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find, that, although to "the manor born" we had to judge were "Bourbons among us;" for so strong was the evidence they gave that they had no sympathy in these subjects, that we could but wish that they might pass the rest of their days under the most grinding despotism, to get ample experience to the pleasantness of the sensation. Poor Chevalier Hülsemann, whose bout with Webster was fresh in the public memory, was in sore distress, and indited several letters to our government, protesting.against the attentions that were being shown to Kossuth; the last, a bitter complaint that no notice had been deigned to his communications.

And the crowds that followed Kossuth! What a variety of character for observation! and what a variety of motive that drew them together!-the keen and miserably selfish politician, ready to rise on the wave of popular opinion to popularity and a fat office-the simple hearted school-boy, big with a boy's thoughts, and the thoughts in Fourth of July orations—the ladies, and in crushing masses, too! all talking at once, half crazy with excitement, pushing against each other, and pushing against the men, and then raising on tip-toe to get a peep at a foreigner with a long beard, a wig-he had lost his hair in an Austrian dungeon-mild blue eye, winning smile, and a most musical voice, that was continually pleading in sad tones for "poor, down-trodden Hungary," in utterances, too, of that broken English that always seems so artless, because so like the half-formed words of little children.

Of Kossuth, it has been said, "He is the living leader of a lost cause. His country is ruined-its nationality destroyed, and through his efforts. Yet the Hungarian people lay not this ruin to his charge; and the first lesson taught the infant Magyar is a blessing upon his name. Yet whatever the future may have in store, his efforts have not been lost efforts. The tree which he planted in blood, and agony, and tears, though its tender shoots have been trampled down by the Russian bear, will yet spring up again to gladden, if not his heart, yet those of his children, or his children's children. The man may perish, but the cause endures."

HEROIC CONDUCT OF CAPTAIN INGRAHAM, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, IN THE RESCUE OF MARTIN KOSTA FROM THE AUSTRIANS, AT SMYRNA.

In the summer of 1853, an incident occurred in Smyrna, Turkey, which showed such fearless intrepidity in an American naval officer, in the rescue of one of the Hungarian refugees, who had been seized and carried a prisoner on board an Austrian man-of-war, that when the news of that event reached America, a thrill of pride and of joy ran through all the land.

This officer was Captain Ingraham, of the United States Corvette, St. Louis, and a native of South Carolina. The Hungarian who was thus rescued from an imprisonment, designed to have terminated in his execution, was a young man named Martin Kosta, who had been a captain in the Hungarian army, and who had subsequently emigrated to the United States. Various accounts of this event were published at the time, but that which we annex is extracted from a letter of an officer on board the American vessel, Passed Midshipman Charles B. Smith, of St. Louis Mo., to his brother, then in Paris.

"We arrived at Smyrna the 23d of June. Immediately after our arrival,

our consul came on board and informed Captain Ingraham that the Austrian consul had, in the most shameful manner, seized upon the body of Martin Kosta, a Hungarian refugee, upon whose head Austria had set a great price. Kosta had belonged to Kossuth's suite, and while in New York had obtained a paper from the New York State authorities, declaring his intention of becoining a citizen of the United States. He left the United States temporaily, after staying there nearly two years, and came to Sinyrna, where, on the 22ď of June, while sitting in a cafè, he was seized by three Greek hirelings of the Austrian consul, and carried on board of the Austrian brig-of-war Hussar, to be conveyed as a prisoner to Trieste. Our captain immediately boarded the brig, and demanded to see Kosta. At first he was told he was not on board; but finally he visited the Austrian consul and declared he would see him-that he believed him to be an American citizen, and he would have him at all hazards! Ingraham then again boarded the Austrian vessel, and asked Kosta these, among other questions: 'When he left the United States?' 'Why he did so?' and "if he was an American citizen?' To these questions he replied: 'I came to Smyrna to settle-I am not an American.' This was in the presence of

the Austrian officers.

