The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

posts within the city were occupied by the Austrian

troop
Thes. Piedmonteee soldiers were arriving in scattered
and disorganised bands on the frontiers in a state of
complete destitution and prostration, cursing their
chiefps, and charging them with acts of the most cul-
pable malversation. The number of Milanese and
Venetians who arrived from hour to hour seeking an
that the terms of the capitulation were scorned
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and derided by the Austrians, who the moment they
iruutivef• de-
claredwamentered the capital gave themselves up to pillage and
the moat horrible scenes of barbarism of which any
idea could be formed. While these disasters
were in progress at Milan, General Walden,
who it is known had raised the siege of Venice,
crossed the Po, and was at Bendier°, on the road to
Modena, whence he issued the proclamation to the
people of Romagna, anaouncing that he had received
orders from his Majesty to occupy all the legations, to
purge them from brigands, and restore order with
20,000 men and sufficient artillery ; and in case the
people intended to resist, he reminded them of the
smoking ruins of Sermis.
The Risorgimehlo of Turin of the Bth publishes the
articles of the capitulation of Milan, as follows:—
I. The town shall be respected. 2. So far as it de-
pends upon his excellency the marshal, he promises
as to the past, all the consideration that equity
requires. 3. The movement of the Sardinian army
shall be effected in two days of march, as had already
been agreed to by the generals. 5. In return the mar-
shal demands the military occupation of the Roman
Ga- e, and the entrance and occupation of the town at
noon. 6. The transport of the Birk and wounded
shall take place is the two days of march. 7. All
these conditions are to receive the acceptation of his
Sardinian Majesty. 8. His excellency the marshal
demands the immediate liberation of all the Au.trian
generals, officers, and functionaries that are at Milan.
—Signs I, August 5, by the Podesta of Milan, and by
the chiets of the staff of the two armies.
Private letters say, persons escaping from Milan
arrived in crowds at Turin. The Milanese desired to
make the King annul the capitulation, and impose an
impossible defence on him. They desired to hold him
as a hostage. Three days before Charles Albert, on
being pressed by a deputation not to compromise his
life and his army by proceeding to a Tax, which the
defence of his own territory rendered imprudent,
replied: " lionour calls me; it is the only conned I
can listen to under these circumstances." The King
is at this moment at Novara, and was expected on the
evening of the Bth at Turin.
The Lombardian troops were concentrating by order
of the King at Trecate under the direction of Lieut.-
General Olivieri.
Cha‘les Albert issued the two following proclama-
tions, the first addressed to his army and the seco•Ad
to his people :
Saldiers,—The chances of war have obliged us to recross
Vie Ticino. The last combat under the walls of Milan does
honour to your courage. If the want of ammunition has
prevented us from continui,g the defence as we ardently
desired to do, it is certain that the retreat has cost the enemy
dear. Courage, soldiers : organise yourselves quickly and
energetically. I will have the most severe discipline ob-
served, and every infraction of it shall be punished with the
greatest rigour. The police must ho better arranged, and
private pioperty be inviolably respected. In difficult times
nervy and subordination are more than ever necessary. The
cause of Italian independence that we have undertaken to
sustain, is must noble and holy. Past ages have sighed for
in, and now the popular wish pronounces itself for our free-
dom unanimously. The dais of adversity will pass arta the
right will triumph ever brute force. Let us nut despair, but
let every one do his duty.—Vigerono, Aug. 7.
My dear Penple.—The fate of war, whisk at first did
not cease to smile on the valour of our brave army has be-
come adverse to us by the fatality of numerous circumstance
and has obliged us to retreat before the enemy. In this
m ivement we were influenced by consideration for the beau-
tiful capital .if Lombardy, and, persuaded that we should find
it aburobintly supplied, we were determined to use all our
efforts for defence. All our troops were brought under
its wall-, ready to make a vigorous resistance, when we
learned that they were in want of money, provisions, and
an munitien, whilst ours were nearly all expended. What
aggravated our situation was that the large park of artillery
had hen taken towards Piacenza, and wo could not
olnain it, the road being intercepted by the enemy,
Thus situated, the first necessity was to save Milan
and the array, and to spare a useless effusion of blood.
We have attained this end by a convention on the
terms that the place being evacuated by us, the passage
beyond the Ticino should be left free, and the lives and pro-
perty of the Milanese be secured as much as possible. It is
thus, my dear peop.e, that the army has returned amongst
you. It destiny has refused it the realisation of the high end
01 its generous mission, it has nevertheless rendered itself
i lustriou. by skill and warlike conduct, awl acquired a
name by its fatigues and heroism, and it returns furred, and
still capable of protecting you against every enemy. Receive
it, !you who participate in the glory it has acquired, and
render the feelings of its misfortunes less sensible by your
fraterr al smiles. In its ranks are the princes, my eons; into
its ranks I will myself re-enter, ready as we all are to make
new arre-ifices, to endure new fatigues, and give our lives for
our loved native land —Vigerono, Aug. 7.
The following bulletin was received at Innspruck
on the itli by the Minister of War from Field-Mar-
shal Itadetzki

