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London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

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raniiil,OT ilid Salsa goods. 2. All armed bodies, and the
steins, Neon, are &Plead, the Auls tined, the linden
of tile academie Isgke, and 12 students, to be eregive p ea
hoetkes. 3. Several individuals, yet to be med
.by se,_ are to be given up. 4. Duriag the duration of the
stp:3Bl the blockade all journals and newspapers are au-
iies
, with the seeptisa of the Wiener Zestung, which is
ID SW solely to official communioations. 6. All
f in the spits! are to be repond with legal doss
es to the corm of their trmdence. ' Those who have
se gummy MI ilamedistely to leave the city. 6. All clubs
me emended, and closed during the state of blockade. 7.
Ilmey penes who rain the above measures or is pone'
gift ef distarbenee or participation in the treks.
es Mispes of ethers. or who shall be seised whit
z=.lll his Mod% It siglOM to
on'[ 48 hodal law. For tho
adios eenditiens as term ours is greased
alter the mammas of this prodemation. In the mesa
ease I shall be Bowl o
adpt the wet geti sesseme,
and so Newel the 41W.t0
..to obedionen—Hener eadquartcmokret
=OM. 13, 1546, Prim tr Wientionoars.
The Diet immediately adopted a resolution to the
following effect, whioh was sent to the Prince and to
Weseenberg, and posted all over Vienna:
Coosidering that the re-establishment of order a
solely to the legally constituted authorities, andPrttare
army cannot interfere except at their requisition • caul
daring that the Emperor's preclamatios of the 19th spin
guarantees the maintenance of all the liberties acquired, sad
more particularly the free deliberation of the Dtet ; there-
lore the Diet declares as illegal all the measures by which
Plaid-Marshal Windischgrits threaten' the state of Iwo and
martial law. The Minister Wessenberg and Prise Wis.
diechgrits shall be immediately informed of this noolirms
by express.
In reply to the protest of the Diet, Priam Wis.
dim:tigress stated :
My full powers do out extend to a negotiation with the
Dist, which I recognise only as a constituent assembly. The
Mohler Krauss shall be considered a prisoner. The eely
legal authority which I recognise in Vienna is the tow
must council, and this is subordinate to me. I give the
Dist 24 hours to consider of this.
The communal council, to whom a thousand copies
of the proclamation were sent by Windischgratz, re-
fused to circulate them. The commandant of the
Vienna national guard (the Orsterreichische Zeitung
says), took immediate steps to put the city
in a state of defence, and even to assume the
offensive.
We gave yesterday a short statement of what took
place in the Diet on the 21st. The following is a
full report of the proceedings from that day to the
23rd :
In the sitting of this 21st Wino read to the Diet the pro-
clamation of Messrs. Weldor and Mode (of which wo gave
the substance yesterday). Cavalcabo presented an address of
loyalty from the electors of Triiban, in Moravia. Scbuselka
on the part of the committee of safety said : Count Auen-
perg, in reply to an order respecting the disarmament of
certain national midi in Lining (Unto Enns), has re-
ferred the Diet to Prince Windirchgtitz, who bat been
named commander-in-chief, and who is now his superior.
The committee has sent to Prince Windischgrits and ex-
pects an answer to-morrow. The national mid of Pur-
kersderf send an address complaining of having been
disarmed, and requiring their arms to be returned to
them. The same course is adopted in this case as in
that of the guards of Liesing. The minister Krauss presents
a manifesto from the Emperor (the last published by us).
Biencieovskl presents a petition from the city of Tarnow, la
Galicia, requesting to be allowed to name a repreontative to
the Diet. The committee proposed to refer the petition to
the committee on the constitution. Several members pro-
posed that the request of the city of Tarnow be immediately
complied with; which was adopted.
