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circumstances well calculated to Inspire doulit, and against demands, urged 

 with such gravity, and supported by so formidable an array. His Imperial 

 Majesty felt, that he should be no longer an independent Prince, if he 

 consented to be anything less than the sovereign of his own dominions. 



While thus regarding the political position and conduct of the Sublime 

 Porte, in reference to other powers. His Majesity's generosity in providing 

 for the wants of the fugitives, thus unexpectedly, and in so great numbers, 

 throwing themselves upon his protection, is considered equally worthy of 

 admiration. 



On the other hand, it is not difficult to conceive, what may have been 

 the considerations, which led the Sublime Porte to consent to remove these 

 persons from its frontiers, require them to repair to the interior, and there 

 to remain for a limited time. 



A great attempt at revolution against the established authorities of a 

 neighboring state, with which the Sublime Porte was at peace, and with 

 wdiich it desired to preserve friendly relations, had only then been sup- 

 pressed ; the chief actors in that attempt had escaped into the dominions 

 of the Porte. To permit them to remain upon its frontiers, where they 

 might project new undertakings against that state, and into which, if 

 circumstances favored, they could enter in arms at any time, — might well 

 have been considered dangerous to both Governments ; and the Sublime 

 Porte, while protecting them, might certainly also prevent their occupying 

 any such position in its own dominions, as should give just cause and 

 alarm to neighboring and friendly Powers. Their removal to certain 

 localities might also be rendered desirable by consideations of conveui- 

 ence to the Sublime Porte itself, upon whole charity and generosity such 

 numbers had so suddenly become dependent. 



The detention of these persons for a short period of time, in order that 

 they might not at once repair to other parts of Europe, to renew their 

 operations, was a request that it was not unnatural to make, and was 

 certainly, in the decretion of the Sublime Porte to grant, without any 

 sacrifice of its dignity, or any want of kindness towards the Refugees. 



But, at this time, all possible apprehension of danger or disturbance, 

 to result from their liberation, has ceased. 



It is now more than a year since the last Hungarian army surrendered, 

 and the attempt at revolution, and the estabishment of an independent 

 government, in which they were engaged, were most sternly crushed by 

 the united forces of two of the greatest powers of Europe, 



Their chief associates are, like themselves, in exile, or they have perished 

 on the field, or on the scaffold, or by military execution, their estates are 

 confiscated, their families dispersed, and every castle, fortress and city of 

 Hungary, is in the possession of the forces of Austria. 



They themselves, by their desire to remove so far from the scene of 

 their late conflict, declare, that they entertain no hope, or thought, of 

 other similar attempts, and wish only to be premitted to withdraw them- 

 selves altogether from all Europan association, and seek new homes in the 

 vast interior of the United States. 



For their attempt at independence they have most dearly paid, and now^ 

 broken in fortune and in heart, without home or country, a band of exiles, 

 whose only future is a tearful remembrance of the past, wdiose only 

 request is to spend their remaning days in obscure industry, — they wait 

 the permission of His Imperial Majesty, to remove themselves, and all that 



