The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

THE HUNGARIAN CAUSE.

Our Hungarian Testimonial progresses so much
to accordance with our highest expectations, that
we are more than ever sanguine as to its ulti-
mately reaching an amount worthy of being an ex-
pression of British sympathy.
In answer to an inquiry from the Hon. Member
for Montrose, it will, no doubt, have been observed
that the Prime Minister only the other evening de-
signated the patriots of Hungary, rebels, by speak-
ing of the " revolution " as an " insurrection."
While the English Government, through the me-
dium of the First Minister of the Crown, is thus
stigmatizing the glorious movement made by the
Magyars under Kosstrim the English people,
through the medium of this Testimonial, are striv-
ing to demonstrate to the Hungarians that the real
feelings of the British population are belied by the
voice of the British Cabinet.

Let the rapid increase of this Testimonial to Hun-
garian Patriotism be an assurance to Lord Jour.;
RUSSELL and his colleagues that the sympathies of
the inhabitants of these islands are with the heroic
warriors who are fighting against two enormous des-
potisms under the banners of BEM, Of.GEORGEY, and
of DEMBINSKI Let the Ministers of the Crown
con well the catalogue which testifies that their policy
is contrary to the emotions and to the principles of
all classes of the community—of soldiers and civilians,
of noblemen and artizans, of members of both
Houses of the Imperial Parliament, of merchants
and of magistrates, of the poor as well as of the
opulent !
Our call has been nobly and spontaneously re•
sponded to, not only by all classes of society, but from
all parts of the kingdom. Let every one opposed to
injustice and to tyranny contribute, no matter how
minutely, in swelling this charitable Testimonial.
For the Testimonial to the Hungarians is at once ex-
pressive of England's Love fur Freedom, and of her
abhorrence of Despotism ! It is not only indicative
of British sympathy f,r the Magyars, but is a defi-
ance from the population of this land of liberty to
the Austrian EMPEROR and the Russian AUTOCRAT !

There is one sentence in the protest recently issued
from Debreczin by liosstYru and countersigned by
his Foreign 'Minister, Count CASIMIR BATTHIANY,
which is peculiarly applicable to us Englishmen. We
here take it as the motto of our Testimonial :

" The Hungarian nation counts on the sympathy of
every nation which loves right and liberty l"

That appeal comes from the mouth of Kossuzn,
the first President of the Hungarian Republic. It
will be heard and answered by the men of England.

One other circumstance should be borne in recol-
lection—NtcuoLas of Russia hai offered a revrard of
forty millions of rubles to whoever shall oapture and

deliver up Firth -Marshal 13e.m. A prize of no less
than 40,000,000 rubles has thus been set upon
the head of the Commander-in-Chief of the
flungariun forces. It is a terrible but glo•
rious homage to the military genius and the
formidable valour of the hero whose name (,ynony•
mous with victory) has been inscribed upon the
crown of St. Stephen by the grateful h tnd of Hun-
gary! It is the last dastardly resource of a tyrant
driven to desperation.

Let that fact, as expressive of the magnamity (1)
of the Austrians an, Russians, be borne in recollection
—let it impress upon the minds of Englishmen the
knowledge that the foes of Hungarian liberty are as
implacable as they are strong and tyrannous. The
vrry knowledge of their implacability, of their
streingth, and of their despotism, is only the strongest
reason that could be adduced why England should
pronounce her opinion upon the struggle. The Eng-
lish Government has hinted its sympathy for the two
Emperors through the ambiguous phrases of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. The English People will boldly
proclaim their sympathy for the Hungarians through
the very comprehensible language of the Testimonial.

