London, 10 March 1853‘ 

I have received your last lines. You will have read Kossuth’s 
various statements.° Even before Mazzini’s statement was pub- 
lished I knew that he [Kossuth] had written a most embittered 
private letter about Kossuth to one of his friends here, an 
Englishman.’ In connection with this I wrote the following to the 
Daily New-York Tribune: * ‘As Mr Mazzini himself has now broken 
the ice I may as well state that Kossuth disowned his own 
document under the pressure of his Paris friends. This is not the 
first symptom, in Kossuth’s past career, of vacillating weakness, 
inextricable contradictions and false duplicity. He possesses all the 
attractive virtues, but also all the feminine faults, of the Artist 
character. He is a great artist “en paroles”." I recommend Mr 

a hard - > singleness of mind -¢ The original has 1852.-4 Two statements 
published in various English newspapers denied his participation in the Milan 
uprising. See in particular: ‘M. M. Kossuth and Mazzini and The Times’, ‘A Letter 
from Kossuth’, The Daily News, Nos. 2105 and 2117, 18 February and 4 March 
1853. See also this volume, pp. 283-84. - © ‘A letter from Mazzini’?, The Daily News, 
No. 2115, 2 March 1853. -f Mayne Reid - 8 L. Kossuth, ‘In the Name of the 
Hungarian Nation.—To the Soldiers Quartered in Italy (February 1853)’, The 
Times, No. 21348, 10 February 1853. - in words 

Szemere’s lately published biographies “Batthyaény, Géorgey and 
Kossuth to those who, unwilling to bow to popular superstition, are 
anxious to form a matter-of-fact judgment.’** I sign all my 
articles. Attacks will now. follow, so I shall have an opportunity to 
go deeper en matiére.> I should be obliged if you would communicate 
to me in good time any news you hear about the emigrants, 
particularly as regards the par nobile fratrum With a couple of 
pieces of such information I can always buy myself the right to 
deal with the matter itself in the Tribune. 

Quant a° Zerffi, whom I have not seen for a fortnight, I told 
him at any rate that if I knew Kossuth personally I would have felt 
it was my duty to warn him against Bangya. It seems to me that 
Zerffi is talkative and somewhat indiscreet. But I do not by any 
means believe that he is to be placed on the same level as Bangya, 
but that he is much more honourable. 

2,000 copies of my Revelations Concerning the Cologne Trial (sent 
to Switzerland on 6 December 1852)* were confiscated on the 
Baden border 3 months later. I am convinced that Bangya had 
something to do with that too. Cvest un infdme qu’il faut écraser! 

Pulszky went to America about 4 weeks ago. I think Kossuth 
sent him there to restore the renown he has lost with the Press 
and to intrigue against his opponents. Pulszky will try to get me too 
a bad name with the New-York Tribune, but I prophesy no great 
success for him. 

I remain yours most respectfully 
Ch. Williams