London, Friday, March 18, 1853 


Parliament will adjourn to-day, for the Easter recess, until April 
4th. 

In a former letter I reported, according to a generally accredited 
rumor, that Libényi’s wife had been flogged by the Austrians at 
Pesth.°?? I have since ascertained that he was never married, and 
likewise that the story circulated in the English press, saying that he 
had attempted to revenge his father, who had been ill-treated by the 
Austrians, is wholly unfounded. He acted exclusively under the 
influence of political motives, and retained to the last hour a firm 
and heroic demeanor. 

You will, ere this, have received with the English papers the reply 
of Kossuth to Mazzini’s declaration.* For my part, I am of opinion 
that Kossuth has only made a bad case still worse. ‘The contradictions 
in his first and his last declaration” are so palpable that I need not 
insist on urging them here. Besides, there is a repulsive heteroge- 
neousness in the language of the two documents, the former being 
written in the Oriental hyperbolics of the Prophet, and the latter in 
the casuistic pleading-style of a lawyer.