Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-11-15
make us the revolving suggestion have

named.
The mode Of solving the difficulty
would not, l am convinced, save the
because a protection only
given, in contradiction Of the Snllan's
generous feeling, at the price of five
thousand Christians abandoning their
faith, would be revolving to the whole
Christian world, and grove hardly cal.
cula,ed 10 win sympathies for Turkey
in the event of q war with Russia, which
in the opinion Of the most experienced
Turkish statesmen, is approaching fast.
As my native country, Turkey,
believe, already feels the loss Of the neg
lected opportunity of having given to
Hungary al least some moral help to
enable it to check the advance Of the
common enemy. But i, appears to me
that it would he very il.advised mode
of gaining Hungarian sympathy by
sending me to an Austrian scaffold, and
forcing my unhappy companions to alb
jure their religion or accept the same
alternative.
No friends to the Turkish govern.
ment would spring up from my blood,
shed by her broken faith, but many
deadly foes. My lord, your hear. will.
| am sure, excuse my having called your
at,enlionto our unhappy fate, since i,
has now assumed political Importance
Abandoned in this unsocial land by the
whole world. even the first duties of
humanity gives us no promise of pro
lection, unless, my lord, you and your
generous nation come forward 10 pro.
tect US.
What steps it may be e1pedient that
you should take, what we have right
10 expect from the well known generosi
ty of England it would be hardly fatter-
ing for me TO enter on. ! place my
own and my companions fate in your
hands, my lord, and in the name Of hu-
mainly throw myself under the protec-
ton of England.
Time presses-our doom may in
few daysbe sealed. Allow nae to make
an humble personal request. l am q
man, my lord, prepared to face the
worst; and l can die with free look at
Heavei, as l have lived. But | am,
also, my lord. husband, son and father
my poor true.hearled wife, my children
and my noble old mother, are wander
ing about Hungary. They will prob
ably soon fall into the hands of those
Austrians who deligh, in torturing even
feeble women, and with whom The in
nocence Of childhood is no protection
against prosecutions. l conjure your
Excellency, in the name of the Mos,
High, TO put stop to these crueties by
your powerful mediation, and especially
to accord to my wife and children an
asylum on the soil of,he geRerous Eng
lish people.
As to my poor, my loved, and noble
country, must she TOO perish for everl
Shall she unaided, abandoned to beI
fate, and unavenged, be doomed TO an
Inhalation by her ,yrants' Will Eng
land, once her hope, not become heI
consolation.
The political interests Of civilize G
Europe SO many weigh,y consideration
respecting England herself, and chiefly
the maintenance of the Ottoman empire
are too intimately bound up with tn
existance of Hungary for me 10 lose al
hope. My lord, may God the Amighi.
for many years shield you, that you
may long prolec, the unfortunate. ant
live to be the guardian of the rights O
freedom and humanity. | subscrib
myself. with The most perfect respec
, and esteem.
k1iSHOoj " 49,
I INTERESTING FROM FLORIDA
We are happy to learn. by the an
nexed letters to the Savannah Repubi
can. (kindly forwarded to US by the Ed
r itors in advance Of their paper.) iha
!. the Chiefs of the Florida Indians hav
D spprehended and surrendered to Ger
r Twiggs, the three murderers, and ais
J have expressed a willingness TO remov
n from Florida altogether. This la,
d step will crown the prompt measures c
4 the Government with complete success
;. and relieve the people of Florida fo
n ever ola source Of dsqulet and annoy
y ance.--Nat. Int. Of the goth uli.
Al. N