The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-01 00:00:00

r;vo,

1,1„,..ND0N, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1849.

RUPTURE BETWEEN RUSSIA

AND TURKE Y.

A general European war appears now to be
imminent—a war between Russia and Austria on the
one side, and on the other Turkey, backed by France
and England. Reaction has revealed " a vaulting
ambition," which has certainly " overleaped itself"
in this instance—the Austrian EMPEROR thirsting
with a somewhat too diabolical eagerness for ven-
geance, and the Russian EMPEROR. yearning rather
too violently for the domination of Constantinople.
Thanks be to the GOD of Justice, the mask has fallen
betimes. Absolutism, intoxicated with a success
brought about by the treason of ARTHUR GEORGEY,
has been so far carried away by a sudden delirium of
joy that it has unwittingly exposed to view the most
secret infamies of' its character. Ever since the un-
conditional capitulation of the ALBEMARLE of Hun-
gary, the Cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburgh
have given loose to their evil passions. Ever since
that period Europe has been horrified by the
atrocities committed by lIA-sisau and his lieutenants.
Excesses of cruelty more horrible have not been per-
petrated with such systematic ferocity since the wars
of the condottieri, since the Duke VALENTINO ravaged
the provinces of the Roman peninsula. Within the
last half-year men have witnessed the commission of
crimes which ATTILA would scracely have perpetrated
without reluctance, or without some sentiments o'
compunction. Military tribunals have been sitting
n permanence. Permanent gibbets have been erected.
Prisoners have been shot down in batches. The dun-
geons of Buda-Perth Ir,e been filled to repletion.
Property has beet) confiscated. Extreme age and
extreme youth, virgins and children, women on the
eve of becoming mothers, and men venerable
from their white hairs and their probity, have
been destroyed without distinction. And, not con-
tent with the multiplicity of the victims already in
their power, the Generals of FILINZ JOSEPH and of
NICHOLAS have dispatched the bloodhounds of re
venge in pursuit of those who were endeavouring to
escape from their grasp—setting a price upon the
heads of the Magyar leaders, and issuing that hideous
proclamation which the Allied Sovereigns dared to
publish against the Emperor NAPOLEON, declaring the
Polish captains who had taken part in the glorious
war or iib..ation to be " without the pale of the
Laws of Nations." In pursuance of this demoniacal
policy the Russian and Austrian Ambassadors at
Constantinople have at last boldly demanded from
the Sublime Porte the extradition of the Hungarian
refugees now within the boundaries of the Turkish do-
minions—Lunwm KOSSUTH, with MESSAROS, and
PEnczgn, and the rest of his illustrious companions.
Nobly and valiantly has the young Sultan-Caliph,
AIIDULMESCHID, acted in this supreme emergency ;
and nobly and valiantly has that heroic Mahometan
been supported in his determination by his Councillors
in the Divan.

Prince RADZIVIL, Ambassador Extraordinary from
the Court of Russia, and Aide-de-camp of the CzAR,
having already distinctly avowed that it is the inten-
tion of the AUTOCRAT to have every one of the fugi-
tives now in Turkey hanged immediately they fall
into his possession, nevertheless, as the representative
of his SOVEREIGN, had the hardihood and, we can but
call it, the effrontery to require from the SULTAN the
instant deliverance into the hands of his imperial master
of those glorious victims of misfortune who have recently
claimed his protection. Immediately they became
acquainted with the nature of this requisition, the
members of the Grand Council, with one accord,
resolved, that in defiance of all the threats
of Russia, her demands should be at once
and peremptorily resisted. As a nation, the
Turks, cordially sympathise with this magnanimous
resolution. As chief of the religion of the Crescent,
SIIIEK-ULISLABM has declared his full concurrence.
As supreme head of the Mussulman empire, the
SULTAN has declared his good pleasure to abide by
the determination of the Divan—his MAJESTY coin-
ciding with the SHEIK-WL ISLAEM that it would be
contrary to the first principles of their belief, and of
the first dogmas articulated in the Koran, to act
otherwise, it being there enjoined that the followers
of "MATIOMET " shall give hospitality and protection
to all who are in misfortune, without distinction of
creed or country." Surely this is worthy of
the homage and the admiration of the lovers of
Christianity. Not only has the Sublime Porte com-
mitted itself to this generous line of policy, and
officially proclaimed its sentiments through the cue-
tomary channels, but it h generally understood that
on the occasion of a personal interview between
Prince RADZIVIL and the SULTAN, his Majesty chival-
rously expressed the indignation with which he, as a
Sovereign Prince, regarded this demand of the
AUTOCRAT.

Happily for ADDULMESCHID, he is at this moment
admirably supported •by the English and
French Ambassadors. M. AUPICK, as representative
of the French Republic, and Sir STRATFORD CANNING,
as representative of her Britannic MAJESTY, both
enjoy his fullest confidence, and both :ustein him in
his valiant resolve to do baffle in vindication of

humanity. It is even said that the two ambassadors
have already, in proof of their entire concurrence,
WS PA %manded the immediate presence of the fleets of their
espective nations in the Dardanelles. Sir STRATFORD
4\ NING himself, besides being the personal friend of
ULTAN, may almost be said to be at this moment
4- cting Minister of War of Turkey. An
t on of this will be found in our foreign
intelligence. From the same intelligence it will be,

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