose of Its grave and the
'insepreseible anguish of expatriation.
. Maly, of my brethren in midorturre had preceded
me en the Tarhieh territory. I followed thither in
the hops that I should be permitted to par to Eng-
land, and there, under the protection of the English
people—a protection never yet denied to persecuted
man—allowed to repose for awhile my wearied bead
on the hospitable shore of your happy island.
But even with these views I would rather have
surrendered myself to my deadlied enemy than to
eases any dittisulties to the Turkish government,
whose situation I well knew how to appreciate, and
therefore did not intrude on the Turkish territories
without previously inquiring whether I and my com-
panions in misfortune would be willingly received
and the protenion of the Sultan grantrd to us.
We received the assarance the: we war• welcome
guests and should enjoy the fell protection of his
Majesty the Padishs, who would rather eseriflos
50,000 men of his own subjects than allow one hair
of our heads to be injured.
It was only upon this assurance that we passed into
the Turkish territory, and &wording to the generous
assurance we were received and tended on our jour-
ney, received in Widdin se the Sultan's guest 4, and
treated hospitably, during four weeks, whilst waiting
from Constantinople further orders as to the con-
tinuation of our sad journey to some distant shore.
Even the ambsssadors of England and France, to
whom I ventured in the name of humanity to appeal,
were ito kind as to smure me of their full symra•hy.

cauanendtoo:pallyiskaineuthnutneosiotoicnleedea,rtetdbeu:dinaitfinsiedecaractossiimiesitiotianftadthateneilieverevieileh;"
as a mere private individual concerned Ihiss;
articles of this deacriptien might then remain
aeswered. for he has long since soared eil.
far beyond that hazy foggy atmosphere, which cetie;
such ae Delta, breathe and behold. But K thee Ir.
Hungary's, with Europe's social regeneration," whia—
gigantic contest kept down for $ brief season, feTseg' ee
incapability, sentatiuns pervading that articae
The worshipful biographer goes beck to the
hood of his prototype, and to the i cield.
ograisaninlegpobtferhewfiinsiertr.ths
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wee of means, of his father to give him a prom
education. We see that the son was not so very
as soon as this want MN removed. From the
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youth of Kossuth the author cannot foe the life of hhe
conceal from his readers, that "as the steward I
estates he was called by the county-tmasurer to Mef
count for some hundred fleeing of capital lost by
Crida, and that at the same time the C:witess Sups,
evea fasts not prone,
expressed her suspicion that Kossuth bad maile,'
produce of her estate." We use here therefore the
thnilhoeblteorwlietnffii.o7cotvuientificiarth:enoesaudrtvihtalayortao; et
choinembabi
innate spirit of humanity ;
mast be imparted to the re ader, more especially Motile
they "cast a shade over the fair fame of Komum,
and this as the saw has it, amnia ad majorem Driglo:
riam." Mr. Delta, however, has not been so partioa.
lar with facts of an opposite natter, that is, without',
as have been proved. •
Of not less importance is it, that Kossuth, ia tie
parliamentary sitting of 1832, " was embarrassed
and stuck sometimes in his first oratorical effort. Ws
see that he has also radically corrected this de*
since pi ogle, who have heard him, declare:that home
epeaks tolerably unembarrassed, and fluently.
The author now takes occasion of characterising%
Hungarian opposition in that Diet, and is of epees
that "the circular sittings, und, r the influence of the
noisy spectators, moderated, as it was, by no royal
president, had deliver d the entire management st
the parliamentary business up to the opposition le
supported by tnis auditory." The assertion is floe;
The opposition required no such support, it owed in
influence to that inward force that dwelt in it se the
expression or public opinion. The whole nation wee
the opposition against the intolerable yoke of the
Austrian ;administrative system ; only the officials es
the pay of government and those who were 10„ king sat
as ca Aidat es for place and office formed an exception to
this. Hence it is that the Hungarian opposition nabs
compared neither with the French nor the English
one, both of whom strive to obtain the conduitof
pubic affairs by turning out the ministry, whereas
the Hungarian opposition, so long as Austrian ran
shall continue, can never govern the helm of Mete.
