Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-04
GREAT BRITAIN.

Kossuth's alleged participation in the collec.
ton of munitions Of war was, next to the budget
of the Chancellor of the Exctequer, wa at last
dates, the main topic of newspaper die sion.
The London Times does not admit that ,ssu,h
is exenerated from breach of faith with the
Government that had given him shelter and
safety in his extremity.
1t denies that the house where the munitions
were found was an ordinary and legal manufac-
tory. thousands OF rockets of war, packed uD
in chests, for transport, it says, ":an hardly be
legitimate bect of private commerce between
man and man. where if they were about to be
shipped to properly constituted and recognised
states, it would have been easy for the maker or
contractor to have satisfied Lord Palmerston on
that point; but no such satisfaction had been
given. Indeed such order would scarcely
have been given, been received and executed
without Information on the subject having been
given to the Government, for obvious reasons of
convenience to the contractor; and it adds
| I'VE have asserted nothing of M. Kossuth which
he has not repeatedly declared of himself. In
this country and in the United States he made
the strongest appeals TO popular sympathy, and
endeavored to raise money by public subscription
for the avowed object Of waging eternal war upon
1.-THE parured house of Austria" We behave
mis- friends have never alleged that the money ff|las
collected was devoted by him to his personal use,
but was to be employed by himself or by his
| agents In the purchase and manufacture of arms
Contracts OF this nature were understood to have
been entered into by him in the United States
it not in this country, and in his last written adj
essesh . has expressed his conviction thus tt Q
time fer action is at hand.
1t will be for jury to determine whether he
has or has not been implicated in these proceed
ings, and whether the exerlions he has endea.
vored to make consistent with the laws of
this country. If these rockets of war and other
missiles have been collected by him for purposes
hostile to the states of the continent he will have
rendered himself liable to prosecution under
the acts which prohibit hostile ornaments
against any foreign power. Be the agents or the
motives who or what they may, the law can
tolerate no such thing as private war, and the
persons most open to suspicion are those who
have publicly announced their intention to wage
it.
1t ls evident, from what we have already said,
that in taking the vigorous measures to which we
have referred, the British Government has acted
solely with view to the safety of the metz opo-
lis, and the viudication of the law, and not upon
the suggestion or demand of any foreign power
There seems 70 be class of Legislators in the
House OF Commons who imagine that any of
fence may be committed with inpunity
provided that it is only intended to shake the
authority and destroy the troops of some govern
ment abroad. Our Government is, in fact called
upon to do what the American Government was
loudly condemned for not doing, when it per-
mitted Lopez's expedition to sail against Cuba
There may be 'Fbusters'' ia this country
as we'll as 10 the United States, and it matters
not rush to us for what illicit purpose these
thousands OF war rockets were prepared When
seizure of crowbars and picklucks is made,
we do not inquire whose house was to be broken
open; the mere possession of such articles is a
crime. If Mr.. Bright had as much regard
tor the real Interests of peace he seems to
have Tor the cause of political incendarism he
would not rise, in the House of Commons 10
complain of the disclosure we have made, when
that disclosure is supported by the most positive
evldence-the corpus deficit itself. There are
the rockets, the shells, ard the gunpowder to an
amount which would equip an army, and it will
not be long before the world knows something
more of their history.