accompanying copy of a note from the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires at this Court, requesting that an investigation might be made into the circumstances of the assault committed upon Marshal Haynau on the occasion of his visit to the brewery of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co.; and I am to request that you will lay Baron Koller's note before Secretary Sir George Grey for his consideration. I am, &c. H. Waddington, Esq. H. U. ADDINGTON. No. 4.-Mr. Magenis to Viscount Palmerston.-(Received Sept. 23.) (Extract.) Vienna, September 17, 1850. PRINCE SCHWARZENBERG alluded to-day, for the first time, to the late attack on General Haynau in London, and inquired what Her Majesty's Government intended doing to discover and punish the instigators and perpetrators of that wanton and cowardly assault. I replied, that the only information which I had on this subject was derived from the newspapers, and that as yet I had received no instructions on the subject from your Lordship. I expressed, on my own account, a very sincere regret and the strongest disgust for what had occurred, feelings which I was happy to see appeared to be partaken of by the great majority of Englishmen. Prince Schwarzenberg then proceeded to say that he was glad to see that most of the newspapers in London, even those which habitually were opposed to Austrian policy, had united in stigmatizing this disgraceful breach of our national hospitality in the person of an Austrian subject of a very high position; he said that Baron Koller had addressed to your Lordship a note on the subject, though General Haynau had declined making any personal complaint, and that he, Prince Schwarzenberg, had since addressed a temperate but firm instruction to the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires on the subject; he said that the present moment, when your Lordship was probably absent from London, or only came there for short periods, was unfavourable for a speedy answer; but he concluded that, as Great Britain sent her fleets to demand redress for insults offered to her own subjects, alacrity would be shown in granting satisfaction where insult had been offered to the subject of a foreign nation in England. With the exception of this latter expression, I must do his Highness the justice to state that he spoke with great moderation on this subject. He said he was convinced that it would be found that foreign refugees in London were at the bottom of this attack. General Haynau has arrived here, and I learn from a person who has seen and conversed with him on this subject, that he does not speak with any acrimony. He says, upon what grounds I know not, that he is convinced that the late attack upon him was not got up by the Hungarian refugees. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B. SIR, ARTHUR C. MAGENIS. No. 5.-Mr. Waddington to Mr. Addington. Whitehall, September 24, 1850. I HAVE laid before Secretary Sir George Grey your letter to me of the 17th instant, inclosing a copy of a note from the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires at this Court, dated the 5th instant, and I am directed to express the deep feelings of concern and regret with which Her Majesty's Government regard the disgraceful attack upon General Haynau which forms the subject of Baron Koller's letter. Though the prompt interference of the police happily rescued the Baron from all immediate danger, Secretary Sir George Grey lost no time in giving orders for his protection from any further insult or annoyance, and he has reason to believe that the General expressed his entire satisfaction with the steps taken by the police for that purpose, as well as with their conduct upon the occasion of the outrage itself. The determination of General Haynau not to prefer or prosecute any charge before a magistrate in connexion with this affair, which is mentioned by Baron Koller, was communicated to Sir George Grey immediately after the event; together with the fact that the General and his friends, when desired by the police, at the time of their coming to his assistance, to point out the criminal parties, had positively refused to do so, or to give any description or other information which might lead to their appre hension. Sir George Grey regrets that this forbearance, however creditable to General Haynau, threw insuperable difficulties in the way of a summary prosecution before a magistrate, which cannot by law be instituted except upon the complaint of the party aggrieved. The police not being present on Messrs. Barclay's premises, did not themselves witness any of the acts of personal violence; and up to the present time it has not been possible to obtain evidence, clearly identifying any parties as implicated in this scandalous proceeding, without which it is obvious that no indictment could be preferred. Even if that obstacle were overcome, a prosecution by indictment could scarcely be commenced with a reasonable prospect of success, in the voluntary absence of the only persons injured, whose testimony is expected in such cases both by the court and the jury. Under these circumstances, Sir George Grey does not think that a judicial investigation of this unhappy affair would be followed by satisfactory results. With reference to the suggestion in the letter of the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, that Messrs. Barclay and Perkins should be called upon to institute an inquiry in their own establishment, I am directed to inform you that the assistance of the police was offered to Messrs. Barclay and Perkins for that purpose; but Sir George Grey regrets to learn by a letter from Mr. Barclay, that the inquiry which was instituted by Messrs. Barclay and Perkins has failed to lead to the discovery of the instigators of the outrage, or even of the principal actors in it. I am, &c. H. U. Addington, Esq. M LE BARON, H. WADDINGTON. No. 6. Prince Schwarzenberg to Baron Koller.