Austria in 1848-49; Being a History of the Late Political Movements in Vienna, Milan, Venice, and Prague with Details of the Campaigns of Lombardy and Novara a Full Account of the Revolution in Hungary and Historical Sketches of Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the recent nominations of administrators of counties, which they held to be an unconstitutional measure of the most dangerous tendency. Kossuth, delegate of the county of Pesth, regarded as the leader of the Opposition in the Lower House, made a lengthy speech on the occasion, and concluded by reading the draft of an address embodying the sentiments of his party. He was answered by Count Stephen Szechenyi, who sat in the Lower House as delegate of the county of Moson (Wieselburg), and professing, at least, not to belong to any party. The address which he proposed, after the usual expression of thanks, alluded in general terms to the gravamina, with the remark that the Diet would subsequently send up a representation respecting them. He agreed, however, with Kossuth, that, both on account of these gravamina and the numerous measures that required to be taken into consideration, his majesty should be requested to summon a Diet to meet annually in the city of Pesth. On the 27th, after a six-days' debate, Kossnth'a motion was carried, but only by a single vote (twenty-eight to twenty-seven); and on the 1st December this resolution was confirmed at a dietal sitting, and the address thus voted sent up to the magnates. On the 4th of December, the address thus voted by the delegates was read in the Chamber of Magnates, and gave rise to a six-days' debate?all the amendments proposed by the Conservatives having been carried by considerable majorities. On the 13th, the address was sent back to the delegates with a renuncium, in which the magnates stated that they would prefer laying before the throne the simple expression of their thanks, without alluding to the gravamina, especially as these gravamina would have to be considered and submitted to his majesty during the course of th...