Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-11-14
kOSSUTH QUITTING THE MISSISSIPPI
IN DUDGEON.
PARIS, October IL, 1851


IN DUDGEON.
PARIS, October IL, 1851.
The Austrian court has, it is said on good
authority, given orders 10 Baron holler the
ambassador from Austria to the court OF st.
James, to demand his passports, and lmmedl'
ately to quit London the moment kosSuth ar.
riyes, aud is received publicly at Southampton.
Meantime fresh delay has occurred i'll the
movements of Kossuth, and he has left the
steamer Mississippi and landed at Gibraltar
where he intends to wait for private convey
ance, bv which he will proceed to England.
The Austrians may nab him yet, and carry
him back, to undergo immediate and ignomlnl'
Gus execution, if he does not take care Even
kings, in ancient times, in passing through
peaceful countries, have been seized upon and
made prisoners, and kept in chains by their en-
emics. This was the case with Richard Cour
de Lion, and it was in Austria, too, that he was
kept in prison many years. having been seized
upon while returning through France, on his
way home from the Holy Land. There are,
also, examples Of more recent date. kossuth
is not safe unless in England or America, and
whe he left the national steamer, he left the
protection of America True 1t is that En-.
gland possesses Gibraltar; but when he leaves
that place in private ship, he will be assaila-
ble Fortunately for him, Austria has no
fleets or marine of any account, or he would
certainly be arrested on his journey.
Mr.. Rives, our minister at Paris, told me, to-
.ay. that he had received accounts from the
American consul at Marseilles, of the crcum-
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fore: the news had spread among the Ameri-
cans like wid.6re. 1t appears that mlsun-
derstanding arose between kossuth and the
officers of the Mississippi, arising from nos
suth's proceedings at Marseles. They were
anxious, naturally enough, that he, while on
board a national ship. should do nothing which
might compromise the national government, i'll
respect to its relations with a friendly power
kossuth, it is said, took offence at these very
proper representations, and left the ship and
landed at Gibraltar.
make 10 comment OIL the fact. The ad
dress of Kossuth to the democrats of Marseilles
has also given offence to his best friends i'll En-
gland, and they do and say all they can tc
Shift off from him the i'll impressions it has pro-
produced towards him. and towards the cause
of which he was for the Iroment made to be, as
it were, the representative ltis very probable
kossuth has been led to an error Of Judgment
something like that Of the fly on the wheel, il
the fable, when the fly, seeing the dust aud
hearing the doise, said TO itself, "What sensa
ton make what dust kick up in the
worldw Such errors Of judgmcn are very
common among frail mortality. At all events
the subject is pregnant, and the fact to be la
mented.
Kossuth, it oppears, in his letter to the may.
or of Southampton, explains the matter differ
emily, ard implies that he left the Mississippi
because the captain insisted upon steamins dl
rect for New York. without calling at South
ampton. The report above referred to has
been contradicted by Frankfort journal; bu
the contradiction is not worth much, and i:
more diplomatic than true. The view have
frequently taken in former letters, viz that the
Frankfort Diet, so called is in fact Il genera
government, is confirmed by the following fact
related in the German papers. The noble:
and aristocracy Of Hanover complained TO tho
Diet that bya certain law lately passed by tn,
IIanoveran government, their ancient icuda
rights were curtailcd and abridged; hcrcupor
the Diet has given its mandate and supreme
command to Hanover that the said laws sllal
be immediately revoked ~. Y. HcralIS cor
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