Jánossy Dénes: A Kossuth-emigráció Angliában és Amerikában 1851-1852, I. kötet (Budapest, 1940)

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through France directly to England, and to land from Havre to Southampton, having the warm desire to thank personally for the protection which the public opinion of the highminded people of England pleased to throw in the balance of his destiny. Arrived here yesterday, his Excellency immediately applied to M. le Prefet of this department to grant him and family free passage through France. M. le Prefet judged convenient to report to Paris by telegraph to the ministry, but the action of the telegraph being hindered by the misty weather, an answer has not yet arrived. So, not being able to give you exact information about the issue, or, in case of granted passage, about the time of his Excellency's arrival at Southampton, still I feel gratified to be organ of communication of his said design, and of his firm intention to go, in every case, for some few days to England; which, should he be not permitted to execute directly from Marseilles, he has decided to proceed immediately to Gibraltar, and hence to visit England, and ask for an asylum for his children there while he proceeds to the United States, to thank personally for the most generous aid and assistance which the people, Congress, and Government of the United States honoured him with. His Excellency left Kutayah with the confident hope that the sacred cause which it is his glory to represent, cannot fail to have a future yet, being honoured as it is by the powerful sympathy of the English race, that mighty, great, and glorious guardian of justice, right, and freedom in both hemispheres. I have the honour [stb.]. 49. Marseille, 1851 szeptember 29. Kossuth kiáltványa) a marseille-i polgársághoz. Nyomtatvány. The Times, London, 1851 október 7. Citizens, the government of the French Republic having refused me permission to traverse France, the people of Marseilles, yielding to the impulse of one of those generous in-