ellect of Lovassy
was completely shattered. His release found him in a state bordering on
idiocy, in which he has ever since continued.

In 1839, Mr. Pulszky was sent as deputy to the Diet from his native
county of Saros. In this Diet, the framing of a commercial code was
proposed. Mr. Pulszky was on the Committee appointed to consider this
subject. He was likewise a member of the Committee appointed for the
codification of the criminal law. After the close of the Diet, Mr.
Pulszky repaired to Heidelberg, to study more fully the subject of the
criminal law with the celebrated Mittermaier. The committee intrusted
with the work of the codification of the criminal law of Hungary,
closed its labors in 1843. Mr. Pulszky did not offer himself as a
candidate for re-election to the Diet. In Hungary, the deputies to the
Diet are obliged to vote in conformity with the instructions of their
constituents. The county of Saros, which Mr. Pulszky had represented,
was a conservative county; and as his principles allied him with the
liberal party, he thus often found himself placed in a false position.
He therefore devoted himself to serving the cause of reform in Hungary,
by his pen. He wrote constantly for the _Pesti Hirlap_, the journal
edited by Kossuth. The character of this journal, and the objects of its
editor, are thus described by Szilagyi, a political opponent, in a work
published at Pesth in 1850; "In 1841 a strange thing happened. He
[Kossuth] who had been imprisoned for editing a journal, came out on the
1st of January of that year as editor of the _Pesti Hirlap_. The first
number of this paper betrayed that it was the organ of the Opposition,
and in a short time it had obtained a reputation which could hardly have
been expected. In reality Kossuth conducted the editorship with much
ability. His leading articles, the stereotyped publications of the
wishes of his heart, scourged the abuses which existed in the counties
and in the cities. The aim of these articles was to raise the importance
of the burgher class, to overthrow the privileges of the nobility--in a
word, _first_, Reform, _secondly_ Reform--a hundred times, Reform."

In 1848, after the Revolutions of Paris and Vienna, while the
ministerial question yet remained to be settled in Hungary, Mr. Pulszky
was sent to Pesth, together with Klauzal and Szemere, by the Archduke
Stephen, the Palatine of Hungary, to take suitable measures for the
maintenance of order. Some