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    This page is accorded to an authentic Exposition of the Opiniona and Acts of the Democracy of EuropeTaTsuch we do not impose any restraint on the utterance of SSSaS&feSe ' stateien ^ f OWU re 3 P ° - ^ * °

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    We are authorised to state that the document published by the Times on Thursday and Friday , and purporting to be a " Message" of Signor Mazzini to the Central European Democratic Committee , is a Forgery . "Whether the Paris correspondent of the Times was imposed upon , or was himself a party to the fraud , we do not pretend to decide . We subjoin a letter sent by Signor Mazzini to the Times , repudiating all knowledge of the composition , which , it may be observed , could not for a moment impose upon any person at all acquainted with his style of writing or with his political views . The Times has omitted the latter paragraph :-

    —To the Editor of the Times . Sib , —I find in the Times of this day ( May 15 ) , a long report of M . Mazzini " To the Central Committee of London on the situation of Continental Europe . " The report is declared to be a secret one ; but of course the Central Committee have no secrets from your correspondents . As , however , it happens that the report was a secret from myself until I chanced to see it in your columns , perhaps you will oblige me with inserting these few additional lines , stating that not only is the report not mine , but that it could not be mine ; my views about " permanent providential French initiative "—national tendency of the Piedmontese monarchy—the way through which we ought and hope to overthrow the Austrian empire—Prussian historical mission , and other things , differing in toto from the views contained in the report .

    I regret the display of wit and talent which you have expended in dissecting the communication of your own correspondent . I do not in general give myself any trouble about what is said of me by the organs of party politics ; but I feel it necessary to decline the somewhat perilous honour of signing the political lucubrations of your correspondent . —Yours , with all due respect , 2 , Sydney-place , Brompton . Joseph Mazzini .

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    The following protest by the illustrious patriot Kossuth , against the prolonged detention of his fellow-exiles and himself at Kutahja , will be read with deep interest . It has been handed to us direct by the friend to whom he himself had transmitted it from his place of distant captivity . Protestation addressed to the Sublime Porte , by Louis Kossuth , late Governor of Hungary . The undersigned , late Governor of Hungary , is by his prolonged detention reduced to despair of either justice or generosity . He who is forced to abandon hope has nothing further to fear from force or violence ; he is beyond all constraint . The undersigned has reached this point .

    To-day is the anniversary of our arrival at Kutahja Kutahja ! the tomb , where the Sublime Porte has buried us alive , whilst speaking to us of hospitality . Pursued by misfortune we stopped before the threshold of the Mussulman , and asked from him , in the name of God , in the name of humanity , in the name of his religion , a hospitable asylum , or a free passage . The Turkish Government had entire liberty to receive us or not . It had the right of saying : I will give you shelter in a prison , or in some distant pluce where you will be detained and strictly guarded . This is the hospitality which Turkey offers you . If it does not please you , hasten your departure , rid us of your embarrassing presence . This was not said to us .

    The Sublime Porte deigned to open to us its sheltering tent ; it entreated us to cross the threshold , and swore by its God and its faith that it would grant us hospitality and a safe a « ylum . We trusted ourselves to the honour of the Turks . We eat of their bread and of their salt , we reposed under their roof . We prayed to God to bl < as them , nnd we offered them our courage , our experience matured by Ticissitudes , nnd our everlasting gratitude . And Hungarians keep their word .

    Look at Bosnia , where Mussulmen , subjects of the Sublime Porte , are revolted against it . A handful of Hungarian noldiers aro in the ranks of its army — it is but a handful , for tin ; Porte would not accept more . Well ! who are first upon the breach ? who are firwt in the charge ? who aru they who never retreat , who advance , in the midst of lire and grape shot , btyonet in hand , to victory ? They me thin htmrihil of exiles . They die for Turkey ; the Hungarian keeps bin word . They offered us hospitality , and they gave us a prison ; thoy « wore to us that we should meet with an asylum , and we have found banishment . God will judge ; nnd God in just .

