The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1851

It is rather extraordinary to observe the different
I mpressions formed in regard to the personal character
and even in regard to the personal appearance of re-
markable men, accordingly as they are viewed
through the parti-coloured spectacles of political pre-
judice or political infatuation. Everyone knows
tolerably well by this time that the Emperor NAPO-
LEON appeared to CANOVA, the Democratic CANOVA,
a man the beauty and grandeur of whose lineaments
might have presented a study not unworthy of the
chisel of PRAXITILES, while to LAMAHTINE, the
once Legitimatist and now Republican, he presented
the aspect of one not altogether undeserving of
his former soubriquet, the Little Ogre of Corsica.
Descriptions quite as incongruous as this are being
published now-a-days in reference to the principal
personages occupying the attention of the multitude.
If we are to believe some writers, the Comte DE
CHAMBORD is a rather plump, do-nothing nonentity ;
light haired and light headed ; as incapable of con-
ducting the affairs of a great nation as of perpetuating
his ancient dynasty. According to a sketch of him,
just drawn by M. DE LA GUERONNIERE, he is, on the
contrary—in person, in morals, and in intellect—a
double of the Admirable CHRICEITON or of the Accom-
plished LEONARDO. Ia countenance, for example,
this last of the representatives of the House of Bour-
bon is depicted by the journalist above mentioned
as presenting to the gaze of his admirers the dignity
of Lours XIV. and the chivalry of HENRI IV., the
adequate delineations of which would require the
chisel of a PHIDLIS, or the pencil of a RAPHAEL. On
horseback, says his eulogist, the Comte DE Guam-
noun, is the veritable beau ideal of a statue king,
animated by a divine fire, and carved by
the hand of a Pygmalion. Precisely after
this contradictory fashion are the portraits
furnished us of the Prince Louis NAPOLEON—in the
estimation of some distinguished only by a peculiar
dulness of temperament, and in the estimation of
others by a remarkable union of sagacity, vigilance,
and self-possession. Quite as absurd in their variety
and opposition to each other have been the accounts
printed in various quarters, and submitted to public
scrutiny es correct descriptions of Louis
KossuTu
In one newspaper he has been vilified as an unprin-
cipled demagogue, striving only to forward his own
ambition, impoverishing a whole race solely with a view
to his own individual aggrandizement. In another
he has been portrayed as a patriot of immaculate
Virtue and incorruptible honesty, labouring at all
risks to bring about the complete emancipation of his
fellow-countrymen. The only chance left to the
community of arriving at any reasonable conclusion
in his regard, was that of judging for themselves as
to the preponderance of his claims upon their sorrow
or their admiration, and here fortunately they were
aided by the fact that his
life, according to his own
explicit statement,
was " an open'
book," capable of
being generally perused
and universally appreciated.
England has recently been enabled to form a yet
more correct notion of the merits of KOSSUTH than
could have been acquired solely from the authentic
narrative of his achievements. Her citizens .have had
the privilege of welcoming the leader of the Hunga-
rians in person on her shores, and of listening to the
opinions expressed by him in regard to the cause with
which his name is identified. If America, however,
has not yet obtained this advantage, the people of the
United States have been enabled to arrive at some
trEwspifiervitlusions in reference to the great exile
ently the Dictator of the Magyars,
ns3T V, importan t document to which
3; e •+: •ads referred,- and which we
q 0 .4' 1 o publish in extols() in our 0.71 this evening, in which K
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