The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 18i0.

Another communication, from the same correspon-
dent whose previous refutation of the calumnies
against KOSSUTH and the Hungarians was recently
transferred to our own columns from those of a Con-
temporary, will be found in another part of to-day's
impression. It demonstrates the falsity of the other
charges levelled against the Magyar Dictator, as
clearly and irrefragably as it exposed the inaccuracy
of the dastardly insinuations preferred against him in
reference to the young Countess DEMBINSKI. Beyond
this, moreover, it will be observed on an examination
of this most interesting supplementary document,
that the calumnies likewise disseminated in regard to
PERCZEL and Siemer's are there shown to be equally
without foundation. The larceny said to have been
committed by the latter turns out, on inquiry, to be a
perversion of the facts of a little incident occurring in
a ball.room, where a compliment is distorted into a
felony, and a flirtation about a jewel delineated as a
robbery of diamonds. Indeed the disproportion and
difference of the occurrences and the imputations is
such as to convince us that the slanderer, be•
sides being an arrant knave to boot, is quite
as much of an ass as Goodman DOGBEIRT. He
watches a little coquettry going forward in the
mazes of a waltz and is fain to cry aloud " Clear
burglary l" Again, in reference to the accusation made
against PERCZEL to the effect that he had forged for
the purpose of screening his enormous embezzlements
—it is sufficiently well shown that instead of being
the defrauder he himself was the dupe, that instead of
inflicting injury upon another be himself was, in fact,
the only sufferer.
What, however, is the explanation of the greatest
interest to all those who sympathise in any
manner with the cause of the :Hungarians
is the straightforward and conclusive refutation of the
charge which, of all others, has been the most fre-
quently entered againstKossuru, and which if allowed
to remain uncontradicted would be most damns-
tory to his character. It will not have been forgotten
that the imputation to which we are alluding was
that of having fraudulently appropriated to himself
certain moneys entrusted to his care as the trustee and
guardian of some orphan children. That he
had deprived those sacred charges of their
rights, that he bad, to this end, sold
certain portions of their property without
the participation of the co•trustees, a participation
absolutely and imperatively necessary to impart to
the transaction any degree of legality ; that for this
heinous offence against the laws of his country and
of universal morality he had been arraigned before a
competent tribunal, and there publicly reprimanded—
were the assertions made with unblushing effrontery
by his assailants, and reiterated with the most auda-
cious particularity. Now, according to the very
simple explanations of the '• Author of the
Revelations of Russia," an individual personally
cognizant of the whole transaction, it proves
that in consequence of some blunder in the sale of
such properties—a blunder arising altogether from
the intricacy of the Hungarian laws in regard to the
possession of orphan- wards—Kossirru, as one of the
trustees, was rebuked simply for the irregularity of
the proceedings, and that, too, not by a judicial tri-
bunal, but by a tribunal simply and entirely of a
deliberative and administrative character. This re-
buke, moreover, let it be especially remembered, was
" a rebuke to KOSSUTH as a lawyer, and intended no
reflection on his integrity or good faith." In testi-
mony of which it is only necessary to call to recollec-
tion the circumstance that subsequently to this
transact ion, KOSSUTH was formally nominated to the
high and responsible office of Minister of Finance
under the sign manual of FERDINAND the King and
Emperor. Such is the exposure consequent upon
the publication of these atrocious calumnies—an
exposure as crushing in its completeness as the
calumnies themselves were monstrous in their turpi-
tude. So, pray.we, may it ever be with those anony-
mous detractors who dare to violate the sanctity of
domestic life, and who, for the gratification
of a political grudge, are not ashamed to
scatter the mud of their vituperations abroad in all
directions, hurling it now at the remote victims of
misfortune, now at some young matron's spotless re-
putation. Out upon such FARINGBEAS of the Press,
the Thugs of political life, the Stranglers of Jour-
nalism. Theirs are the hands which tend to rob one
of the most important and civilizing institutions of
modern society of its more beneficent influence over