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terest for your readers aud the following account
Of those transactions, draun up from me orig'ral
iatormatioa is submitted to you Tor public
alton in your Journal.
The object of the writer ia twofold Erst TO show
that no wrong has been done to Mr. kosItA by the
Legation, and secondly, to vndeatc To- that most
meritorious and valuable though much ealumniat,
public servant, Mir. John p. brown, acting yhs.:-
d'alares, credit to whc! he Is entitled VI lrst
assuming the responsibility Of the foreiblV utter
ference in behalf of kosaa, and at the time to
place the errors, if any hav been subsequently
mitted by tue American representatives at the ut-
toman capital to the account Of the officer whom
they justly ehargeaLle the Head, namely, Vi the
Legation.
Martin koszta is native Of Hungary, and was
concerned in the revolutionary movements in that
country in ls49. lie is said to have held the rank
OF subatern captain in the patriot army, but
not particularly known distinguished in the SER
vice, was he otherwise conspicuous or impUr-
tant parsonage. Aitvr the downfall of the revOlu-
tonary government, he retired into Turkey with a
large number of his military and political
cuous individuals designated by Austria, were re-
hoszta, Ms well as some others, volunteered to
company their former governor, and Was permitted to
follow him to the place ofresidence assigned him.
1t is notorious that after the refugees entered
Turkey, Austria demanded their surrender as fugi-
vcs from justice and that Turkey refused to deliver
them up, the ground that she not bound by
treaty usage to the exradition of political Of
Tenders. Upon this demand, long negotiation
sued, pending which large proportion of the re-
fugees found their way to other countries, and
Austria finally consented to accept, as substitute
Cor the surrender of those who had voluntarily ac
companied kossuth to Droussa, their Punishment
from Turkey, and they accordingly sent to
England, whence Kossuth proceeded to America in
the Spring or Summer of 1851.
1t is not known, that any regular diplomatic con-
vention for the expulsion Of these persons from
Turkey WAS ever concluded, or that there was any
formal written stipulation, that their Punishment
should be perpetual. But it is obvious that the
purposes Of Austria would not have been satisfied
by the simple transportation of the refugees out Of
Turkey, with liberty of immediate return, and she
would never have consented to an arrangement, the
effect of which would have been merely to release
them from surveillance, and enable them, after n
bare form of Punishment at to re-enter Turkey,
their presence in which country she considered
dangerous to herself.
There is, in point Of fact, no doubt, that 1t was
the distinct understanding Of all parties, that the
exclusion Of the refugees from the territories Of the
Porte should be perpetual, at least, that they
should not be permitted to return 50 long US the
motives which induced Austria to ask their Danish.
ment should continue to be opera tive, and il is
larry presuniao'e' from 'hr' oney 'e''r Oh June
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nr.sentotion tbot Kos,ta yas IN. u, the ,rsors am.
braoed in the order which the p.oha Ind omitted n
execute. but It is believed. that if any order fo,
Kosztas emulsion had been really given II had no,
been presented to the paeba. or tina, bs wa. des
! crbed nv .ome other than his true name. and had
cops.oucnt,v not been identified nv the governor a
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arr.s, He did M, -, e;,ber n,,co law claim ;,
roo,,or ,,ro,.o,io, s q, A,or;con o;,;,., h,,, Or
| leaving SMYRNA for Constantinople he obtained
,bro.,b III. American ,orsrIa,s at tho formsr oil,
the necessary Turkish travelling nassport t,,k,,,b
for the capital and Afterwards another throuyb IN,
Legation at Con,,antino,le IN enable him IN r.turr
to SMYRNA. In both Of these in complianes will
the Turki.h custom. which invest, foreigner, with
the patiop.lItv of IN. I.y,tiop mr. con.uI.,s thai
sks,.,kcreb. in ,b.,, b,half he wa. d.,or,bsd a,
sitber An American citizen or an American nrotsge
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but NO proofhas been puhley adduced ON either side
Koszta further asserts that at tn. time of his
h. WA, ON the mint of returning ia America. bu
there i, no evidence that he had made any prepara
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