The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-02-20
The Express lob once
Defence OF KOssuth. .

The following letter, defensive of Kossutli,
and unmasking the treason of Gorgey, was writs
ten from Pesth, by correspondent of the Lon:
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"The walls of Buda, the citadel of which over
looks the beautiful City Of Pesth, and its transs
f1uvial suburbs, are still in the condition in
which they were left by Gorgey, when battered
previous to the final assault. Buda is interest
ing as the point where the empire was probably
saved from destruction by the formidable defence
made by the gallant Heintz, and the determined
disobedience of Gorgey. On this subject, peo-
pie here are amused by the rank nonsense writ
ten' by rambling correspondent of The Times,
who asserts that Gorgey committed the grave
fault of stopping to besiege Buda, instead of pres
sing forward to Vienna, against his own inclina-
ton, and by the positive order of Kossuth. Now
the very reverse is notoriously the CASE Cor
gey received peremptory instructions from Kos
suth to leave corps of $4,000 men to invest
Buda, and to press forward with his whole force
to Vienna and Olmutz Gorrgey did precisely
the contrary, and sat down with Sc, 900 men and
1000 hussars before Buda, which he lost his
time by battering with twelve Founders, and his
men by attempting to storm without having
made breach After these failures, Gorgey
wrote to Kossuth, proposing to abandon the siege,
and kossuth then replied that after having COM
mitted SO great an error as his dsobedence, and
cost.
GA battering train was then brought up, and
the place succumbed. This is the real version
of the transaction, which, if I am not mistaken,
has been given already in your columns The
very order to march on Vienna addressed to Cor
gey in the first instance, have read in Turkey.
1t is matter of history already, and wish only to
observe that find every one here as perfectly
cognizant of the fact as myself SO that am at
| n tha inn
can have derived his misinformation. At the
Hungarian theatre at Pesth, l was witness to a
curious scene. In the vaudeville, of which the
plot turns on the embarrassment Of the heroine at
the supposed return other absent husband after
her re- marriage occurred the remark, s'that those
only absent are sure to turn up and return some
day This observation was taken as a political
allusion to the refugees by the auditory, and res
ponded to by momentary burst of earnest enthu-
siasm, hastily suppressed. A few weeks back
even such demonstration would have had seri-
Gus consequences, but the government has its
hands too full to continue noticing such outbreaks
ola feeling which it would fill all its prisons in
vain endeavor to repress.
The promulgation of the new Constitution
meet with the most serious obstacles from the
passive resistance of the few ex-loyalist families
who refuse to fill any public situations, and talk
seriously OF emigrating, while the mass of the
people treat it with contempt, as a mere insult
ing series of ephemeral regulation. In the Ba-
konya Wad considerable guerilla was on foot,
possessed of twelve pieces of cannon. At the
commencement of last month they surprised and
cut to pieces 400 Austrians.. A large force was
being concentrated to sweep, and it was said,
cut down C) this forest. Two batteries and
three battalions had left Pesth. Ihave, however,
since ascertained that about the 22d, recent
Comnissary of Kossuth conveyed to them the
order to bury their cannon and muskets and dis
perse. What an extraordinary reputation this
mad Kossuth has left after him. From Orsova
to Vienna, by water or by land, there hardly ever
mention of his name; and in Pesth, where the
sale of his portrait capital offence, the Mag
yars club together to purchase single copy at
an exorbitant price, and tear it into fragments,
which are shared between them.'