The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

" THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll-
BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Intelven-
tion.

Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:—
Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Messrs. Drummond.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
or to any one of the members of the committee recently
formed to carry out the Testimonial.
***All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo
Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand.

Subscriptions already received ... ...365 4 4i
B. and E., Plymouth ... 02 6
A Yorkshireman ... ... 5
A L'yal Englishman ... 0 10 0
A Patriot, Chesterfield ... 0 0 6
For the Hungarians, Sunderland ... 0 3 0
" Lord John's Insurrection," Leeds ... 0 5 0
J. G. Marihall, Esq., per Lord Dudley
_ _

Stuart, M.P. .. 5 0 0
Pryse Pryse, Esq., additional Member of the

Hon. Committee 10 0 0
Savile Ogle, Esq., 31. P.: 1 0 0
hlagyar Sympathy
Friends to Hungarian Nationality (add.) ... 0 1 0
A Few Tailors, Friends to the llungarian Cause . 0 12 0
From a Few Brushmakers 0 3 0
George Bransford ... 0 1 0
Collected by a Few Germans in Manchester, at
the Cafe of Mr. Lesser, per Manchester Ex-
aminer

... 0 19 6

Total

£390 2 10i

TO THE EDI'T'OR OF THE SUN.
beg to inclose the first half of a 51. note
(Bank of England, No. 09,004) to aid the noble and
oppressed Hungarian refugees to return to their native
country, accompanied, I hope, with such military stores
as are required by their heroic countrymen to repel the
Russian hordes of assassins from the free soil of Hun-
gary. lk
--Y means are very limited, but this is a case
which calls for some sacrifice from every man whose
heart beats with the spirit of freedom, or with sympathy
for the oppressed. It is one of the most disgusting,
most immoral, invasions upon a free nation's rights an%
independence recorded in history. Shame to the man,
but most of all to the Englishman, who can behold such
an unequal struggle between physical force and moral
right, and not step forward to help the weaker but most
righteous cause! I have been grieved to see, in the list
of subscriptions you have published, so few names of
the aristocracy and of the wealthy. I may say, also, so
few of the middle classes; and such a preponderance of
sympathy and of sacrifice from the poor but generous
English workmen and artisans. What, Sir! is the sym-
pathy for constitutional freedom, and the independence
of nations, extinct amongst the country gentlemen of
England, whose swords were once so nobly drawn in
defence of freedom at home? But, if our aristocracy
sympathise with the tyrant oppressors rather than with
the brave defenders of Hungarian freedom, what pre-
vents the free, the wealthy, the moral middle classes of
England standing boldly forward in so holy a cause?
Can it be that they are waiting to see the names of
Dukes and Earls decorate the subscription list? Are
they deterred by the bought and profligate columns of
the Times, a journal whose wide-spread advocacy of
tyranny is a stain upon the whole English nation? Let
it not be said that we waited for rank and fashion to lead
the way, or that we were impeded by a venal print
from helping a noble people in their death struggle with
ruthless barbarians? Sir, there is no time to lose—we
have delayed too much already—in loudly declaring our
sympathy, and sending our aid to the devoted defenders
of freedom in Eastern Europe. In this, the eleventh
hour, let us hasten to cheer them in their gallant efforts
to save from Cossack pollution their hearths and altars!
Let our money be freely, because righteously, given to
furnish them with every means of defence ! And God
defend the right !
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
York, July 25th, 1849. A YORKSUIR, EMAN.
P.S.: The remaining half-note shall be sent to you
immediately after the receipt of this has been noticed in
The Sun.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Along with the extract from Kossuth's procla-
mation, why should you not print a quotation from Lord
Chatham's celebrated speech on the employment of
Indians against the Americans?
" While a foreign soldier was landed in my country, I
would never lay down my arms! Never! Never! Never!"
The extract is short, and, as the sentiment of a great
British statesman ,it may serve to counteract the malicious
misrepresentations of those who dare to insinuate that
there is any connexion between resistance to Cossack
invasion and the odious cause of anarchy and rebellion.
Your obedient servant,
A LOYAL ENGLISHMAN.

July 26.

TO THE .EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—your noble advocacy of the cause of justice and
humanity, by your stirring appeal on behalf of the Hun-
gnians, deserves
much commendation, though perhaps
it ins), in the end be more advantageous that tyranny
add in might succeed in crushing their liberties.
Let us not despair, but hope that the evident march of
reason and justice will ultimately triumph in establishing
principles more noble and godlike than can be effected
oy force of arms, however noble and just the cause
may be.
Let then crowned heads ponder the following precepts
from the ancients:—

HORACE, TRANSLATED BT MILTON.
Whom do we count a good mam?—whom but ho
Who keeps the laws and statutes of the senate,
Who judges in great suits and controversies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own house and the whole neighbourhood
Sees his foul inside through his whited skin.
EURIPIDES, TRANSLATED BY MILTON.
This is true liberty, when freeborn men
Having to advise the public may speak free;
Which he who can and will deserves high praise;
Who neither can or will may hold his peace;
What can be juster in a state than this?