The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-01-28

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| is due toyou and convenient to me. II appears
we have different views about what may hs
| thought compromising to your position. Sc
free you from the embarrassment, and entseai
you to land me wherever you please. But, as
tong as have the honor to be on board your
ship, you have to command, and your COM
mands, shall be obeyed." And left rhe deck,
and caused all my companions to do the same.
The people upon the boats continued to cheer
yet for while, then went away peaceably as
It came, withoutthe consolation of a single ac-
knowledged sign from the Mississippi.
These are the incidents Of four staying in the
Bay ofMarseilIes. f1s
And yet, sir, you were pleased TO Judge con-
venlently TO send me word to-day land that,
also, not directly, but by letter written to
captain Long) that "your position and the
flag ofthe United States had beer compro-
missed by these incidents"
This is heavy charge, sir, deeply wound
ing my honor and my sentiments Of deepest
respec to your glorious land. '-f
Ii cannot be passed in silence. | feel bound
IN honor to bring the matter before the people
ofthe United States and your government, and
entreat their verdict about it.
But having the firm conviction that where
ever meet free, spontaneous, lawful and ho-
horabie expression of whatever peoples SYM
pathy, am bound in honor and conscious to
respect with esteem, and not to refuse it; but
respectfully to accept-on the other side, you
beng here, the organ of your government
which am revtring with high veneration, it is
my duty to deliver the Mississippi of the pre-
sence OF myself, who, by his position seems,
~ your OPINION, to be man who compromises
the glorious flag of the United States.
Therefore though in the most solemn man.
ner protesting against the imputation you
charge me with, L have the honor to tranquilize
you, sir. by declaring that will not longer EN-.
barrass you, but with everlasting gratitude to
your country and your government, | will
leave The Mississippi al the first place il will
stop, which is, suppose, at Gibraltar.
Nj. L. N. Bonaparte has driven me away
from France. You, sir, by your II dare conf
IDENTIFY state, unjust) imputation, are forcing
me TO consider myself driven away from the
mississippi, because the people of Marselles
had shown some kindness to me- .ais.
will go by some private conveyance to the
United States, will make nv excuses for not
having further proftted of the hospitality of
your Governments vessel by the publication
OF tins letter have the honor to send vou, and
will confidently await the judgment OF the pub
lie opinion of the United States.
am sorry that your above said letter came
not some hours earlier; you giving therein or
ders that, from the Mississippi, no communi-
eaton should be sent to any public paper of
Marselles. l feel surprised, but will make re-
spected your orders. | am sorry to say that
feeling it to be my duty of honor to thank, by
some few words, the kind sympathy was hon
ored with at Marseilles, some hours before The
arrival and communication of your quite un-
looked for and unexpected iHtimaton, l sent
ashore a letter to the said effect. When YOU
read it in some public paper, hope you will,
by lis contents, not judge me as having COM
rr1mi ed the flag of the United States.
beg leave to assure you, sir, of my high re-
CARDS, and my particular consideration; hav-
ing the honor to sign myself to be, sir, your
humble and obsequious servant,
L.kossUTH.
On the following day, October |, the Missis-
sippi sailed for Gibraltar. An interesting in
cident connected with her departure from Mar
seIlles IS thus narrated by an officer on board
in private letter to friend:
"We hurried through coalng, and left Mar
seilles on Wednesday evening, the 1st of Oc-
tober, having again to encounter the many
headed as We passed through the narrow en-
frances of the port of Marseilles. The mole
heads were crowded with men, who were loud
IN their expressions of sympathy for Kossuth
and his cause. The warm and rig hearted
sailors determined, of their own will, to return
some manifestations of fellow-feeling. As we
entered the narrow mouth, suddenly our fore-
rigging was swarming with human beings,
much to the astonshment of our premier and
Captain. After they were in the rigging there
was moments pause, during which the Capt.
ordered them down Immediately. One of the
boys said "Three cheers, my hearties, before
we 60" Accordingly, three as hearty cheers
were given as could issue from the lungs of one
hundred and fifty men. Immediately it was
responded to from the shore. Then the men
came down, and added one more from behind
the bulwarks. The Hungari-
ans were much pleased with the demonstra-
ton, all thinking though, at the time, that it
was done by order ofthe captain.''
An aitemptwas made, shortly after this, by
the First Lieutenant. TO affix a stigma upon
kossuth, by showing that he thanked the men
for the three cheers, which was regarded by
that officer as an act of insubordination. But
the effort failed utterly; the charge was proved
TO be false, and served to cover its author with
ridicule.
Under the same date the writer continues
~ fear that perverted accounts of all this
will reach you before this. One of the Cap
'ain's clique said last night that they were not
so unprepared for all these reports at home as
might be supposed. 'Three weeks SINCE said
he, evidently alluding TO Spezzia, reports
went home My soul fairly sckens at such
evidence Of duplicity on the part of those en-
trusted with so noble charge"
1t is proper TO remark that this statemen,
respecting reports having been sent home three
weeks previous, was elected by the writer
whom we have been quoting, ,vof the bad effect
upon Captain Longs reputation in the United
States, which would be produced by his treat.
ment of kossuth and the other Hung arians.
In the same letter this correspondent re-
marks:
"The accusation of having compromised the
flag still remains against kossurh. Till that
is Withdrawn kossuth will not go home in the
ship. If the captain states in writing thai that
charge is groundless, Kossuth will forget the
other indignities from them and continue with
u.s.
And thus matters continued until number
of the officers on board addressed letter, ex-
pressive Of their own sentiments, to Governor
kossuth. Amongst these letters were the fol-
lowing:
is. STEAM FRIGATE MIssIssIppI,