The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

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oNDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, leso.

A triumphant refutation of the calumnies disse-
minated by the reactionist journals of England,
against the character of KOSSUTH, and his illustri-
ous companions, has just been issued by a friend of
the exiled Hungarians, and is this evening copied
into our own columns from those of a Contemporary.
To this authentic document we most earnestly and
especially direct the attention of all the lovers of the
principles of justice. They will there discover an
exposure of the enormous turpitude which, for the
gratification of party predilections, of factious
animosities, and of the secret yearnings for
political vengeance, prompts men to the pro-
mulgation of slanders more horrible than
were perhaps ever before directed against the private
character of any celebrated personage. Charges, it
is true, of a still darker description were at one
period preferred in this country against the mightiest
of all the enemies of Great Britain—vituperators were
found in London who were not ashamed to aver in
print that the crimes of incest and adultery were
branded upon the conscience of NAroLnorr; but it
should be remembered that those most execrable lies
were articulated at the time when the imperial con-
queror was presiding over the destinies of Europe in
the midst of a pomp and grandeur which Armor; and
the other historians of his reign declare to have
been unparalleled in any preceding epoch recorded
in the annals of the globe. With regard
to the unfcrtunate leaders of the Magyars, it must,
on the contrary, be borne in recollection that they
are aspersed in the period of their downfal and mis-
fortune. Situated in a remote corner of the European
continent, banished into the Turkish dominions, de-
prived by distance and other circumstances of the
opportunity of refuting the atrocious charges hurled
against them by their assailants, the refugees at
Widdin, and afterwards at Shumla, have been unge-
nerously detracted, their good names being jeopar-
dized in the opinion of tthe multitude by the most
horrible imputations.

KOSSUTH, in particular, has been aspersed at vari-
- out times as a liar, a coward, a forger, a
robber, a defrauder of orphans, a miserable debauchee,
and an unprincipled demagogue. Be was accused of
lying, whose whole life has been literally a martyr-
dom to consistency. He was charged with cowardice,
who had dared the united vengeance of the Austrian
EMPEROR and the Russian AUTOCRAT. He was said
' to be a forger, whose name had been the salvation of
• the land of his birth from bankruptcy. He was de-
; scribed as a robber, who had staked and lost the -whole
of his little fortune in his efforts to work out the
emancipation of Hungary. He was held up to the
loathing of the populace as the defrauder of orphans,
who had extended his majestic hands in protection over
the heads of the children both of the Magyars and the
Germans, saving the offspring alike of friend and foe
from injury in the midst of a struggle of
unequalled ferocity. He was branded as a libertine
and a voluptuary, whose career was notoriously one
of so much self-denial as to amount almost to
asceticism, and whose devotion in all his domestic
relations, as a son, as a father, and as a husband, had
tended almost as much as his genius to endear him
to the admiring hearts of his fellow-countrymen.
He was scouted as an arrant and unprincipled
demagogue, who was allied with the noblest and the
most chivalrous of the Hungarian aristocracy in
perilling name, fame, life, and property in the sub-
lime labours of patriotism. Such have been the
illustrious
hero calumnies raised against this
hero when he was far removed from the reach of his
slanderers, when he was bowed down by the weight
of his own misfortunes, and by the calamities which
had befallen his beloved country. Feeling that each
and all of these charges had failed in shaking the
confidence of the public in the integrity and mag-
nanimity of the Hungarian Dictator's character, one
of his anonymous enemies has dared to accuse him of
being guilty of an adulterous intimacy with a pure
and noble lady, the youthful bride of the young
Count DEMBINSKI. It is this dastardly accusation
which has been refuted, triumphantly refuted, in the
document already referred to, a document which wi,l
be found in another part of this evening's
impression. Our gratitude, the gratitude of
every one inspired with a homage for Truth,
is due to the writer of this rernArkable coinmunica-