    We h , iv « - Miff , red ; bin f r the sake of not onusin ^ ombaiussmunt , we have been silent . They begged um to have confidence . We have shown it . They begged us to wait . We hu \( i waited long . Tnuy auid to uh , it in only until Austria shall uccccd in rewtablitthing that wluoh the despotu call

    order ( the order of oppression ) , that which they call tranquillity ( the tranquillity of the tomb ) . Well , she has reestablished this order , this tranquillity , by her executioners . She has reestablished it so far as to dare to provoke Prussia to war ; so far as to dare , trusting to the support of her master , the Czar , to encroach upon the nations of Europe , to extend her forces from the Baltic to Rome ; so far as to threaten Piedmont and Switzerland ; so far as to bribe the border provinces of Turkey to revolt , —she has reestablished this tranquillity , she has even announced its reestablishment to the Sublime Porte ; and we are still prisoners . They begged us to wait one year , reckoning from the day on which we first placed our foot upon Ottoman soil . We waited .

    Afterwards we were told to reckon the year from the day when the sentence for our transportation into the interior was decreed . Again we waited patiently . At length they seemed to revolt at being any longer the jailers of Austria , and they permitted us to Hope that on the anniversary of our arrival at Kutahja , our liberty would be restored to us . Well , this anniversary has arrived . Let us see what it has brought us . A poor Hungarian , Major Domotor , preferring , as I do , exile , or even death to servitude , destitute of all means of subsistence , had come eight months before to ask my advice and some assistance to go to Belgrade , in order to send for his wife thither , who was living at Peterwardein .

    It was a macter of simple humanity . I gave him some slight assistance , and he departed for Belgrade . When he arrived there he had been already anticipated by the accusations of Austria , who sees everywhere my hand in the well-founded discontent of her oppressed peoples , and who , as her whole life is a conspiracy against God and humanity , finds conspiracy in everything . Austria then anticipated him , by the lying accusation of being the bearer of proclamations from me to the Hungarian nation . The accusation was false . I affirm it on my honour . Nevertheless , on the faith of spies without honour or character , Austria caused to be arrested at Semlin his poor wife , on her way to join her exiled husband , and the imaginary proclamations were demanded as the price of her liberty .

    Domotor justified himself before the Serbian Government in so striking a manner , that that Government , although only a feeble vassal of the powerful Ottoman empire , found sufficient strength in the justice of his cause to protect him . Austria was obliged to loose her hold . The poor wife was permitted to join br husband , but upon condition that Domotor should immediately leave Belgrade . This poor woman is a creditor of Austria . Her entire heritage , the money of the orphan , is in the hands of Austria , not by confiscation but in trust . Domotor resisted the insolent demands of the Austrian Consul , until the debt due to his wife shou d be paid . This is his crime . He dared to demand the return

    of the poor orphan ' s heritage . The Serbian Government continued geneiously to support and protect him for eight months . But as the Austrian Consul persisted in his persecution , andas the Dragoman of thePachialikof Belgrade ( who is rather an oflicer of Austria than or the Sublime Porte ) made common cause with the Consul , the Serbian Government was at length obliged to remove him from Belgrade ; but his cause was so just that that Government even then gave him permission to reside at Kragujevuer , and continued its protection o enable him to follow up his judicial dispute with Austria . .

    It was under such circumstances that Major Diimo tor , seeing the commercial enterprises which he had undertaken in order to support himself and his wife , ruined by this removal , and finding it impossible to provide for the existence of bin wife in the city in which a residence wa ^ offered to him , was obliged to leave her without money , exposed to die of hunger , to come again to ask my assistance and advice . He came furnished with rcgulur passports . He was upon the point of departure , when , on the anniversary itself of our detention | at Kutahja , an order suddenly arrived from the Grand Vizier that he also . should be detained .

    His passports were regular ; he was neither a subject , nor a guest of Turkey ; his wife wiih friendless , and dy ing of hunger at Kragujevaer , but what oi that ? Itsoe . i . s that the agents of Austria have the power to treat with ridicule the rights of nations , mid the personal sulet . y of individuals in Turkey . One of them canned > m Hunguiiun to be publicly arrested at Smyrna , because he was one of my servants , and transported him to an Austrian dungeon , where he Htill languishes ; another caused Turkish houses to be searched even in the capital of the Padishah , in order to possess himself ' of papers belonging to the Hungarian emigrants . lit : inveigled others into his oilici . d residence , uh in a tru |> , and there he caused them to he bound and carried on hoard AtiHtiiuu vt'SHels , bi ! -

    eau . se they refused to accept , an iiiHulling umncHty irom the hands of the execution * rn of their country ; o then * enticed there , and , Uotuined by force , have been

