tL) KE. BEIGHT AND KOSSUTH, 569

Steatly I admire your sentiments and approve the line of 1881.
“rgument you took at the great Kossuth meeting. I can fully mr 47
Appreciate the difficulties of » peace man standing before
Sach a meeting, full of the most generous indigration at the
®Ppressors of a people so nobly represented by the great
Vagyar, 1 you could have moved there and then a
declaration of war against Russia and Anstria, it would have
Perhaps been the resolution which would have most perfoctly
 erabodied the feelings of three-fourths of those
Present, But your remarks will bear the test of time and
*eflection, which I should think would hardly be the case with
the rey, gentlemen who fell fonl of your peace principles.
By the way, if I rightly understand what Dr. Vaughan
“id, he took credit for Palmerston for having prevented the
Sultan from surrendering Kossath by promising him material
help, Now, you will find on referring to Palmerston’s
Speech on Roebuck’s Greek Debate, that in speaking of the
try of our fleet into the Dardanelles, he himself informed
"8 that the Emperor of Russia withdrew his demand for the
®xtradition of the Refugees on the arrival of the Sultan’s
*ivoy remonstrating agsinst the demand, and before any
Wholligence had reached Petersburgh of the views of the English
Governmept, But I remember at the time making the
®aloulation, and finding that the newspupers of London aud
Paris, giving one unanimous expression from all parties
4d every shade of opinion, of indignation at the attempt of
the northern powers to violate the law of nations in the
Persong of Kossuth and his companions, resched Petersburgh
 at the same time with the Turkish envoy, and I felt
Convinced, and I said as much in the House afterwards, that
® Was that expression of ormvioN from Western Burope
Scared the despots instantly from their prey. And you are
quite right; it is opinion and opinion only that is wanting to
®stablish the principle of pon-intervenmtion as & law of