KOSSUTH LAJOS: (1802-1894) Hungarian Politician, Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Revolution ...

KOSSUTH LAJOS: (1802-1894) Hungarian Politician, Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Revolution of 1848-49. A good and clean A.L.S., `L. Kossuth´, two pages, 8vo, Nottinghill, London, 14th March, n.y., to Stenthal & Co, Bradford. Kossuth sends a lengthy letter, claiming and defending the rights of a Hungarian who has suffered undeserved arrests and all kind of difficulties trying to emigrate to America, stating in part `..I find included an autograph copy of yours without date, addressed to the secretary of a supposed committee for the relief of Hungarian refugees, requesting information about a certain Jacob Weinberger… As no such supposed committee exists, I have myself examined the papers of the said Weinberger, and find… Dr. Salomon preacher of the Israelite community in Hamburg attesting that Weinberger, native from Hungary, was upon unfounded suspicion arrested for two years at Ratibor, and got at last the permission to go to England with the view to effect his passage to America… I find that the police at Ratibor, having him arrested, confiscated or rather sequestrated the money he had… it appears that his money was not returned to him… with this unjust imprisonment all he could get was the advice to make a lawsuit for his money, while on the other hand he was prevented from doing so by receiving orders to leave Prussia in four days´ Kossuth after explaining in detail all he has been able to decipher from the documents received, incensed, states `a scandalous method of administrating justice indeed, very near to a legalised robbery… ´ A letter of interesting content. With blank integral leaf. Traces of former affixing to the fourth blank page. Light folds and very few very small stains not affecting the signature, otherwise VG £600-900