The southern press., 1851-06-04

But as the Austrian consul persisted in his
persecution, and as the dragoman OF the PachaliK
of Belgrade fwho is rather an officer OF Austria
than of the Sublime Porte,) made common cause
with the consul, the Servian government was al
length obliged to remove him from Belgrade; but
his cause was so just that our government even
then gave him permission to reside at kragula-
vaer, and continued its protection to enable MIN
to follow up his judicial dispute with Austria.
1t was under such circumstances that Major
Domotor, seeing the commercial enterprise
which he had undertaken in order 10 support
himself and his wife, ruined by this removal,
and finding it impossible to provide for the exist
ence of his wife in the city in which residence
was offered to him, was obliged to leave her
without money, exposed to die OF hunger, TO
come again to ask my assistance and advice.
He came furnished with regular passports.
He was upon the point of departure, when, on
the anniversary itself of our detention at kutah-
ia, an order suddenly arrived from the Grand
Vizer that he also should be detained.
His passports were regular; he was neither a
subject nor guest of Turkey; his wife was
friendless and dying of hunger at Kragujevaer,
but what of that /? 1t seems that the agents OF
Austria have the power to treat with ridicule the
rights of nations, and the personal safety OF IN
dividuals in Turkey. One of them caused an
Hungarian to be publicly arrested at Smyrna,
because he was one of my servants, and trans
ported him to an Austrian dungeon, where he
still languishes another caused Turkish houses
to be searched even in the capital of the Padishah
in order to possess himself of papers belonging
to Hungarian emigrants He inveigled others
into his official residence, as in trap, ard there
he caused them to be bound and carried on
board Austrian vessels, because they refused to
accept an insulting amnesty from the hands of
the executioners oftheir country others enticed
there, and detained by force, have been SO men
aced and threatened that they have sought vol
untary death to escape from Austrian grace.
At length the Austrian agents drew up a
calumnious denunciation against Major Domo-
tor, which the Servian government found upon
inquiry to be so totally without foundation, that
it not only treated it as such, but even gave
permission to Domotor to reside at Kragujovaer.
the Servian capital. And the Sublime Porte,
upon the faith Of this calumnious denunciation,
without inquiry, without investigation, arrested
my countryman, and ordered his confinement at
Kutahja, although he was only traveller, pro-
vided with regular passports, recognised as
innocent by the Servian government, and taken
under its protection: it was enough that he was
an Hungarian.
There is yet more in the order which inflicted
this browning act of injustice upon Major Do
motor, the phrase which follows is literally to
be found AS the departure Of the individuals
detained at Kutahjah is already decreed, it is
ordered that the said Domotor, who is by chance
amongst them, be arrested and detained Also"
Is it, then, to inspire us with confidence in
our approaching liberation, that these fresh de-
tentions have just been effected!
Behold the consolation which the anniversary
of our detention has brought 10 us
| most solemnly protest against this act. !
appeal from it to the eternal justice of God,
and to the judgment of all humanity
| appeal from it with the more confidence, as
this act gives proof to all foreigners, travellers
or residents in Turkey, that their personal safety
cannot be guar anteed, and that no one can be
sure that, in consequence Of some denunciation
he may not be similarly treated
| appeal from it yet more, because this aci
cannot fail to be followed by disastrous conse.
quences, in destroying all confidence in the be-
lief that the rights of nations are respected in
Turkey.
appeal from It besides, because it cannot
fail to compromise the dignity of.the Serviar
government before its subjects, and to diminish
the attachment of Servia to the Sublime Porte
and that in moment when the Milosh party
supported by Austria and Russia, is upon thu
eve of disturbing the tranquility of Servia, anc
of proving to Europe that amongst all the Scla
woman provinces of the Ottoman empire, ther'
is not a single one which is not subject to dis
content and to emeuteS, to the advantage o
Russia.
AS for myself and my companions in msfor
tune, feel bound to declare before God and hu
manity, that we are reduced to that pitch o
depair at which men take counsel of their honor
regardless of the consequences or of the scanda
of collisions which may be provoked, determines
to die rather than to submit to prolongation o
their sufferings. LOUIS KQSSUTH.
Kutahja, April 10, 1851.