In so far as it combated for the maintenance of :awful
rights and privileges against the encroachments of
the Austrian cabinet, it was in reality the corkers-
ties party, while the so-called conservatives wws
nothiug but servile creatures, who betrayed their own
civil tights and those of the nation for Atattiak
favour and money. They cannot plead that which
tills the conservatives of England and France with a
noble consciousness, that their efforts under that form
are national, for teey constantly suffered themselves
to be used as the dishonoured tools of the Anseint
despotism and spy-system rimiest their good changed
right, sworn to by all tin ir kings, never denied by me
of them—they constantly being so ordered opposed
the stereotyped obstin..cy of the Vienna attest
to every species of progress that the age re q lira, sal
which the opposition, or rather the nation, strove is
Produce. It is, therefore, perfectly nester il foe Ike
doputies of such a " conservative party to be alsneel
for the safety of their persons,' fir they had mss
than nine-tenths of the whole coakOry against thee,
who later also role at Koesu•Ve-word a. one lOU
against their oppressors, drove them forth with dis-
grace from the land, on the borders of which they
crawled about like decked dogs, until Russia's over-
whelming numerical odds gave them bark their
wonted arrogance. Fain would these insolent Imp
garts pride and plume themselves as victors, if soy
one were se simple as to view in t em aught bat the
menials of war beaten from the field, before whoa
any Hungarian corporal with len men would feel
ashamed and blush to lay down his arms, bad ha the
choice between them and the Russians.
That tie Austrian government, seeing what the
disposition of the country was, endeavoured to pre-
vent the reports of the parliamentary proceedings from
coming to the counties (c maids) etherwise than as
late and imperfect as possible, on the other hand to
*up/tress all publicity whatever of the circular sittings
so characteristic and full of revelations, all this isvety
intelligible, but Kossuth's great merit lies precisely is
this, that from the very outset of his political cane
he successfully remedied so Feasible a want, god that
he here as subsequently in so many salutary reform,
courageously broke the ice. The biographer observes
quite correctly, that Kossuth " wished to concert this
circumstance to the advantage of the opposition." As
an upeiett patriot he could only do it in this met
since in Hungary oppositional is synonymous with
legal. It is equally true, that Kossuth in these re.
ports " placed in fall relief the speeches of the oppe
citron, and every where marked the applause they
received, and the influx nee they exerted on the tot-
ing; on the other side, never forgot to rem,rk the
ridiculous parts in the speeches of the cantervaeres,
and the noisy di-approval of the audi:ors," lie was
obliged to do this, if he wished to adhere to the
truth, for every individual Hungarian parliament d
this century has been an image of the loudest discon-
tent on the part of the nation and her real organs at
the shameless treachery of the servile party that
served, for selfish 'elf or ambition, Austrian despot-
ism ; and that party counted a conspicuous majority
at the tab'e of the magnates in particular, thee st
teat of the di i nitaries and bishops. For the twee
is false that he, "for the moat part, gave only the
weakest reasons" from out of the speeches of the MC.
servative party. He did give those speeches as they
were, as they only could be, being fanatical negation
of all rights, the apology of all unjust usurping privi-
leges, as cloaks to all the encroachments of the £ns
trian cabinet. That he spared his readers the dart
felt by the actual hearers at the pedantic, Wiwi
length of most of these discourses was natural; hat
the real essence of those speeches, their treachery te
fatherland, he gave always clearly and truly.
Uader such circumstances it would not have been
easy for the government "to get into large timid&
ton a conservative paper conducted by an editor
equally talented." No talent is great enough. to
change wrong into right, and never will any turning
and twisting of this legitimate state of things. 00
matter with what talent it be done, find patronage
with a nation that respects itself and knows what is
its due. The attempt was actually made afterwards,
there was no lack of talent, bat the paper met with
mo eaeoursgement among the vast bulk of the nation.
Compulsory taking lea so many copies,
obligatory
support and hypocritical praise by all officials, was
the utmost that could be effected.
