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that moment find the Hungarian unprepared ; for should it take him unprepared—should our nation not improve the opportunity—our dear country would be lost for ever , and our national flag would be cohered with ignominy . " I know that every Hungarian is ready for the war of liberty . The blood shed by tho martyrs , the sufferings of the country , have changed even cliildren into heroes . "donation yet rewarded it 3 brave sons so liberally as the Hungarian nation will reward hers . After the victory , the state property shall bo distributed among the army and the families of the victims of patriotism ; but the coward and the traitor shall die .
"And I , therefore , make it known to you , soldiers , in the name of the nation , that whoever brings you this order of mine i 3 expressly sent to you , that he may report to me who are the favourers of liberty in the army stationed in Italy , and that he may tell you in my name how you should organize yourselves . " Accept the instructions that are forwarded to you by the nation through me , and follow them . Let it be so in every town and district—everywhere . " Brave ones ! theHonveds and the hussars have covered with glory the name of our nation . The world looks on the Hungarian flag as on the banaer of liberty . We will preserve that glory , and satisfy that expectation .
" It is principally on you that the eyes of the world are turned , for your number is great ; you hold the arms in your hands , a generous blood boils in your veins , your heart beats for your country , and for the vengeance on her executioners . Your task is glorious and easy , for you are in the midst of a nation which will give its own millions of combatants against Austria . ' From Rome to the land of the Sicilians—from the Sava to the country beyond the Rhine—all the peoples unite in one cry , shouting , mid the clang of millions of arms , 'Let God be the judge ; down with the tyrants : long live the liberties of the peoples—long live our country . ' " Brave ones , in this cry your -voice will be like Joshua ' s voice , before which the Jericho of tyrants shall fall .
" So I order , in the name of the nation—Let every one obey . I will shortly be amongst you . Ati revoir . God bo with you . " Kobsuth . " February , 1853 . " Nothing more in the shape of intelligence besides the above proclamations transp ired during the day ; and the anxiety still continued . There were again vague rumours that the insurrection had been suppressed ; and again the absence of more detailed information seemed to many a ground of hope that the insurrection was serious , and that the Austrians had something formidable to contend with .
Yesterday ( Friday ) morning brought fresh comments by the London journals on the Insurrection , but nothing more in the shape of distinct intelligence . Still telegraphic despatches ( some from Turin via Paris ) announced the suppression of tho insurrection , and the restoration of tranquillity ; anil still people disbelieved this , and argued , from the absence of more precise news , that Lombiinly might lie the scene of an extended struggle . The evening news of last night ( which is all we have at the moment we write these linos ) brought little more satisfactory . The latest facts as slated in the Globe , are these : —1 st , that on the 4 / . h , i . e ., two days ht' fore this insurrection , the Austrian authorities
in Milan bad made a great many arrests , and were proceeding to such extremities Hint many families took to flight ; 2 nd , that the insurroction of the Oth began by an attack of some 400 insurgents , armed with poniards , on a portion of tlie Austrian troops and police , and that about ( 500 por-sons had been killed ; 3 rd , that besides the outbreak in Milan , there had been outbreaks , simultaneous or nearly so , in other towns of Lombardy , and at Rimini ; imd 4 th , that there was great excitement in Switzerland , and in Piedmont ; that there were still rumours that the AustriaiiH bad succeeded in crushing ibi : insurrection ; but that the fact , that communications witli Milan were still interrupted seemed to throw discredit , on these rumours , and to augur more favourably for ( he insurgents .