In the sitting of the 22nd, the president Smolka informed
the Diet that a letter bad been received from the commis-
Moneta of the Central Power at Frankfort, stating that they
had gone direct to the court at Olcoutz, in order at ones to
enter upon negotiation for a settlement, and calling en all
the authesities to exert themselves to the uttermost
to preserve peace. The Finance Minister had re-
ceived a similar letter. Umllutt proposed that a note
he written to Glantz to :caution these functionaries not to
assume a knowledge of the state of Vienna from the so-
counts of fugitives, and to request them to examine the
espies' in person. On the debate on this question being en-
I gaged , Gschnizer proposed that one of the two commissioners
Repoli come to Vienna, whilst the other staid at court. The
order of the day in opposition to this project was ultimately
moved and carried. Schuselka, on the part of the com-
mittee of safety, gave intelligence of divers kinds. 120
guar Is had arrived from Linz. Intelligence had been re-
ceived from the ca-minister liombootai, who was residing
la Upper Austria. A deputation had been received by the
lessamittee Iron the communal council informing them that
their deputation to the Emperor had returned, that it bad
1 sot been received in audience, and that Wesson-
berg had referred them to Windiscbgriitz, who
had been owned generalimimo. This was the second time
the committee had been informed of this fact, but it bad as
yet received no official notification of it. The Emperor's
manifesto of the 19th, countersigned by Weescoberg,
had been received and read. It bore the imperial
seal, bat it bed not come before the Diet officially.
end they could not consider it as official. The commit-
tee desired at first to ask Prince Windiickgraq what were
the powers conferred on him, but they had considered it in-
compatible with the dignity of the Diet to do so • and they
had informed the communal council of the lot The
committee had not boar idle, but bad deliberated
with the Minister of Finance, Krauss, upon the
subject, and he had expressed himself completely
ignorant as to what power was conferred on Prince
Windischgrats. The committee, therefore, now expressed
its opinion that it was unconstitutional to confer full powen
on the general, as it could hardly be done by one minister
apart from the council of ministers, and without the sanc-
tion of the minister Krause. The committee further have
commissioned the ministry to specify what peaceful mea-
sures have been adopted to prevent disorders, and whether
all peaceful regulations have been made such as are racial-
, cite in a cooatitutional state. Liihner now proposed that the
project of law for the protection of the Dist should be do-
' bated immediately and sent to the Emperor for his approval,
Samna as it was evident that not only the members pre-
sent, bat those absent from Vienna were in danger. This
wee carried. The sitting was thesi adjourned, and resumed
at 4, r.o.—Schisselka then spoke in the name of the cora-
-1 mines of safety, and said: The communal council have l
made tha following communication to the committee :
Letter from Prises Windischgrats, at Stammersdorf,l
to the communal council at Vienna.—. I send to the tom-
' =anal council 1,000 copies of my proclamation, as well as
11,000 copies of the asanifeeto from the Emperor, for the pub-
lication of which I make it reeponsible."—[The proclamation
lin question will be found above.]—Schuselka : The com-
munal council immediately came to us, and we have consi-
dered the subject attentively. The committee has decided,
in view of the state of Visas and the steps taken by
the Dist in referencia to the imperial manifesto of
the 19th instant, to remain within the limits of
legality. It is to be greatly lamented that Austria
Ss not, although soon months have elapeed, obtained the
guarantees of its freedom ; but we must rest our decision
upon general °sedation' principles, beano we have as
yet no cormitotise. Bat these very principles are clear as
to this, that the state of siege cannot be impended over a
city utitraril . In the manifesto of the 19th the Emperor
says that the her of all will remain unattached ; the it
is nn' desire that the Diet should deliberate freely and undis-
turbed. This manifesto is eountened by a responsible
minister. According to constitut priamples, military
means can only be used when those of °oscillation fail, aSli
then it is not proper that extreme and fearful snores should
be adopted at first. The declaration of the state of siege
and martial law are such measures. No peaceful means
have been attempted. Besides it is clear that a constittent
assembly cannot deliberate freely in a city over which the
sword is suspended. Perhaps the general in supreme coat-
mend has not recedred the Imperial manifesto of
the 19th instant. We have deliberated with the
minister Krause, and be has sent the manifesto
and a message of pesos by a courier to Priam Windisch-
mat& We further propose the following decree
for the adoption of the Diet : Seeing that the continua-
tion of peace and order, when really endangered only, con-
Olitin the ordinary coestitational authorities, and that the
military can only be called in on their demand ; seeing that
the existing agitation in Vienna is, as previously urged by
the Dist and communal council, caused by the presence of
large manes of troops ; easing in tine that the imperial words
of the 19th inst. have assured the protection of the freedom
of each, and especially that of the deliberations of the Dist—
the Diet declares the regulations of Prince Windischgrate in
putting in vigour the state of miens and martial law illegal.
