The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD DUDLEY STUART.

My Lord,—During my service in company with
the Polish Legion in Lombardy, under Mantua, by the
Lego di Guarda on the Tyrol, your Lordship's name
was so often the motto for a " brinoisi ;" and even in
the " Citta Eterna," Rome, such cordial responses
rang out when your Lordship's name was proposed,
that I am emboldened to address your Lordship the
following lines, trusting to your Lordship's patience
for a perusal, and to your Lordship's generosity for
the rest.

In the first days of March, 1848, I found myself in
Turin, on my road for England, with about I,ooof. in
my pocket, the fruits of a twelvemonth's labour in
Italy. I had in that time traversed nearly the whole
peninsula of Italy, and had seen and sympathised with
the wrongs under which the Italians generally had
suffered, and were suffering, and determined, in case
of a struggle,;to aid them to the last. I became ac-
quainted with several students of the University of
Turin, among whom was George Kohinsky, a Pole;
and informed of the forthcoming outbreak, we went to
Milan, when in the revolution which commenced on
the 17th we fought. Pour Kohinsky fell on the 19th
at the attack on the Palazzo del Genio. My com-
panions returned to Turin, and I went off and joined
the Piedmontese, with whom I was present at the
first battle of Goito, in April. Being an engineer by
profession, in May I was sent to Pescheira, the fortress
on the Lago di Guarda, to assist in directing the
works which were being thrown up round the place ;
and on the 21st I quitted that place and joined the
Tuscans—among whom were several Englishmen—
encamped under Mantua. I remained with the Tus-
cans until the 29th May, when our camp—a camp ex-
tending over nearly seven miles—and defended only
by about 6,800 men, was attacked at Montanara,
Curtatone, and St. Sylvestro, by an overwhelming
Austrian force, and almost annihilated. I made good
my retreat to the Grazia and Goito, where I was
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and remained in the hospital of St. Lucia, at Brescia,
until the 23d of June. In the month of. July we left
Brescia for Caffaro, near the Lago d'ldro, on the
Italian Tyrol, in company with the Polish Legion,
and in the latter end of that month we marched
rapidly down to the Lego di Guards, and fought the
Austrians two days successively at Lonato and De-
senzano. We again marched into the Italian Tyrol,
to Storo, where we encamped, and the out-
post duty was confided to me. Having ex-
tended one day our excursions too far, five
of us were surprised by a body of armed
peasants. We got into a house, and held these at
bay until the arrival of a party of Kaiser-Yager, or
Tyrolese Riflemen, when, our ammunition being ex-
pended, we were obliged to surrender. With an
escort double our number, we were marched off to-
wards Innsbruck. Arrived at Castel-Dublino, our
guard became intoxicated, and, bayoneting the sen-
tinel, we escaped, carrying with us five rifles, ammu-
nition, &c., &c. Seizing a peasant, he became, under
pain of death, our guide. We crossed the mountain
Tonale, swam the Adda in Val Camonica, and then,
taking the mountain again, we crossed into Val Tel-
lina, where we joined General Griffini, and with him
retreated into Canton Gregioni, in Switzerland,
Piemonte-Genoa, &c., and from thence I went to
Genoa, to Leghorn, and to Venice. I remained in
Venice until December, when our regiment, the
Roman Volunteers, parted for Rome. I entered the
Roman service in the Bth Regiment of the Line. I
was present at Palestrina, and Velletri, against the
Neapolitans ; at Rome, on the 30th April, against the
French; and during the whole siege of Rome. We
were for the most part stationed under the orders of
General Garibaldi, at St. Pancrazio; and here my
company, from 125 men, became reduced, from killed
and wounded, to 52 ! I received on the 13th the
gorraLdeieouf Sergeant-Major,
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commenced,
at 3 A. 111., a tremendous cannonade against the bastion
No. 3, to the right of St. Pancrazio, which was con-
fided to me. In half-an hour my little band was re-
' duced to 29 men. I received no reinforcement. The
French stormed the bastion with an entire battalion,

