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London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

England chose it which the geniis of mankind se-
lected for the resting monument of its greatness, and
the spirit of freedom for his happy home. Cheered by
your sympathy, which is the anchor of hope to op-
pressed humanity ; with the view of your freedom,
your greatness and your happiness ; and with the
consciousness of my unhappy land in my breast, you
must excuse me for the emotion I feel, the natural
cons& quence of so striking a charge and so different
circumstances. So excuse me for not being able
to thank you so warmly as I feel for the generous
reception in which you honour in my undeserv-
ing person the cause of my :country. I only
hope God Almighty may for ever bless you and
your glorious land. Let me hope you will be willing
to throw a ray of hope and consolation on my native
land by this your generous reception.—(Cheers.)
May England be ever great, glorious, and free
(Cheers)— but let me hope, by the blessing of Al-
mighty God, and by our own steady perseverance,
and by your own generous aid, that England, though
she may ever remain the most glorious spot on earth,
will not remain for ever the only: one where freedom
dwells.—(Loud cheers.) People of the generous town
of Southampton ! in shaking hands with your Mayor,
my best and truest friend—(here Kossuth turned
round to the Mayor, and shook bands with his Wor-
ship, amid loud cheers)--I have the honour to thank
you, and to salute yoti with the deepest respect, you,
the inhabitants of the industrious, noble-minded,
enlightened, and prosperous city of Southampton.
The Mayor then led Madame Kossuth in front of
the balcony, when the crowd cheered her vocife-
rously, which the lady, who was apparently labour-
ing under deep emotion, acknowledged by waving
her handkerchief.
The children were also led to the front, and one
enthusiastic admirer lifted the youngest boy up to the
top of the balustrade--a proceeding
which the little
again the
fellow did not appear much to like—
cheers broke forth.
The band in the street here struck up the Scotch
air of " Auld lang syne," and a great proportion of
the crowd, catching up the words, joined vocally in
the air ; thus improvising, as it were, a serenade.
Kossuth, who had again come to the front, inquired
of the Mayor what was the tune that seemed so
powerfully to excite the sympathies of the people;
and the Mayor explained that it was customarily sung
on occasions of cordial welcome. When it had been
concluded,
The MAYOR stepped forward and said—Gentlemen,
I thank you for the kind reception you have given to
Kossuth. You will bear me witness that I have
taken no means whatever to induce any man to leave
his work ; but I am glad to see such a noble specim©n
of the well-conducted people of England present.
KOSSUTH again came forward,, and said—Gentle-
men, it is a glorious sight to see a Queen upon the
throne representing the principles of liberty.—(Loud
cheers.) That is a sight which you enjoy in Britain.
It is also a glorious sight to see the public authorities,
the municipalities of the towns elected by the free
choice of the people—that they are the first to take the
lead in carrying out the wishes tf the people. Gen-
tlemen, three cheers for my best:friend, the Mayor of
Southampton.
The cheers were heartily given. •
The band then played " God save the Queen," and
again the crowd joined heartily is the anthem. On its
conclusion,
Kossurn again addressed then; and said, "I thank
you once again for your generous welcome, and now,
in bidding you adieu for a short time, allow me to
express the warm feelings of my heart by proposing
that you should join with me in giving three cheers
for your gracious Queen." Then taking off his hat,
he led the cheering in a manner which seemed to in-
dicate that he was no stranger to the practice ; and it
is needless to say that his call was vigorously re-
sponded to by the crowd. He ended with an impres-
sive " God bless you all !" and bowing, retired with
his family into the room, and the crowd began slowly
to disperse.
It had been arranged that
two addresses—one by
the corporation, another by the inhabitants at large
—should be presented to Kossuth in the Town-hall ;
and about half-past four that ancient building, which
it may be interesting to state occupies the interior of
the Bar-gate—the Temple Bar of Southampton—was
filled with a number of the respectable inhabitants of
Southampton. The members of the corporation as-
sembled in their robes of office, the sword and mace
were laid on the table, and all the municipal state and
formalities were observed on the occasion. A little
before five o'clock Kossuth, accompanied by the
Mayor, arrived in the hall, and was welcomed with
loud cheers. Most of his-, Hungarian friends were
again present, and there were several gentlemen who
appeared as delegates from other towns, but the only
Member of Parliament we recognized was Mr. Wyld,
of Charing-cross, M.P. for Bodmin.
The MAYOR introduced Kossuth to the different
members of the corporation, and then publicly to the
audience, a ceremony which was acknowledged by
three cheers. The Mayor then proceeded to present
the address, and begun by stating how anxious
the corporation were that he should land at