The minister Weissberg and Prince Windirchgrats ahall
forthwith be informed of this determination, and the same
shall be made known publicly." This proposal was received
with acclamations. Lehner proposed that the decision of the
Diet should be forwarded to the commisioners of the Emporia:
at Olmilta. After a few words from Nadler, Schuselks, and
Borrosch, the decision of the committee was put and car-
ried unanimously, and the Diet adjourned. The debate on
the 23rd was chiefly on the subject of the legality or ille-
g_ality of the proposed amembling of daysraf of Tyrol.
The post from Malicia failing for fiv previouely? gave
rise to a debate and a decision, to the effect that the ministry
is responsible for the free communication by post, and must
be answerable for its interruption. The remainder of the
debate was occupied in discussing the project of a decree for
the protection of the Diet.
From the Breslau Gazette of the 26th, under date
Breslau 26th, four o'clock, p.m.:—The Vienna
post hes come in, but without letters or papers. The
sole person who came with it me an Englishman,
speaking little German. This traveller endeavoured
to get into Vienna yesterday evening, but in vain.
He heard it bombarded, came away about 8 o'clock,
the city being in flames in two places.
6 o'clock, p.m.—Another traveller has arrived from
Vienna, whose account is as follows :—He had reached
Florisdorf on the Paturday, and found the bridges
burned, with merely a few planks laid across to allow
messengers to peas. The Viennese occupied one side
of the bridges, Windischgrats the other, with cannon.
On Monday, the 23rd, there was a strong cannonading
on the south side of the city. Some said it was the
Hungarians attacking the Croats; others the Viennese
making a sortie. At all events Windischgratz in-
stantly threw a boat-bridge over the river beyond
Nnesdorf, and passed the Danube with the greater
part of his force. He then sent word to the Viennese
..n. t ‘..-. w 12.... 'to..l.'oard them an the morrow, at tine

o'clock, if they did not surrender, On the 24th, st
that hour, the bombnrdment began Pom all sides,
and some of the shots killed several at Fiorisdort At
four &clock the roar of all kinds of amillery was
general and Moment. At five o'clock the Vienne*
abandoned their end of the Florisdorf pry,
burning all that was left of all the bridge:. In-
cluding the two railroad ones, and the 4yht
of the flame illumined the whole sky. The
latest accounts from Vienna are up to seven o'clock it
the evening, bet a passenger from Ratibor reports,
that the Hungarians bad attacked the Croats, at the
earn. time, the Viennese made a sortie.

A letter from Cilmtitz mentions that the academia
legion of Vienna had made a sortie against the Croats
and were ant to pieces, leaving half their number
dead. The diplomatic corps had taken refuge in some
bomb proof casemate'. Gallicia has convoked its own

The following is a letter from a correspondent at

Ocr. 19.—The political relations of Austria and
Hungary appear to have undergone a favourable change
through the revolution which broke out at Vienna on the
6th of October. The Austrians and Hungarians have been
united. Jellachich, that notorious imperial general or
robber chief, has been deceived in his estimate of the eon.
do nanis, prejudices, and terrains of the citizens of Vienna, l
They have risen and sacrificed themselves in the cause of
Hammy. Hundreds of free-spirited men have fallen or
been disabled. Hungary appreciates the generosity of the
deed. The Hungarians have declared for freedom and the
discharge of their duty to .heir German brethren, and the
result has been a proclemation that they must hasten to the
relief of Vienna. The Hungarian army was set in motion ea
the 7th of this month, and now awaits on the frontier the
commands of the Reich-Tog. The Austrian Reich.. Tag
has viewed Jellachich in the light of a rebel, and opposed
his machinations. Hungary expected this; and in this
expectation the Hungarian Reiths-Tag despatched the sub-
joined address to that of Vienna. The Vienna Iteiche-Tag
—now eonde*g almost exodus vely of democrats—has re-
calved this Writs with acclamation. They invoked the
linguists troops to enter the Austrian territory, sad the
straggle against Jellachich appears about to become a emeg
bitted smuggle of Austrians and Hungarians. Koesath, the
husseah of the Hungarians, whose agitation Yon
hitherto besot rather repulsive to me, has now beams
is reality the man of his age. In addition
to his oratoeleel powers he possesses heroic courage. Kowa*
proceeded yesterday to the army encamped in the &notion
of Vienna, to examine its position and arrangements. On
his return he will resume the presidency of the provisional
government. He received unlimited powers in the afternoon
sitting of yesterday to enforce whatever measures be should
deem necessary without previously consulting the Home of
Representatives. It is expected that the first battle between
Jellachich and the Hungarians will take place to-morrow
before Vienna. We are curious to learn whether he will
again fly and again parade himself as the hero of
his day in the *gram Gazette. Jellachich is a
parvenu and °forwent, who owes his promotion
amply to his shameless avowal of the principles of a mer-
cenary soldier, and the favour of the Archduchees Sophie,
whose reputation is none of the best. The Hungarian army
consists of 40,000 men, with 1,000 horses and 124 field-pieces.
