The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

GENERAL KATETY AND SIR FENTVICE

WILLIAMS.

The following letter has been addressed by George
Kmety, late Hungarian General, to General Williams :
" Beikos, Aug. 1.
" Sir,—No one can better appreciate than myself the
services which you rendered at Erzerouin and Kars.
" As 1 ,ng as those services called forth the plaudits of
yaur country, v:itlicut allusion t,) the services which it
was in my power to render during the same campaigns,
I felt in no way disposed to break the reserve which is
ha►bituaal to me on such subjects. But now that I see by
the newspapers my name alluded to by you in public, I
feel it a duty to my military reputation to make fOlll/3
remarks. _ _

' On your arrival at Kars in the autumn of 1854 you
relieved me from the outpost duties which had been in•
trusted to me with the Irregular Corps during nine
immthP, without the intermission of a single day, and in
which my strength and constitution had neceEsarily suf-
fered eeverely. You placed me, at my request, in com-
mand of a division of the army, and you supported the
exercise of my authority in that position w►th all the
weight of an influence such as no other European officer
ever enjoyed in this country. At length, when the
word surrender' was uttered for the first time, you en-
abled me to leave the beleaguered garrison on grounds
personal to myself. For all this my acknowledgments
are due, and far be it from me to withhold them.

"Now, however, a new aspect is given to our
mutual relations by one of your published speeches,
if correctly reported. Atter mentioning Colonel
Lake, an engineer of great meri::, the lamented
Captain Thompson, whose premature demise is by
me as by all regretted, the young Major Teesdale,
whose valour and coolness give the best promise, Mr.
Churchill, a gentleman who doubtless rendered you im•
portant service in his functions of secretary, and, finally,
Dr. Sandwith, an able and indefatigable physician—
after bestowing on all these, I say, a well•deserved meed
of praise you introduce my name, as if half•forgetten,
and as if of one who had contributed but little to the
events of the campaigns. Under these circumstances I
can no longer keep silence without losing my self-respect,
and I find myself, though most unwillingly, constrained
to call upon you, with all due deference to complete the
statement of facts which have appeared, and more espe'
cially those concerning the battle of the 29th of Septem-
ber, 1855, in which the part taken by me will no doubt,
on reconsideration, appear to you, as it does to me,
imperfectly reported.
"If I have not taken this course sooner it is also
partly because on perusing your despatches in the blue-
book I regarded them as the reports of a British
commissioner concerning hit own services and those of
the British officers, with which it was no business of
mine to interfere. But it is only from another of your
public spc2ches, in which you talk of the Turkish trohps
being under your command,' that I learn that these
reports can be taken as those of the Commander-in-
Chief of the army of Kars. As such, I hold that an
officer serving in that army, although not having the
honour to be a British officer, has an incontrovertible
right to come forward and require that all chief questions
in them should be placed on a distinct and accurate
fooling.—l have the honour to remain, sir, your very
obedient servant,
"GEORGE KMETY,
"Late Hungarian General.
"To Major-General Sir William F. Willi"ame,
Bart., M.P., K.C.B„ &c , London.

The Scotsman reports that wheat reared by the Mar-
quis of Tweeddale on a farm at Danskine' 750 feet above
the level of the sea, has brought in the Haddington mar-
ket 24. a quarter more than any other wheat exhibited.
The stcAm-transport Pacific, Capt. W. C. Thompson)
having been re•engaged by the Admiralty, sailed from
Portsmouth on Tuesday evening, for Dublin, after baying
embarked the officers and 750 men of the 95th Regiment.
CHATHAM, Aug. 14.—CA H. Jervis, commandant of
the provisional battalion, received an order from the
War-office this morning directing him to hold in readi-
ness Capt. J. Bailie and Capt. J. H. Chadds sth (Nor-
thumberland) Fusiliers, who are to proceed forthwith to
join the head-quarters of their regiment stationed in O.
island of Mauritius.

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