The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 9th,
and from. Oporto to the 10th.
The body of CHARLES ALBERT has been embalmed,
and deposited in the Cathedral of Oporto, to await
the arrival of a Sardinian man-of-war, which is to
take it to Genoa. Every honour was paid to his
remains.

The Duke of TERCEIRA and the Marquis of FRON-
TEIRA have announced their intention of supporting
the Cabral Ministry.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
RUMOURED DEFEAT OF THE GREAT
RUSSIAN ARMY.
_

The latest intelligence from the seat of war is con-
tained in the Paris journal La Presse. It is there
stated that a member of the Commission of the Legis
dative Assembly had on Monday received a letter
announcing that the great Russian army had been
completely defeated by the Magyars. It was added
that the Russian army of reserve was marching night
and day towards Podolia and Volhynia, which Were
uncovered by the defeat, and which provinces the
Emperor NICHOLAS feared would be invaded by the
victorious Hungarians.
Although this intelligence stands in need of confir-
mation, we are yet inclined to attach credit to it from
the fact of its appearing in /a Presse. For the last
eighteen months the Presse has been the accredited
organ of the Austrian Embassy in Paris, and its
" communications " have always had attached to them
a semi-official-character. La Presse has, moreover,always
been considered the Russian organ par excellence, it has
on more than one occasion boasted of its Russian con-
nexion, and it is generally understood that the Emperor
of Russia. himself found funds for that paper. Under
thesecircurnstances, we are inclined to believe that the
defeat of the Russians is at least as complete as La Presse
represents it to be. The following dispatch from
HATNAU was published on the 9th in Vienna. How
it reached Vienna does not appear ' • and seeing that all
HAYNAU'S communications Kith Vienna are cut off,
and that the Government has even stopped the
running of the Perth mail, lest it should be seized by
the Hungarians, we are inclined to believe that his
dispatch was concocted in the Vienna Chancery from
certain flying rumours, rather than that it is a genuine
production of HAYNAU himself. The following is the
dispatch :
" No later than the Ist of August I had sent out the
brigade Simbschen, whose outposts were at P. Szstimasz,
to reconnoitre the lines of the enemy and ascertain his
strength and his plans, although we had reason to sup-
pose he bad decamped from Szegedin. This occurred
on the 2d. The outworks and the old city of that name,
on the right Theiss bank, were found abandoned by the
foe, and the town was accordingly taken possession of.
In the castle were considerable military stores. 379
patients lay in the hospital, among whom were 22 Aus-
trian officers and employes, and 100 private soldiers. A
deputation received me on my entering the town. The
system of terror adopted by the rebels has spread an
incredible degree of misery and disorder throughout
the land. Many inhabitants of Szegedin had fled.
Having secured this important point, I have now at
command the whole of the middle and lower Theiss.
Rich supplies fell into our hands. I hope in a few
days to be able to report a junction with Jellachich,
as now that Guyon (an Englishman, in the ser-
vice of the Magyars) has retired, no further obstacle
exists. On the 3d instant, at four in the afternoon,
I directed the brigades Benedek and Jablonowsky
to attack the rear-guard of the adversary on the left
Theiss bank, and brought up a reserve of artillery to
their support. Field-Marshal Lieutenant Prince Lich-