[ln fulfilment of our promise on Friday evening we
reprint, for the perusal of those who may not have had
an opportunity of reading it in The Sun of Tuesday
evening last, the leading article by which the Hun-
garian Testimonial was originated.]
About half a hundred Hungarian Hussars are now
encamped in the neighbourhood of Folkstone.
Travel-stained, impoverished, and emaciated, they
are still described by those who have seen them as
" fine soldier-like men, who would do credit in their
bearing to any of our crack regiments." The his-
tory of these gallant fellows, of their misfortunes and
vicissitudes, is very simple and touching. It is this.
'When Austria was fighting simultaneously below the
Carpathians and on the banks of the Danube, against
the Magyars and against the Sardinians, several of
the Hungarian regiments, fired by a hatred of the
oppressors of their country, deserted from the army
of RADETZKY, joined the forces of his
Majesty King CHARLES ALBERT, and sought
valiantly
.against the German soldiers on the fields
of Mortara and Novara. On the close of the last brief
but disastrous campaign, when the conquerors re-
quired, among other terms for an armistice, the
delivery into the hands of RADETZKY of all the
Lombards and Hungarians who were recently num-
bered amongst his antagonists, the latter received a
friendly intimation which enabled them to seek safety
by a sudden departure. About two hundred on that
occasion left the territories of Savoy —some seeking
shelter at Grenoble, and others traversing the
mountains of Switzerland. The former division,
supported by a bounty from the French Govern-
ment, amounting to three sous for each individual
during every hour of march, crossed the intermediate
departments of the Republic, and having been con-
veyed over the channel, ultimately reached the
suburbs of Folkstone. Their object is, if possible, to
arrive by some means at the glorious country which
gave them birth, and to dedita.e the remainder of
their lives to the service of their fatherland. 'ft,
gratify this patriotic intention they have already
gone through many severe difficulties, and voluntarily
subjected the I.selves to many bitter privations.
Before they can place their good swords at the
service of Hungary, before they can lay their
credentials at t►ie feet of LUDWIG KOSSUTH, the
illustrious tribune who at present rules Hun
gary in the character of her first Republican
President, yet greater difficulties must be over-
come, and yet greater privations endured. Mean-
while their spirit remains unconquered, even though
they are standing on a foreign shore without a copper
coin in their pockets, and though they know the
immense distance which remains to be traversed.
Here then is an opportunity afforded to Englishmen
of showing the sympathy with which the people of
Britain regard the struggle of the Magyars against
the legions of Despotism! Hitherto we have been pre-
vented, from the remoteness of our position from the
seat of war, from offering more than the words of en-
couragement and the voice of admiration to the heroic
soldiers who have gained so many victories under the
banners of BEM and DEMBINSKI. At last we have
the opportunity of doing something more than this to
testify our solicitude for the triumph of Hungarian
liberty. Fifty-six members of the race of the
Magyars are at this moment on the soil of England,
ill clothed, without food, and penniless—yet re-
solved, at all hazards, to shed their heart's blood if
necessary in defence of their beloved nationality. Shall
England witness their arrival and departure with
apathetic indifference ? 'Will not Englishmen, on the
contrary, avail themselves eagerly of this golden

means of revealing their true sentiments as to the
aggression of the combined forces of Austria and
RuEsia upon the armies of the Hungarians ? A tes-
timonial for a band so small, yet so heroic, would not
only recruit the strength of these refugees from the
legions of despotism—it would not only carry these
_ _ _

fifty-six Hussars, fully equipped, and in admirable
condition, to the troops assembled near Raab, or in
Transylvania, it would not only be the per-
formance of an act of humanity and of generosity.
but it would carry into the very heart of the
race of the Magyars the conviction that in sym-
pathy, if not in fact, England is with them in their
entieavours. Such an assurance would be
better to them than a park of artill*-ry or a regiment
of mercenaries. It would stimulate the bravery, and
prolong the endurance, and heighten the enthusiasm,
and confirm the patriotism, and strengthen the ambi
don, and exalt the aspirations of the illustrious men
who are fighting unaided against the colossal empires
of the ez ut and KAISER ! It would be an announce-
ment to them that, isolated as they have been to all
appearance, they Imo still retained for friends and
brothers the people of Great Britain.

As an additional inducement to aid in some mea-
sure, however slight, the cause which is threatened
simultaneously by the Governments of Vienna and
St. Petersourgh, the gha-tly intelligence arrives o!
the novel and who!esale atrocities perpetrated in the
name of Austria, at the city of Preshurg, by HAT-
NAU, the successor of WELDEN and WINDISCHGRATZ.
One of the latest of the diabolical acts of cruelty
which are day by day adding fresh infamy to the
name of ILLYNAu, is the dastardly and untimely
execution of the principal member of one of the
noblest families of Hungary—Baron LADISLAUS
MEDNIANSZKY. On that scaffold which has been
permanently raised on a hill visible from nearly
all parts of Presburg, on that gibbet which has
reeked with blood almost as copiously as the
guillotine on the Place de Greve, perished prema-

turely, in his thirty-second year, the husband of a
once happy lady, the father of two young children,
the head of an illustrious house, the heroic com-
mander of the garrison of Leopoldstadt. Our heart
leaps up within us when we hear how the young
noble at the foot of the gallows addressed himself to