Southampton, a triumph that had been rea-
lised that day. He was happy to say that the
spot where ho (Kossuth) stood was the abode of the
exile and the land of the free.--(Cheers.) That free-
dom was quite compatible with loyalty to the Queen,
and perhaps this had never been more strikingly ma-
nifested than in her Majesty's late progress through
the provinces, where neither army nor guard was
needed to ensure her a noble reception.—(Cheers.)
The throne of the Sovereign was an Englishman's
heart.—(Loud cheers.) He hoped that his illustrious
guest would live to see the same freedom, combined
with the same order, in his own country
acorn he had planted in Hungary would yet grow up
a great and mighty oak, and then he need not fear
being refused to pass through any country, not even
through a bastard Uepublic. —(Cheers.) —that the
He was
happy to say, however, that there were other Repub-
lics which would not have so acted ; and in this coun-
try, he could state that no one, whatever his opinions,
was ever refused a home. They were proud indeed
to offer such a home to him (Kossuth), and they were
only, in doing so, representing the feelings of millions
of their countrymen, who held Kossuth in the same
estimation as they did Hampden,
Sydney—
(Cheers)
—and Washington—(Cheers)—and he believed that
long after Kossuth was laid in his grave, his name
would be handed down in history with these illustri-
ous men.—(Cheers.)
The following address was then read by the TOWN
CLERK, and presented to Kossuth :
" TO HIS EXCELLENCY LOUIS KOSSUTH, LATE GOVERNOR
OF HUNGARY.
" Illustrious Sir,—We, the mayor, aldermen, and
burgesses of the town and county of the town of South-
ampton, in council assembled, embrace the earliest op-
portunity afforded by your presence among us of offer-
ing you our sincere and hearty congratulations on your
release from a prolonged captivity, and of giving ex-
pression to the deep respect that we entertain for your
person and character.
" Your safe arrival at the port of Southampton is
hailed by the council with the deepest emotions of grati-
tude for your most providential preservation from the
machinations of those powerful and unscrupulous foes
who have sought, not only to take away your valuable
life, but alio to crush the rising spirit of liberty, and
destroy every principle of self-government in your own
and other countries.
" The council are deeply sensible of the high honour
conferred upon them in being the first ;municipal body
in the British nation who have the opportunity of testi-
fying their admiration of the public conduct and private
worth of a man so deservedly endeared to all the lovers
of freedom, not only in this country, but in all other na-
tions of the earth.
"Be assured, sir, that, as a British municipality, we
have watched, with the most anxious solicitude, the
noble and patriotic efforts which you have. made.to.t.
main-
tain in your own beloved nation institutions similar in
character to those which have for ages been the basis of
for which this
country freedom, social order, and prosperity,
country is so eminently
distinguished.
" Be pleased, then, to accept this cordial mark of the
esteem in which we, in common with our fellow-country-
men, hold your exalted character, and the profound
sympathy and admiration with which /we have 'timed
which you have been engaged;
the sacred struggle
dion,
that the principles, in defence
and believing, as we
talents have been displayed, are
destined to triumph a
of which your great
at no distant day, our earnest
prayer is that your useful life may be spared to wimesa
so glorious a consumniation, and that the powers with
which the Almighty has
so eminently endowed you may
yet be exercised in.
happiness o the promotion of the liberty, inde-
pendence, and happt
f that brave people for whose
suffered go much, and witt, whose glory,
cause you have su
r name' will be irrevocably as-
freedom, and honour you
sociated through all future time.
this
ber.Given under our common seal,
1851."
addressed the meeting. He' said,
KOSSUTH then addres
gentlemen of the municipality of the
Mr. Mayor and ge
excuse rue, an un-
pretendingtown and county of Southampton,
able for not being in your own
stranger,
languageduly to express my warmest sentiments of
thanks and gratitude for the honour you have done
me by your generous welcome, and for the generous
I
Mr. Mayor, have been pleased
to address to me.
sentiments which you,
was
already, even before my
arrival, bound by listing n ties of gratitude to the town
of Southampton, for its numerous tokens of high-
minded sympathy to my
dear native land, and its pro-
tection to her exiles, and though prepared for the
honour of this reception, you will excuse the few
words I may say, inspired by your presence, and
The honour to be
without preparation.—(Cheers'), of England—by this noble
welcomed by the people
highest gratification to me,
town—is matter of the
because it is a corPerat"
• n—one of the municipali-
ties of England—that I have
had the honour to meet,
and ,which has received me in such a generous
manner. Not this day only,
but from my
early youth, this glorious country has had a
mighty share in my destinies. I was wont
in early youth to look to England as the book
of life which was to teach me—l may say to teach
Europe—how to live. Through three centuries the

