Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-10
Col Berzceuzcy his way TO the Magyar
Settlement in China.

| Sesttemcut in China.
Colonel Berzcenzcy. the leader of the Hungaans who
arrived here in the T. 5. steamer Mississippi last fall
at San Francisco the time of our last advces from
there The Alta California of the goth of February saws
Colonel Ladisaus Berczenzcy a Hungarian gentleman;
vino occupied most position during the Hun
srian war; atterward was companion of Kossuth du-
ring his confinement in Asia Minor and who was
also leader OF the refugees America on the
| Mississippi. is here and on his way to Chi
ma and the interior OF that empire in search of
theogn 9th Magyar nation, where is not only sup
posed to be- but by the accounts of Dr. Gutziaw
! Swede and another American missionary, well as
through ancient traditions it is proved almost to
tainty that vast people exists living in the interior Of
Asia and speaking the Magyar language Will the diff
cult enterprise succeed or not now the questions and
it does is it not OF great interest this country
ted sonear to China At any by promoting the faci
es OF the Coonefs enterprise, have the first oppor
tunlty OF manltesng that sympathy which is felt by
brethren in the Atlantic States towards the Hungarian
We do doubt that the enterprise of Col Berz-
cenzcy will find among citizens much ardent sympa
tiny and encouragement Col B. bears with him very IA
vofabe letters from Secretary Webster and others
distinguished counrymen. Hewas attached Kossuth s
suite d ing the movements othat great man Ill the Eas
tern ces and there be doubt OF his sincerity and
zeal in the work which he has engaged perform He
eses to proceed to Canton by the first vessel We hope
IL may be an American clipper and that passage IN such
| may be rendered him.
| In this connexion a brief account of the origin
of the Magyar race and of the general chain of
events that led to their settlement on the South
ern slopes of the Carpathian mountains and in the
dley vi tilo DdHuDo, may uot Ue WltuOut lHto-
rest to some of our readers.
Under the name of Huns they made their first
appearance in history, as the occupants of that
extensive and barren tract of country to the North
of China. Like the modern Tartars, they appear
to have led pastoral life, roaming over boundess
deserts and disdaining fixed habitations. Their
principal occupation war; and by their ferocious
| yalour they soon reduced under their dominion
the neighbouring tribes and nations. To protect
his frontier against the invasions of these formi-
dable barbalians, the Emperor of China caused to
be erected, in the third century before the Chris
tan era, the Great Wall: work of such magni-
tude as fairly to take its place beside the stupen-
dous architecture of ancient Egypt. But this ar
tfcial restraint proved to be imperative against
| the impetuous assaults of the Huns. With their
countless horsemen they swept over it like a flood
of waters, and soon reduced to subsection those
who took shelter behind it. They levied upon the
conquered nations as the conditions OF peace,
tribute of money and silk. But their merciless
terms did not stop with vassalage and tribute, but
these barbarous conquerors insisted upon an exac-
ton as abhorrent to humanity as unusual even i'll
savage warfare.
An account of this cruel hardship we shall give
in the language of the great historian Gibbon to
whom we refer the reader for full and satisfactory
accounts of these remote transactions. 'But
there still remained more disgraceful article Of
tribute, which violated the sacred feelings of hui
mainly aud nature. The hardshps ofthe savage
life, which destroy in their infancy the children
who are formed with a less healthy and robust
constitution, introduce remarkable disproportlon
between the numbers of the two sexes. The
Tartars are an ugly and even deformed race; and
while they consider their own women as the in
struments of domestic labour, their desires, or ra-
thertheir appattes, directed to the enjoy ment
of more elegant beauty select band OF the
farest maidens of China annually devoted to
the rude embraces of the Huns and the alliance
of the naughty Tanjou was secured by their mar
riage with the genuine Or adopted daughters Of
the Imperial family, which vainly attempted to
escape the sacrilegious poutiono But the fire.
quent repetition of these grevious injuries at
length reused the vengeance of the nation, and the
tide of successful war was turned against the bar
barians. They were not only driven back to their
native deserts but their camp was surprised in
the midst of sleep and drunkenness, and fifteen
| thousand of their number slain. A series Of disas-
tiers followed, which endedin the complete subjec-
ton ofthe Huns to the Chinese yoke, and finally,
we will see to their ultimate dispersion After their
military reverses the allies, which had sweed their
power to such dangerous magnitude, fell off and
! left them to their original strength. The mon
archy of the Huns gradually declined, till it was
broken by civil dissensons into two hostile king
doms. The less warlike division under its chief,
retired to the South and ON the verge Of the Chi
nese empire lived in dependence upon the en-
peror 1t is to the descendants of these that, in
all probability, the information of Col. Berzcenzcy
refers. But the warike division maintain
ed in their reverses the undaunted courage OF
their ancestors. Undismayed by the dangers that,
from every side frowned upon them under the gui-
dance of their hereditary cheftains, they deter
mined to penetrate into the unbounded regions OF
the West and acquire in them new dominions.-
''The course of their emigration says the author
above quoted, whose narrative follow, "soon car
ried them beyond the mountains of Imaus and
the limits of the Chinese geography; but ape are
able to distinguish the two great divisions of these
formidable exiles, which directed their march to-
wards the Oxus and towards the Volga'' The
first of these colonies established their dominion
in the fruitful plains Oh the eastern side of the
Caspian, where their manners were softened by
the traces of Grecian civilization that fingered in
those regions. Their vicinity to the Persian pro-
vinces involved them in frequent wars with that
power. The other division followed north
western direction and settled the eastern banks
of the Volga. Here dark interval occurs, these
wanderers having left but dim traces of their pro-
gress upon the pages of history. 1t is probable,
that yielding to pressure from the east they eros