the assembled multitude, and how, when the hangman
endeavoured to stop his mouth with hie hand, MED•
NIANSZKY struck the executioner a blow in the face,
saying, " Your duty is to hang me, but I will not suffer
your hand to touch me beyond the performance of that
duty. In three weeks the Hungarians will be in
Presburg ; they will then avenge thy death l" How
probable that prophecy is as to its fulfilment may be
learnt from the enthusiasm at present animating all
classes of the Hungarian population. Religious dif-
ferences, as well as social and political, are forgotten
in the common resolve to save the freedom of the
country, and to vindicate the outraged glory of the
realm of St. Stephen! And in this sympathetic mood
the brother of the young nobleman whose death we
have just recounted, although an ecclesiastic, a
Catholic canon of Erlau, could march to the field of
battle with the cross in his hand, ar,d altogether
evince such a noble devotion t 5 the cause as to be
nominated Head Field Chaplain to the Hungarian
army ; while a Protestant clergyman, named
RAZTA, could suffer the puniThment of death in the
same cause, and with a serenity so remarkable as to
excite the admiration of the beholders. A devotion
which can thus affect persons of otherwise such
antagonistic opinions, is of a
.character not to be
exiin,uished but by the annihilative of an entire
race, by the subjugation of many millions of Magy<irs.
Every thing assures us that vast as are the prepara-
tions made by the congenial G .vernmenta of Impi-Tial
Austria and Itu,sia, thrir end can never be obtained
but through a series of atrocities, the commission
of which must ultimately rouse the most sluggish
nations to an interposition. Those atrocities have

already. b-en comintmced—thou4onds have been exe-
cuted ; prisoners of war have been subjected to into-
lerable cruelties, 1)::ve been scourged in the public
squares, an.l incarcerated in terrible dunge:ins ; pro-
perty has been confiscated ; villages have been com-
mitted to the filmes ; towns have been bombarded ;
cities have been rized to the ground; a gibbet has
been permanently ere:_ted at Pres :iurg; %%hole pro-
vinces- have been ravaged and desolated ; the green
crops have been trainp!ed under the hu,,fs of the
cavalry and under the wheels of the artillery; the
ripe crops have been burnt wantonly ; agriculture,
commerce, religion, all have alike been outraged and
contemned ; and the invaders are at length pressing
forward in such enormous numbers as to threaten to
overrun Transylvania, if not ultimately to overwhelni
the Hungarians. Still the motto of the 11.13gyar.-
must be fulfilled—" Parccre subjectis, et debellare
superbos"—and its fulfilment can only be visible in
the fruits of victory.

FIKLACI-1 ti,LPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following official dis-
patches :
"By a telegraphic dispatch, dated MirsPilles, July 7.
half-past three A.M., the General commanding the
seventh military division informs the Minister of War
that one of General Oudinot's aiiks•de-camp arrived
there on the previous evening. He was to leave for
Paris to-day. He announces that the army entered
Rome on the 33, in the middle of the day."
The same journal publishes the following tele-
graphic dispatch :
"The General commanding the 7th Military Division
to the Minister of War:—
" July 7, 1849, Ten o'Clock A.M.
" General Oudinot's aide-de-camp informs me that
Garibaldi, with 5,000 or 6,000 men, left Rome on the
3d, going, it was believed, in the direction of Terracina.
The first division of the expeditionary corps left on the
4th in pursuit of him."
The same journal publishes a decree of the PRESI-
DENT of the Republic, appointing. M. DROUYN DE
Lnuvs Ambassador Extraordinary with a temporary
mission to the QUEEN of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.
General BEDEAU has left Marseilles on his return