Nothing then could be done. But Captain Ingraham was not satisfied, as Kosta held a paper from the New York State authorities, swearing to become a citizen of the United States; and he therefore wrote immediately to our minister at Constantinople, who replied in a very indicisive and evasive letter. The captain again wrote to him-Mr. Brown.

On the 30th of June, a letter was sent on board from the shore, signed 'Humanitas,' praying in pleading terms the interference of our captain for Kosta.

As Captain Ingraham had not received a second reply from Mr. Brown, he was determined that the man should not be conveyed by steamer to Trieste until Mr. Brown had replied. We immediately got under weigh and stood down, anchoring near the brig, fearing she might, unknown to us, send Kosta on board the steamer, as it was our intention, should he be taken on board, and the steamer put to sea, to go after her and release him. Of course protests against his removal were made by our consul and captain to the Austrian consul, under whose directions the captain of the Austrian brig was acting.

In the meantime, an Austrian schooner-of-war came into port. Next morning our captain received a letter authorizing him to take Kosta, be it by force the letter stating that he, being an outlaw of Austria, and holding the paper he did, necessarily belonged to the United States. Captain Ingraham immediately boarded the brig, and demanded to see Kosta, and asked him again :

'Are you an American?

I am.'

Do you demand protection of the American flag ?'

'I do.'

THEN YOU SHALL HAVE IT!'

This time which was or the 2d of July, the captain saw Kosta alone : before it was in the presence of the Austrian captain, when he thought,

from the manner in which he made his replies, that he was frightened. Captain Ingraham then informed the Austrian captain of the letter which he had received, and, of course, his orders; and added that he would give him four hours in which to deliver Kosta up. The other replied, 'It rests with the Austrian consul.' At nine o'clock the American consul came on board, and told Captain Ingraham to lengthen the time, whereupon a letter was sent, giving until four o'clock, P. M. At eleven o'clock, A. M., we cleared ship for action, as did the Austrian brig, schooner, and two steamers. We mounted twenty guns, viz: four sixty-eight pounders, and sixteen thirty-two pounders; the Austrian brig sixteen thirty-two pound carronades; the schooner ten twelve pound carronades, and the two steamers each four twelve pound carronades. We carried two hundred men, and they, in all, two hundred and forty.

All preparations were made, and thousands flocked to the shore to witness the fight. A committee of gentlemen on shore, not wishing to see bloodshed-and indeed it would have been a hard fight—called upon the Austrian consul, and the matter was arranged by delivering Kosta up to the care of the French consul, who is responsible for his body, to be delivered only by the agreement of the Austrian and American consuls. So the matter now rests with the two governments. These are the unvarnished facts of the occurrence.

At four o'clock, P. M., Kosta was landed amid the cheering of thousands for America and Kosta.' Parties were given, and the hospitalities of the whole town were extended us-there were no persons like the Americans. That same evening, after Kosta's deliverance, a steamboat filled with ladies and gentlemen came near our ship, serenading us, and shouting most deafening cheers for our flag."

After a lapse of some time, Kosta was set at liberty, and returned and settled in the United States. No single event within our day has given more wide satisfaction than the noble conduct of our naval officer in rescuing this unfortunate man on his demand for American protection. While in the exercise of his benevolent impulses, Captain Ingraham was firm and fearless, even to the point of battling with the whole Austrian fleet; yet when it was all over, and Kosta relieved from peril, it is said, with a modesty peculiar to his nature, he was under apprehension of being censured for it by his countrymen at home! This event also created much comment in Europe-indignation at the despotic seizure of Kosta on the neutral soil of Turkey, and admiration for the heroism of Ingraham, whose conduct greatly tended to raise the American character in the estimation of foreigners.

The Austrian government addressed a protest to the various crowned heads of Europe, against the act of Captain Ingraham, and a correspondence also ensued on the subject between Chevalier Hülsemann and Mr. Marcy, the American Secretary of State, in which the latter fully sustained the conduct of Ingraham, declaring that Kosta, when seized, had the national character of an American, and that the United States had the right to extend its pro tection over

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