House of _ Austria has exhausted against Hungary
every effort, both of open violence and of secret in-
trigue; and it was only our municipal institutions
which etill, under the most difficult circumstances,
conserved to Hungary something of the spirit of pub-
lic life—some part of constitutional liberty. There
was a time when a fatal sickness, a desire to centralize
every power in the Government, end to tutor the
Government—when that fatal sickness of political
feeling spread over the Continent, and made its way
to my own country, so that it became almost the
fashion, almost a mark of intelligence, to be in favour
of centralization. I was almost alone in struggling
against this storm, the rushing waves of this sentiment
in Europe, because I regarded, and over shall regard,
municipal life as such a benefit, that without it there
can be no practical freedom whatever ; and for the
loss of which I take Ministerial responsibilities and
Parliamentary privileges to be but poor equivalents.—
(Cheers.) Under this sickening influence of cen-
tralization, the fairest fruits of a nation's conquest—
glory outside and freedom within—wither in its
fingers. When I first read the French Constitution, I
foretold that the great and glorious French nation
would yet have to undergo many storms, because they
had not abandoned the fatal principle of centraliza-
tion; for it is only in the municipal institutions of
a country where freedom dwells. Such, gentlemen,
are my convictions. I hope that England will ever
remain great, glorious, and free. I regard history,
and I see the English race almost the one single race
that is free in both hemispheres of the world, and
when I look for the key of that freedom, I readily
confess that it is to be found in the municipal institu-
tions which have not been absorbed by the propensity
to centralisation, and which have been conserved un-
der different forms of government—here monarchical,
in America republican. For, gentlemen, it is not the
institutions, but the spirit of the people embodied in
these institutions—(Hear, hear)—which make the
two offshoots of that mighty race great, glorious, and
free. It is, therefore, with the highest gratification
that I receive this address at your hands, Mr. Mayor,
and from this corporation. As to my humble self,
conscious of no merit, and never aspiring to any
reputation but that of a plain, honest man—(Cheers)
—faithful to the duties of a true friend of freedom
and of a patriot, I could not forbear feeling per-
plexed to see myself the object of such undeserved
honour, were it not that I am aware your gene-
rous manifestation is intended as an open counte-
nance to the principles of freedom, of justice, and of
popular rights, which my nation so valiantly strug-
gled for, and which you so happily enjoy.—(Loud
cheers.) It is a glorious position which the English
race holds in the world—almost the only free nation,
doubtless the only one whose freedom has to fear
neither the change of time nor the ambition of man,
provided it keep to its institutions, provided the public
spirit of the people continue to safeguard it by adapt-
ing those institutions to the exigencies of the times,
and by a manly resolution never to fail in meeting
those exigencies. This determination, these resolu-
tions, being the chief guarantee of your greatness and
happiness, I take to be the most consolatory hope
to oppressed humanity, because I have a firm con-
viction that the freedom and greatness of England are
intimately connected with the liberties of the earth.
It is net without reason that my dear native country
and all the oppressed nations of the earth look to you
as their elder brother, to whom the Almighty has
not in vain imparted a spirit to meet the tide
of human destinies. There is one promi-
nent feature—there is nothing more impor-
tant in all our struggles—that this sentiment is
spreading over the world ; for it is not the least of
the glories you call your own that the people of Eng-
land appear to take the lead in the new direction of
the public opinion of the world, out of which the
highest blessings must ensue. The generous sym-
pathy of the people of England with my bleeding,
struggling, down-trodden, but still not broken native
land, is one, but not the only one, of the manifesta-
tions by which England shows hat she is ready to
accept the glorious call of elder brotherhood. The
people of England, though it has not to fear any
direct attacks upon its liberty, knows that its welfare
and its prosperity, founded as they are on the con-
