The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-15 00:00:00

M. KOSSUTH AT NO TTILVGIIAM-.

On Monday afternoon a public meeting was held in the
market-place at Nottingham, for the purpose of h raring
M. Kossuth proceed with the exposition of the sentiments
with regard to the objects to be obtained by the existing
war and the method of conducting it—in continuation of
the speeches delivered recently at Sheffield—and for passing
popular resolutions thereon. For this purpose a substan-
tial platform had been erected, which was covered with
emblems expressive of sympathy with Poland and Hun-
gary. One of these was a rude map of Poland quartered
—" This was stolen by Russia," " This was stolen by
Austria," and " This was stolen by Prussia," being written
thereon. M. Kossuth was surrounded by a considerable
number of Poles, Hungarians, and other foreigners, and
by a large number of working men, but the number of in-
fluential inhabitants present was very inconsiderable.
Mr. Codncillor Darby was called upon to preside, on
the proposition of Mr. Alderman Knight, seconded by Mr.
Alderman Judd.

Mr. Councillor HART, having expressed an opinion that
Louis Kossuth possessed more good qualities than both
Washington and Cromwell, because they were great in
prosperity, whilst he was great in adversity also, moved
"That this meeting desires to convey to his Excellency M.
L. Kossuth its hearty and sincere welcome to the town of
Nottingham, to express its high admiration of his patriotic
conduct as Governor of Hungary during the late struggle
for freedom, and to assure him of its deep sympathy with
him as an exile."

