Western Literary Magazine.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUNGARY.

Original.

BY THE EDITOR.

(See Engraving.)

WHEN the news of the French Revolution reached the ears of the Liberalists of Hungary, one of them enthusistically exclaimed: "Next autumn our fields will no more be tilled by soccage-feudal institutions will disappear in Europe."

This reasoning was deemed wild in Vienna. Though some of them imagined that France might, as in the days of Napoleon, attack the thrones of Europe, the men then filling high places little imagined that the hearts of so many in their midst were as fully prepared for revolution, as were the people of Paris the week before it occurred. Many of the Barons, Counts, and Professors were opposed to the policy of Prince Metternich, and even the Archduchess Sophia, it was publicly asserted, was favorable to the liberal views of the Opposition. The secret police had been too much feared to allow as much freedom of expression as of thought; but the news from France seemed to dispel this, and Kossuth, on the 19th of March, openly declared, in his speech before the Diet, that the Hungarian Constitution could never be free from the stabs of Austrian policy till all the provinces of Austria should enjoy alike constitutional guaranties. This fell like a spark of fire into a magazine.

On the memorable 13th of March, Vienna was the scene of insurrection, and the despotic Metternich fled. On the 15th, a deputation