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LKTTKRS FROM PARIS . [ KltOM Ollll OWN OoKllKSrONDKNT . I Lkttick IilX .. 1 ' iirJH , ' l < Vliruary H , lH . > : t . It seems to be not . quite so easy to break with accomplices . Honapnrto has failed in bin attempt , to get rid of certain familiars in bis Ministry , He retains the men of the Second of December , and perseveres more strictly than ever in the career of despotic and irresponsible terrorism . This piedpitut e change ofpiirposo has been brought about , by nil intrigue which J will briefly describe . Tlie pnrti . siiiiH of Bonaparte were , as I have often told you , split , into two camps tho Moderates and tho lvrnsponsililcH . Among the Moderates , MM . Fould and J ) o Moray represented tho bourgeoia
element , advocates of a pacific policy and of a " rational liberty . " Among the TrresponBibles , Persigny and St . Arnaud represented the military element , the swordsmen , the men of blood and violence . These latter were seriously alarmed to find Bonaparte leaning towards the adverse party . According to their pitiless logic , they well understood that if he ceased for a single moment to strike , having no real supporters anywhere beyond the army—sustained by the terror he wields , and by that alone—he would inevitably fall . They perceived clearly enough thai moderation would be a weakness and a mistake under existing circumstances ,
since it would allow the enemy to rally again , to take breath , to measure forces , and to concert a well-planned attack on the knot of pure Bonapartists who have seized possession of power . To these general apprehensions were added private and personal motives . It would not do for St . Arnaud to seem to yield to that public opinion which his dirty gambling tricks on the Bourse have disgusted ; nor could he safely let slip the direction of the army , his safeguard and stronghold . As for Persigny , he was offered , no doubt , a brilliant compensation for what would seem , the ingratitude of Bonaparte to the man who , of all others , had made
him Representative , President , Dictator , and Emperor , in spite of himself . " He was offered the London embassy , less , it was said , as a compensation than as a new field for the employment of his faculties , a new arena for his services . But Persigny , holding the Home Department , has in his hands Paris and the Departments under his immediate control , disposal , and surveillance ; he knows all the schemes of the Legitimists , all the patient and skilful machinations of the Orleanists , all the workings of the Republican party . Thanks to the close and widespread network of spies and police agents ( five t imes more n umerous than in
Louis Philippe ' s time ) which he has thrown over the whole country , he sees everything , knows everything , is present everywhere ; no sooner has he got word of any new movement than he strikes , as a man does in self-defence . He could , not be expetted to abandon , without resistance , this post of unlimited power and incessant activity . Seeing , then , that Bonaparte was likely to slip through his hands , he all at once reestablished the equilibrium in his favour by a coup , after his peculiar fashion . He laid a trap for the good faith of MM . Fould and De Morny , by dexterously plying , through indirect agencies , the wife of the Minister , now all-powerful with the Empress , and the Minister ' s wife fell into the snare . She was recommended to urge the Empress to ask of Bonaparte the restitution of the Orleans property . Such a homethrust ( a Irule pourpoint ) produced the effect anticipated by the schemer Persigny . It was met by a refusal ; the refusal raised a lover ' s quarrel between tho Imperial pair ; and the quarrel drewa flood of tears from the Empress . On the following day ( Saturday ) Bonaparte broug ht to the council of Ministers a changed spirit towards M . Fould . Tho Ministers were no sooner seated than , turning to Persigny , the Emperor said to him that " he ( Persigny ) was completely in the right : that he ( the Emperor ) had been deceived with regard to certain persons who endeavoured to make him deviate too far from the path he had chosen , and still intended to pursue . " Persigny then , to improve tho occasion , showed the Emperor the journals of Cologne , Liege , and Turin , which spoke of Mdlle . de Montijo as , the intimate friond of one of tho most celebrated courtesans in Paris , Madame Favard , and went so far as to state that Madame Favard was the original cause (/' occasion premie-re ) of the connexion . When bo
read this allegation , Bonaparte wus so incensed that ho declared ho would punish severely those infamous correspondents wbo dared to assail the honour of tho Empress . At tbat point Persigny bad him . Ho then and there proponed to arrest all the French correspondents of foreign journals . The day following , Sunday , , the ( ith hist ., at six o ' clock in the morning , forty detachments of police agents , each beaded by n commissary , proceeded to invade- the houses of forty persons at tlie same moment . It was quite a Koeond edition of the Second of December . All who worn
found at homo were arrested on tho spot , and led oil , sonio to the ( Joncin-gerie , others to Ma / . as . It , is not cm tho Legitimists only , or preferentially , that , these Hm ; st ; n have fallen : every party has had its share in tho favours . Nor have the correspondents of foreign journals been tho only people to arouse the solicitude of the police-: persons utterly unconnected with journalism are involved in thin sweeping prosecution . I will presently tell you why . Among the journalists arrested , the names of Villcinosnnf ,, Coc'Uogon , do Kovigo , of the suppressed LcgitamiHt , journal , the Corsairc , accused of having supplied information to the Gazette , da ( , '(>/<>//>/ e ; Pages Dupont , of the Legitimist , journul IS Union , and Curpolez , of the Gazelle de France , suspected ; as alno M . Tuuski , of tho Orleunwt Journal des
