The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1851

" My life is an open book," said KossuTa yester-
day evening, on the occasion of the banquet at South-
ampton. He was alluding to his calumniators; and
in so doing unwittingly vindicated those who have
recently accorded him welcome by so many and such
very splendid demonstrations. Yet attacks of the
vilest description are still directed against the charac-
ter of the illustrious Hungarian. His assailants
appear to be bereft at once of all decency and of all
discretion. History is nothing to them, when com-
pared with the hypothetical statements embodied
in the mendacious brief from which they are now
diurnally addressing themselves to the popu-
lation. The result of this shameless pro-
ceeding has already been sufficiently conspicuous in
the enthusiasm with which the Liberator of Hun-
gary has been greeted by all classes in the United
Kingdom. According to the braggart assurances of
these slanderers—these diggers-up of the foulest offal
of detraction from we know not what despicable
holes and corners—the exiled leader of the Magyars,
branded with the notorious fact of their condemna-
tion, was to sink into obscurity and insignificance
immediately upon his arrival on the shores
of England. . Since these somewhat prema-
ture anticipations were expressed the prophets
of disgrace to KossuTu have themselves been compelled
to proclaim iyo the world the grandeur of the demon-
stration with which his
appearance amongst us has
been notified. Addresses, it wauld seem,
ae:veen from
their own reluctant acknowledgments, h
of'
poured
in upon the expatriated chieftain from allranks
the community, and have been presented to him in
several instances by the recognised heads of our mu-
nicipalities.linable as they, therefore, have found
themselves themselves to stem the current of popular opinion in
reference to Louls KOSSUTH, these sinister opponents
of Hungary and apologists of Austria, opponents of
liberty and apologists of absolutism, friends of au-
tocracy and enemies of civilization, have turned the
arrows of their depreciation from the immediate ob-
ject, and directed them against the principal pro-
moters of the recent KOqSUTH demonstrations. Sa-
gacious as they are ints upon many points they they seem to
be blind upon this—that thEir ridicule is, in the esti-
mation of the public at large, the most desirable
panegyric, their calumnious
to vituperation the most
brilliant testimonial as character, their noisiest in-
vectives the strongest claims that can be displayed for
popularity. Such
lir'cluestjunlblY have been the
effects of their latest evidences of virulence. They
have endeavoured to proclaim the infamy
inof .
the blood
rev
a.; a hot-headed demagogue, sPz!cul a'tineigutnsKOSSUTH
crable
and money squandered about by
have, on the contrary, while acting in this
e•xThey
manner, only tended very materially to enhance
fervour of the multitude in their manifestations of
sympathy for the great and glorious champion of
the Hungarians.
Yesterday was in many respects not the least re-
markable testimony yet afforded of the inefficacy of
their miserable efforts at misrepresentation. Kossirrn
was feasted with all imaginable cordiality in the ban-
qnetting-room of the Guildhall, at Southampton.