The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

PARTICULARS OF THE DEFEAT OF THE
IMPERIALISTS AT WAIrZEN.

The following are the particulars of the operations
of the Magyar and Imperial armies, which preceded
the decisive battle of Waitzen, and the complete de-
feat of the Austrians. On the evening of the 9th the
whole Austrian army was concentrated close to the
walls of Pesth, and the Magyar army had taken up a
position in order of battle between Godollii and
Monor. Continual fighting had been going on at
the front all day, only ceasing when the night sepa-
rated the combatants. The 10th was fixed on by the
Imperial commander for a general attack, but whe❑
the sun rose there was no enemy to be seen as far as
the telescope could reach, and no trace could be found
of the Magyars. Their whole army on this side the
Theiss had disappeared, without being observed by
the Imperialists. At 11 o'clock in the morning con-
tinual firing of a great number of cannons was heard
in a southerly direction, and consequently a great
part of the Imperial army was detached in that direc-
tion. Afean bile, in the afternoon, another cannonade
was heard in Pesth from a northerly direction, and
another part of the Imperial:army was detached, which
arrived in Waitzen the next morning, where they
were informed that only a small corps of Magyars had
cannonaded this town, and had retired in the evening
of the 9th.

By the detachment of these troops from the Impe-
rial army near Pesth, it was dirnini6hed to a third of
its number.

When on the 10th the sun rose, the Magyars, sud-
denly as they had previously disappeared, re-appeared
again before Pesth, attacked the Imperial troops, and
forced them to retire to Ofen, but did not occupy
Pesth—probably for fear of seeing their capital de-
stroyed by the cannon of the fortress.
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tion by which they were enabled to interrupt the
communication between Pesth and Presburg by land,
the communication by Danube steamers being inter-
rupted, or dangerous, by Comorn.
The details of the battle of Waitzen extracted
from the Vienna papers of the 14th appeared in the
Third Edition of The Sun yesterday evening.
It is said that at the conferences' held at Olmuts
between the Austrian Minister and the Russian Am-
bassador, it was decided that an offer should be made
to the Hungarians to guarantee to them the old Hun-
garian ArMocratic Constitution as it existed previous
to March 1848, and not to apply the principle of cen-
tralization to Hungary. Should the Hungarians re-
fuse those terms of pacification, the Russian troops
will enter and garrison Vienna, Lemberg, and Prague,
the garrisons of which cities will proceed to Hun-
gary to take part in the war.
WELDER*, as we stated two days since, left Vienna
on the 13:11 to supersede WINDISCHGRATZ, but in
order to avoid as much as possible wounding the
pride of WINDISCHGRATZ, it *is said that the EM-
PEROR himself will take the command of the
army, with WELDER* as his second in command
and principal adviser. The Austrian Lloyds of
the 14th, which is the organ of.STanfox, contains the
following mysterious paragraph, in relation to one of
the Imperialist Generals in Hungary :—" Upon
single persons we have neither
.praise nor blame to
bestow. We are too far from the seat of war to judge
the merits of the separate commanders. It becomes
us not to bring complaints against individuals with-
r out proofs; and these we have not at hand. We scorn
to reflect on the character of any man by insinua-
tions, and to whisper what we durst not speak
. out," &c.
This was considered in Vienna as the forerunner
of some most serious accusation against General
SCULICK.
The enthusiasm of the inhabitants of Pesth was ex-
cited to the utmost by the approach of the victorious
Maygars. Two days before the battle of Waitz-n
some Hungarian hussars, who had been taken pri-
soners, passed through the town. Their proud bear-
ing gave them the air of victors rather than captives,
and the people whose sympathy with the Magyars is
ao longer to be concealed, cried out upon their pas-
page, " Eljenek a huszarak," and clubbed together to
make a purse for them. The Austrian garrison of
Ofen, on the opposite side of the Danube,
threatened to bombard Pesth if the in-
habitants manifested such sympathy for their
countrymen. Count STEPHEN KAaoLT,
Magyar
Noble, who raised in November last 1,800 men on
his estate, and enrolled them among the Harveds,
has been arrested by order of Prince WINDISCHGRATZ,
and will only be liberated on his furnishing double
the number of recruits to the Imperial army.
We publish: in extenikl the note of the Aus-
trian government to SCHMERLING, the substance of
which appeared in the Third Edition of The Sun of
last night.
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On the sth instant the Imperial Cabinet forwarded
the following dispatch to Herr SCHIERRLING,
Austrian Plenipotentiary at the seat of the German
central power :
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" Whilst approving of the motives which induced his
Highness the Archduke John to resign,
continue to
pire, his 3lajesty the Empercr feels bound
to continue in the interest
circumstances, the dignity of a German victao
invite his Imperial Highness
of Germany, as well as that of Austria, to
entrusted to him until arrangements have been made for
acceptation of the direction of the central power in a
fill the post
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the accepta
manner corresponding with the object of it.
this b
" Appended you will receive a copy of the letter in
which his Majesty the Emperor expresses tto
his royal grand uncle, whilst acknowledging the ser-
vices he has rendered,
" Last year, when the German Princes and nation
were desirous of placing in the bands of that Imperial
Prince the provisional central power created for Ger-
many, the Austrian Government, laying aside all the
considerations .presented by the circumstances of the
times, slettcd that wish, inasmuch as it rendered the
interests of its own people subservient to those of the