tinued development of its genius and industry, are yet
not entirely independent of the condition of other
nations. The people of England knows that neither
in a social nor political sense can it be indifferent
whether Europe is free, or whether it groans under
the despotism of Russia and its satellites. The people
of England is conscious of its glorious position, and it
knows that—will it conserve that position—it must
not grant to Austrian despots to dispose of the whole
of Europe, but that it must throw its own weight
into the balance of the fate of Europe, or England
will be no European power more. It is this
knowledge which is the source of hope and
consolation to my oppressed nation, as well
as to her fellow nations in the world, be-
cause the principles of your freedom, greatness,
and happiness are bound up in this ; and in the
generous sentiments of the people of England we are
positively assured that if the people of England throw
its weight into the balance of the fate of Europe, the
people of England will never side with injustice, but
with right—it will never side with oppression, but
with freedom—it will never side with a few great
families, but with the moral dignity of the people.—
(Cheers.) Such were my prepossessions before my
reception, and this address assures me of it, because
you; ay that for the nation for which we so valiantly
struggled there is yet a future. To see you, the
people of England, entertain this hope and belief, is
almost like a victory; because its manifestation can-
not fail powerfully to influence in the strongest manner
the hopes of my country, and to double my own per-
severance and zeal in her cause—(Cheers)—in order
to have this realiied which the people of England
foretell, with a self-confident power to make it good.
I hope the Almighty may grant me, before I leave
this country, and cross the ocean to go to that young
giant—the younger brother of this mighty race—
(Cheers)—to thank him for the generous protection
which he has bestowed, and to entreat his fatherly hand
for the future of Europe—l hope before I leave this
country to see in full activity, and spread over the
whole of these glorious isles, some of those mighty asso-
ciations by which you carry triumphantly every re-
form, every great principle in this country. I hope
some of these associations will lend their attention to
the solidarity of the independence of Hungary, with
the freedom, the peace, and the independence of
Europe and of these glorious isles—that they will
take arms and give a practical direction to the gene-
rous sympathy of the people of England for my poor
down-trodden and unhappy land, and reduce under a
ruling principle the sentiments of public spirit in the
people, which shows that they are ready to accept the
solidarity of their own freedom with the destinies of
man, and especially with the destinies of Europe. I
thank you for the generous wishes which you have
bestowed upon me personally. To me life has no va-
lue, but only as much as I can make use of it for the
liberty and independence of my country, and for the
benefit of humanity—(Cheers)—and though I decline
all praises bestowed upon my personal character, as I
am conscious of nothing I have done but what I con-
sider my simple duty to be, and I am only sorry
that my modest faculties do not equal my warm de-
votion to my native land; yet I take your sentiments
as encouraging me to go on in the way which I
have ever aimed at through life, and which I hope,
by the blessing of the Almighty, and the help of you,
the people of England, and of all generous beans in
the world, to carry out to a happy issue. Let me end
by pronouncing my most sincere wishes for the hap-
piness of these great, free, and glorious isles. Let me
repeat, that I take it to be a most glorious sight to see
your gracious Queen representing upon the throne
the principles of liberty ; and let me hope that the
acknowledgment will not only have a future in Eu-
rope, but that the time draws near when you will
have to applaud the success of those endeavours fur
which you now manifest such generous sympathy,
even in their adversity and misfortune. It is a much
greater right to acknowledge a principle in adversity
than to hail it in success. I hope, gentlemen, you will
excuse me. My life has been spent in hard work for
my country. I have not had time to cultivate the
civilization of Western Europe, but my heart is de-
voted to England, and you will meet never a man
who bag a greater sympathy for you and for your
glorious country.

