The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

lest set a colour or a gen. And his last celebrated
sera seemed directed with Whale dell to the one
raids—of surrendering en maw, with ell his
ms, sad trnrr, and arms, so as to pia credit with
his enemies fur the importance of his submission, and
to retain in the fees of eastern Europe the reputation I
d • 6tlll embeeten amend.
The conduct of OdeoeT of rely shows how correct
ease ICOMUTIfe juegmeLt In eeteeming him as a
algae, bat mistreating him as a patriot. The
great Haagariaa statesmen preferred the staanchaese
it the polish (facer, but deeming it unwise to set
aside Giinoni, be divided the command., and thereby
eeedysed the final efforts for defence. Hossuni,
indeed, tad no choice, and therefore we must attri-
bute to necessity his selection of a mode of defence
which gave but sma:l promise of success. Every one
has reed his directions to the several commanders,
found is the baggage of Bast—his orders never to
hazard an action, but to limit efforts to harrassing the
enemy, cutting off his communication, and prolonging
the war.
This was all very well for the first campaign, and
spinet the 100,000 men that WINDISCHORATZ led
into Hungary; but spinet an overwhelming force of
400,000 men, supplied with all the resources of two
groat empires, a mere guerilla system of defence was
tapeless. 'I he only parallel to the invasion of Han-
pry by the combined forms of Austria and Russia is
to be met with in the Seven Years' War, when
FREDERIC Till GREAT was assailed on differeet rd's
by the armies of Ruda, of Aneria, of France,
and of Sweden. Eight hundred thousand men
menaced FIRDERIC, who had scarcely one hundred
tlicusand to oppose to them. Hid be adopted
the purely defensive and dilatory system, the
Prussian monarchy would hare died in 1757 the
death of Hungarian independence in 1819. But
FREDERIC attacked his enemies in detail, and with
the fierce determination of the soldier, eager to repel
invade's or perish in the attempt. In lieu of this
the Hungarian generals fought defensive, artillery
betties, with a foe necessarily superior to them in ar-
tillery. They never formed an infantry, nor fought
an infantry battle. They never attempted the stand-
up, hand-to-hand combat of the determined patriot.
They preferred trusting to the strategy of
Giiitoev, and his skill in keeping off close action
by hie 150 guns. 83131* insurrections fail for want of
discipline, and from their champions having none
of tU attributes of the regular soldier. The
Hungarian insurrection failed from being too stra-
tegic, too tactician, and from having been entrusted
to a mere professional soldier, such as GtiROET, who
evidently looked to a Russian sash and epaulettes as
a good exchange for Hungarian victory.
If the first emu of the loos of the campaign is to
be sought in the ciefecfive mode of defence, the dis-
union, and mutual jealousies of the Hungarian
chiefs, tl e next moot rflicleet cense is to by
found in the rivalry of Austrians and Hessians. I.
'was not a) much a skilful plan of co-operation that
directed the campaign, ati the evident desire of the
d.fferent armies to outstrip each other and decide the
war alone. And so evident wu this haste, that
GURGET it not to be pardoned for neglecting to take
advantage of it. The march of FASKIEWICH upon
Path and D..breezin has been criticised by military
men as idle. Tho aim was to outstrip HATNAU, who
was to be kept before Comorn by GoRGET. PaliKlE-
avicn's enterprise, however, did not prove futile, for
first of all it routed KOSSUTH and his presses for
manufacturing b ink notes; ar.d, secondly, it filled
HATNAII and the Austrians with such jealoney, that
they rushed headlong on from Raab to 'ftmesvar, as
if to be in at the death. Nothing can more fully
prove the defective constitution of the Hungarian
armies, and their want of the true pith of a defensive
army, infantry, than their suffering this advance.
The rivalry between PASKIEWICH and lIATNAII
was so great, that both pushed beyond the Theirs as
if they were running a race, and the Hungarians
found themselves pursued and pressed with a celerity
and a precipitancy quite unexampled and unexpected
on the pert of either Russian or Austrian tronps.
It is some, though small, comfort to the vanquished
to know, that the rivalry gives birth to in the
crushing of them is 14.1 y loog to solvivo their
defeat, nay, perhaps to avenge it.
One or two things are however, quite clear ; one is
that the Austrians alone could not have conquered.
HATNAU and the entire of the Austrian army would
hare been destroyed at Acs by 0630 xv, but for the
aid of PANIUTIN. Indeed, Gososir, so fierce, quick,
and successful in his blows at the Austrians, never
seems to have struck at a Revise division in earnest.
Be bad several opportunities, during his retreat. But
it is much to ho feared that he spared PseKla-
vital from the firer ; and that, like all Bclavonians
he looked to the Czar as his future and inevitable;
master.

However the affair wan managed oa the part of
Ramis, we must admit that it was managed with
skill. The Russians wear the laurel and appear as
coequerore, nay generous conqueror., for they treat
the Hungarian captives well. Wl.ilst to the Austrian,
HATNAU, is left the congeni..l tank of acting execu-
tioner. HAVIAII shooting noble Ilungarians at Arad,
Rumania flogging women at Milan, his lieutenants
shooting priests at Bologna and Venice—such are the
anti of Austrian heroism.