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only by England and the United Provinces, -she
in imminent danger of losing the greater part of
her dominions. Guided by the instinct of wo-
mans heart and yielding to its impulse, she set at
naught the circumstances of her Austrian counsel
lors, and relied on the loyalty of the Hungarians.
Proceeding to Presburg, she appeared at the meeting
Of the Diet and told the assembled mobiles the diff
culties and dangers by which she was surrounded,
and threw herself, her child, and her cause upon
their generosity At that appeal every sabre
leaped from its scabbard, and the shout Moria-
muir pro rege nostro, Maria Theresa ? called all
Hungary to arms. The tide of invasion was rolled
back beyond the Alps and the Rhine, and the en-
pire was saved" Such was the noble and chval-
rous conduct of the Hungarians, even towards
nation from whom they had, in former times,
suffered religious persecution of no ordinary char
aeter.
"The history Of religious persecution" says the
same writer, Everywhere chronicle of misery
and crime, has few pages so revolving that which
tells of the prosecutions of the Protes ants of Hun
gary, under her Roman Catholic kings of the
house of Austria But when the voice of distress
reached their ears, and confdng appeal was made
to their sympathes men, their loyalty as SUBJ
jects, and their bravery soldiers, they had no
memory for injuries, no wrongs to redress, no
stpulations of future security and indemnity TO
make. They were too noble and magnanimous to
take advantage of weakness and adversely, and too
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woman, borne down by superior numbers, who
had thrown herself, her child, and her cause upon
their generous protection. The sword was drawn;
| thousands fell; the expense ofthe was uncom-
plainingly borne by them; hundreds of families
were ruined but the Queen and the empire were
saved. How they were requited by the child and
his successors history records; but it is due to the
memory Of Maria Theresa to say, that she forgot
| not the debt she owed her brave Hungarian sub
ects, and treated them with the confidence and
| consideration they had merited of her.
| But it is not as brave free and chivalric race
alone that the Hungarians entitled to our SYM
pathies and good wishes. As christian people we
are under deep and lasting obligations to them, as
every christian nation is, for the noble resistance
they made for centuries to the advancing tide of Is
amism that beat against them, and frequently threat
ened to overwhelm the whole of eastern Europe 1t
was upon their devoted heads that the thckest and
heaviest blows of the fierce and relentless followers
of Mahomet fell it was their fields that were laid
waste, their crops and cattle that were destroyed
their villages, towns, cities and hamlets that were
devastated; their country that was swept as by a
tornado of fire, and their wives and children that
fell by the mercess scimetar of the hitherto tri-
| umphant and resstless Turk. Situated. as she
was, and still is, upon the frontier of christian Eu-
| rope, and bordering upon the countries already
wrested from their former possessors by the con-
| quering Osmanli, Hungary stood as bul wark be-
| tween the Turks and Christians and had in every
instance to meet the advancing hosts, whose aim
to subjugate all Europe and to plant the cres-
cent wherever stood the cross, as they had already
planted it upon the dome of ST. Sophia, and the
| Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. She stood as the
advanced guard of christendom, and faithfully did
| she perform her duty. From that day, even from
the moment she was settled by her present race, in
the tenth century, has her prowess commanded the
admiration of both friends and foes 1t is that
the Turkish armies on one occasion bore down all
opposition in their desolating career, and sweeping
over her entire territory, took Buda Often, and
| advanced to the very walls of Vienna, to which
they laid siege, and from which they were finally
driven by the celebrated John Sobieski of Poland
but the Hungarians were still unconquered, and
ready to meet the infdels whenever their BAN
ners appeared upon their frontiers which was never
the case, however, after the defeats they
ceived from the combined armies Of Hungary and
| Austria, under the command of the celebrated
Prince Eugene, who at the same time wrested from
them their stronghold upon the Danube, the city
Belgrade.
Something more than century and quarter has
elapsed since the Turks were then driven back their
sacred banner taken, and their further encroach-
ment upon christian Europe thus forever arrested
But has this lapse Of time essened the gratitude due
to that heroic people who for centuries maintained
the conflict with this horde, which till then had me
no foe that could check its victorious and desolatng
career We trust not. .4merieans, we sure, vii
deeply sympathse with them in the desperate
struggle they now compelled to maintain in de-
fence of their ancient rights and liberties; and we
venture TO affirm that we speak the sentiments o.
every Wing, and we trust of every Democrat in
the nation, when from our inmost soul we bid them
God speed, and express the hope tina, the imperial
armies arrayed against them, and which came tc
enslave and Cypress, may in every conflict bc
driven like chaff before the wind
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Mas. MowArr.-We are pleased to learn that thi,
most accomplished lady has accepted liberal terms
for remaining another year in London. She is emf
nently woman Of whom her sex and her country
may be proud for she is no less distinguished by al
the qualities that amiabe in private life, than by
the genius that has already won for her such bril-
liant fame as a drsmatist and an actress. Grace