This proposition being seconded by Mr. W. STEVENSON
(draper), was carried with acclamation.
M. KOSSUTH, having been thus introduced, commenced
by heartily thanking the people of Nottingham for this
generous reception, and for the assurances of sympathy they
had accorded to him. Your country (he continued) is an
asylum for persecuted exiles, whatever may be their politi-
cal opinions. Why? Just because it is a free and inde-
pendent country. (Cheers.) If personal security were not
inherent to your situation, then would you not be free
men—you yourselves would be dependent, partly upon
arbitrary power, and partly upon the impertinent pre-
tensions of foreign arrogance. Therefore, the right of
asylum is essential to a country's freedom and inde-
pendence. I for ono, in my asylum here, have met with
many an annoyance from certain quarters, but I have also
received many a kindness from tho people and from indi-
viduals. (Cheers.) For this I have to be thankful, and
will be all my life. But, from those to whom I gladly owe
thankfulness I never have heard the claim, that in return
for the right of asylum I have to forswear the sacred duties
of patriotism. Quito the contrary. (Cheers.) Those to
whom I owe gratitude have honoured me with kindness
and sympathy, precisely because they found me unwavering
in attachment, and faithful to my duties to my native land.
(Loud cheers.) It is to this I owe the kindness and sym-
pathy with which the people of Nottingham honoured me
on my first arrival in England, and on the present occa-
sion. It is this appreciation of faithful patriotism which
has been, and is, the source of that generous attention and
operative succour with which the people of Nottingham
have always assisted, and continue to assist the Polish and
Hungarian exiles—a fact to which I desire to bear testimony
here, in the face of high Heaven, and to thank you for it
publicly, iu the name of all my companions in exile, to
whom you opened your hospitable doors, and let them
rest at your firesides, and gave them work when
they were wanting work, and lent them a brother's hand
when they were in distress. May our Father in heaven
bless you and yours for it ! (Cheers.) But it is curious
that those from whom I never meet but scorn, persecution,
and insult—these come on every occasion whenever I hap-
pen to speak a true word which does not suit them pre-
cisely, becase it is true—they come and charge me that it
is uuthankfulness on my part in return for the asylum I
enjoy, to say and to do what they don't like. Now, as to
this right of asylum, I once for all declare, I do not hold
it from the favour of any person —I do not hold it as a
special privilege, accorded to me particularly—l hold it
from the constitution and the laws of England. (Hear,
hear.) I hold it from the fact that you desire to be a free
and independent nation. In return, I obey your laws and
pay my taxes—(hear, hear)—and, upon my soul, they are
not over easy for an exile. (Laughter and cheers.)
They are not over easy for an exile who, having
had all the millions of his country under his control,
can glory in the fact of having wandered to exile with
empty but clean hands. (Applause.) Even so, I never
intend to do knowingly, anything against your laws,
but I am firmly resolved to have all my freedom within
the limits of your laws, and will never consent to
give up one bit of it. (Hear, hear.) I certainly never
will acknowledge that the thanks I owe for the right of
asylum consist in ceasing to be a good Hungarian, only
because some powerful in your country are a little to good
Austrians. (Hear.) Now, I will and shall do all I can
against Austrian despotism for Hungarian liberty, and
liberty in general. (Cheers.) Am I right in this, or am I
not ? (" Yes.") Well, if I am right, allow me to be true
to this determination on the present occasion. Gentlemen,
in the war in which you are now engaged your country has
a double aim. The first is secure Turkey from being ab-
sorbed by foreign Powers, because that would be very dan-
gerous to the world, and very dangerous to your own
country ; and, in connection with this, the second aim is to
reduce the dangerous power of Russia. Now, gentlemen, in
my humble opinion, this object cannot be attained by the
policy upon which your Government appears to be bent,
nor by the means which it employs. The means are insuffi-
cient, and the policy, in my opinion, is dangerous, subver-
sive of the very aim of the war, and causing you to pay
numerous millions for a result which is contrary to your
advantage and to your wishes. As to the means, you of
course understand that neither England nor France can
send hundreds of thousands of men so far off by sea, and
yet hundreds of thousands of men are required to gain the
object for which you went to this war. But you have
your fleet, you will say. Yes, you have it, and well may
you glory in it ; it is the mightiest fleet the world has ever
seen, and the brave boys on board of it will bravely answer
your immortal Nelson's address " England expects every
man to do his duty." (Cheers.) But then, unfortunately,
your fleet cannot swim on the sand plains of Russia ; and
yet it is on these said plains that decisive battles have to
be fought. Not one battle, but many. (Hear.) These wars
cannot be disposed of by a little boxing, however brave.
You perhaps may feel somewhat mortified not to hear of
some naval exploits from your brave tars; but that will
not do, gentlemen. They would fight if they could come to
it. The Czar just prudently keeps his ships hidden in snug
harbours out of the range of your guns. Therefore, all
that your bravo tars can do is to give "house arrest" to
the ships of the Czar—to keep them at home. (Hear.)
That is all. But with this, with a little coast blockade,
and with battering down some stones from fortresses,
Russia is not to be vanquished. Now, I will tell you,
gentlemen, how you can best employ your fleet so
as to gain your object. Sign petitions that your Go-
vernment shall permit "Brave Charley," as you call him
there in the Baltic to land and make such a Nelson speech
to gallant and heroic Poland, a's " Rise, boys, 4nd fight !
here are some good arms, and some dry powder for you—
and hero am I to back you." (Loud cheers.) -Upon my
soul, " Brave Charley" will be glad to do it, and Poland
~; , • , ••• ,
The inheritors of the ancient glory of Poland will pray to
God, and fight, and keep their powder Iry. (Applause.)
Now, gentlemen, this is the best means to make useful
Yattrflevt, and the only mows of attaining the objeote of