for Paris.
The Bill introduced by M. DE MONTALEMBERT,
authorising General CIIANGARNIER to hold the double
military command of the let military division and of
the National Guards of Paris, Fassed the Assembly
on Saturday by 332 to 148.
The Assembly authorised the prosecution of MM.
DUGRASSE and PFLEGER, but refused to authorise the
prosecution of M. GAMBON.
The elections commenced yesterday. There was
scarcely any excitement in Penis.
The electors of lure et Loire have started M. DE
LAMARTINE as a ceneidate. It is possible that he
will be returned fer inure than one department.
The Siècle says—" It is affirmed to us that a
decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, dated
yesterday, pronounces the dissolution of the 7th
Legion of the National Guards of Paris, but the
decree will not be pub;ished in the .Moniteur until
the day after the election."
The Constitationnel says:—" We were a few drys
since authorised to dr-clare as apocryphal a letter iid•
dressed train France to General OUDINOT, and wiich
had been interenpn d uc Rowe and published officialley
is einanatitig free' General RULIIIERE, the Mild:ter
of War. Tt,e ollowiegi, the ex planatien of zhe fact
An leineureWe General had written t,) the Comman-
der in•Chiel of our army in Italy a letter w hich the
l'ostmaster of Toulon by mistake sea*. by land, and
put into the packet of commercial letters. On rea,:h-
trig Rome the letter was seized, and either in the
flurry of the moment, or perhaps by some fault in Vie
writing, was attributed to M. Ruenteits. A fac
simile of the letter was soon circulated iu Rome atm
iii tee French camp, and at first caused a certain de-
eree of sensation. But an Aide-de Camp of the Mi-
nister of War, who formed part of tne staff of
General OUDINuT, soon discovered the error and was
able to place the iesponsibility or it on the right
eer.on, that is to say, on General 13eiteGuey Dllte-
LIERS, who has since fully acceetea it."
This explanation clearly compromises the PRESI-
DENT of tne Republic. It is now admitted that such
a letter was addressed to General OUDINOT. The
contents of the letter, the wording of it, all give
to this letter an official character, yet it seems that it
Was written by General BARAGUAT D'HILLIERS, who
is not a member of the Cabinet, who has no official
character, to a general; in command in the field,
giving him directions as to his actions, and
him to disavow the civil officers sent out by,
the responsible authorities of the Republic to co-
operate with him; and this letter, written by a
person who is not a Minister, , urging a
general in command to adopt a line of
conduct calculated seriously to embarrass certain
members of the Ministry, is, sealEd with the private seal
of the President of the Republic : perhaps M. BARA-
' GOAT DIIILLIEES will condescend to explain how he
became possessed of the seal of M. Louis NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE.
The general meeting of the shareholders of the
Dieppe Railway took place last week at Paris, Count
D'ALTON SURE in the chair. It appears from the re-
port that the receipts for the first eight months of the
working line amounted to 341,133 f. 95c., and the ex-
penditure to 286,503 f. 60c., leaving a balance of
44,630 f. 35c. Some discussion arose on the question
at a treaty with the Ilavre line for a mixed working
as far as the traction is concerned, and eventually the
assembly, by a large majority, authorised the board
to consent to the treaty proposed. It was afterwards
decided that the number of directors should be re-
duced from nine to five, according as extinctions
took place. The meeting then separated.
The following is the intelligence relating to Rome
contained in these papers.
A letter from Cannes states that the Commandint
of the flirt of the Ile Sainte Maguerite bus received
orders to prepare for the reception of 600 prisoners
made by the French army at Rome.
The steamer Caton, which arrived at Marseilles on
Tuesday, took on board a quantity of assns for the
Italian expedition.
Tee Semaphore of Marseilles of Wednesday
says
The steam-frigate the Infernal, which a-rived at
Ti.ulon in the MOIL of the '2 1, brin,ta intelligence of
the occupation of Rune by the French army after
a terrible combat, which dif nett last less than
five hours. All the letters from Civita Veechia arid
rr,,m the camp, of the Ist, agree in giving
this important piece of nee s as certain. Oar
corre-pandent of Toulon states that, after t,king
possession of the bastion No. 8, the well-sus
table.' fire of our artillery silencea that or ,he Martens
en all points. In this las, affair we in vie 200 pri,ow-rs,
mud killed 400 men. Our correspondent termlnateS hi,
if.tter by -a) ing • Rowe has made its oubmis.ioti to the
French Government.' At the departure ot the lufrrnnl
from Civita Vecchia, hostilities ware suspended, and the
• Roman manic p=atty proceeded to the ca np to treat ot
the capi uts,q..n of Rome.' A letter from Civita Vec-
chia, dated 10 o'clock, the Ist. says—' The projected
attack on a oastiora ot Mount Gianicolo took plice the
30th ult. in the morning. There were five hours' lighting
with the greatest success on our part. Our soldiers
displayed their usual ardour. We have killed mere than
400 of the Romans, tukt-ti seven cautions, and carried a
position which greatly disturbed the occupation of the
breach.'"
A letter from Toulon of the 31, in the Deba,ts,
says—

"The steam-frigate the Infernal, which has just an-
chored in the road.ted with the wounded and the dis-
patches of General Oudinot for the Gi,vernmenr, brings
news-of great interest. This Steamier left Civita Vecchia
in the morning of yesterday. The information had just
reached that town by extraordinary courier, that our
troops, after possessing themselves of the principal posi-
tions which dominate the part of the city of Rome which
is situated on the left bank of the Tiber, and called the
Transtevere, entered the streets, where a terrible coin •
bat took place. They took several pieces of cannon and
made numerous prisoners, but tlivre were a good many
victims on both sides. The Roman National Assembly
had demanded a suspension of arms. The struggle,
however, continued, it was said, on the departure of the
courier, who placed on board the Infernal the dispatches
of the General; but discouragement was already in the
ranks of a portion of the defenders of the town, and
very probably all was about to terminate. Two steam-
frigates hearing artillery and projectiles leave to-day fur
Civita Vecchia, and another is about to take on board
tro ps at Marseilles."
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