and, after a desperate resistance, gained a footing. I
was knocked down by a blow from a Chasseur, and
taken prisoner, and conducted first to Palo and after-
wards to Civita Vecchia. On the Bth July I was
liberated, and, in company with a Pole, named Faus-
tenberge, set out to Bologna, in the Roman States,
with the intention of passing, if possible, Venice,
Trieste, Illyria, and so into Hungary. We crossed
the Po at night, and reached Rovigo; here we were
arrested, and cautioned that a similar attempt would
be punished with death. We reached Milan, turned
again towards Tyrol, with the intention, if possible,
of reaching Hungary?, were arrested in Val Engadin ;
we resisted, and in the struggle poor Faustenberge
received a ball in the stomach. I got away to Bel-
linzona, and here I read the account of the meeting in
favour of heroic Hungary, held at Marylebone, and
presided over by your Lordship. I determined at once
to gain England, hoping that from your Lordship's
acquaintance of the Hungarian leaders to find some
means of reaching Hungary, perhaps with Colonel
Reid. My Lord, there is many a mile between this
and Rome, and with the zigzag way I have taken
many more 9 - yet I have done the whole way on foot.
Neither the Po, nor the Alps, nor hardship, nor many
a night's bivouac by the road, has checked me; but
now, my Lord, I have received a check which I can-
not surmount. My poor fund, which I hoarded and
have expended so carefully, has decreased to a shadow ;
my habiliments, torn by many a mountain scramble,
are in tatters ; and now, my Lord, I turn to you. I
have yet twelve francs left me, and with this I hope
to reach Dijon, which is about 150 miles from Paris.
Your Lordship is generous, and I have no hope but in
your Lordship, and in such of my countrymen as
may pity an Italian crusader. Your Lordship will
not, I am sure, allow me to die by the road-side.
Write me, I pray, at least to Dijon, were I await your
Lordship's letter, and, with every wish ad interim
for your Lordship's well.being, and for the well-being
of Hungary, believe me,
Your Lordship's very obedient servant,
CHARLES SIDNEY.
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 20, 1849.

THE llt AYER. OF 'KOSSUTH.
Lord God of Arpad's warriors
Look, from thy throne of stars,
Upon afflicted Hungary,
Her children's wrongs and scars.
To thee, a million earnest prayers
From patriot hearts ascend;
Rise God! and fight their battles—thou,
Creator, Guardian, Friend.
Thy sun, the torch of Liberty,
irradiates the skies,
As lighting to a glorious grave
Each corpse that round me lies.
Thy heaven is blue—the carpet fair
Beneath thy footsteps spread—
But the green earth of thy making
With hallowed blood is red.
Send, God, upon these fallen ones
Thy spirit's genial ray,
That not one lifeless image here
May perish in decay;
But that from these rude scattered seeds
Immortal flowers may bloom,
And shed a spirit grandeur round
The martyr hero's tomb.
God of the nations, far and wide!
God of my ancient sires!
Peserve, on this blood altar scene,
The light of Frt edom's fires.
Oh! let the murd'rous tyrant's arm
powerless 'Heath
ofea ourthth belts
thine own,
And
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eale very de
answered in thy tone.
'Tis sacrifices such as these
That sanctify the earth—
That purge it from corrupting sin,
And give thy glory birth.
This sacred soil must never hold
A captive nation's slaves,
Nor fierce barbarians trample down
And riot o'er its graves.
Father, Almighty! Father, God!
Of Heaven, of earth, and sea,
Make all the nations of the earth
High-minded, noble, free.
Blast with the lightning of thy glance,
And lay them in the dust,
The savage hordes whose conquests are
But intamy and lust.
Lo! a light, prophetic, rising
From the bodies of the slain,
Illumines far the battle front,
And lights the battle plain;
The outward robe and veil it is
Of spirits soaring high,
As, marching from the fatal field,
They travel to the sky.
God! in thy mercy, bless their dust,
And cherish long their fame,
By blotting out the despot race,
The Despot's power and name.
Our sword, our shield, our fortress be—
To victory lead the way,
Or bury in ono bloody grave
The war-wolf and his prey,
Harrogate, Aug. 24. G. LINN/VETS BANKS.

INDISPOSITION Or DR. SOUTIIWOOD &M.TH.—Yes-
terday information was received at the office of the
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, Greek-street,
Soho, that Dr. Southwood Smith had been taken so
suddenly ill, at his residence, at Highgate, as not to be
able to attend to the business of the finance committee,
appointed to sit at ten o'clock, of which he was a very
punctual attendant.
TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent directed that meat and bread should be
given to upwards of 500 poor families residing in the
Wells and its neighbourhood for their Sunday's dinner,
that being Prince Albert's rth-day; adults receiving
one pound of meat each, wi bithout b one, and one pound
of bread; and children half a pound of meat each, and
without ound of bread. It was given to all parties
distinction es to religious sentiments.