your war. Without Poland fighting, you cannot van- !i
quish the Czar—you cannot reduce the dangerous power
of Russia. The reconstruction of Poland is your victory,
or nothing is. Again, gentlemen, you mean to fight for
freedom, do you not? (" Yes, yes !") Well, if you do, I '
will tell you in what way you can best do it. Sign peti-
tions, and call on your Government to declare to Turkey,
that England has no objection to Turkey taking the Hun-
garian nation for its ally, instead of accepting the treason-
able friendship of ambitious Austria, red with the blood
of murdered nations. (Cheers ) Have you any objection
to see Hungary afforded a better security for resurrection
and liberty ! and greater political safety. (Cries of " No,
no!" and three groans for Austria.) If you have no
objection to it, neither should your Government have, be-
cause you are a constitutional people. Your voice has only
to be heard, because it is you who have to bleed and to" pay
for the war. (Hear,gentlemen,
hear.) But, really, I be-
lieve it is a very moderate wish when I don't ask more
from your Government, if it does not mean to do any good
to Hungary, at the least to do us no harm. It should not
help Austria to fetter us. (Hear, hear.) So much I may
well claim, gentlemen, because of the positive wrong we
experienced from the English Government, which, by its
consent and encouragement, brought down the Russian
intervention upon us in 1819. (Hear.) I protest, before
Heaven and earth, that England has no right to do us
any harm. (Cheers.) It has no right to dispose of our
destinies by tearing from our lips the blessed opportunity
which Divine Providence is affording for our liberation.
We aro no herd of- cattle, to be sold for political expe-
diency—we are a nation, (Cheers.) In the third place,
I may well claim so much at your hands, because it so
happens that in your present war, you cannot prosper if
your Government ruins us. (Hear, hear.) Our freedom
is your, victory—our oppression is your defeat. (Hear,
hear.) You have a dangerous and laborious way to walk—
we have the same way a go • let us go together and we shall
both go safely. And yet lam sorry to say, gentlemen,
that the policy of your Government up to the present mo-
ment was just to the contrary. It courts the false favours
of Austria, it hindered and prevented Turkey from allying
itself to Hungary, and from affording to Hungary the op-
portunity to fight for its own liberation and for the secu-
rity of Turkey. Thus in reality you have been made to
pay, not so much for the security of Turkey and the inde-
pendence of Europe, as to secure Austrian oppression over
Poland, Hungary, and Italy. Do you like this? (" No r)
No, you do not. You can the less so because England is
the loser by it. Austria cannot help you ; she must fall, in
the long run, in this war. But we—Poland and Hungary—
we would. -Austria will betray you ; she will stab you una-
wares. But we will be a strong shield and a sharp sword in
your hands. Now, I ask, will you snake English blood to flow
—will you pay millions and millions, by shillings and pence,
to see them wandering ovor to the pockets of bankrupt
Austria—for the purpose of continuing to oppress Poland,
Hungary, and Italy, and at the same time to deprive your-
selves of the object you have in this war? (" No !' ) If
you will not have this, sign petitions, and declare to your
Government that you mean to fight for freedom and not for
Austrian despotism. Declare to your Government that you
want to have nations for your allies, and not a bloody,
bankrupt usurper. (Cheers.) Declare to your Government
that you want to take Poland and Hungary by the hand,
and not that man whom Lord Aberdeen calls a "magna-
nimous Prince--the young hope of his country," but whom
the people of England take to be a despot, a tyrant, a per-
jurer, and a murderer of whole natioi's. Let many such
petitions be signed, gentlemen, and all will be well. Let
my farewell be, a hearty "God bless the people of Notting-
ham."