-(Communicated to Viscount Palmerston by Baron Koller, September 24.) Vienne, le 12 Septembre, 1850. J'AI l'honneur de vous accuser réception de vos rapports des 5 et 6 de ce mois, par lesquels vous m'avez rendu compte de la démarche que vous avez cru devoir faire auprès du Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique au sujet de l'indigne attentat dont a été victime le Général d'Artillerie Baron Haynau. Nous nous abstiendrons de faire ressortir ici tout ce qu'il y a d'odieux et de révoltant dans l'infâme guet-à pens qui a été tendu à l'illustre Général, puisque l'opinion de l'Angleterre et du monde civilisé tout entier a déjà fait justice de cette violation inouïe des droits de l'hospitalité. Mais ce n'est pas à cela seul que doit se borner la satisfaction à laquelle nous croyons devoir nous attendre des sentiments de justice et de loyauté qui distinguent le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique. Nous ne saurions nous empêcher d'insister auprès de lui pour que l'enquête que vous avez provoquée par votre note à Lord Palmerston du 5 de ce mois, soit poursuivie avec toute l'énergie requise, et de manière à ce que non seulement une peine proportionnée à la gravité de l'attentat, soit infligée à ceux qui l'ont matériellement commis, mais aussi que le bras inflexible de la justice atteigne les véritables auteurs du crime, qui, selon toutes les probabilités, se sont cachés dans l'ombre, et n'ont fait que diriger de loin la main des instruments qui ont frappé. Le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique est d'un côté trop intéressé à venger d'une manière éclatante la grave atteinte portée à la réputation de terre hospitalière à laquelle l'Angleterre attache tant de prix, et il est de l'autre côté gardien trop jaloux de la sûreté de ses propres sujets à l'étranger, pour que nous ne soyons persuadés d'avance qu'il sera promptement et complètement fait droit à la réclamation que vous êtes chargé de lui adresser. Veuillez, M. le Baron, donner lecture de cette dépêche à M. le Principal Secrétaire d'Etat de Sa Majesté Britannique, Recevez, &c. Le Baron Koller. SCHWARZENBERG, SIR, No. 7.-Mr. Addington to Mr. Waddington. 1 Foreign Office, September 28, 1850. WITH reference to my letter of the 18th, and to your reply of the 24th instant, relative to the assault committed upon Marshal Haynau on the occasion of his visit to the brewery of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you a despatch from Prince Schwarzenberg upon the same subject, which has been communicated to his Lordship by the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires at this Court; and I am to request that in laying the same before Secretary Sir George Grey, you will move him to enable Viscount Palmerston to inform Baron Koller what steps Her Majesty's Government are able to take in the matter to which Prince Schwarzenberg's despatch relates. H. Waddington, Esq. I am, &c. H. U. ADDINGTON. No. 8.--Viscount Palmerston to Baron Koller. Foreign Office, September 30, 1850. THE Undersigned, &c., having referred to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department the communication of the 5th from Baron Koller, &c., requesting an investigation into the circumstances of the assault committed upon General Haynau on the occasion of his visit to the brewery of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., has now the honour to transmit to Baron Koller the accompanying copy of a letter upon that subject, which has been addressed to this office by direction of Sir George Grey. The Undersigned, &c. Baron Koller. SIR, PALMERSTON. No. 9.-Viscount Palmerston to Mr. Magenis. Foreign Office, September 30, 1850. I HEREWITH transmit to you, for your information, a copy of a note which I have received from the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires at this Court, calling attention to the assault committed upon Marshal Haynau on the occasion of his visit to the brewery of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co. I likewise inclose a copy of my reply. A. C. Magenis, Esq. I am, &c. PALMERSTON. No. 10.-Mr. Magenis to Viscount Palmerston.—(Rec. October 1.) PRINCE SCHWARZENBERG inquired from me this morning, whether I had received any communication from your Lordship respecting the late assault on General Haynau at the brewery of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins; and whether any measures had been taken by Her Majesty's Government to obtain redress for that wanton act? I replied, that it was only a week ago that I had reported to your Lordship the first and only conversation that I had with him on this subject, and that it was therefore impossible that I could have received your Lordship's answer to my communication; I added, that I perceived in the Paris correspondence of one of the Vienna papers of this morning (the "Lloyd"), the statement that your Lordship had expressed to Baron Koller, the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in London, your sincere regret at what had occurred, but that it was out of the power of Her Majesty's Government to accord further satisfaction than that which Baron Haynau was justified in claiming from a British tribunal. I did not know what degree of credit was to be attached to that correspondence. Prince Schwarzenberg proceeded to say, that the correspondence to which I alluded was incorrect; that Baron Koller, as far as his last accounts went, had received no answer to the note which he had addressed to your Lordship immediately after the outrage on General Haynau. His Highness in reply to my observations as to the legal difficulties, stated that it was impossible there should not exist means of identifying the ringleaders of this attack, if Her Majesty's Government were disposed to employ them; he repeated what I have already reported respecting the use we made of our fleets to obtain. redress for violence offered to Ionians, subjects of Her Majesty; he inquired from me what Her Majesty's Government would say, if insult and violence were offered to an Englishman by the mob here, either because he was, or was supposed to be, a public functionary accused by our own press of acts of cruelty in the administration of the Government of one of our colonies; and he concluded by saying, that if a disposition on the part of Her Majesty's Government to bring the delinquents in question to punishment was not shown, and he was not enabled to prove their desire to grant redress to the offended honour of the country, he could not answer that some deplorable excess of the above nature might not occur. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B. SIR, ARTHUR C. MAGENIS. No. 11.-Mr. Waddington to Mr. Addington. Whitehall, October 1, 1850. I HAVE laid before Secretary Sir George Grey your letter of the 28th ultimo, inclosing a copy of a despatch from Prince Schwarzenberg, relative to the assault committed upon General Haynau, on the occasion of his visit to the brewery of Messrs. Barclay and Co. My letter of the 24th ultimo will have informed Viscount Palmerston of |