The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1851.

The clg jeziner given on Saturday by Mr. ANDuuwEs,
the Mayor of Southampton, at his private residence,
to Louis Kossurn and his friends, will be remem-
bered in after times as the occasion on which the
English nation heard for the first time the true his-
tory of the causes and the circumstances attending the
struggle of the Hungarians in defence of their glorious
Constitution, against the usurpations of the traitorous
and perjured Sovereigns of the house of Hapaburgh-
Lorraine. It is to us matter of rejoicing that Kos-
SIITH has taken this the earliest opportunity afforded
him of narrating to the English people the history of
Hungary's wrongs, and of at once sweeping away
all those falsehoods which the unscrupulous merce-
naries of a perjured royalty had been for two years
assiduously engaged in sowing broad cast throughout
the length and breadth of the land. Clearly and con-
vincingly has Loins KOSSUTH proved that the
struggle in which he was engaged was a struggle
for the preservation of constitutional freedom; th
it was from its commencement to its termination a
conservative movement, in the truest and best sense of
the word conservative ; a struggle for the mainte-
nance and conservation of a Constitution which had
endured for upwards of 800 years against the revolu-
tionary attempts of a destructive and perjured despot.
Never has public man offered so complete a vindica-
tion of every act of his political career as did LOUIS
KOSSUTH on Saturday, when be appeared as the advo-
cate and vindicator of the Hungarian nation. Never
had nation so eloquent and so convincing an advocate
—never had advocate so excellent a cause. He showed
that for upwards of 800 years Hungary had been a
constitutional monarchy—that the house of Haps-
burgh was called to the throne of the
Hungarian kingdom by the choice of the
people and upon conditions, one of which
was that the King should swear to respect and con•
serve the Hungarian Constitution, and to govern Hun-
gary according to its own laws. This alone is suffi-
cient to convict of the most crass ignorance those who
in this country pretend to draw a comparison between
the agitators for the repeal of the Union with Ireland
and the Hungarian patriot. Hungary never was
united to Austria, never could and never can be
united to Austria save by the commission of gross
and palpable perjury on the part of the member of
the house of Austria who shall at the time of such
union be reigning over Hungary; therefore the de-
fenders of Austria who take up this ground de-
clare, by the very nature of such defence, that the
Sovereign whose cause they advocate is perjured.
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partisans of Austrian absolutism and obscurantism as
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been going on for upwards of a century ; that the
different Princes of the house of Hapsburgh bad
successively endeavoured to encroach upon the con-
stitutional privileges of the Hungari •an nation ; that
these endeavours had been constantly repelled; that
the struggle between the Hungarian
people and the
Austrian bureaucrats had been continuous since
1825 ; and that in 1836, after a struggle of five
years, a reform of the Constitution,ango
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