The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

FLOGGING OF A LADY.

Vienna, Oct. 5.
Tite Wanderer vouches for the authenticity of the fol-
lowing letter :
"Ruskberg, Sep. 18.
" I will narrate to you the fate of my family with calmness
and composure, for my heart is become stone. In our
neighbourhood an army of Hungarians surrendered, 10,000
men with 40 cannon. Two days later the Austrian troops
entered our town. They consisted of a detachment of Lich-
tenstein light horse, commanded by Captain —, a native of
Ruskberk. It is possible that the great domestic happiness
which I enjoyed may have stirred envy and gained me enemies
in Ruskberg. but of no other crime am I guilty. Two families,
low and coarsely bred, and —, set this captain on this
horrible crime. I was torn from the arms of my husband,
from the circle of my children, from the hallowed sanctuary of
my home, charged with no offence, allowed no hearing, ar-
raigned before no judge. I, a woman, wife, and mother, was,
in my own native town, before the people accustomed to treat
me with respect, dragged into a square of soldiers, and there
scourged with rods. Look, I can write this without dropping
dead. But my husband killed himself. Robbed of all other
weapons he shot himself with a pocket pistol. A cry of horror
filled the air. I was dragged further to Karansebes.
"The people rose, and would have killed those who insti-
gated these horrors ' • but their lives were saved by the inter-
ference of the military. My eldest son was taken prisoner
with the army of Georgey, and sent as a common soldier into
Italy ' • and so is the measure of my
.grief full. Can you pic-
ture to yourself the state of my mind? You knew not my
husband. I tell you that no nobler, more elevated, more
adorable character does or ever will exist. The productions of
his intellect are known. He was the inventor of iron bridges.
In him the world has sustained a great loss. My misfOrtune
is boundless, and unexampled are the tortures which I have
endured. My grief will be eternal. You will perceive that I
can dwell on nothing but my sorrow. One only wish still
animates me—to liberate my son. They have transported him
to Gratz. If you have friends there, think of my poor boy of
eighteen. F. VON MADERSBACH."
Madame de Madersbach is the relict of .a member of
the firm of Hofman and Madersbach, the proprietors of
some large ironworks.

KOSSUTH'S LETTER TO LORD PALMERSTON,

The ex-chief of the Hungarian republic has addressed a
long end eloquent letter to Lord Palmerston, dated Wid-
din, Turkey, Sept. 2. Kossuth refers in moving terms to
the fail of his country. After describing the hospitable
way in which himself and fellow refugees were treated by
the Turks, he gives a narrative of the extraordinary at-
tempt made to coerce the exiles into abjuration of the
Christian faith :
" A fresh letter from his Majesty the Czar arrived in
Constantinople, and its consequence was the suggestion
sent to us by an express messenger of the Turkish go-
vernment, that the Poles and Hungarians, and in parti-
cular myself, Count Casimir Bathiany, minister of foreign
affairs of Hungary under my government, and the Gene-
rals Messaros and Perczel, (all here,) would be surren-
dered unless we chose to abjure the faith of our forefathers
in the religion of Christ, and become Mussulmans. And
thus five thousand Christians are placed in the terrible
alternative either of facing the scaffold, or of nurehasing
their lives by abandoning their faith. So low is already
fallen the once mighty Turkey, that she can devise no
other means to answer or evade the demands of Russia.
" Words fail me to qualify these astonishing su-c7e&tions,
such as never have been made yet to the.fallen c-'l,i.-ff of a
generous nation, and could hardly have been expected in
the I9th century.
" My answer does not admit of hesitation. Bo.tween
death and shame the choice can be neither dubious nor
difficult. Governor of Hungary, and elected to that high

place by the confidence of fifteen millions of my country-
mep, 1 know well what I owe to the honour of my country
even in exile. Even as a private individual 1 have an
honourable path to pursue. Once governor of a generdus
country—l leave no heritage to my children—they shall,
at least, bear an unsullied name. God's will be done.
I am prepared to die, but as 1 think this measure dis-
honourable and injurious to Turkey, whose interests I
sincerely have at heart, and as 1 feel it a duty to save my
companions in exile, if I can, from a degrading alternative,
I have replied to the Grand Vizier in a conciliatory man-
ner, and took also the liberty to apply to Sir Stratford
Canning.and General Aupick for their generous aid against
this tyrannic act. * * * * *
" I am informed that the whole matter is a cabal
against the Ministry of Redschin Pasha, whose enemies
would wish to force him to our extradition, in order to
lower it in public estimation, and render impossible its
continuance in office. It is certain that in the Grand
Council held on the 9th and 10th of September, after a
tumultuous debate, the majority of the council declared
in favour of our extradition, the majority of the ministry
against it. No decision was come to, in consequence of
the altercation which took place—but, notwithstanding,
the Ministry thought fit to make us the revolting sugges-
tion I have named."

These are noble expressions of personal resolve, while
the narrative is thrilling to the last degree. We trust
that immediate means will be taken to end a state of
things disgraceful to the age, and which ought to arouse
and shocklthe Christian powers of Europe.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.