tenstein led the expedition with his wonted circumspec-
tion. While the superiority of our fire was made appa-
rent by the silencing of their bast-rics, I ordered two
battalions from the Jablonowsky brigade to cross the
river tebove Sz-gedin. and turn the enemy's right flar.k.
The effe•ct of our raking tire was decisive, especially the
rocket batteries, which soon put in t 1 tines lij-Szegedirk,
ob-dinately held by the foe. The extensive andwide-
spreading confh4ralion was a fearful spectacle. As soon
as the .oe was d from his posts on the banks of
the river, the brigade Benedek began the pt-ceie with
his troops, drove the insurgents Irom j-Sz gedin,
and commenced the bridge works. The enemy was
pursued from position to position, and a gun, be•i,les
erymany prisoners, taken from him. At eight in tie
seareaniningaltaafetk.erdthweittehtevdie.ip. onrede.hadi3beene,ndsecured,k
who
every
wewere
where distinguished himselt was slightly wounded. I
sent a battalion of a Russian division as a reinforcement
to Uj-Szegedin. Prince Lobkowitz then took the com-
mand of all the troops on that side the river. At ten
o'clock the tete de pent was completely in our hands, the
enemy withdrawing to the utmost range of our cannon.
Af er midnight the bridge was finished, and its he ad
well armed with artillery. On the 4th they again opened
fire on our tete de pont, in order probably to cover their
retreat and prevent our going after them. The exbans
tion of my troops renders a rest-day essential ; nut
the first army corps advances to-day on Atari), on the
left bank, to threaten the enemy's line of retreat. The
Third corps will cross the Theiss, if possible, to-night,
at Kanisa.'
The conclusion of the dispatch does not read much
like a victory. " The exhaustion of my troops renders
a rest day necessary," would seem to speak rather of
defeat ; and the third corps will cross the Theiss,
if possible, to night at Jianisa," expresses a doubt
which, under the circumstances, it is certainly most
prudent on the part of General HAYNAU to entertain.
The Soldaten Freund of Vienna states that PAS-
KIEWITCH had entered Debrecsin, and gives the
following account of the Russian movements :
" When Paskiewitch heard that Georgey, from behind
the Sajo, thought himself a match for Grabbe, who stood
opposite him • he ordered the 4th Russian corps to ad-
vance from him;
'-Kovesd to Miskolcz, unite with Grabbe,
and then attack Gorgey, and force him behind the
Theiss. To aid these operations, the Prince advanced
on the 30th July, with the 2d corps, to Papi, and
brought them on 91e 3d to Esege, where a bridge was
thrown across the Theiss on the 31st of July. Pas-
kiewitch ascertained that Georgey, without waiting the
attack, had withdrawn to the Theiss; in consequence of
this theField-MarshaldireetedGeneral Slacken, approach-
ing from Caechau, to march on Tokay, and then take
possession of the ford. He for his part set off from Papi,
passed the river at Esege over the aforesaid bridge,
pushed forwards to Ajvaros on the Ist August, and on
the 2d was before .Debrecsin. This city was occupied
by a determined corps of 18,000 men and 40 cannon,
under Nagy Sander ; their batteries were planted, and
a desperate fire opened on the Russian vanguard ; but
the insurgents were unable to withstand the shock of
the ccmbired force of numerous 12-pound batteries,
and the cavalry attacks of the Musselman regiments
(Radetzky hussars), together with storming infantry
columns: and they were beaten. A whole Honved bat.
talion was cut to pieces, six cannons taken, and 2,000
prisoners made. On the departure of the courier the
scattered insurgents were being pursued, and fresh pr:
soners made."

