The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 185

KOSSUTH'S triumphant reception in England and the
United States, besides tending to console that illus-
trious man in his misfortunes, will inevitably prepare
the way, we conceive, for the ulterior liberation of the
European continent. Already the intelligence of the
welcome accorded by the people of England to the
leader of the Hungarians has carried dismay into the
councils of absolutism. A little while longer and it
will have awakened anew the hopes of the democracy
of Christendom, and have inspired in the bosoms of
the nations an irresistible yearning for their eman-
cipation. In this manner it will be seen that the
very crimes of the despots have brought about
in the end their own punishment. The avenging
cruelty of the CZAR and of the KAISER impelled them
to hunger for the life of Kossurn ; this lust of
hatred on their part superinduced the magnanimity of
the SULTAN ; the magnanimity of the SULTAN led to
the liberation of the exiles who had sought shelter in
his dominions, and their liberation has elicited from
England and from the United States of America the
expression of that sympathy which must ultimately
secure the blessings of freedom not alone to Hungary
or the surrounding provinces, but to the whole of the
great family of mankind, irrespectively of creed, or
cute, or country. Such is the wonderful sequence dis-
coverable in the carrying out of the almighty designs
of DIVINE PROVIDENCE—such is the mysterious re-
lationship traceable between the wickedness of the
world's rulers and its final and unavoidable expiation !
It is from our conviction of the reality of these,
among the various consequences of recent events,
that we are disposed to regard with such peculiar
exultation the spread of enthusiasm visible on all
hands in reference to the remarkable man now
amongst us, with whose person are inti-
mately associated our ideas of the liberty
of the whole European population. If any
personage who has of late years occupied
a position in the pages orcentemporary history has
more than another identified his name;with the cause
of the oppressed races of Europe, that personage is
unquestionably-the leader of the Hungarians. There-
fore,
and because of the nobility of his varioushievemen LOUIS
ac KOSSUTH has been welcomed
eolfcEomnegd. achievements,
with unprecedented fervour by the free on
Eng-
land, and his progress among the towns and villages
of our island has been marked by precisely the
same ardour of enthusiasm as that which was
predicated by SOUTHEY as certain to have greeted
our own best beloved hero had it pleased Gon
to have permitted him to survive his last great
victory at Trafalgar. For in his regard, says that
biographer, "the people of England grieved that
funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and post-
humous rewards were all they could bestow upon
him, whom the KING, the Legislature, and the nation
would have delighted to honour ; whom every tongue
would have blessed; whose presence in every village
through which be might have passed would have
awakened the church-bells, have given schoolboys a
holiday, have drawn children from their sports to gaze
upon him, and old men from the chimney-corner' to
look upon NELSON ere they died." It is thus
that England has been able to welcome K,:,ssITTLT—a
son not of her soil, but of her adoption—an exile, a
civilian, and a foreigner. Even to-day he is being
cheered by the manifest affection for him entertained
by the toiling people of our metropolis—a vast con-
course of working-men having assembled together
in Copenhagen-fields for the purpose of giving him a
public reception. I. is this universality of the kindly
sentiments cherished in regard to KOSSUTH which
reuders the grandeur of his position 48