HUNGARY. PROTEST OF THE HUNGARIANS AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 383, 15 December 1849, Page 6

HUNGARY. PROTEST OF THE HUNGARIANS AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INT ERVENTION.

Count Ltdislas Teleki, Hungarian Envoy at Paris, has published the following protest, which he has received from hit Government :— " The Hangarian nation, struck to the heart, has triumphed, with the aid of the Almighty, over a revolt which a perjured dynasty hti excited against the laws and the constitution, by intrigues and by force. The country hat driven back ai far ai the frontier the Austrian armies, who, in order to oppress the liberty and independence of the nation, bad invaded its territory. In virtue «f itt imprescriptible right as * nation, in virtue of the duty of legitimate defence, the Hungarian nation unanimouily pronounced the fall of the House of Hapsburg*Lorraine, as peijured and criminal. Never did a nation fight for a more just caune. Never was a dynasty more justly punished. Niver had a nation more right to hope that its government, the unanimous expression of ihe will of the people, may be able to efface, by Supporting itself on order und peace the trace* of a long despotism. And nevertheless we ccc rushing on our fromiers in Galicia and at Cracow the armies of the C*ar, ready to invade Hungary at the firdtcail of the House of Hapsbure;, with, out any declaration of war. All these preparations prove that the House of Hapkburg does not hesitate to, call in the aid of the Russians to re-establish its despotic power on the ruins of Hunga.y. The Hungarian nation is resolved to repel this ffesh aggression. It h decided to shed the very lust drop of its blood rather than recognise for its master a King who is the murderer of his people. In coming to this firm reso. lutioa it religiously bcliercf in tht juitico of id cause,

bscauie it ii a holy one ; but it does not the less protest in the face of God and of all civilized nations against the iniquitous intervention of Russia, which, in the interest of a perjured despot, tramples under foot the rights of nations and the moit imprescriptible rights of man. It proteits in the consciousness of liie duty of its self- defence to which it hat been reduced. It protests in thenume of that eternal right of nations, the sncred foundation of the mutual relation* betw een the states Ie protests in the name of treaties of declarations, and ot guarantees which place under rhe Mis of the lenlimen's of jus<ice common to all pcothe existence of him who i» threatened with dea'h. It protests in the name of humanity and of the innocent blood which cries for vengeance to the God of JusticeThe Hungarian nation counts on the sympathy of every ustion which loves right and liberty resp°« din g to this cry. But were it abandoned by all, strong in its own conscience it does net the less declare before God and before men that it will never yield to the violence of tyrants, and that it will struggle to its last breath in tbe defence of its lights against the attacks of despotism. Let God, let the cirilized world, judge between us and our oppressors. 11 Count Cassjmeu BatthiaNV, •' Minister of Poieign Affairs. 11 Kossuth, Governor. " Dcbieezin, May] 8, 1849."