The same journal speaks thus generally of the late
defeat of the Imperialists at Comorn :
"M j Jr_General Barco stood between Moue and
Puma H. skaly, with five weak battalions, and Prince
Colleredo in Acs. The et.emy brought sixty guns into
play, while our troops on the right bank had hardly a
quar,er of the number. The brigade Collert do had just
time to make good its retreat, fighting on the left and.;
but Barco's, in spite or acts pl. heroism, could not hold
out, and was sevtrely punished. Two battalions of
Paumgartun and a !slicer regiment suffered the most.
`the first battalion, shut in by three hostile batteries,
found no escape."
It cautiously abstains from giving any statement
of the killed and wounded.

The same journal gives the following account of
the recent operations of the Imperialists. It should
be remembered that this is the organ of the Imperial
war-office, so therefore the following may be consi-
dered as an account rather of what ought to have
been, according to Imperialist views, than of what
actually is :
" A month has hardly passed since ( ffensive operations
were began on the part of both the Imperial allied arades,
yet many important re,ults have been attain d. We will
place together, in a short sketch, the leading operations
of those armies.
"The regular force of the rebels, not including the
Landsturm and Szekler, amounted to about 170,000 men.
Of this number 25,000 were at Siebenburger; 20,000
were spread between Leutaehau and Bartfeld fur the de-
fence of the passes and lower declivities of the Carpathian

mountains.
" Toe remainder of the Hungarian forces took up s
diagonal line, cutting the line of the Waag from Comorn
to Teelesvar, and the Danube and the Theiss, which
may be regarded as the provisional basis of the line of
operations of the Hungarians. The distribution of this
Nrce was probably as follows :—At the junction of the
Waag with the'Danube there were 60,000 men under
Georgey. In Raab there were 25,000 men under
Klapka. On the Plattensee, and near Foldvar, Aulich
was placed
with 15,000 men. In and about Szegedin
Theresiopel there were 35,000 under Penni and Guyon,
and about Temesvar and Arad there were 15,000 men.
.6 on the opposite side the two principal Imperial
armies wore thus placed. ;.
" The.A.per4i,n diVision of
Paniutiii, under .Field-Marshal liaynau,.. was.. at Pres-.
burg. The Russian army under Field-Marabel the
rEince of Warm/ woo at Dokla, in Golacio.

" The Austrian army rapidly c ncentrated i'self on
the right bank of the Danube, and pressed forward
upon Ra,l3. Klapka, end,avoured va.n ,o oppose this
army ; he therefore rapidly withd,ew to an entrenched
camp, under the guns of the tete de pont before Co-
morn, while Haynau, with the four divisions constituting
his army, followed an his footsteps, and hesieged that
place. The Russian army in the meantime had gone
from Dukla, over the Carpathians, to at, tack the in-
surgent iorce, which was 20,000 in number, and whirl:
had been pllced to defend the mountain passes ; thy
latter were driven heel( and dispersed, and the Rus.
sians took possession of Kaschau.
" A glance at the map will be sufficient to show that
while George), was thus engaged by the Austrian army,
and compelled to remain at Comorn, the Russian army
could advance from Kaschaw upon Erlaw and Hata al,
and operate in a direct line upon the base of the opera.
tions of the enemy's force, and breaking through it so
as to leave Pesth and Buda in the hands of the Imperial
army, and also so to sever the chief strength of the
communication as to compel them to isolate a portion of
their force in Comorn, and to diverge another portion
directly behind the Theiss.

" By means of the diversion of a corps cf the Russ'an
army towards Debreezin, and the immediate progress of
another portion of the same farce to Mitkolz, the rebel
chiefs were deceived as to the true designs of the Rus-
sian Field-Marshal.

