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Contents

Instead of Preface, a few Hungarian statistics

SEVEN LETTERS TO E. COBDEN, Esq.

Letter I.
What external and internal difficulties have for ten years past condemned Hungary to silence and complete inactivity

Letter II.
More complete explanations, with regard to classes, sects, and races, of the rights and advantages enjoyed by the inhabitants of Hungary before 1849, followed by an account of the arbitrary and despotic innovation of the Austrian government

Letter III.
The absorbing, centralizing, Germanizing system adopted by Francis Joseph, dates from the time of Joseph II. Difference between the two epochs

Letter IV.
Faithful picture of the confusion which the provisional ordinances of the Austrian system has occasioned in Hungary with respect to all matters, public and private, moral and intellectual. The public debt enormously increased, the sources of wealth exhausted, the empire soon to be put up for sale

Letter V.
Abroad, the aspect of Europe is more favourable; in Hungary difficulties disappear; the reconciliation between the inhabitants now an accomplished fact. Hungary is awakening. She begins to speak and act. Enumeration of very significant facts. Hungary does not desire liberty for herself alone, but for all the empire

Letter VI.
The question of nationalities. Politico-historical refutation of the accusation made by Austria that the Hungarians had oppressed the other races. The Hungarians in sharing with them all their rights, gave them more than they retained for themselves. A few patriotic words on the peculiar merits of the Hungarian race, which are especially due to it in the general history of Hungary

Letter VII.
Constitutional guarantees of Hungary with regard to the dynasty: royal oath, coronation diploma, treaties of peace, laws - all in the form of synallagmatic contracts. Our principal rights. Character of our admirable constitution. What Hungary wants? A few words by way of epilogue

Proclamation of Napoleon I. (in 1809) to the Hungarians
Memorial addressed to Lord Palmerston during the war in Italy
Memorial addressed to Count de Cavour during the war in Italy
Extracts from the Hungarian Corpus Juris, containing some of our constitutional and religious fundamental rights (from I. to XI.)

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