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[Copy.] Mr. Marsh to Secretary of State. 



[Extract. — No. 9.] 



Legation of the United States of America, 



Constantinople, 19th June, 1850. 

 Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State. 



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"At the request of Governor Kossuth I asked leave for the refugees t* 

 enter the military service of Servia. To 'this the Minister replied', that 

 the Porte must ultimately be responsible for the conduct of the refugees if 

 it permitted or sanctioned their employment ; that Servia was a frontier 

 ])rovince, and their employment there would furnish a plausible pretext of 

 complaint to Austria. 



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" The conclusion to which the Porte had arrived, he informed me, was 

 this — the monthly stipend allowed to the refugees remaining at Shumla 

 would be discontinued and both officers and men set at liberty ; those who 

 elect, to remain in Turkey, receiving a donation of $11, and those who 

 leave the country, $22 each." 



"This latter sum would nearly suffice to pay their passage to America,, 

 if there were now at Constantinople vessels constructed and fitted out for 

 the conveyance of steerage passengers, but there are none such in port, nor 

 indeed are they to be found in the Mediterranean. The refugees who 

 speak French or Italian, will be able with such employment as they can 

 ]-)ick up, and the donation flbove mention, to subsist some weeks : those 

 who are acquainted with Maygar and German only, as is the case with 

 many of them, can get no employment and must consequently suffer." 



[Copy.] Mr. Marsh to Secretary of State. 



[Extract. — No. 10.] 



Legation of the United States, 

 Constantinople, 4th July, ISoO. 

 lion. John M. Clayton, &c., &c. 



Sir: * * * * * 



" Since my last despatch, the Minister of Foreign Affairs offered me to 

 send all the Hungarian refugees, excepting those detained in Asia Minor, 

 who wish to go to America, (about two hundred in number,) to England, 

 at the expense of the Sultan, if I would undertake, in behalf of the 

 American government to transport them from England to America. I 

 regret I had not authority to accept this liberal propcsiil, but was of course 

 obliged to decline it." 



