The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

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ONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, IM9,

Another numerous and enthusiastic meeting, holden
on the 19th instant, at Newcastle, has attested yet
more distinctly the sympathy with which Englishmen
regard the struggle of continental nations for liberty,
but more especially the heroic, though ineffectual,
efforts made by the Hungarians to procure their
_political emancipation, and to vindicate their outraged
independence. An accurate report of the speeches
delivered upon this occasion will be found in another
portion of this evening's impression. It will there be
observed how earnest are the feelings of our fellow-
countrymen in reference to the cause advocated by
KOSSUTH and his compatriots. If anything had been
required to testify the unselfish character of this
sympathy from England towards Hungary,
it would have been sufficiently perceptible in the
circumstance of its surviving the discomfiture of the
Magyars. Now that that unfortunate race has been
conquered by the combination of brute force and
treachery, the commiseration of Great Britain is
clearly proved to be disinterested; for in sympathising
with Hungary, subjugated by the treason of GEORGEY
and the Austro Russian Coalition, we are holding
out the hand of fellowship to a nation weakened to
the extent of national paralysis. In defiance of the
supremacy of the AUTOCRAT over Eastern Europe,
in spite of the stern resumption of dominion by the
KAISER, we find our hearts still yearning to the
fallen and abandoned, the victim of an evil destiny
—the last tremendous sacrifice offered up by
the hands of a traitor on the ensanguined altar of
despotism.
Almost simultaneously with the publication of the
particulars of this interesting demonstration at New-
castle, there has appeared in our own columns, and in
those of our Contemporaries, the farewell speech
addressed to the companions of his exile, at Widdin,
by the lips of LOUIS KOSSUTH, once the glorious Libera-
tor and puissant Governor of Hungary. From that
oration it will be observed, that even those patriots who
have suffered the most terribly from the recent catas-
trophe on the banks of the Danube still remain san-
guine of the ultimate triumph of a cause which, for
the time being, only appears to be vanquished. It
will be recognized, from the tone and len
guage of the great leader of the Hungarians, that he
considers the freedom of himself and his brethren
to be only for a time eclipsed, and not as for ever
extinguished. A similar confidence in the ulterior suc-
cess of the Magyars is visible throughout the impas-
sioned harangue delivered by Lord DUDLEY STUART
to the men of Newcastle and Gateshead. Nor can
these inspiring anticipations be any subject of sur-
prise to those who have connedthe history of mankind
aright. Even a superficial acquaintance with the
records both of ancient and modern times is enough
to assure us that tyranny cannot long tighten the
reins of government over the necks of ten or
twelve millions of men once nourished by the invigo-
rating aliments of liberty. By so much the heavier as
bath been the blow stricken at those freemen, by so much
the more terrible will be the pressure of their subse-
quent vengeance. Revolution is the recoil against
Despotism—and that recoil is only the more inevitable
in proportion to the weight of the stroke aimed
against Freedom. Of this KOSSUTH, of this
England, are alike satisfied in reference to the future
condition of the Hungarians. Whether the time of
the popular reaction will be sooner or later than is
anticipated at the present moment, is wholly de-
pendent, under Divine PROVIDENCE, upon the turn of
the affairs now transpiring at Constantinople. De-
layedbe for months, or even for years, but
oe iti may
in
the end it assuredly will, and then
woe be to such men as GEORGEY if they stand
within the reach of an avenging people ! It were
better for him if his brain had been pierced by bullets
at the storming of Buda—if his breast had been pene-
trated by the lance of a Cossack in the valleys—or if
his body had been devoured by vultures on the
mountains.
When KOSSUTH breathed his farewell words
of encouragement to his companions at Widdin,
it was on the occasion of the removal of the
whole band of Hungarian emigrants from that
fortress to Shumla—a spot whence on any emer-
gency they can readily, after an advance move-
ment, cross the Danube at Rustshuk. Aware of
the generous line of conduct pursued by the young
CALIPH SULTAN towards the unfortunate claimants
of his hospitality, it is anything but a matter of
surprise to us that a large hearted man such as the
illustrious Governor of the Hungarians should allude
to the proceedings of that chivalrous potentate in
the language of gratitude and admiration. Ap-
pointed the military chieftain as well as the political
leader of the band of exiled Magyars, the great
KOSSUTH addressed to his followers those lofty words
of hope, which are the sweetest boons of encourage-
ment to the victims of misfortune. While reminding
them that provision had been nobly made for their
more immediate necessities, by the transmission to
his hands of 241,000 piastres, as a Bairam's
present to the emigrants, KOSSUTH intimated to the
copartners of his banishment, that their absence from