The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

The Kolner Zeitung publishes the following let-
ter from General KLarics to Baron HavNAu, the
Civil and Military Governor of the kingdom of
Hungary : . .

" Your Excellency,—The complaints, which:are daily
Lecoming more loud, of a breach of the capitulation of
Kornorn, compel me to address this letter to your Excel-
lency—you, as the alter ego of the Emperor, your master,
have guaranteed by your word and handwriting the in-
violability of that capitulation.
" You, and all other Austrian generals wbo besieged
Komorn, know exactly what was the principal motive
which induced the victorious garrison of the fortress to
capitulate. The Austrian negotiators were indefatigable
in their assurances that the Emperor waited but for the
surrender of the fortress to follow the innate instincts of
his heart, to show mercy and clemency to our country-
men and to those among our companions in arms, who,
relying on the generosity of the conqueror, had made an
unconditional surrender.

"In corroboration of these assertions, it was alleged
that the Emperor had sent the Count drunne, his own
Adjutant-General, to Arad, to stop the execution of the
sentences of death which had been pronounced by the
courts martial sitting in that fortress ; and the garrison
of Komorn was induced to believe that their capitulation
would release their friends, put a term to the stat 4 of
martial-law, and open the gates if the prisons. None of
them had any idea that the only reason your Excellency
had for urging the capitulation was, the desire to execute
the bloody sentences against the doomed patriots un-
punished and unavenged.
" I will not enlarge on these events. Public opinion
speaks with a loud voice, and history will decide whether
your Excellency has deserved well of the Emperor and
the Austrian monarchy by the executions of Arad and
Pesch.

" But I must raise my voice for those who have
trusted your word of honour and your signature, and
who have been deceived. The original document of the
capitulation of Komorn is in my hands. It is my duty
to inform you of every breach of that capitulation, aid
to insist on a strict observance of those conditions, which
have been most disgracefully violated in the following
cases:

" Those among the garrison of Komorn who, after the
unconditional amnesty granted to them, still insisted on
leaving their country, hitve not received regular pass-
ports, which were due to them, but warrants of exile
(Zwangspiisse), which compelled them to emigrate to
America, and which, although they had the visa of the
Prussian Enbassy, contained an express clause to the
effect that they would never be permitted to return.
They received these passports eight days after the sur-
render of the fortress, that is to say, at a time when no
reclamation' could possibly be made, while those who
left the fortress previous to its formal surrender had no
difficulty in obtaining passports from the Count Nobili,
without any conditions or restrictions whatever.
" Messrs. Csapo, Barosh, Rutkay, and others were
arrested after the capitulation, and Messrs. Bauza and
Hamooshy, who had obtained passports over the fron-
tier, are menticned in a proclamation of the Perth
Gazette of the 3d of January, as being guilty of the
crime of high treason, and, under the allegation that
they are running about and hiding themselves, they are
summoned to appear before the court-martial within
ninety days from the date of the proclamation. Accord-
ing to the terms of the capitulation, all these gentlemen
ought to have bad a most unlimited amnesty.
" But still more general is the complaint, in which all
reports and newspaper paragraphs agree, that, in spite
of the provisions of Article 1 of th capitulation, ac-
cording to which every man of the garrison should be
unconditionally allowed to proceed to, and to remain in
his native place, the Honveds and Hussars have been
summoned to come forward fur the purpose of being en-
listed in the Austrian regiments.
"Your Excellency cannot but remember that this
point presented the chief difficulty in the capitulation.
The unconditional dismissal of the Honveds was taken
for granted by the term of ' free withdrawal' (freier
abzug) ; but your Excellency insisted on enlisting the
regiment of former soldiers of the line and of Hussar?.
We refused to concede this point, and at length you
gave it up. lam aware that it has been attempted ti
interpet the words free withdrawal' into the meaning
of temporary furlough ; but that nothing of the kind
was either thought of or understood is proved by the
fact, that by your direction the Generals Prince Collo-
redo, Burich. Basco, and others, appealed to the regi-
ment of late Wurtemberg Hussars, asking them, amidst
the most enticing promises, to return to the Imperial
army. Not one of the men came forward to respond to
the summons, t) the signal indignation of the said
Generals.

"The distinct terms of the capitulation, and the text
of the safe conducts, promising 'safety of persons and
properties,' admit not even of the possibility of a misin-
terpretation. Any pottifogging twisting and turning of
the meaning of these words would be incompatible with
the straightforwardness of military treaties; and to
punish by a forcible enlistment of the very men to whom
a promise of safety of their persons and properties was
given is dishonest and consequently disgraceful.
" I cannot believe that such glaring violations of solemn
and authorised engagements can have been perpetrated
with your knowledge, and much less by your command.
I cannot believe that a soldier, no matter what his poli-
tical opinions may be, could stocp to stigmatise his pro-
le mion and name by a deliberate breach of a solemn
treaty. I cannct but believe that this high treason
against military honour is the act of unconscientious
toadies, whose minds are proof against the endless moral
consequences of their crime.
" I appeal to your Excellency, and, taking my stand
on your word and signature, I direct you to provide
for the inviolate maintenance of the capitulation of the
fortress of Comorn. I appeal to you, and direct you to
take measures to undo what your underlings have done,
to make up for the violation of that capitulation, and to
provide for the due delivery of those among the gar-
rison who wish to leave Austria fur another country.
" But, if you take no notice of my just demands, you
will compel mo to resort to those moral weapons which
alone are, at preent, within my reach, and to protect at
least the honour of those among my officers who were
attics to, and who signed the capitulation of Comorn.
"I am your Excellency's obedient servant,
" General GEORGE KLAPKA.
"20, Oxfird-terrace, London, Feb. 6."