There is favourable news from Raitzisch's camp. The Hun-
garians keep the upper hand in the Danube provinces.
Several generals in the Austrian service have been declared
outlaws by the Hungarians ter treasonable practices against
their country. Among these are Bechtols, Berger, L. rban,
and Simonich, who entered Trans} lvania from 0 Illicit for the
purpose of organising an insurrection among the Saxon mal-
contents. The last named has fled already. Order is in a great
measure regstablished in Path and Ofen. The burghers
feel their duties as national guards rather irksome, and are
likely to become tired ere long of soldiering. But their re.
tirement will be amply compensated, inasmuch as the full
*Ms of citizenship are to be extended to all denizens of
Hiusgary who are willing to fight for its liberties.
The address referred to by our correspondent is as
follows :
To rat CONITITCINT DINS IN VINNNA.—The Hupp-
rhos nation, engaged in a contest unprecedented in the annals
of the world, 'gamut the treachery of a re•actionary
esmarilla, and its perjured mercenaries, is penetrated
with the warmest gratitude for the heroic ascribe
et the adds citizens of Vienna, who have risen
so (gaudy to prevent the army of Jellachich being rein-
forced. The Hungarian nation declares before God and man
that it is as anxious for the main'enance of Austrian freedom
as of its own, and will consider it a sacred duty to struggle
for it. The danger that threatens the frwdom of bolt
nations is common. Hungary rejects every. compromise
with the cansarilla and is perjured merceoaries, acknow-
ledges itself the deeply indebted friend of Austria, a true and
teaternal ally of the Austrian people, and offers its hand in
of tree faith to establish the interests of
th on the broadest basis of jostles, equity, and
mutual satisfaction. Hungary proclaims its gratitude
to the Diet for the energetic measures which hive
arrested the march of a reaetionary soldiery to
waist the bandit hordes of Jellathich ; but has to inform the
Diet, that notwithstanding its measures, Jellachich has re-
ceived a reinforcement of 13,000 men from Austria, and
that Hungary is threatened with an invasion by the military
stationed in Galicia. The Hungarian nation invokes the
prompt intervention of Austria, and as Hungary declares
every Hungarian a traitor who raises a hand against the
freedom of Austria, it expects that every Austrian subject
who gives the least assistance to the rebel Jellachich, the
perjured instrument selected to crush the freedom of Austria
and Hungary, shall in like manner be declared a traitor.
It is probable that the rebel Jellachich and his robber.
bands, pressed by our gal hint troop!, may fell back upon the
Austrian territory and threaten Vienna. The Hungarian
nation is convinced that, in this event, he would fall by the
swords of the Austrian freemen ; but, out of gratitude to
Austria and Vienna, it holds itself boned to pursue him, and
waist the Austrians to subdue him. The representatives of
the Hungarian nation have therefore issued orders to pursue
' Jellachich wherever he may turn himself to. At the same
time the Hungarian nation protests before God and man
that, if its troops pursue the enemy. into Austria,
no violation of the Austrian territory is contemplated
in the movement, but simply a discharge of the debt of
gratitude due to the inhabitants of Vienna. It is hoped
that the Diet will meet this sincere declaration with bro-
therly affection. The Hungarian nation declares that its
troops will halt and fall back upon their own territory the
moment it is intimated to them that Austria has succeeded
in disarming the common enem triumphat their co-operation
is no longer required for the of our common free-
dom. The Hungarian government have issued orders that
in the event of their army entering Austria, the cost of its
maintenance is to be defrayed by themselves, and not the
least burden to be imposed on the generous people of
Austria. Salutation, respect, and brotherly affection.—B.
PaaxNi SIOMOND, YALTFI JANOS, ZABOBAKI ALAJLB.
Path, Oet. 10, 1848.
Letters from the Hungarian frontier of the 20th
state, the army ender General Moga to be at Pavel*.
dorff on the Rittaee. It was said they woatd move
to the succour of Vienna, in parruanoe of orders from
Perth.