The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

The following note has been addressed by Count
Ladislas Teleki to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the French Republic:—
"Monsieur le Nlinistre,—Events press onward. The
intervention of Russia is a reality. After having glori-
ously resisted the armies of Austria, Hungary finds her-
, self now upon the point of being crushed under the
weight of a new Holy Alliance, reorganized on Cossack
principles. The manifesto of the Czar Nicholas leaves
no further doubt on this subject. The Emperor Francis
Joseph publicly avows himself the ally of the foreigner
who invades his states. The fact of this Russian inter-
vention, solicited in the name of the Emperor King of
Hungary, is what has above all ether things led the Na-
tional Assembly of Hungary to declare the okcheunce of
the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, which had already
violated every engagement, and broken all the compacts,
by virtue of which they have for more than three cen-
turies possessed the Crown of Hungary.
" I have given the details relative to the Hungarian
question in two of my notes, presented to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, in October,
1848, and in March of the present year, as well in a mani-
festo addressed in the name of Hungary to the civilized
nations of Europe, and which I had likewise the honour
to present to the Minister of the Republic in December,
1848.
"Since then this question has assumed greater dimen-
sions; henceforward it has an European importance.
" It now becomes my duty to sum up in a few words
that which has relation to the just right of Hungary in
the deadly struggle which she has to bear against Abso-
lutism, and which identifies her cause with that of civi-
lization and freedom in general.
"1. The legal right of Hungary.—Hungary has
ever been independent of Austria. Ferdinand 1., the
first Prince of the House of Austria that ever reigned in
Hungary, received the crown in 1526, in accordance
with an election by the Diet. He swore to maintain
'the constitution and the independence of Hungary.
All his succassora took the same oath. The crown
of Hungary first became hereditary in the
House of Hapsburg in virtue of the Pragmatic Sanc-
tion, passed by th Estates of Hungary in 1687. In
1723 this settlement was extended by the Hungarian
Diet to the female line of the House of Hapsburg (se-
cond Pragmatic Sanction). But the independence of
Hungary was maintained and guaranteed not less by
these very acts than by the oaths of all the Kings of
the House of Hapsburg-Lorraina, even down to our
own days. By article 10 of the year 1790, the Em-
peror-King Leopold 11. recognised Hungary as a
free and independent state in its whole legislative and
administrative system. Hence the article 3 of the year
1848, by which a Parliamentary Government was set-
tled in Hungary, introduced no change in its relations
to Austria. This law was no more than a development
of all the foregoing laws. It was passed by an unanimous
vote of the two Houses in the Hungarian Diet, and was
formerly sanctioned by the King, Ferdinand V.
" All that we demanded of the House of Austria was
that our Charter should henceforward be a truth; our
demands did not go one step beyond what had been
guaranteed to us in succession by all our Kings.
" 2. Conduct of the House of Austria.—The House of
Austria has broken all her emgagernents with Hungary,
from the moment when, inconsequence of her victor.

over the army of Charles Albert in July, she felt herself
strong enough to venture it. She put in force every
means which could lead to her end of overthrowing the
Hungarian Constitution, and incorporating Hungary in
her Austrian monarchy.
"She publicly preached revolt abroad ; she raised up
national hatreds among us ; she excited men to pillage,
to burn, to murder ; she awakened the enmity of the
poor against the rich ; she offered the hand of friend-
ship to all our enemies ;. she decreed the partition of
Hungary into numerous provinces ; she launched armies
against us, and declared all those to b© rebels who re-
mained faithful to their country and its laws. Last of
all, she has called in Russia to her aid, and bas thus
caused her own states to be invaded by the most danger-
ous of her own rivals.

"It is, therefore, in the exercise of a legal right that
the Hungarian Diet has decreed the decheance of the
House of Hapsburg 'Lorraine, which has shown itself the
most bitter enemy of our country. I feel an intimate
conviction that Europe, that France, ought to take an
interest in us.
"For we are at once the champions of freedom and of
legal order; we are the defenders of good order and of
society; and it is the House of Austria which, in refer-
ence to us and to our Constitution, legally guaranteed,
is in the state of rebellion.
"3. Hungary is the Champion of Civilialtion.—This
Russian intervention is totally adverse to the interests
of the whole of Europe. Austria has always been
looked upon as the proper bulwark of Europe against
Russia. But this intervention is the death of Austria.
It would be absurd to imagine that Russia marches
her armies and perils her finances with the sole
object of setting up a barrier against herself. Her
intervention, therefore, will be nothing but a means
of subjugating Austria. Besides, we know very well
what are the real intentions of ussia with regard to
the Sclavic populations of the Austrian empire. The
Russian Autocrat already looks upon himself in the
light of their legitimate Sovereign. Hence, when she
has succeeded in re-constituting Austria after her own
fashion, Russia will have pushed herself, in fact, as far
as Germany ; this is what must be expected if we are
crushed. Under such circumstances, will Turkey, al-
ready wounded by the occupation of Moldavia and
Wallachia, have power to bear the shock of the Northern
Colossus ?

"No! all is destined to be sublued in its turn. After
having invaded Austria, Russia will have the Bosphorus.
Europe will no longer possess any
bulwark against her.
Thus in combating the Russians we are serving the
interests of the whole of Europe.

" Our army amounts to very nearly 200,000 men,
perfectly drilled and disciplined, together with an im-
posing force of artillery. The force of Turkey is hardly
inferior; and she has, besides, her fleet and the Egyptian
contingent. This strength is more than is required to
resist the Russians. The intervention of Russia could
not take place—at ail events, could not succeed—if ad-
vantage were taken of these forces, it pains were taken
to invite them. France has only to will it. Let me
hope that she will not 1 ,ok on wish an indifferent eye
upon this intervention—thlp- she rill have the will to

prevent it.
"For the policy of Rnssia at last unmasked by the
manifesto of the Czar Nicholas, proves sufficiently that