The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-31 00:00:00

ADDRESSES TO KOSSUTH.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—This afternoon one of the
most numerous meetings ever assembled within the
walls of our Amphitheatre was held to adopt an ad-
dress of welcome to Louis Kossuth on his arrival in

this country. The time appointed for the meeting
was twelve o'clock, at which hour the stage, which
bad been converted into a platform for the occasion,
was only scantily attended, but immediately on the
doors being opened the pit was filled by respectable
parties, who had been waiting outside in crowds, and
at the hour of one o'clock, when most places of busi-
ness in the town close for an hour, every part of the
house—boxes, pit, galleries, and stage became densely
crowded. Among the leading gentlemen of the town
present on the occasion we noticed Messrs. William
Rathbone, Charles Holland, Robertson Gladstone,
John Aikin, Charles Robertson, James Molyneux,
C. E. Rawlins, jun., Edward Brodribb, Edward
Heath, Francis Boult, George Stilt, and George Holt,
Esqs. ; Dr. Blackburne, Messrs. Ronald, Thomas
Boulton, Williams, Stewart, &c.
On the motion of Mr. JAMES MOLYNEUX, seconded
by Mr. STILT, William Rathbone, Esq., was voted to
the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said this meeting had been con-
vened for the purpose of presenting an address of con-
gratulation to Louis Kossuth, the ex-Governor of

Hungary, on the occasion of his arrival in England.
It was not an ordinary occasion, nor was the illus-
trious man whom they met to welcome to these shores
an ordinary individual • every heart in that meeting
must beat high with admiration of the patriotism and
ability which Kossuth had displayed, and with the
ardent hope that Hungary would yet be free.—
(Cheers.) And free she would have been, but for
the intervention of the Russian Autocrat.—(Hisses.)
It was not the intention of those who had convened
this meeting to interfere in the affairs of any other
nation ; yet they could not help wishing that instead
of the high freaks of France, the rulers of that coun-
try had followed the same course that had been fol-
lowed towards her.—(Bear.) But this and similar
glorious meetings in the cause of civil and religious
liberty would let the people on the continent know
what are the sentiments of England, and that the
vile misrepresentations of the imes—(llisses)—
were not the voice of the people of this country,
and that the great thunderer, with all its power,
had not the power to sink or divert the sympathy of
the entire British nation towards Kossuth.—(Loud
cheers.) In former days Lord Castlereagh had
united with Metternich against the liberties of
the people of Europe • but England now has
a Secretary of Foreign Affairs, in Lord Palmerston,
whose policy, though hated by every despotic throne
in Europe, was backed up by the true sentiments of
the people of this country ; and this large and respec-
table meeting would show the illustrious Hungarian
exile that his struggles for the constitutional liberties
of his country were appreciated and respected by
those who were in the enjoyment of that inestimable
blessing.—(Loud and continued cheering.) It was
wisely said that a chairman's duty was rather to
listen to than to make speeches, and he would, there-
fore, introduce to them Mr. Blacl:burne, who would
move the first resolution.
Mr. BLACKUUIINE, who was received with much
applause, said he had the honour to submit the fol-
lowing resolution to the meeting :—" That this meet-
ing,
regarding Louis Kossutb, ex-Governor of Hun- '
gary, as the representative of that noble struggle
which the brave Hungarian nation so long sustained
for the preservation of their rights and liberties, de-
sire to tender to him the earnest expression of their
respectful sympathy ; and believing that in the ex-
tension of constitutional government will always be
found the best guarantee for internal tranquillity and
international peace, they would hereby record
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strong detestation of the reaction policy
fatally marks so many of the Governments of Europe."
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freedom, and progress, and the emancipation of the
millions in all nations from ignorance and serfdom,
until they should emerge into light and liberty, and
day.—(Loud cheers). There is a spontaneous and
instinctive sympathy with those who are suffering
oppression which it would be impossible not to feel
was spreading throughout the continent—(Hear,
hear)—and there is something in the very nature of
freedom so sweet, so congenial to the nature of man,
that whenever it has been tasted it never fails to en-
gender a desire for its full enjoyment.—(Cheers.)
During twenty years and more the struggles in Hun-
gary, which had been carried on for constitutional
liberty, assumed under Koeslsmuutaholssaibomloetoirtneogmgaorked and
decided character than before. That great man, whom
the people of Liverpool were assembled to honour and
congratulate, had contributed to the abolition
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