The Parliamentary Gesell. was for the rest never
" interdicted," neither could it be, so long as it was
circulated in writing ; only against the lithographic
form, as a kind of a virtually usurped right of ths
prep., did the government make attempts at sopprem
semi through the medium of Count Francis Zithy, not
fficially, however, not even publicly. In cony quenes
of mature deliberations between Kossuth and the op-
position, the lithographio form, for good and cogent
reasons, wee given up, bat the parliamentary Gaze*
was uninterruptedly issued in its written form to ths
KOSSUTH. end of the session, despite the wrath of the conserver
An elabeeste article appeared some short time ago tives and the government too, which in vain tried to
in the Augsburg Gasette, professing to be a life of crash, in the face of the diet, an undertekieg against
this extraerdinary man. It of course circulated ever which r o positive law could be raked up. "The part
the whole of Europe, and was translated entire into was an event. Its influence prevailed preciselym
the columns of the Times. It was mast unfairly the opposition wished." Of course, for the oirPioin"
written by an individual who has long been a tarre. included the mass of the nation, and everything that
sp mdent of the German paper in question, and who lives in tke conviction of the people finds sympathy
signs his commanicatipne with a Greek Delta. The ard an echo.
following is an equally elaborate refutation of that That Kossuth, at the termination of the diet, took
aricle, and is translated from a pamphlet that has to publishing the county proceedings, did not take
just been published at Leipsig : place because " the above source of his maintenance
As moan as Go-ley had laid down his arms, the dried up,"—for, instead of it, he could at that time
whole nature of which act, both morally, politically, have easily found another—but because it was necee
and strategically, is reserved for subsequent historical eery for completing the publicity already commenced..
research, it was not difficult to foresee that the hate of By these publications was effected that unison in the
"te
the reactionary party would be especially directed pubic deliberations of the 52 great municipal
against Kossuth, the soul of the Hangarian war of and which unison secured their omnip fence as 1..
independence and struggle for freedom. And, lo ! tended by the constitution. As the gum remelt untit
before the agitator hes entered into the Protecting then, contrary to the intention of the co,stiro had
tinn,
haven, the servile yelping and baying of the rear- thrown ebetaeles in the way by means of their high
tioneries is beetdin his track. Quite reasonably, quite sheriffs (or palatine counts), to prevent the carremn.
consistently the efugsburg Universal Gasette opens its pondence of the counties among one gentler, eel!
columns in tke supplement, dated Sept. 10, for a bio- 1 since the country hitherto had contented ire If with
graphic al sketch of Kossuth, from the pen of its Delta protesting and complaining, allowing itself to be
correspondent. If the Hungarian ex-president was fopped off with the nand fine Austrian shifts and

His Majesty, the Sultan, was also so gricioits to
give a drcided negative to the inhuman pretensions
of our extradition demanded by Russia and Austtia.
Bat a froth letter from his Majesty the Czar
arrived in Constantinople, and its comegnerce was
the suggestion sent to us by an express messen-
ger of the Tu.kish government, that Ike Poles and
Hungarians, and in particular myself, Count Casimir
Bathiany, Minister of Foreign Aff,irs of Hungary
under my government, and the Generals Mersaros
and Perczel (all present here), would be surrendered
unless we chose to abjure the faith of our forefathers
in the religion of Christ and become Mnssulmans.
And thus five tlonsand Christians ere placed in the
terrible alternative either et facing the sctffold or
of purchasing their lives by abandoning their faith.
So low is already fallen the once mighty Turkey,
that she can devise no other means to answer or evade
Ihe demands of Russia. _ _

Words fail me to qualify these astonishing sugges-
tions, such as never have been made yet to the fallen
chief of a generous nation, and could hardly have been
expected in the 19:h century.
My answer does not admit of hesitation. Between
death and shame the choice can bs neither dubious
nor difficult. Governor of Hungary, and elected to
that high place by the confidence of fifte.n millions
of my countrymen, I know well what I owe to the
honour of my country even in exile. Even as a pri-
vate individual I have an honourable path to pursue.
