The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-17 00:00:00

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LONDON MONDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1851

A variety of rather curious discussions have been
recenly provoked by the popular movement in favour
of the greatest among all the exiled Hungarians. I❑
these discussions many really dissimilar persons have
participated, and an extraordinary diversity of man-
ner has therefore been the consequence. We have
had branching out of these personalities about Kos-
semi little romantic episodes of vituperations about
such most exemplary characters as the late unfor-
tunate woman calling herself the Baroness VON
BECK, but otherwise known as RACIDULA'
Then there have been violent attacks directed against
the object of these enthusiastic demonstrations, be-
cause of his having done this, that, and the other
during the memorable period of his Dictatorship. It
is somewhat amusing, by the way, to observe the
contradictory reasons adduced by these assailants of
KOSSUTH for the virulent style of their reprehensions.
Now, his Excellency has been accused of cruelty when
the fact is notorious that the principal fault discernible
in his temperament, a fault rather serious, it
must be admitted, on the part of an adminis-
trator during the time of a revolution, was
that of a humane unwillingness to shed one
drop of blood in executions; or, in other words,
to affix his signature to the death-warrants submitted
to him in his official character as Dictator. Now,
again, he has been derided for his weakness as a
statesman—he who had filled the empty coffers of the
Hungarian Government with eighty millions of
florins, and that without the slightest extortion,
and who had organized five armies simultaneously,
and that without the aid of any authoritative or con-
scription. Without reverting, however, to the loath-
some calumnies indulged i❑ against Kossnrie by his
many political assailants
,in this country; without
reviving for refutation the slanders levelled at himself
personally—it may be neither uninteresting nor un-
profitable to refer to the charge hurled at his repu-
tation for an inconsistency shown in commanding, so
say his traducers, a body of 40.000 men to
march into Lombardy as auxiliaries to the
troops already under Marshal RADETZKY, opposed to
the Italian patriots fighting under the banners of the
King of SARDINIA. 'We are more especially induced
to allude to this accusation in particular, seeing that it
has been brought forward, among others, by the
Hon. Gentleman the Memher for Youghal. Since
his bitter comments upon KOSSUTH for having acted
thus treacherously towards the people of the
Roman peninsula, Mr. CEIISHOLM AN;TEY has
been indirectly, but very decisively, answered
by Mr. DAVID URQUHART, his quondam ally in
many a Quixotic onslaught upon the foreign policy
of Viscount PALMERSTON. Writing to a morning
contemporary, in regard to this story of the 40,000
sent into Italy by KOSSUTH, the Hon. Gentleman,
the Representative of Stafford, says—"ln autumn
last, being in the East, I was led by curiosity to
visit M. KOSSUTH in his confinement in Kutayah. I
had taken no interest in the Hungarian insurrection,
and knew nothing of its details. I was (long before
it rose) certain that it: would rise, as I was certai❑
while it still stood that it would fall. I mention this
to show that I hid no bias between parties, whom
I considered as equally dupes and victims ;
but, as my interest was in the man, I was
anxious to learn what his conduct had been; and the
barrack containing his principal foes, and their viru-
lence being extreme, my v,i,h was soon gratified,
Amongst other matters, the affair of the 40,000 111:11
was brought forward, but not as the other charges,
freely and openly. An attempt was made through
the Italian improvisa,ore REZALDI, to convey it to
me confidentially, which having declined, and believ-
ing it to be so gr we as to affect the personal honour
of M. Kossune, I immediately went ter him and called
for an explanation. That which he gave appeared to
me satisfactory. I then saw General DEMBENSKI,
who had accused him, and re-stated M. Kossura's
explanation, and General DEMBENSKI remained with-
out anything further to allege. This I assert on my
honour. I then saw Count CAsimia BATTIITANY,
and requested his statement of the case, which, with,
I think, one trifling exception, coluci•led with that of
M. KOSSUTH. Ceunz. BA.TTEITANY treated the ch irge
es preposterous." After this very explicit contra
diction, what, we should like to know, can possibly
be, said in support any longer of Mr. CHISHOLM
ANSTCY'S very presumptuous and precipitate state-
ment ?

It raay be objected against the refutation of this
charge by Mr. URQUHART that it is by no means suf-
ficiently detailed as an explication. Here, however,
he himself comes to our assistance by producing a
note of the whole circumstance, dated October, 1850,
at Kutayah, and clearly defining the facts of the case
in question, without any sophistry and without the
slightest suppression. We regard this document as
altogether too remarkable of its kind to be passed
over by a merely cursory reference. We
have much satisfaction, therefore, in giving it
entire, as subjoined :—" The Austrian Govern-
ment," it states, " called upon the Ministry to
propose to the Diet a contingent of 40,000 men for
Lombardy. Had the Diet assented Hungary was
brought into complete subjection. If it opposed she
was thrown unprepared into open, and (as judged at
Vienna, and everywhere else) hopeless revolt. The
dilemma was not less for the Ministry. By the prag-
matic sanction Hungary was bound to support
Austria in case of her supremacy being assailed in
any of the states then subject to her. The demand
being legal the Ministry could not refuse to submit
it, and retain office. If the Diet refused it, then con-
stitutionally they must resign. How could the Diet,
threatened by the Croats, and at war with the Serbs,
who both boasted of being supported by the Court,
give a contingent for any purpose, far less to be used
against Lombardy, the only possible diversion in
their favour ? No other Ministry was possible. The
cons,-quence was dissension in the Cabinet as to
whether this should be a Ministerial question. Louis
BATTHYANY, believing that Austria wished only
to test their sincerity, was ardent to seize the
occasion of disarming her suspicions ; end
Kos'uru, unable to change his belief, yielded
to his direction, and consented to present the measure
to the Diet. During his speech his real sentiments
broke out; and so, the priliminary dilemma being
broken through, he recovered his freedom of action,
and was enabled to shape the proposition so as to ex-
tricate alike the Diet and the Ministry, and to turn
the danger which threatened their entire existence
into a triumph. The contingent was voted. It was
not, however, to leave Hungary so long as peace was
not restored to Hungary ; nor was it to be employed
against Lombardy until a reconciliation had been at-
tempted and a constitution offered." Such is the na-
ture of the proof now happily brought to light by
Mr. URQUHART of the fallacy of the statements put
forward by the enemies of with a view in
this matter to blacken his noble aid splendid repu-
tation.

L-t us bear no wore after this about the treachery
and inconsistency of sending 40,000 Hungarians to
aid the Austrian forces when fighting against CseaLus
ALBERT in Lombardy.

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