The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

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LoNDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1849.

Our readers, and especially the subscribers to the
Hungarian Testimonial originated by ourselves, will
be gratified to learn that intelligence has been this
morning received, via Southampton, announcing the
arrival of the Hussars (lately sojourning near Folk-
stone), at Constantinople. So far our endeavours
have been in this instance eminently successful,
though unhappily, in consequence of recent occur-
rences, the unfortunate men, recently refugees in Eng-
land, will only reach their native country in time to
lee her delivered over to the ruthless domination of
her Austrian and Russian invaders. Neverthe-
less, there still remains a possibility that this
interesting band of patriots may be enabled to cross
Roan eli t and j in the 10,000 of their heroic fellow-
countrymen now fighting, under the orders of Guiron,
against those foes to Hungarian independence to
whose mandate GEORGEY has yielded up the fortunes
of the Magyars unconditionally. Nor is it a circum-
stance altogether unworthy of consideration, or even
of self-gra'ulation, that the General under whose
banners these emissaries and witnesses of British '
sympathy for the Hungarians may alone have the
opportunity of rallying, is one who, although a natu-
ralised Magyar, is by birth a Briton. An absurd rumour
appears to have somehow become prevalent in Con-
stantinople immediately on the disembarkation of the
severity Hussars from the Oriental Steam Company's
ship which had just reached the Bosphorus—namely
that those patriotic soldiers had been furnished with
means to enable them to reach their native land by
traversing the Mediterranean and subsequently
crossing the Turkish dominions, by the members of
the English Government. Unfortunately there was
anything but complicity on the part of her MAJESTY'S
advisers in this transaction. Unfortunately there was
only visible a reluctance in the Cabinet of St. James's
to forward in any way the wishes of the English
people in regard to the cause of Hungary. Through
the moneys accumulated in the fund styled the Hun-
garian Testimonial, and through those moneys alone,
have these seventy fellow•countrymen of KossuT H
been enahl. dto proceed to the frontiers of Roumelia.
And the knowledge of this circumstance is a
supreme consolation to our hearts, now that
we wittiness the calamities that have befallen
the valiant soldiers of DEMBINSKI. Before
we close our present allusions to the Testimonial of
England's sympathy for the Hungarians, we must be
permitted to express an intention on our parts, as the
originators of the subscription—and we are satisfied
that it is an intention that will neither meet with the
objec'ion of the contributors nor with the opposition
of the committee, but that it will be hailed as one
consonant with the views originally entertained by
all parties who have in any way participated in raising
that Testimonial. Seeing that a thunderbolt of misfor-
tune has descended upon the Hungarians, and scattered
to
the winds at least for the present all their dearest
hopes and aspirations—we propose that after the
liquidation of all the expenses incurredone t
in the trans-
mission of the refugees from Folkst
Constan-
tinople, and thence across Roumelia, that the residue
of the Testimonial shall be placed in:the o
hands of the
Great Louis KOSSUTH to be employed as he
think proper for the good of that glorious caus may
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which his illustrious name has become syncsaymous
A nobler or a more direct evidence of the
sywpathy with which England has watched
the late ztruggle of the Magyars for the vindi-
cation of their nationality, and for the preser-
vation of their independence, could not by any pos-
sibility be contrived. As to the practicability of
carrying our intention into effect, it is only necessary
to bear in recollection the fact that England is the
refuge of all the victims either of the Absolutism or
of the Revolutions of the European continent. Ac-
cording to the last accounts from Turkey, it would
appear that KOSSUTH was a fugitive through the
Wallachian provinces. Rumours were, of course, not