The Sun. — 1850-09-18 (London, England)

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1850.  Unable to extenuate their own horrible atrocities, the Austrians have recently endeavoured to diminish the sense of their infamy by exciting feelings of execration against the fallen Hungarians. To this end the Cabinet of Vienna has compi!ed a document of a most portentous character, enumerating the pretended crimes of their antagonists. During the last fortnight this catalogue of imputations has been freely circulated both in the continental organs of Absolutism and in those journals which even, amongst ourselves, are mendacious enough to uphold the principles of despotic government. Considering that up to this late period not a single word had been whispered charging the Magyar leaders with any such wanton executions, we cannot but think it remarkable that acts of such flagrant ferocity should have been shrouded in secrecy on occasions when their announcement would have materially affected the fame and influence of the Viennese Councils. Here are no less than four hundred and sixty-nine victims said to have been destroyed in cold blood by order of the Hungarian Dictator and his Ministerial colleagues. The list is punctiliously furnished with the surnames and Christian names of the respective victims. The place of their death, by the bullet, the sword, or the rope i 4 scrupulously particularised. The dates are given, and the whole catalogue is entitled in conspicuous capitals " The :Magyar Bloody Assizes." Yet with this formidable evidence of the terrorism exercised over the Hungarians by their revolutionary Government, not a syls fable had been uttered up to this time taxing that provisional Ministry either with systematic or incidental severity. It was not so with Judge JEk, runs when he sentenced men and women indiscriminately to death by the hands of the hangman. It was not so when the soldier CLAVERnousE was leading his troopers through the villages and unfrequented districts of Scotland. It was not so when CARRIER was desolating the departments of France with his " republican marriages," while TALLIEN was wooing the beautiful THERESA, and ROBESPIERRE was counting upon his nuptials with the carpenter's daughter. The execrable massacres with which the chieftains of Hungary are now charged were, if done at all, not done in a corner. They were perpetrated either in the lying imaginations of their assailants, or in the broad face of day, before earth and before heaven. Yet until now they have never once been mentioned. The circumstance is suspicious. Infinitely more suspiCiowz, however, is the fact that the list has been drawn up—how ? By offering bribes for accusations, by holding out rewards to the impoverished and unconscientious 1  A careful analysis of the catalogue reveals its en°. mous insincerity. A casual scrutiny discloses such anomalous peculiarities as the repetition of the same charges of blood,led at different times and in different localities. Thus, in one quarter we find a certain shepherd of Beba mentioned as having been shot in December, 1848, and in another part in February, 1849, at Szegedin. Thus, moreover, we End General BEM accused of *hotting a peasant at Ittebe at a period when that commander was secluded among the sequestered vallies of Gallicia. As for the assertion that such and such individuals were quietly sentenced to transportation, when it is sufficiently notorious that Hungary is without any penal settlement, that we opine is sufficiently absurd to preclude us from the necessity of its refutation.. When, however, it is learnt ...which is actually the case—that out of the 469 1  victims, 82 were killed according to the laws of war, 29 were punished with death as spies and mutineers, and 183 were hung on the gallows as felons and murderers, we conceive that the Magyar Bloody A!sizes will be reduced to a somewhat less criminal character. To illustrate the falsity of the accusations en masso we may remark that the Cabinet of Debreczin is charged with causing the destruction of men who fell victims either to infuriated mobs or to private assassination. A Croat is killed by a chymist named SZABI, and the crime is hurled at the reputation of KOSSUTH and his colleagues. A cabinetmaker is butchered by the rabble, and the deed is regarded as a new cause for execration against the Hungarian Government. A monster who was executed for trying to strangle one of the magistrates is described as having perished by reason of his loyalty to his