The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Extraordinary pains have been taken by
some of our morning journals to represent the leaders
of the popular party at Vienna as wild democrats and
incendiaries.

Little attention has been turned to those regions,
and the public is naturally in the dark as to the truth,
and therefore not indisposed to receive upon trust
what is so confidently asserted.
I was myself curious to know who were the per-
sons considered by the Court party as their most
dangerous opponents, and consequently such as a
servile press would brand with the name of sangui-
nary democrats. I was quite prepared to find in
such an extreme position of affairs persons who might
really deserve that appellation brought prominently
furward by the force of events.

I was, therefore, not a little surprised to see a pa-
ragraph, quoted from the Berliner Zeitungshallel of
the 31st ult., in which, among the heads demanded
by Windischgratz, that of PULSHY was mentioned.
Now, as the name is uncommon, and there is only
one of that name who has come forward in public
life, no other person can be meant than Francis
Pulsky, of Eperies, a Hungarian country gentleman
of good family and fortune, and• as little of an ultra
of any kind as can be imagined.

When still very young be travelled in many parts
of Europe, and among others in -England. A little
work which he published in German, " Tagetuch
eines in England reisenden Ungarn," is distinguished
by a just appreciation of English life. On his return
to his native country, at a period when ultra-Liberal
ideas were rife, be was looked upon as a Conservative,
and even stood aloof from the moderate Liberals.
When he represented his native county, Saros, in the
Diet, he was always a member of the committees on
commercial law :and all practical measures of
material improvement. Since then he married the
daughter of a Vienna banker, and devoted him-
self to the improvement of his estates and the
amelioration of the condition of the peasantry residing
upon them. When the momentous events of the early
part of this year occurred, he took office in the then
Liberal Aristocratic Ministry of Hungary, as (to
use English phraseology) " Under-Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs," Prince Esterhazy being his
chief. In this capacity he went to Innspruck, and
as he continued in his post even after the resignation
of Esterhazy, he was at Vienna during the last out-
break. As far as can be judged from our scanty ac-
counts he seems to have urged upon all parties an
accommodation.

And such a man is to fall a victim to the Jesuit
and retrograde Camarilla!
What I say of Pulsky is from intimate personal
knowledge of him some years ago, and I am certain
that he is the last
_person in the world who could be
considered violent and revolutionary. Indeed, we
must be on our guard against supposing .the 4iberals
generally of Austria to be sans• culottes and aiina-
gogues. Most of them are men of property in land
and flocks, and all are (or were) devoted to the reign.
ing House, although they detest the system of Met.
ternich, and curse the Bavarian alliance which has
so long upheld it.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN ENEMY TO MISREPRESENTATION.

SONNET.
TO KEATS.
Oh, nightingale, thou wort for golden Junta,
Not for'the gusts of March! oh not for strife,
With wind and tempest, was thy summer life,
Mate of the sultry grasshopper, whose tunes
Of ccstacy leap faint up steaming noons,
Keen in their gladness as the shrilling fife;
With smiles, not sighs, thy days should have been rife
With quiet calm as sleeps 'neath harvest moons;
Thee, nature fashioned, like the belted bee,
Roamer of sunshine—fellow of the flowers,
Hiving up honied sweets for man to see,
No touch of tears in all thy radiant hours;
Alas! sweet singer, that thou might'st not live,
Sunn'd in the gladness that thou cam'st to give!
W. C. BENNETT.