Debats , of corresponding with the Gazette d'Augs bourg ; Simon , of the Siecle , and Meyer , of the Bonapartist Patrie , suspected of being correspondents , the one of the Tribune of Liege , and the other of the Opinione of Turin : Among the non-journalists is the son of General St . Priest , correspondent of Henri V ., the Due d'Ahnazan , the Marquis de la Pierre , and several other Legitimists . The object of search at tlie houses of the latter was a pretended letter by Changarnier , in which he was alleged to promise to bring back Henry V . to Paris in the teeth of Bonaparte . This razzia , you see , was to kill two birds with one stone : the
correspondents of journals and the Legitimist agents—one blow was struck for the honour of the Empress , and the other for the safety of The Emperor . But the police were not contented with these arrests : they have since effected a variety of domiciliary visits , which , for tlie sake of distinction , may be called domiciliary visits par ricochat . All the names found to be mentioned in the papers of the forty first arrested directed the hands of the police in their second batch of * ' visits /' Bad luck to him who had not taken the same
precaution that I have adopted . They will have to expiate in prison this improvidence of their own or the indiscretion of their friends . What the police are hunting down now with relentless ferocity is the centres of reunion , the foci of information and of correspondence , — " those ateliers of false news , of scandalous rumours , and falsehoods / ' says the Moniteur , according to Persigny . As , however , every man in Paris comprises one of these " centres of reunion , " I don't see how the police will get at any but isolated individuals . I think I may safely promise you the failure of the
Governxnent m ttizs campaign . You cannot conceive the disastrous effect for Bonaparte this sudden recrudescence of rigorous measures on the very morrow of his marriage has had on the public mind—just as people were beginning to hope for a milder regime . In the commercial classes of Paris there is but one expression of disapproval . The arrests were greeted at the Bourse by a fall of nearly one franc in the Funds , and by a fall of from six to ten francs in railway stock , the very day when considerable dividends were announced . The good effect of . the decree according a partial amnesty was completely paralyzed . With regard to the recent amnesty of ( by the
official statement ) 4312 political convicts , the list comprising at best so poor an instalment of the unhappy victims of the coup d ' etat , has been studied with curious particularity . Out of the said 4312 so " pardoned /' careful examination has already found more than 300 dead men ! Women and children are included in the gracious measure . Among the women , we have remarked three poor workwomen of Paris , —Louise Allemand , Eugenie Arnaud , and Rosalie Gaban . The last of these is a young girl of seventeen , whom I knew personally , —a g irl of surprising firmness of character , amounting almost to antique fortitude . She had been married only a fortnight to a poor chemist , when the 2 nd of December occurred . Rosalie Gaban called the
people of the Rambuteau quarter to arms , and as it was on the first day , when everybody hesitated and wavered , she was immediately arrested , thrown into tlie prison of the Prefecture do Police , and after three months of horrible contact with thieves and prostitutes , transported to Lambessa . Besides women , several children of fourteen or fifteen years of age are found in the list . There is even one child of ten , named Meimt Sellier , among the ' pardoned . A child ten years of ago transported as a conspirator ! Surely this one fact throws light upon the sombre abysses of the crime of tho 2 nd of December !
For my own part , I have been anxiously Becking in this list tho names of many of my friendh in the provinces , of whom I have not heard for a long , long time . T only find the name of one—E . Dugaillon , editor ot the Union d'Auxerre ( Yonne ) . All the others whom I knew in that department , tv / iere are they ' I Aro they dead , then , good Clod ? aro they dead of fever in Africa , or dead of yellow fever at Cayenne , or simply shot , out of tlie way '! Are they alive , and if alive , where arc they ? Every one , it seems , Imh heen pursuing tho same inquiries and tho same reflections . There aro scarcely any known names in this list of
the " pardoned . " They are nil obscure soldiers , unknown Iicroos of tho sacred cause ; nil working won , vine dressers , poor day labourers , —not one belonging to the " easy" classes of nociety . Names aro mentioned , however , of a few journalists and ex-representatives amnestied . The latter aro Hugnemn , of tho Hauto Saone ; Fame and Falconnot , of the Rhone ; Puyot-Ogier Jind Mule " , ( ex-constituents , ) of tho 11 ante ( inronno ; Astoin , of Marseilles , ex-constituent . Tho journalistH aro Paul OmboilhcH , of tho Courrier Francois ; Armiind Duportal , of tho . J ' Jmancipation de Touluuse ; Oustry , of tho Aveyron U 6 p % blicain ; DcBolmcH , of tho lUnublioain dv la jDordogne ;
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148 THE LEADER . [ SAttmPAV ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1853, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1973/page/4/
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