with interest, if they, in turn, should ever
get a chance of dictating terms.  During
the months of July and August, the Austrian
government begins to recover self-
confidence, and secretly encourages resistance
in all quarters to the Revolutionary government
at Pesth. The two cabinets, however,
continue to avoid an open rupture; and the
Emperor's authority is assailed under cover
of the King of Hungary's.  With the first
days of September, a new epoch begins.
Each government drops the mask, and
hostile preparations are pushed forward on
both sides.  In the first week of that month,
the Austrian Lieutenant-General Hrabow-
sky, who commands the imperial troops
throughout the comitats of Croatia and
Slavonia, spontaneously surrenders his
command to Jellachich: who at once assumes
it, in the name of the Emperor, and is
forthwith master of a compact and well-organised
military power. On the 10th of September,
the Hungarian Diet despatches another
deputation to the Emperor, who receives the
Magyar deputies at Schoenbrun, the
Versailles of Austria, the famous residence of
Maria Theresa.  The language of the
deputation is haughty, insolent, dictatorial.  It
summons the King of Hungary to Pesth,
demands the royal sanction to the Hungarian
paper money already issued, and
claims that the military resources of the
Empire shall be placed at the disposal of the
Magyar cabinet, for resistance to the Croats.
The language of the King-emperor is cold,
cautious, evasive.  The state of his health
will not permit him to visit Pesth at present.
As to the paper money, he will consider.
He has already advised the Ban of Croatia
not to reject any conciliatory overtures
which may be addressed to him by the
Hungarians.  In profound and ominous
silence, the deputation withdraws.  On
quitting the halls and gardens of Schoenbrun,
each deputy tears from his hat the Austro-
Hungarian colours, and replaces them by
the red cockade.  The fiction of revolutionary
government carried on in the king's
name is at an end.

On the llth of September, the great Ban
led his army of Croats across the Drave,
advanced without opposition to the Danube,
and planted the imperial standard on the
fortress of Essig.  His march was preceded
by a proclamation, in which he declared
that he entered the plains of Hungary, not as
a foe, but as a friend not to withdraw from
the Magyar race a single privilege to which
the royal sanction had recently been given,
but to rescue the constitution of Hungary
and her sister kingdoms from the tyranny
of a rebellious, odious, and incapable faction.
Meanwhile, the Emperor refused to sanction
the paper money issued by the Hungarian
government, and the Hungarian government
replied by proclaiming guilty of high treason
and to be punishable with death, all who
refused to accept the new assignats as legal
tender.  The troops were, at the same time,
ordered to the Croatian frontier. Meszaros,
the Magyar minister of war, took command
of them in person.  But a great part of his
army was composed of Slavs and Germans,
whose disposition he could not trust; and
the Transylvanian regiment, composed of
Wallacks, mutinied at Szegedin, whither
they had been led by forced marches, and
returned to their old quarters.  Batthiany,
at his wits' end, called the cabinet together.
It met at the house of Kossuth.  Szechenyi
was present with all the other ministers.
Silent, motionless, his face buried in his
hands, he appeared unconscious of all that
was passing around him.  Suddenly he rose,
and left the room, without a word to any
of his colleagues.   Ten minutes afterwards
he returned to fetch his portfolio, which
he had forgotten.  Seizing it with a
convulsive grasp, he then turned to Kossuth,
and said: " You won't hang me, will you,
Kossuth?"

"Why should I hang you?" asked
Kossuth, laughing.

"But promise me, promise me, that I shall
not be hanged by your orders!"

"Well; since you insist on it, I promise."
"Thanks! thanks!"

He pressed the hand of Kossuth, thrust
his portfolio under his arm, and hastened
out of the room again in great agitation.

This anecdote is cited by M. Saint-
Rene Taillandier, from the History of the
Hungarian Revolution by Mr. Daniel
Iranyi, to whom Kossuth himself related
it.  "About the same time, perhaps it
was the evening of that very day," adds
M. Saint-Rene Taillandier, " some of the
count's most intimate friends were met
together, and talking with him.  The
conversation naturally turned on what
was then occupying all minds.  The count
himself, strangely excited, his face bathed
in tears, his eyes flashing with prophetic
fire, exclaimed: ' The stars are dripping
blood. I see blood everywhere, nothing but
blood!  Brother will massacre brother, race
exterminate race.  Barbarian hordes will
reduce to ashes the entire fabric we have so
long and lovingly laboured to build up.
My life is overthrown.  On the vault of