Thomas Southey and Son, London, 13th October, 1849.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 481, 13 March 1850, Page 3

Thomas Southey and Son, London, 13th October, 1849.

Execution of Count Louis Batthtani. — Austria, throwing off the mask, stands confessed in her own tyrannous cruelly, her old inexorable meanness. Count Louis Batthyani has been made to suffer a penal death at Pesth — and at Arad several military leaden have been slaughtered, for the most part by the rope. The charge was high treason. All were condemned to death by hanging, and the sentence was only commuted to death by firearms in the case of a favoured few. Count Louis Batthyani differed from some other Hungarian leaders in h's strict

adherence to the old constitution : by the constitution he stood against Imperial encroachment : by it he stood against Republican encroachment. He had taken no lead in the war ; he was first seized while endeavouring to negotiate a reconciliation ; he had been tried by a military commission, and acquitted ; he sought no refuge in flight, was again seized by order of Haynau, and condemned to be hanged. He had challenged a trial accoiding to the constitution of his country ; he now attempted to avoid the illegal penalty by suicide ; but failing, lie was led out to perish by military death. There can be no donbt that this act violates the letter of the law, as it violates all civilised usages, and all dictates of humanity and sound policy. Count Louis Batthyani was not, strictly speaking, a prisoner of war ; even if he had been, he might have pleaded a previous acquittal for his conduct during the war ; but the charge against him, that of having infringed the Pragmatic Sanction by exceeding his duty as a Minister, was manifestly not one for a military tribunal. The conduct of the Austrian government therefore is anarchical : it violates constitutional law and natural justice, and ought to rouse the nations in defence of order and justice. Austria rests on the combination of crowned heads and armies to enforce her will by such instruments as Haynau ; her conduct is of a kind to strike despair into the timid, to rouse a fixed hatred ia the bold. A fortiori, it shows what would have been done with Kossuth had he been surrendered ; it justifies Bern in taking refuge from the Austro-Russian Christianity, as Amurath Pacha, in the more generous good faith of Islam. — Spectator, Oct. 20.

The Late Count Batthyani. — Letters from Vienna state that the widow of the unfortunate Count Batthyani has retired to Got, a sequestered estate of Count Stephen Karyoli, situate in the vicinity of Pesth, which she has selected as her place of mourning. She was accompanied by her sister, Countess George Karyoli. Both these ladies are descendants of the wealthy Zichy family. The Countess Batthyani brought her late husband a dowry of 7,000,000f1., and it is said that the bereaved lady intends to retire from the world, and to appropriate her property (or the benefit ot her sons. — Liverpool Albion, Ocr. 22.