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

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exer-
cises in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out
shooting this morning, accompanied by the Duke de
Nemours, and attended by Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps
and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The royal dinner party this evening included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and
Duchess of Nemours, the Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness de Spetb, and Colonel Hon. Charles and
Mrs. Grey.

CALUMNIES AGAINST KOSSUTH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Sir,—Since the publication of a series of calumnies
in the Times, to which that journal refused to insert
my refutation, there have appeared in it other specific
charges against Kossuth, Szemere, and Perczel.
Kossuth is accused, as trustee, of having fraudu-
lently sold the property of orphans, and of only having
been saved from criminal prosecution by an arrange-
ment with the prosecutor. It is further alleged that
so little confidence was placed in him that an inquiry
was made of Roth (the prosecutor) as to whether the
signature to his receipt was genuine. The number
of the very act of the tribunal is cited, and it is
sought to impress the reader with the belief that M.
Kossuth was stigmatized by a judicial sentence.
You very properly observe that such specific
charges seldom immediately admit of possible die-
, proof, though as in this instance the known life and
character of those against whom the accusations are
directed, stamp them as unworthy of belief.
It would, of course, he impossible for you or my-
self immediately to show that Kossuth was not th e
murderer of Eliza Grimwood, and if this system of
reckless calumny be persevered in, it will, unfor-
tunately, become a duty to prevent the perpetration
of a public wrong, through personal attack, by personal
exposure of the incriminators. The facts are briefly
these.

About 1830 Kossuth rendered himself obnoxious to
the Austrian Government by being chiefly instru-
mental in the congregation (a meeting of electors)
of the county of Zemplin, in causing a vote of censure
to be passed upon their representative, Baron Vay,
who had voted in the Diet to allow the Austrian
Cabinet a supplementary 20,000 men.
At that period, as long afterwards, it is well known
that Austria sought to crush all resistance by fair
means and foul, and no stone was left unturned to be
revenged on Kossuth in the next meeting of the
congregation.
It was at length raked up that he had sold some
produce of the property of his orphan wards in an
informal manner. That is to say at the wrong time
and without the participation of the necessary co-
trustees. The duties of trusteeship, it is to be ob-
served, are in Hungary most complicated. Tt e
congregation, i❑ consequence, annulled the sale—a
proceeding which for party purposes conveyed a
rebuke to Kossuth as a lawyer, but intended no
reflection on his integrity or good faith. The pur-
chaser applied to Kossuth for the amount of the
purchase money, which was returned.
It is to be observed that if any attempt to defraud
his charges had been made or suspected, the Sedes
judicialia, whose especial duty is the protection of
orphan wards, would and must have taken cognisance
of the act; whereas, the charge of irregularity was
never entertained by any judicial tribunal, the congre-
gation being merely deliberative and administrative,
not judicial in its functions.
Of the bearings of the case the countrymen of
Kossuth must have been the best judges. It was
subsequent to this, as you have justly remarked, that
in proof of their confidence men of the highest
character, rank, and standing in the country, proposed
to endow him with estates ; but your readers may
not be aware that amongst these was the unfortunate
Count Zichy, whose patriotism Austria had not yet
corrupted; it is probably not known that the charge
made by the Times correspondent was brought for-
ward in 1843 by one of the vilest of the Austrian
organs, the Vilag, and that Count Szeehenyi, who
was then a political opponent of Kossuth, in his
paper, the lelenkor, rebutted as an infamous calumny
the accusation ; and it may not be remembered that
Kossuth was named Minister of Finance by the Em-
peror Ferdinand, and as such brought into contact
with the Imperial family.
The calumny against Szemere is the rechauj'e of
an electioneering squib when he set up for the county
of Biorsed, in 1843, and is founded on the following
incident :—M. Szemere was dancing with Miss Vere-
smarty, at Miscolz, when one of her diamond ear-
rings fell upon the ground. Szemere picked it up,
and observing, "You have lost it, I have found it, it
is a fair prize, I shall keep it as a souvenir," put it
into his pocket in jest, and only returned it the next
morning with a complimentary note or verses.
The charge against Perczel of having for a sum of
money legalised a forged bond is equally false. lam
informed by a Hungarian gentleman now in this
country, and acquainted with the transaction, that
Perczel, being a ♦ery young man, was imposed on as
to the identity of the party whose signature he au-
thenticated, but himself discovered and exposed the
imposture which had been practised, and resigned in
consequence of the mistake.
In fact, this wilful confusion of cause and effect is
made by the Times correspondents, that they contend
these personages to have become inimical to the
Government in consequence of such charges,
whereas it can be shown, beyond all doubt, that these
charges were urged because they were its known
opponents.

All who are acquainted with the parliamentary
history of Hungary, and the recent history of Aus-
tria, are aware that there are no forms of fraud,
perfidy, or perjury to which the Austrian Cabinet did
not resort—from the attacks on individual character
to the bravos which she hounded upon such a man as
Count Teleki, or to the Gallician massacres perpe-
trated at her proved instigation. -
But in the method its attacks upon the Hungarian
refugees, and in particular upon Kossuth, it may be
'aid to have exceeded even itself. It is not content
with the most slanderous imputations on his charac-
ter, but artfully endeavours, by appending his name
to a forged address, to discredit him in public esti-
mation as visionary and unpractical. To yourself I
need scarcely confirm your recorded opinion, that the
" farewell of Kossuth to the Ifungarians," published
on some Austrian authority by the Times, never
proceeded from his pen—a pen far more given to
figures than to figures of speech, and with whose
productions, once read, it would seem impossible in
good faith to have confounded the loose and melodra-
matic effusion so mischievously, or with so little
judgment attributed to him by the Times.
Happily for this country, Mr. Editor, many of your
readers will be slow in crediting the possibility of
such systematic persecution ; for their instruction, I
shall conclude by adverting to a circumstance which
gives reasen to believe that those who have been
atte

mpting Kossuth's moral assassination have endea-
voured actually to take his life. In the month of
October last I was present at the ex-president gover-
nor's table at tea. It is the custom of Eastern
Europe to flavour this beverage with a few spoonsfulls
of rum. On the occasion in question, it was found
that the spirit instantly curdled the milk, and turned
it a peculiar colour. The same spirit taken from
another bottle did not produce the same effect.
The suspicious liquid was removed, an accident
prevented it being analysed, and the circumstance
was nearly forgotten, when a Hungarian officer,
accompanied by two of his companions, came to
give information that a stranger bearing a Russian
passport had been making numerous inquiries
as to Kossuth's cook, the dishes that he ate,
and his medical adviser. The Hungarian suspecting
his drift, had led him on, till the stranger offered him
a present for his introduction to Kossuth's doctor. It
was agreed that the doctor should be personated by a
gentleman just arrived from Hungary, but as the
matter was talked of before several persons, it got
wind, and the individual in question, instead of coming
to the rendezvous, precipitately left Widdin.—l am,
Mr. Editor, ♦ery obediently yours,
Tau AUTHOR OF "RHYRLATIONS OF RUSSIA."

THE TINDAL STATUE.—It is at last finally ar-
ranged that the site of this monument to the memory of
Chief Justice Tindal shall be in front of the Shire Hall,
and a portion of ground outside of the stone pillars en-
circling that building has been set apart for the pur-
pose. The parties to whom the casting of the bronze
statue has been entrusted have been unable to
fulfil their engagement in consequence of the com-
pletion of the bas-reliefs for the Nelion monu-
ment; but the site having now been definitively fixed,
the statue will no doubt be erected as speedily as
possible.—Esscx Standard