The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-18 00:00:00

THE EXECUTIONS IN EUNGAIty.

It was soot after the emulations In Pea and Arad
that the Austrian ministry and Yield-Marshal
Haynen became uneasy about the unfavourable
pression their cruelties made on public opinion. 10
the first intoxication of victory, they had hanged the
noblest men of Hungary who had surrendered in the
belief that the Austrians would treat them as van-
quished enemies, not as felons. Even the champioa
of tho Schwarzenberg policy, the Time., de.
elated the . execution of Genet Batthyani to
be "an set of perfidy , and deliberate revenge,"
which °asserted an Lot of . painfal harsh-
ness into one of atrocity," and they avowed that they
" were at a hereto recall a angle i'emece in the worst
of times in which government:lithe mostbloody and the
most absolute, dared to perform such an act of horror
on such a man, by each means, unless it be the mur-
der of Count Egmont by .the Duke of Alva." so
universal wu the outcry of the civilised worel that
Austrian statesmen found it necessary to seek ta pal-
liate or to excuse their misdeeds. Haynnu there-
fore published in spring a proc'amatio3 all
over Hungary, even from the pulpes, that whoever
knew anything of the cruelties of the Hungarians
should denounce it to the Austrian authorities. Tito
effect of this proclamation wee, that people hollered
the time come for earning rewards, after the
" rebels" had been punished, and many of the Serb',
Croats, end Wallach' sought for a martyr in their
family, in the hope to get a splendid recompeese for
their losses. This is the reason why in the lists thus
compiled, and published by the Time.s under the
bead of " the Magyar bloody smaixes," the bare name
of some peasant °azure without further detail than that
" he died for his Emperor, endleft three small oruhaes;"
or that " he was imprisoned and died shortly utter his
liberation, leaving a wife and several children."
Every murderer, every spy, every muticeer executed
by the Hungarians, became thee au Austrian hero,
Their families expected some compensation, but they
were mistaken ; the list was not drawn no to grant
rewards, it was manufactured for expvtatine, and
delivered to the Times, which ILV'we that this docu-
ment had been long expected, in order that it might
serve as the most triumphant re'utation of all the
libelling and lying newspaper articles which have
been published so plentifully on this subject.
The document published officially by the Austrian
government is, however, not without import. It
proves that no Austrian officer, captured by the Hun-
garians, was executed, that no reprisals were taken
by Kossuth and his generale, not even when Win-
dtschgratz had shot Major Scull, and Haynau had
hanged Cslonel Baron Nlednyanszky and Major Gra•
her, his prisoners of war. A detailed analysis of the
Austrian list shows that of the 469 victims enume-
rated by the Times, 183 were convicted mnr-
eerers or felons, 29 were spies and mini-
r.eere; and 82 fell as victims of the laws of war.
Twenty persons were killed by the mob, or by private
individuals: they. fell victims of crime., but those
crimes cannot b 3 imputed either to the Hungarian
government or to its commissioners. Ot.e hum-
, dred and fifty names are given, which of
; course, if it precludes criticism, awakens distrust.
The name of Peter Pepics appears twice in this list.
At one time be is a shepherd of Beba with a flock of
92 sheep, and is shot at Szegedin in I"ebruarv, 1849,
on suspicion cf theft. For the second time tile lame
shepherd of Beha, Peter Pepics, with his 90 sheep is
shot in Dec., 1848, at Szegedin. Now as it is impos-
sible that the same pera.n can be shot twice, we may
doubt that the correctness of the whole case halt been
"duly authenticated." Another man is sentenced by
the Hungarians to " transportation." What is meant by
transportation from Hungary ? Hungary had no
convict settlement. According to the same list, George
Tokovlica, peasant, was shot at Ittebe on the sth of
May, 1848, by General Bum, whilst at this time the
general was living quietly in Galicia. Novak
Stephanovicie a priest, suffered even as late as in Sep-
tember, 1819, by the Hungarians, at Becskerek, in
the Banat, a whole month after the surrender of
Vilagoe.
Such cases carry their own refutation with them,
and is fact prove anything save the blind hatred
which Austrian statesmen and their un-Eaglish
champion nourish for all those who thick that honour
and liberty is more valuable than life.

Analysis of the Austrian list of all the persons who in
1848 and 1849 were sentenced to death and rxrcuted in
Hungary in Transylvania, either by the Ms,iyar C amnia-
stoners, or by th^ir trihnnela and eourte-mart•al, ',Angled
In the Times, Sept. the 10th and the 11th,