The manufacturing interests in Hungary anxiously wish, and must wish, a revolution, because manufacturing industry is entirely ruined now by Austria.  All favour, encouragement, and aid, which the national government imparted to industry, is not only withdrawn, but replaced by the old system,—­which is, neither to allow Hungary free trade, so as to buy manufactured articles where they can be had in the best quality or at the cheapest price, nor to permit manufacturing at home; but to preserve Hungary in the position of a colonial market—­a condition always regarded as insupportable, and sufficient motive for a revolution, as you yourselves from your own history know.

The commercial interest anxiously desire a revolution, because there exists, in fact, no active commerce in Hungary, the Hungarian commerce being degraded into a mere broker-ship of Vienna.

All those who have yet in their hands the Hungarian bank notes issued by my government, must wish a revolution; because Austria, alike foolish as criminal, has declared them to be without value—­thus they cannot be restored to value but by a revolution.  The amount of those bank notes in the hands of the people is yet about twenty millions of dollars.  No menaces, no cruelty can induce the people to give it up to the usurper; they put it into bottles and bury it in the earth.  They say:  it is good money when Kossuth comes home.  But while no menaces of Austria can induce the people to give up this treasure of our impending revolution, a single line of mine, sent home, is obeyed, and the money is treasured up where I have designated.

Do you now understand, gentlemen, by what motive I say that once at home in command—­if once our struggle is commenced, I do not want your material aid, and neither wish nor would accept all your millions—­but that I want your material aid to get home, and to get home in such a way as will inspire confidence in my people, by seeing me bring home the only thing which it has not—­ARMS!

But I am asked, where will I land?  That, of course, I will not say—­perhaps directly at Vienna, like a Montgolfier, in a balloon; but one thing I may say, because that is no secret:—­remember that all Italy is a sea-coast, and that Italy has the same enemy as Hungary—­that Italy is the left wing of that army of which Hungary is the right wing, and that in Italy 40,000 Hungarian soldiers exist, as also, in general, in the Austrian army 140,000 Hungarians.  More I can, and will not say on the subject.

But I will say that all the amount of taxation the people of Hungary formerly had to pay was but four and a half million dollars, and now it has to pay sixty-five million dollars; that landowners offer their land to the government, to get rid of the land tax, which is larger than all the revenue; that we have raised 600,000 hundredweight of tobacco—­now, the monopoly of tobacco being introduced, the people no longer smokes and has burnt its tobacco seed.