    so menaced and threatened that they have sought a voluntary death to escape from Austrian grace . At length the Austrian agents drew up a calumnious denunciation against Major Domotor , which the Serbian Government found upon inquiry to be so totally without foundation , that it not only treated it as such , but even gave permission to Domotor to reside at Kragujevaer , the Serbian Capital . And the Sublime Porte , upon the faith of this calumnious denunciation , without inquiry , without investigation , arrested my countryman , and ordered his confinement at Kutahja , although he was only a traveller , provided with regular passports , recognized as innocent by the Serbian Government , and taken under its protection . : it was enough that he was an Hungarian .

    There is yet more : in the order which inflicted this crowning act of injustice upon Major Domotor , the phrase which follows is literally to be found . " Ag the departure of the individuals detained at Kutahja is already decreed , it is ordered that the said Domotor , who is by chance amongst them , be arrested and detained also . " Is it , then , to inspire us with confidence in our approaching liberation , that these fresh detentions have just been effected ? Behold the consolation which the anniversary of our detention has brought to us ! I most solemnly protest against this act . I appeal from it to the eternal justice of God , and to the judgment of all humanity .

    I appeal from it with the more confidence , as this act gives a proof to all foreigners , travellers or residents in Turkey , that their personal safety cannot be guaranteed , and that no one can be sure that in consequence of some denunciation he may not be similarly treated . I appeal from it yet more , because this act cannot fail to be followed by disastrous consequences , in destroying all confidence in the belief that the rights of nations are respected in Turkey .

    I appeal from it besides , because it cannot fail to compromise the dignity of the Serbian Government before its subjects , and to diminish the attachment of Serbia to the Sublime Porte , and that in a moment when the Milosh party , supported by Austria and Russia , is upon the eve of destroying the tranquillity of Serbia , and of proving to Europe that , amongst all the Slavonian provinces of the Ottoman Empire , there is not a single one which is not subject to discontent and to emeutes to the advantage of Russia .

    As for myself and my companions in misfortune , I feel bound to declare before God and humanity , that we are reduced to that pitch of despair at which men take counsel only of their honour , regardless of the consequences or of the scandal of collisions which may be provoked , determined to die rather than to submit to a prolongation of their 6 uffering 3 . Kutahja , April 13 , 1851 . Louis Kossuth . wf

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    LETTERS TO CHARTISTS . XII . Nkwsi'apeii Estimates ov Chartist Chahactijh . Any who feel personally interested in the character of Chartism will be concerned at the representations made by so able and influential a writer us " Caustic " in the Weekly Dispatch of April , 26 th ult . This letter declares , in reference to us , that " ignoranco without a mask , cunning , bare , and selfishness undisguised by a sophism , are worse than the specious consistency of Parliamentary nonsense . " No doubt that naked ignorance and undisguised knavery indicate a lower order of vice than Parliament is thus said to exhibit , but even this is in our favour , because it shows that we do not know it to be vicefor if we did our " cunning" would teach us to garnish it . Those who " disguise" their vices are consciouB of them , or they would not seek to hido them . I may remark in passing that very many Chartists look upon Parliament as an assembly of gentlemen entitled to respect , both from their pretensions nnd their station , although they ( the Parliament ) may not often comprehend the ease of the people or < lo justice to it , —and iu it useful in a public writer ho to speak of Parliament to us as to nourish the sentiment which might destroy it when the popular feeling ought to be to respect it , and the popular aim ought to be to correct it and refokm it ? Hut who entitled any journal to Hay of our Delegates to the Convention that they were " cunning" and ' selfish" men ? On what principle of truth or courtesy are these- sentiments imputed to them r It lias indued been the vice of Chartists to impute , cunning and Helfishness all around them , to the aristocracy , to the middle class , to th « Anti-Corn Luw Lung tic , to the National and Parliamentary Reformers . Many of us have heard it done wiih sorrow and protested against it wiih anxiety , and wo Hhould be glad of ilu ; wiser help of " Caustic" to save uh in fui me from the mistake of overlooking tin ; probable- sinceiity and honesty of those who differ from uh even the most widely . But is thin to btt done by our critic walking in the same course ? Can ono failing bo corrected by the exhibition of the

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1851, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1883/page/19/