London, Tuesday, September 28, 1852 

The following are authentic facts with regard to the movements 
among the Italian and Hungarian emigration: 

Some time since the Hungarian Gen. Vetter traveled through all 
Italy on acommission from Kossuth and Mazzini with the passport of 
a painter who is a citizen of the United States. He was accompanied 
by the Hungarian cantatrice, Madame Ferenczi, who gave concerts. 
By this means he penetrated into the higher official circles, while the 
communications from Mazzini of which he was the bearer opened to 
him the doors of the secret societies. He traversed the entire country, 
from Turin and Genoa, by way of Milan, to Rome and Naples. He 
has lately returned to England and made his report, to the great 
astonishment of Mr. Mazzini, the archangel of the Democracy. The 
gist of Vetter’s statements is briefly that Italy has become perfectly 
materialistic; that the traffic in silk, oil, and other products of the 
country forms to such an extent the all-absorbing theme of the day, 
and that the middle class (Mazzini’s great reliance) reckon with such 
fearful exactness the expenses and losses which the revolution has 
occasioned, and accordingly seek so earnestly to repair the same by 
the most zealous devotion to industry, that it is absolutely impossible to 
think of a revolutionary movement being commenced by Italy. In that 
country, says Vetter in this document, no rising can take place until 
the French crater shall again vomit fire, especially as the revolu- 
tionary part of the population par excellence are discouraged by long 
persecution and by the continual failure of their plans, and, above 
all, have not the masses to support them. 

Upon this report of Vetter’s, Mazzini, after having raved so loudly 
and so foolishly against France, found himself compelled, volens 
nolens, once more to resign the initiative to the old Babylon. 

Movements of Mazzini and Kossuth 355 

But, having determined on again making a league with France, 
with what party do you suppose these gentlemen have begun to 
treat? With Mr. Louis Bonaparte. 

Kossuth, in accord with Mazzini, sent one Kiss to Paris, to enter 
into relations with the Bonapartists. Kiss had formerly been 
acquainted with the sons of Jér6me Bonaparte. He amuses himself in 
Paris, in coffee houses and other houses, hangs around Pierre 
Bonaparte, scatters incense before him, and writes splendid reports 
to Kossuth. Now, the liberation of Hungary by the firm of 
L. Napoleon and Kossuth, is no longer a matter of doubt. The chief 
of revolutionists has made an alliance of life and death with the 
“tyrant.” 

Previous to all this, the old Lelewel, the Pole, and Tadeusz 
Gorzowski, a Russian priest, had come to London in the name of the 
so-called Polish Centralization,” and had laid before Kossuth and 
Mazzini the plan for an insurrection, whose turning point should be 
the co-operation of Bonaparte. Their special friend in London was a 
Count Lanckoronski, who is also an imperial Russian agent, and 
their plan had the signal honor of being revised and corrected in 
St. Petersburg beforehand. This Count Lanckoronsk1 is now at Paris, 
to look after Kiss, whence he goes to Ostend to receive new instruc- 
tions from St. Petersburg. 

Kiss has sent to Kossuth from Paris all sorts of assurances, which 
would be at home in a book of fables, but which in the fabulous 
condition of French affairs are perhaps true. It is said that Kossuth 
has received an autograph letter from Louis Napoleon, inviting him 
to come to Paris. Kossuth is having copies of this letter circulated in all 
the counties of Hungary. In that country he has prepared everything 
for a general outbreak. Even royal-imperial officials are in the 
complot. Kossuth hopes to commence the affair in October. 

So far I have given you nothing more than an almost verbal 
repetition of what has been communicated to me. If now you ask 
what is my opinion of the matter, it is that Louis Bonaparte desires to 
kill two flies with a single blow. He intends to ingratiate himself with 
Kossuth and Mazzini, and then to betray them to the Austrians, in 
return for which the latter will give their consent to his assumption of 
the imperial crown of France. Besides, he thinks that Kossuth and 
Mazzini will lose all their influence in the revolutionary party as soon 
as it is known that they have been negotiating, or have formed a 
connection with him. Moreover, he finds among the Absolute 
Powers a strong opposition to his mounting the throne, and, 
adventurer as he is, it is very possible, though not very probable, that 
he is disposed to try his hand with the conspirators. 

As for what concerns Italy in particular, Louis Bonaparte looks 
forward to adding Lombardy and Venice to his own dominions, 
while Naples will fall to his cousin Murat. A fine prospect for 
Signor Mazzini! 

Having again touched upon Italy, let me communicate another 
piece of intelligence. The Countess Visconti, one of the heroines 
of the last Italian struggle for freedom, was here not long since 
and had a long conversation with Lord Palmerston. His Lordship 
told her that he hoped before the end of the present year to stand 
at the head of the British Government, and that Europe should 
then march toward a speedy transformation. Italy, especially, 
could no longer be left in the claws of Austria, because no country 
could, in the long run, be governed by powder and lead. In all 
this Palmerston gave out that he expected to find an ally in France. 
His desire was, however, that Lombardy, in case of a general 
movement, should at once be annexed to Piedmont, and the 
question of making it a republic be left entirely to the future. 

For my part, I am convinced that the veteran Palmerston is 
under the greatest illusions, and in particular does not understand 
that, even if he still possesses some influence in parliamentary 
coteries, he has none in the country itself. 

Written on September 28, 1852 Reproduced from the New-York 
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