Footnote 32:
_Pesti Forradalom._ _Irta Birányi Akos._ Pesten, 1848.
Footnote 33:
Our limits will not allow us, at the present time, to enter into the
history of the intrigues and illegal proceedings of Austria in the
southern provinces of Hungary, and more especially in Croatia, for
many years before the breaking out of hostilities. The citizens of
this latter kingdom were, in many places, debarred from the exercise
of their political rights. They were attacked and driven from the
place of election by the members of the Illyrian faction, furnished
with arms from the public arsenals. It was in vain they appealed to
the king. Their remonstrances were unheard. During the sitting of the
Hungarian diet of 1843–44, the district of Turopolya, in Croatia,
addressed a petition to that assembly on this subject. The county of
Zágráb, the largest county in Croatia, likewise addressed to the
county of Pest in Hungary, February 20, 1846, a very earnest letter,
relating the acts of illegality and violence which had been committed
in that county, with the connivance and assistance of the authorities,
and calling on the Hungarians, in the name of the ancient ties which
bound the two countries, to join with them in earnestly petitioning
the king for the redress of this injustice, their own appeals having
been wholly without effect.
Footnote 34:
The young prince confesses to some scruples with regard to the first
project. He suggests, that it might “perhaps” not be thought
“suitable” for a government to abandon its subjects, “a portion of
whom, at least, are well disposed, to all the horrors of an
insurrection.” It is probable that these plans did not originate with
the Palatine, but were dictated to him at Vienna.
Footnote 35:
An attempt was likewise made, by the emissaries from Vienna, to excite
an insurrection in the North of Hungary, among the Slovacs; but with
little success. A band of marauders was, by the aid of money from
Vienna, got together, who committed some depredations in the county of
Trencsén; but they were speedily suppressed. A company of three
hundred of the Presburg National Guard was sufficient for this
purpose.
Footnote 36:
See HEEREN’S Researches among the monuments and concerning the
commercial relations of the ancient nations of Asia and Europe.
Footnote 37:
LANDSEER’S Sabæan Researches.
Footnote 38:
Herodotus, § 89 of Thalia.
Footnote 39:
See Herodotus, 108 of Erato.
Footnote 40:
Herodotus.
Footnote 41:
See Dr. TEFT’S Hungary and Kossuth, p. 337.
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