We may state here that Kossuth speaks English
with considerable accuracy, and with more command
over its idiom than most foreigners possess. His flu-
ency is also respectable, though checked by the evi-
dent mental process which was going on all through
his speech, of thinking in one language and translat-
ing it into the words of another.

At the conclusion of the address the meeting rose
and cheered Kossuth repeatedly, and when the
noise had subsided a voice exclaimed, "Three groans
for the Austrian tyrant 1" which was responded to by
three loud groans forthwith.

The MAYOR then presented a large silk banner,
being the national flag adopted by the Hungarian
Republic, to Kossuth, at the same time stating
that it had been wrought by the Hungarians in New
York, and transmitted to England for conveyance to
Hungary, but before that could be done the Austrians
were in the ascendant, and the banner itself was de-
tained in the Custom-house for non-payment of duty.
Since then it bad been purchased by the corporation
of Southampton, who had deputed him to present it
to the Hungarian leader.
and s
KOSSUTH h
e took the flag, pressed it to his bosom,
aid, witnergyble trust intrusted to the peo
of Hungary, and I swear to
you, whatever be our
r fate, cowardice and ambition shall never tarnish this
flag."

Great cheering and applause, after ,A hich Kos-
Comul. suth handed the flag to Mr. Croskey, the American
The MAYOR then introduced Mr. Folneyt
of the
Hampshire independent, who read and presented the

FRIDAY EVENING,
_OCTDBER, 24, 1851.

following addre; Signed by about 1,100 of the in-
habitants :
" ADDRESS TO LOUIS KOSSUTH, LATE GOVERNOR OF
HUNGARY.
"Honoured Sir,—We, the undersigned inhabitants cf
the town and county of the town of Southampton, cor-
dially bid ycu welcome to the shores of Britain, where
your name id well known and dear to thousands, as
being identified with the same principles on which the
liberties, social order and prosperity of this country arc
founded.
"Be assured that the feelings with which we hail your
arrival amongst us are designed to express something
more than the ordinary formalities of civility.
"We have been deeply interested in all the patriotic
enterprises which your love of freedom and truth so
eminently contributed to originate for the purpose of
maintaining the ancient independence and free constitu-
tion of your native land,' and which your wisdom and
disinterested energies, for so long a time, served to
pronaote; and in your endeavours to obtain
for them a
successful issue you have shared our sincerest sympa-
thies, and have been the object of our most constant and
heartfelt solicitude.
"We forbear alluding to the various causes which have,
hitherto, interfered with your zeal and self-devotion;
but we cherish the firm persuasion that the victory you
have sought is only postponed; and that there is an era
to arrive in the history of Europe, when the principles
for which you have contended will be recognised and
established, on a firm and enduring basis, in that great
and glorious nation of which you are the ornament and
the boast.
" We thank the Almighty Disposer of human events
for preserving you amidst innumerable perils, and we
pray that wherever you sojourn you may enjoy that best
of earthly portions which is set before the great and
good of our race—the honest admiration of enlightened
minds, and the sincere affection of upright hearts; and
that hilst an unanswerable refutation of the calumny of
your enemies shall be furnished in the characteristic
nobleness of your own soul, the most earnest and cordial
wishes of all friends of freedom may be realised by the
extended prolongation of your life among them, in the
full enjoyment of health, peace, and every other source
of human happiness."
Kossirrni replied—l feel deeply moved by the
noble expression of these generous sentiments, worthy
of the men who have raised—by the greatest gift of
God, industry—this country to be the wonder of the
world. Happy are the people where the public au-
thorities at the head of the people share in the ge-
nerous sentiments of the people—happy is the country
where the sentiments of the people are elevated to the
pitch of a principle. I shall conserve these addresses
as the high treasures of my life, out of which myself,
my children, and my countrymen may draw con-
tinual impulses to be faithful to the principles which
the people of Southampton have expressed.—(Cheers.)
Some one here cried out " Three groans for the
Times." Three groans were given accordingly, on
which
The MAYOR exclaimed--Stop, gentlemen ; you are
all Englishnnen.—(A cry, "The Times is not English.")
You must all feel that if the public press takes up a
question, whether it takes one side or the other you
are all benefited by it. I will tell you what to do—it
must be much better to give three cheers for the
Queen, three cheers for Louis Kossuth, and success
to Hungarian independence, and another good one
for Madame Kossuth and her family. It is needless
to say that each of these calls was heartily responded
to as they were announced, and the cheering was
wound up by some one calling for three cheers for
the Mayor.

Mr. CHARLES GILPIN, who had just arrived from
London, and who stated that Lord Dudley Stuart
had intended to come with him but was too late for
the train, then addressed the meeting, and said that,
to his mind, the greatest glory of Kossuth was that
he had emancipated the serfs in Hungary.
Mr. GEORGE DAWSON, of Birmingham, invit©d
Kossuth to that town, and promised him a hearty re-
ception from the most democratic town in England.
Mr. FOLNEY again came forward, and invited M.
Kossuth to a banquet to be given by the working
men of Southampton, at which the price would bc so
moderate as to admit all classes--[lt may be men-
tioned here that the somewhat aristocratic dinner an-
nounced by the corporation has given offence to the
extreme party in Southampton]—and promised if he
would consent any day would be fixed that would suit
his convenience.

Kossuth' and the Mayor here consulted for a
few minutes ; after which the MAYOR stated that
nothing would give Kossuth greater pleasure than
to meet the working men of Southampton ; but as
his stay was to be so short in the country, and his en-
gagements so numerous, he was unable to commit
himself to any positive promise.
A vote of thanks was then carried by acclamation
to the Mayor, after which the meeting broke up, and
the public proceedings of the reception terminated.
It is understood that Kossuth proceeds to-
night to the private residence of the Mayor, at Win-
chester, and that he will stay therefor a dar or two, to
recover from the fatigues of the voyage. The public
briquet is fixed for Tuesday evening.