The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-29

Correspondence Of the ~ Y. Commercial advertiser.
LONDON. Oct 10 ISa9

"DETAILS OF' THE EuhOrAS NEWS.
Correspondence Of the ~ " Commercial advertiser
LONDON, Oct. H. lS49.
The news this week, although il embodies no
change in political events, comprises one of the
grandest circumstances ever presented in history,
and also one of the most humiliating. Kossuth and
the large majority of his brother refugees although
warned by the Turkish government that their
lives could only be saved by embracing Islamism,
have replied that ssbetween death and shame the
choice can be neither dubious nor difficult" This
is the grand page, although full of defeat and sad
The other which is the result of success and
'honor, and glory, Is, that the French are under
stood To be about TO leave the Romans under the
unlimited sway OF the cardinals and the Pope.
Russia and Turkey.
In my last letter mentioned that we could not
expect any further news of moment regarding the
question OF peace or until af er four weeks,
when the resolution of the Car might reach us.
Meanwhile, however, the intelligence from Wild
den, where the refugees assembled, and where
they are kept in sort of honorable durance, has
been full OF interest. Ii appears that when the
Russian demand for the surrender of the fugitives
was hrst made, the Turkish minister called a
cabinet council, at which, owing 10 the previous
corruption of its members by Russian gold, he
found a majority against him in his noble detern
nation to resist Under these perplexing circum-
stances, the minister certainty of safety for
the fugitives unless they would consent to evadc
the peril by adopting the Mahomedan faith, in
which case even their enemies III the Turkish coun
Gil admitted it would be impossible to give them
up.
A messenger was accordingly despatched 70
Widen, recommending the adoption of the sug
gestion the only means of salvation, and promis-
ing TO all who complied with II the maintenance of
their rank, and the liberal allowance customary in
the Turkish armies "No words" says a writer
on the spot scan express the CONSERVATION of the
little community at this intelligence. After the
hrst surprise was over many Of the Hungarians
claimed, Better the Russians than the Austrians-
better MalOmedanism than the nd
there appeared some prospect of the whole camp
embracing Islamism. council Of chiefs was i'm
mediatey held at Kossuth's, where Benz at once
declared that his life devoted to hostility to the
Russians, and that he eagerly accepted the sugges
ton. Generals Kmellet and Steen came to the
same resolution and several were for temporlzing
When kossuth's turn came to speak he briefly
minded his companions, in his impressive Ian
guage, that now, in a strange land, where all au-
thoritative bonds were sundered, each one was at
liberty to act according to his own views, but that
for his part, welcome, if need be- the glib
bet but curses on the tongue that dared to make
him 50 infamous proposition.''' Guyon the
lrishman followed in the same strain, and also
Dembinski and others. 'sThis example, it is add
ed, "was effective that, of about two hundred
soldiers and forty officers who had expressed their
willingness to abjurc Christianity, the soldiers to
man changed their intention, and there remain only
three generals and some twenty officers firm in
their resolve. Benz Immediately took public step,
and it is said assumes the name OF Amurath, and
becomes three tailed Pasha with the Turks, who
have an exalted opinion Of his military genius.
The subsequent support afforded to the Turkish
minister by the English and French ambassadors
defeated the Vaccinations of the majority of the
council and insured, it may be hoped, the safety of
the refugees. But we must bear in mind that no
possibility OF any succor was held out TO Knssuth,
and that consequently in forming his resolution his
choice was simply between death and falsehood, and
that he sealed his truth by choosing martyrdom,
although happily its contamination has been
averted.
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Kossuth addressed letter to Lord Palmerston,
which has just been published, and which should
be printed in every free newspaper throughout the
civilized world. After adverting to the fall Of his
country-to the struggle begun in tyranny and
ended in treachery-and having alluded to the way
in which Hungary prevailed against Austria, and
crushed her To the earth until she crawed be-
meath the protection of the Russian giant, he pro-
ceeds to describe the sc revolving condition" which
the Turkish government, at the suggestion of Rus
STA, had just proposed to himself and his fellow flu
gitives.
four correspondent proceeds with a synoptical
description of the letter; but, give the docu-
mcnt entire, we omit what farther Spectator
says ofit.-- Com. AdU.
Concurrently with this appeal, we get from Wen
ma another Illustration Of Austrian ferocity more
frightful than any thing that has yet TRANSFERRED
and against which even the absolutist English jour
mails obliged to make the appearance of an out
cry. 1t is the of Madame dc Madaspach, a
Hungarian lady of influence, at place called
HuskDurg. Alter the surrender OIL the hungarlanS
a detachment of Austrians occupied the spot, and
subsequently proceeded to the house of this lady.
In detailing what follows, with heart turned to
stone she says she is unconscious of having given
the slightest cause of offence. 81 suddenly
taken from my husband and children, and, without
any charge having been brought or any previous
examination made, dragged into square
formed by the troops, and in the place where re-
side, and in the presence of its population, which
had been accustomed to honor me- not because i
was their Mistress but because the whole tenor of
my life deserved it, ] was logged with rods"
Frantic at this dreadful act, her husband, whom
she describes as a man of the highest moral and in
tellectual qualities, shot himself The people at
tempted to massacre the commanding officer, but
he was protected by the troops. My son." adds
the lady, "who is only eighteen, taken in
Gorgey's army, and has been sent common
soldier to Italy Thus my cup of bitterness is
full. MY misery is boundless and il is only in
the wish TO liberate my boy that now live.'
And this and thousand other instances all
going on in the name of ''order," and the English
bishops, and conservative peers and city merchants,
and all the admirers of authority, read them and
forget them, and still offer up ceaseless congratula
tons that, thanks to the Emperor of Russia and
despite Lord Palmcrston, all danger of anarchy is
over; and when, before long, called to the
fearful harvest that must grow out of it, not of
them will trace the cause of what they behold, but
each will in il illustrations of the 'inscru-
table" Judgments Of God, and of the hopeless de-
pravity of mankind, and the necessity for the fu-
ture OF their being kept down by harder stripes and
heavier chains.
The definite conditions Of the surrender of Co
morn have now been published. 1t appears that
the garrison succeeded in procuring tolerably ad-
vantageous terms, and allowed a free retreat,
with months pay to the officers and ten days pay
the troops The satisfaction which the Austrians
have foregone in not executing the chiefs must
not be attributed to any new compunctions, since
the very time of the capitulation the execution
of General Aulich and the other Hungarian gene
rails who surrendered at Arad was it Is said, actu-
was. whether the satisfaction of hanging shoot
ing some forty or fifty might not be too expen
sivcly purchased, by "a siege which would cost an
illimitable amount of ammunition and the employ
ment of $4,000 troops.
Rome.
Nothing positive has yet been announced with
regard to Rome, but the anticipation seems to be
that the jority Of the French Assembly will de-
eide in favor of the Pope being allowed TO return,
upon promise from his holiness that he will
soften his original intentions. II is already under
stood that the state of siege under which the French
at present maintain control is TO be raised, and that
the cardinals will then enter upon unlimited power.
Consequent upon this prospect, upwards of sixty
ex-deputes Of the Constituent Assembly have been
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