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London, England, 1864-03-04 00:00:00

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Prussians. The Danes had only twtk regiments
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engaged at the beginning of the fray, tilt one of ~..44
them, the 22d, lost no less than 100 officers and .-. ' u
men dead and wounded. The losses of the other
regiment, the 18th, were hardly less severe; and, I
am told, not a few of the men at the out posts
(300 it is supposed) fell into the enemy's hands.
On the other hand, the Prussians left many dead
and dying on the field—heaps of them. The Danes
fought with great bravery ; a young officer of the
22d, at the head of his company, charged the enemy
with the-bayonet with a headlong valour which is
even now the theme of every man's eulogy here.
The little Danish army went into and retired from
the field in high spirits, and looks forward to a new
trial to-morrow with an ardour which I have not
yet seen before among these poor, overwrought,
and overmatched men, either at Schleswig or in
this place.

Having thus acquitted myself of my ta^!: by
giving the news of the day, I hope you will allow
me to enter into some retrospective particulars con-
cerning the retreat from tbeD newerk. As I was
for a long time the only English reporter of events
on this side of the belligerent wirties, and some of
my telegrams have miscarried, and my letters have
only very late reached their destination, or not
reached it at all, I have been hitherto unable to cor-
rect several assertions which have found their way
into the English through the German press, and
which must needs have misled the reading public as
to some points of the greatest importance.
In the first place, it is not true that it was the
achievement of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia,
in throwing a bridge across the Schlei, that deter-
mined the retreat of the Danes from the Dannewcrk.
The retreat of the Danes was effected on the even-
ing of Friday, the sth, at 11, and the bridge across
the Schlei was only begun at five o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning, when not one man on the Danish
side remained on the spot to dispute the passage of
the fiord. The real motives which led to the
backward movement of the Danes are still to a great
extent, and will be perhaps for ever, wrapped in
mystery.

A second assertion, which must be flatly con-
tradicted, is that of the Danes asking for and ob-
taing three hours' armistice under pretext of bring•
ing in their wounded, and profiting by this respite
to steal away from Schleswig. The Austrians left
their wounded for two nights on the field at Bustrup,
and fired upon the Danes, who were moved by feel-
ings of humanity to issue faith to the relief of the
poor sufferers. That the officers at the outposts may
eventually have come to some mutual understanding
between them for such a purpose is indeed possible,
though nothing whatever is known about it here ; but
what is quite certain is that I left Schleswig with
the very last troops of the rear at about 11 o'clock
on the evening of Friday, and that it was only at
4 in the morning of Saturday that the Austrians,
disbelieving for a long time the assertions of some
of the Schleswigers as to the evacuation of their town
could be at last induced to venture in. It was about
that time that the Prince of Prussia, also aware that
he would meet with no resistance, threw his bridge
over the Schlei at Kappelu.
As soon as they obtained possession of Schleswig
the Austrians, it is true, set out in pursuit of the
slowly retreating Danes, and came up with them at
break of day; but it is not true, however, as it has
been blazoned forth in all the German papers, that
they gave battle to the Danes at Idstedt, and that
they defeated them with great slaughter. There was
no serious encounter between the two armies before
they came to the neighbourhood of Bilskov Kro, or
Overso, on the Saturday afternoon the 6th, and there
it is not by any means true, as it has been gratui-
tously asserted, that " the Danes lay in ambush for
their foes." The simple fact is, that the Austrians
came up somewhat suddenly with the Danish rear,
and these, with the resolution of a wild beast at bay,
turned round upon their pursuers, and fought them
with a valour which cost them much blood, bat
covered them with honour. Idstedt, it should be
remembered, is at least 12 miles from Overso, and
it is impossible the misstatement should be caused
by a mere confusion of names.
The same may be said of other battles, which, if
we believe the fertile imagination of the telegraph.
ought to have strewn the whole distance betwocn
Schleswig- and Dybbol with dead and wounded.
The real truth of the matter is that the Danes re-
tired in vdrnirable order, consicltring the terrible
hardships they had to contend with ; and as the
Germans had also their own share of difficulties to
overcome, the pursuit was not so fruitful in trophies
to their arms as people have been led to believe.
A great deal of the materiel of the Danish army,

it is true, fell into their hands; but it was not taken
by hard fighting. The slipperiness of the roads, the
encumbrance of the thoroughfares, and the utter
exhaustion of men and beasts compelled the Danes
to abandon not a few of their heaviest impediments,
among which were some of the 84-pounders which
were paraded with so much pomp along the streets
of Hamburg. But the field artillery was all
brought in safe here, and General Wilster, who had
such a chance asa few hours' start on an unencum-
bered road gave him, conveyed from Frederickstadt
to Sonderborg all of his heavy artillery and ammu-
nition that he deemed to be of use.

Whatever judgment men may come to as to the
conduct of the Danish Government, and of General
de hleza as to the defence of the Dannewerk, there
is no doubt the conduct of the army, both during
the few days of the conflict and during the 48 hours'
awful retreat, was such as only could be expected
of one of the most warlike and long-enduring among
the European races.

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