The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1849.

Official murders are still testifying the "benig-
nity" of the Austrian Government. Vengeance is
still desolating Hungary. We have scarcely the
heart to comment upon the horrible calamities which
h ave befallen that heroic country since the evil day
when the infamous GEORGEY capitulated at Villagos.
So much blood has been spilt upon the scaffold and
in military executions in consequence of that
monster-treason; so many families have been
plunged into misery ; so many villages have been
given over to destruction ; so many of the bravest of
the Magyars have been driven to suicide or into
banishment, that we cannot regard this spectacle
of national. distress without sentiments of the
most painful commiseration. We have seen on
our side, brothers, husbands, and fathers expatriated
or butchered ; and on the other, wives, daughters,
and mothers scourged by demons in the form of men,
or subjected to the most unjustifiable incarceration.
While the good Queen VICTORIA has been carrying
hope and consolation to the people of Ireland; while
CHARLES ALBERT the Magnanimous has died in
exile;:broken-hearted at the misfortunes of Italy—
Fuaiscis JOSEPH, the Woman-Flogger, has been
glutting his revenge towards the Hungarians ; and
the Autocrat IsTicuoLas has been trying to bully the
Turks into the extradition of KossuTu and his com-
patriots.
As recently as the 6th instant an appalling testimony
was given that the humane interference of the
Turkish SOVEREIGN was not demanded without
reason by the fugitives at Widdin ; for on that day
no less than thirteen of their most distinguished col-
leagues, some of the most important leaders in the
Hungarian movement, were barbarously murdered
at Arad by the jannizaries of the EMPEROR—four
being destroyed with powder and ball, and nine
perishing by the hands of the hangman. ERNEST,
KM, DESSOFT, LAZkR, and LAUER were the unfor-
tunates butchered by the military assassins.
SCLIWEIDEL, DAMIANICII, NAGT-SANDOR, VECSEY,
TOROK, POLTENBEEG, KNESICII, LEININGEN, and
the glorious Aux:lca, were the unhappy
men strangled by the rope of the executioner
When it is remembered that several of these victims
of a revengeful and pitiless despotism, and amongst
the number Kiss and Annicu, were among the
lieutenants of ARTHUR. GZORGEY—that they con-
stituted, in fact, a part of the division which capi-
tulated at Villagos—the full atrocity of the massacre
is perceptible—the cruelty of the Woman-Flogging
Austrian, and the infamy of the renegade Hungarian.
It has been asked, with considerable show of
reason, how it happens that the treatment of
these wretched martyrs of patriotism, and the
treatment of the leaders amnestied at Comorn
and Venice, display such a remarkable dis-
parity. KLAPRA, UJHAZY, and OTTO. ZICHTI
MANIN, PEPE, and TOMASSEO have been permitted
to pass by without experiencing the bitter vengeance
of triumphant Absolutism ; while the companions of
ARTHUR GEORG ET have been shot down like wild
beasts, or hung like dogs upon the gibbet. Surely,
surely there is cause enough in all this to justify
the conjecture that :they were sold by that arch-
traitor for the purchase of his own pardon ? As if
to enhance the horror of the whole transaction,
a narrative of the most heartrending character
reaches us simultaneously with the account
of these thirteen executions—a narrative having re-
ference to the deplorable fate of the Count Louis
BATTRYANI, the Minister President of the Hunga-
rians. Condemned to death at Buda-Pesth, and
brought out to be hung in the presence of the
people he had nobly striven to liberate, on his road
to the gallows this unfortunate nobleman is said to
have endeavoured to evade the grasp of his destroyers.
Maddened by so much horrible treatment, he is reported
to have attempted suicide, either tearing his throat
open with a nail, or stabbing himself in the bosom
with a dagger. The wound, though apparently
fatal, had the effect of causing the postponement of
his execution ; and meanwhile his unhappy wife
(nee Countess Zicur) has proceeded to Vienna, to
implore the clemency of the EMPEROR.
" Yr,u might as well go stand upon the beach,
And bid the main flood 'bate its usual height;
You might as well use question with the wolf
Why he bath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;

Yuu might as well forbid the ni(.:untain pines

Wag their high tops when fretted by the gusts
Of heaven, and make no noise; you might as wall
Do anything most hard as seek to soften that,
Than\svbiaiwwllat's harder, his Austrian heart."
Can these atrocities, however, be connived at by
the Governments of Western Europe, by France, and