Once govegror of a generous country—l leave no
heritage to my children—they shall, at least, biar an
unsullied name. God's will be done. lam prepared
to die ; but as! think this measure dishonourable and
injurious to Turkey, whose interests I sincerely have
at brad, and as I feel it a duty to save my com-
panions in exile, if Ican, from a degrading alternative,
I have rkplied to the Grand Vizier in • conciliatory
manner, and took also the liberty to apply to Sir
Stratford Canning and General Aupich for their
generous aid against this tyrannic act. It. full re-
liance en the noble sentiments and generonq principles
of your F-reellency, by which, as well as through your
wisdom, you have secured the esteem of the civilised
world, I Duet to be excused in inclosing s of my
two letters is the Grand Vizier and Sir Stratford

Cat ning.
I am informed that the whole matter is a cabal
against the ministry of Reechid Pasha, whose enemies
would wish to force him to oar extradition in order tai
lows r it in public estimation and render impwible its
continuance in office. It is certain that in the
grand council held on the 9th and l 0 h of Sep'emher,
after a tumultuous debate, the majority of the council
declared in favour of our extradition, the majority of
the ministry against it. No decision was come to, in
consequence cf the altercati ai which took plec> ; but,
notwithstat ding, the ministry thought fit to make us
the revolting suggestion I have named.
This mode of solving the difficulty would not, I am
convinced, save the ministry, because a protection
only given, in contradiction of the Sultan's generous
feeling, at the urine of five thousand Christians aban-
doning their faith, would be revolting to the whole
Christian wo-;d, and prove hardly calculated to win
sympathies for Turkey. in the event of war with
Russia, which, in the opinion of the most experienced
Turkish statesmen, is approaching fast.
A. to my native oountey, Turkey does, I believe.
already feel the loss of the neglected opportunity
of having given to Hurgary at least come
moral help to enable it to check the advance of the
common enemy. But it appears to me that it would
be a very ill-advised mode of gaining Hungarian
sympathy by sending me to an Austrian seaffold,
and forcing my unhappy companions to abjure their
religion, or accept the same alternative.
No friends to the Turkish government would spring
up from my blood shed by her broken faith, but
many dearly ken My !ord, your heart wig, lam
sore, excuse my having called your attention to our
unhappy fate, since it has now assumed political im-
portance. Abandoned in this unsocial land by the
whole world, even the first duties of humanity give
as no promise of proteotioa unless, my lord, you
and your generous nation come forward to protect nee.
What steps it may be expedient that you should
take, whet we have a right to expect from the well-
known generality of England, it would be hardly
fitting for me to enter on. I place my own and my
companions' fate in your bands, my lord, and in the
name of humanity throw myself under the protection
of England.
Time pretties—our doom may in a few day, be
waled. Allow me to make an humble personal re-
quest. I ant a man, my lord, prepared to face the
worst; and I can die with a free look at Heaven, as I
hive lived. But lam also, my lord, a husband, eon,
and father my poor trae-hearted wife, my children,
and my noble old mother, are wandering
about Hungary. They will probably soon
fall into the hands of those Austrians who
delight in twturing even feeble women, and with
whom the innocence of childhood is no protection
egged persecutions. I wonky* your Excellency, in
the name of the Mad High, to put a dap to these
cruelties by your powerful mediation, and especially
to aooord to my wife and children an asylum on the
soil of the generous English people.
As to my poor—my loved end noble country—
must she, ton, perish for every Shall she, unaided,
abandoned to her fate, and anavefiged, •be doomed to
annihilation by her tyrants P Will England, once
her hope, not become her consolation P
The *Wad interests of civilised Earops so many
weighty considerations respecting England herself,
and chiefly the maintenance of the Ottoman empire,
ere too intimately bound up with the existence of
Rummy for me to lose all hope. My lord, may God
the Almighty for many years shield you, that you
may hog protect the unfortunate, and live to be the
guardian albs rights of freedom and humanity. I
subscribe =pelf, with the most perfect leapect and
' esteem, (Signed) L. KOSSUTH.