Mr. MOTT proposed, and Mr. RENALS seconded, and it
was iinat,imously resolved,—
" That, whereas the war against Russia is undertaken for
the sake of supporting the rights and independence of na-
tions against the encroachments of despotic power, this
meeting declares that its object will not be attained unless
the wrongs caused by the encroachments already made are
reduced, and unless some just principles of international
law are solemnly laid down for future guidance, and rigidly
enforce. And whereas, the partitions of Poland have sub-
verted international law to its very foundations, and embol-
dened Russia to all its subsequent aggressions, at length
danger threatens every nation of Europe. This meeting,
declares that the re-establishment of Poland as an inde-
pendent nation is not only an act of justice due to her
sufferings and wrongs, but indispensable for securing the
object of the war, for restoring the balance of power in
Europe, for putting a stop to the encroachments of Russia,
and for re-establishing a true and lasting peace."
The Rev. G. A. STME (Baptist) moved, and Mr. JAMES
SWEET seconded—
" That whereas the house of Austria, with vile ingrati-
tude, has participated in the spoil of Poland, once her de-
liverer ; and even now reigned in Hungary not by law or
right, bat by the aid of a Russian invasion, as unjustifiable
as that against which we are now taking up arms ; this
meeting declares that an alliance with Austria for the
present r would be unsound, dangerous, and subversive
of its aim ; that if the poople of England desire to be
guarded against the recurrence of wars, brought about by
the encroachments of despotism upon the rights and inde
pendence of nations, and desire by their present sacrifices to
attain a true and lasting peace, they aro bound by honour and
interest to seek an alliance with the oppressed nations,
and not with the oppressors; and whereas the cause of
Poland is peculiarly. important at this crisis, from the fact
that England and France, conjointly with Turkey, are
already at war with Russia, the most powerful among the
spoliators of Poland, this meeting resolves to present peti-
tions to both houses of Parliament, praying that assistance
be afforded to Poland in her efforts to regain her rights,
and that the war be not terminated without a treaty of
peace recognising the restoration of Poland to independ-
ence and integrity."
Carried unanimously.
A petition to both houses of Parliament, embodying the
resolutions, was unanimously adopted ou the motion of Mr.
T. H. SMITH, seconded by Mr. T. MARRIOTT.
The proceedings were then adjourned to an evening
meeting, to be held in the Mechanics'-hall, and the im-
mense assemblage dispersed, having been occupied from
one o'clock until half-past three.
Cheers, before separating, were given for Kossuth, Hun-
' gary, and Poland, and hearty groans for Austria and
Russia.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, JUNE 14.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Anais, from Requejada
Phantom, Smyrna ; Kelpie, Demerara; Sylph, Barbadoes ;
Beiguilio, Lisbon ; Laurine Marie, Drontheim ; Socieet,
Caen ; Endeavour, do. ; Unie, Seville ; Angelique, Bor.
deaux ; Shields, Odessa ; John, Rouen ; Graf von Lem-
burg, Caldera.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Edinburgh, for Newcastle,
N.S.W. ; Spirit of the Sea, Boston, U.S. ; Royal William,
Memel ; Orbit, Ghent • Victore, Adelaide ; Preussen,
Stettin : Margaretha, gamburgh ; John, Sydney ; Esme-
ralda, Perth, W.A., and,Madras ; Emma Matilda, Ham-
burgh ; Catharina and Margaretha, Haniburgh ; Mary
Ann, Cherbourg ; Mary Farrley, Elsinore ; Pantaloon,
Port N.ital. _ _ _

CLEARED WITH CARGO.—The Esmeralda, for Perth,
and M.,dras ; &dins, Hamburgh ; Margaretha,
Dantzic ; Friendschaft, Altona ; Johanna Frederikka,
Drontheim ; Pegasus, Hamburgh; Prince of Wales,
Christiania; Flying Dutchman, New York; Panope,
Genoa; Hanover, Sydney.

DEAL, June 14.—Report of the City of London—March
3, spoke the French ship Elise, from Madras, bound for
Bordeaux, in lat. 9 S., long. 90 E., out 19 days ; 9th, the
barque Willing, of Jersey, from Akyab for Falmouth, out
37 days, in lat. 14 S., long. 83 E. ; 15th, the Alex. Baring,
from Calcutta for Liverpool, out 87 days, in lat. 20 S., 72
E. ; 30th, the barque Herald, from the Mauritius for Lou-
don, out 11 days, in lat. 33 S., long. 34 E. April 4, the
ship John M`Vicar, from Calcutta for Havre, out 59 days,
in lat. 36 S, long. 22 E. ; Eth, the ship Robert Small, in
lat. 36 S., long. 21 E. ; 22d, the Dutch barque Peter
Atte, from Batavit for Rotterdam, out 69 days, in lat. 17
S., long. 4W. May 27, the brio.' Dove, from Port Philip
for London, out 102 days, in lat. 43 N., long. 35 W. ; 25th,
the barque Helen Mary, from Batavia for London, in
lat. 41 N., long. 34 W. June 9, the Dutch ship Rotter-
dam, from Java for Rotterdam, out 108 days, in lat. 44
N., long. 15 W. Passed a large fleet of inward bound
ships the last two days.
LIVERPOOL, June 14.—The full figure-head of a man of
various colours was passed May 27, lat. 45, long. 50, by the
Lady Milton, from Mobile.—A brig's mainboom, varnished,
with white ends and jaws, double sheet-block attached,
and apparently some time in the water, and the wreck of
a vessel about 1,000 tons, with a full poop, and coppered
well up, was passed by the Gipsey, from Charleston, in
lat. 46, long. 39.