The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUEii)AY, JULY 10, 1849.

Immediately the Hungarian Revolutio❑ first com-
menced, namely, when the Austrians under WIN-
DISCHGRA7Z, and the Croatians under JiLLACHICH,
were drivit g b:-ck the Provi,i, nal Government from
Pesth to a brerzin, there appeared in the reactionary

journals of Germany, and in the Conservative journals
of 'England, a ra rii s of the most infamous caluiniiies
upon LUDWIG Xossurit. According to these anony-
mous calumniators Nossuret was mad—was ambi-
tious—was a Communist, a Red Republican, a
Socialist, an infidel, a debauchee, an adventurer
without principle, a politician without a policy, a
mob-orator without any of the greets of rhetoric,
a demagogue without genius, without character,
without patriotisin I Directly the tide of calamities
begin to yield to the deep undur•current of national
feeling, the tone of the organs of the aristocratic faction
in this country betrayed a disposition to vascillate in
opinion even to the extent of actual recaleitration.
Doubts gave place to convicti,ns, rumours were trans-
formed intorealitie,, and by the time the cavalry troops
of the BAN were dispersed, and by the period the grand
army of Imperialists had iallen back to the gates ot
Presburg—many of our contemporaries (previously
the most bitter in their allusions to what my Lord
JouN RUSSELL has called a Rebellion, but what we
and millions of our fellow. countrymen designate a
great and glorious Revolution) dropped their tone ot
slander and disparagement, found virtues where they
had only seen vices in the Provisional Cabinet ot
Debreczin, confessed that Beat was heroic, that
DEMBIN!,Iit was gallant, that GEC:alai:Of was
not without some of the nobler characteris-
tics of a soldier, and acknowleged incited, that
KOSSUTH was a great man, and, what was more, a
great patriot, and the liberator of an illustrious race.
Such hAi continued to be the lenguaxe of the
principal among the Tory+ newspapers of England
throughout the successes of the Magyars. The ma-
jestic attitude assumed by the Hungarians extorted
respect; their victoria: demanded adonration ; their
renowned leaders by their lenity and their valour, by
their generalship, and by their extra, rinary capa-
cities for adiniid,tration, called forth the eul giunis
even of their most violent antagonis.s, Those
sentiments had reached their meridian on the d'..y
'c hen the capital of Hungary was rtc, nquered
LIEORGEY, and when that lion-hearted captain sur-
passe.. vidi, vici ! d the memorable exa,neation of JULIUS Clr3Aa,
Vent by his r qaally epigrammatic an more
thrilling dispatch to the Government—the disP atcii
comprised in those three empha is and
startling
words, Hurrah! Buds, GEORGET." Since that
immortal victory, that victory vvhi,:h was the con
summation' of the campaign of ili-ration, the tone of
our Conservative c(ai.eiliporari,s has again changed.
As CODBETT said of a certain ecclesiastic, in that
caustic diction which branded its obj=et to eve .1a ting
infamy, we might say of these rattiag and re ratting
journalists that, in regard to Flungary and the Hun-
gariao, they have `• recanted their recantation." `The.
.reason for their reverting to their original opinions,
to their obsolete doctrines, and to their previous
calumnies was, from the very first indication of the
' change, sufficien ly bvion,-1 he A usti lan EMll4.llOlt
WitS
„set. k kn4-41}4) aid of the Russian AUT CRAT.
81Aakjog--ivitli. a reverei,ce the most profound and
•aWful, we should say that the course pursued by the
Itnpetialists bore' some resold)] ince to the :most
aulrrnn and terrible of all the holt Parables. The
reditu a the Ilueprialas h 4 btva cleamod of the