Head-quarters, St. Donato, Aug. 4, 6 o'clock in the
evening.—Early on the 4th of Aug. I broke up at Lodi and
advanced towards Milan as far as St. Donato, with my three
army corps, namely, the Pt, 2nd, and rese.ve corps. At St.
Donato an engagement took place with the Piedmontese
troops who had occupied a position before Milan. The lit
earl's enaagtd the enemy in front, till such time as its right
wing of brigade, under command of General Count
Clam, broke the enemy's left wing ; and the
2nd army cores, which marched parallel with the
first, manoeuvred in the right wing, by which trite
enemy was routed, and partly pursued within a short
distance of the city walls. The valiant 10:h jager battalion
of the brigade of Count Strapoldo of the lit corps, which
engaged the enemy in the front, has on this occasion given a
fresh proof of bravery. While the companies under Cap-
tains Brandt, Jablonsky, Bek, and Brandenstsin, were rush-
ing onwards left and right along the roads, they fell upon
the rear of a battery of the enemy of 16-pound, rs. The men
' offerest resis'ance and scot down several horses, but
our s allant trop took triumphant possession of the
battery. A division of the japers brought the
battery to the head quarters amid shouts of re.
joking close to General Strapold..'s brigade, and made four
officers and 120 men prisoner•. I am now waiting to see
whetlit r the city of Milan, in which I learn there are two
parties contending for the mastery, will open the gates to
me to-morrow I r send a deputation. If neither of these two
events take place in the course of to-motrow, I shall call
upon the c'ty to surrender, and if it is not reapondsd to, I
shall take further military measures. 1 have just rsccivsd
intelligence from the fourth army corps that Pavia, by a
deputation, has surrendered to this corps. The enemy has
broken down the bridge across the Po at Itlorzano Coati. I
have just given orders to the fourth army corps to march in
the enemy's rear across Abbeategrasso, on the road to
Magenta, leavine a suitable garrison at Pavia to attack the
ens my ; but in the event of hit having already creased the
Ticino. to enclose Milan on the western side

The greatest enthusiasm was manifested towards
the King by the Piedemontese people on his arrival.
Intelligence continued to be received of the
most wanton barbarities of the Austrian soldiers
on entering Milan. The beautiful Fauboirg of
St. Gothard, forming the richest and most magni-
ficent quarter of the capital, the inhabitants
of which had all fled, was delivered up to
the ravage and pillage of the so:diery, and com-
pletely destroyed. The lose of property in that
quarter was said to be 50 millions. The inha-
bitants who had remained in Milan are represented
as standirg passively by and witnessing the see e of
desolation without either surprise or flight.
Since writing the above we have received the Seise
papers and correspondence, dated Lugauo, the 9:h, a
place a little above Como, near the Italian frontier.
These contain advices from Milan to the 7th. the
devastation by fire in the city and its environs are of
terrible ext..nt. The number of Austrians who
entered on the 6th was 30,000, another num. roue
corps being encamped outside its walls. A state of
siege had been declared, and proclamations published
promising to maintain order and respect property.
The national guard was dissolved and forbidden to
appear in uniform. The journals were suspended and
all popular assemblages interdicted. Arms and
ammunition were ordered to be surrendered. The
Opininne of Turio, of the 9th, gives deplorable re-
ports of the pillage and destruction of the most beautiful
palace. in Milan, such as those of the Litta, Borroneo,
and Greppi. After plundering these they were set
fire to, but happily they were extinguished
before they were destroyed. These reports go
on to say that the lowest of the populace
ashamed of the excesses, brought back some of the
precious objects to their owners. The Croats were
robbing in all directions. They entered the shops in
bands of from ten to twenty, seizing and carrying off
whatever they wished, telling the owners that Ra-
detsky would pay them.
A letter from Rome of the 4th says: "We
are in a state of complete anarchy; at the
memeut at which I write to you it is said
that the civic guards are making common cause
with the heroes of Vicenza and the other fac-
tions: that they have rejected and trampled under
foot the pontifical cockade, &c. God only knows what
He reserves to Rome. Many persons are taliing