The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-17 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1853.

KossuTH's reputed Proclamation, addressed to
the Italian soldiers in the name of the Hungarians,
has at length, as we anticipated, been pronounced
a forgery, or at least a fabrication. It was on
Saturday evening last, namely, on the 12th of this
prf sent February, that we said distinctly, in' allu-
si.on to this extraordinary document, that we
doubted its authenticity. Our precise words
were—" of the proclamation ascribed to Kossuria
we must acknowledge ourselves dubious in regard
to its authorship." Recollect this was said by us
on Saturdaylast, the 12th of February. It will now
be perceived that we were very far indeed from
being mistaken in our conjecture, that the effusion
would before long be proved to have emanated
from some other source than the eminent one to
Which it was so hastily attributed. Else-
wherd will be found, in the impression of
our journal of this evening, a communication dis-
tinctly pronouncing the so-called KOSSUTH Procla-
mation to be—a " Forgery." The communica-
tion, it will be perceived, has been addressed first
to one and then to another of our morning con-
temporaries. It comes before the world from the
hand of a gentleman already well known to the
public by his many delightful contributions to our
• I'4:Pular literature. * Nothing, it must be ad-
raitied, could be more plain-spoken than his ear-
nest, and manly disavowal, on the part of Louis
KOSSUTH, of any share whatsoever in the concoc-
tion of the warlike appeal attributed to him, or
in. 'the encouragement of the ill-timed and blun-
dieting, efforts recently made at Milan to rouse the
'patriots of Lombardy to insurrection. Our anti-
cipations have therefore been to the uttermost
extent fulfilled. For we have it now' upon re-
cord that Kossumii never penned one word of
the Proclamation—that he never aided for
one moment the late abortive attempt at a Revo-
lution. Throughout the whole of his memorable
career we believe that, we have ever done justice
to that great man, whether he stood before the
age under the most propitious or under the most
d'..sastrous circumstances. Everywhere -tive have
seen him, true to himself and to his compatiots.
Nowhere have we witnessed in his conduct the
evidence of a solitary mistake or the loss of a
single opportunity. It is not now that KOSSUTH
is likely to fall into either of tho3e errors—to
betray weakness of judgment either by an act
of omission -or of commission. During the whole
Q' l that majestic war of Hungarian Independence,

* Captain IiAYNE REID is popularly known as the author
of some of the most successful and entertaining of recently
published works in imaginative literature. We ourselves
have, in the columns of this journal devoted to literary
criticism frequently had reason to refer to the merits of
his earliest romance, that of the " Rifle Rangers," and to
the still greater ability displayed by him in his enthralling.
narrative of the " Scalp Hunters.' We have taken occa-
'i( in like manner to commend his ingenious story of
" The Desert Rome„ and shall have occasion to speak of
tunity.
his late—{xx .st trusi Suy.] "Mao Boy Hunters," at an early oppor-