" Dembinski having been forced back from the defiles
of the Carpathians by the Russian army, posted the
portion of the insurgent force remaining with him be•
tween Alberti, Czegled, and Szolnok, which position he
took up as a new centre of a basis for a line of opera-
tions. Georgey remained in his entrenched camp behind
the tete du pont before Comorn, He had endeavoured
to escape from this position on several occasions besides
that of the 2d of July, when he tried to force his way
through the Austrian army opposed to him, not doubt-
ing but that he should be able to get into the plains, so
as to follow Prince Pasitewitch. As the Russian Field
Marshal continued to advance upon the Sajo toward,
Me zo-Kovead, the rebel chiefs were fully awakened as to
,thp error they had fallen into. They therefore dt-
terrnined, by a combined operation, from Comorn ant
and Szolnok, to effect a union of their forces near Wai
zen. Wi;h the view of concealing his actual design trou
the Austrian army, George) made a sally on the 11
of July from his entrenched camp at the tete du pont or
the Danube; but at the same time he sent off his bag
' gage towards Gran, and- followed in the night with hi:
army, turning off by the road towards Waitz ,n, at whist.
place he thought that it weuld be possible to effect
junction with the army of Dembinski (who had likewis
rapidly marched from Szelnok towards Jasz Bereny an,
Alberti for that purposa), before the arrival of the Ru-
sian army under Field. Marshal Paekewitch, who had hi,
head-quarters at Gyongos, with the second division e
his army (the fourth division of the army was fat the.
back towards Kepolne; the third division was in advance
at Hatvan, al, hough he pushed forward his patrols as fat
as Szubb, towards Wiliz,:n), did not receive intelligent,
of the march of the enemy until the evening of the 14t'
of July. General Sass thereupon received an ord. ;
to advance instantly with a battalion of cavalry toward.
Waizen, while the remainder of the cavalr,
was to follow as soon as possible to suppoi
him. The infantry corps were placed in the to -
lowing positions. The third division was sent by rapi,
marches by the road of Aszed to Waizen, to meet ill;
army of Georgey; the fourth corps was ordered to ad
vance from Kapolna towards Gj orrgyos, to make hea.
against Dembinskt; the second corps was placed for the
time at Hatvan, where, according to circumstances,
could act as a reserve to either the third or fourth dive •
sion. By means of these rapid and circumspect dispo
sitions, the plan of the enemy was frustrated, and ever)
possible eventuality provided for. The two armies 0.
Georgey and Dembinski separately were each of then-
nearly equal to the force under the Russian Field Mar-
shal, but together far surpassed it. Georgey endeavoured
on the 15th of July, to debauch at Waizen, and by degrees his force appeared to consist of 30,000 men and 71'
pieces of cannon; but he found that he could not overcome
the resistance of the weak force opposed to him, namely,
three regiments of cavalry and eighteen pieces of cannon,
which was the extent of the advanced guard of the
Russian army under Seas. The leader of the rebels
then abandoned his plan, and on the night of the 16t1,
and on the 17th he took advantage of the open road, by
way of Balassa-Gyarmath, towards Losoux, to march
back. Waizen was taken on the 17th by an infantry
column of the 3rd Russian division, and the rear-guare
of Georgey was pursued with so much rapidity to Ba-
lasea-Gyarmath, that 2,000 prisoners were taken, and
Georgey continued to hasten his retreat. General
Grabbe, who had received orders to proceed from
Altsohl to Losonz, prevented the insurgents throwing
themselves into the mining towns. Georgey hastened
his retreat to Ritna Szombath which he reached on
the 19th, and which he left on the 'same day, and
in increasing disorder fell back towards the Theiss
by way of Rima-Secz and Putnock. The army of
Dembinski bad no better fortune. It had been in.
timated at Szolnok, and had retreated rapidly upon
Jasz-Bereny and Alberti. The advance guard of his
first column, composed of 6,000 cavalry. on approaching
datvan was reached near Tura by Count Tolsty whit
drove it back with great loss, and pursued it to Nagy.
Kate. At the same time the first columns of the Imperial
army debouched from Buda, whereupon Dembinski
hastened towards the Szegedin, with the view of effect•
ing a union with the rebels iii South Hungary. So far
the design of the operations of the Russian General ap-
peared to be brilliant. - Pesch and Buda had fallen. The
whole country as far as the Theiss had been again con
quered. The great strength of the rebels had been di
vtded into two parts, cacti of which was isolated it
diverging directions towards the north and the south
and the salvation of each corps depended upoe
its making a rapid retreat behind the rivers.
The two Imperial armies had gained, in posseesim
themselves of P. sth and Buda, a new and commot
ba'e of operations. In their further advance
they could secure a constant co operation with eae;
other, and the two armies could, towards Tokay on the
oee side, and towards e'zogedin on the other, continue t;
drive hack the two portions of the army of the insurgents
so as to render their union impossible, and on the proper,
occasion could, with an overwhelming force, attack anii
annihilate them. From further operations which took
place su 'h reflections appear to have existed in the
minds of the leaders of the two Imperial armies. Field
Marshal Haynau left a corps of observation before Co-
morn, which was now completely isolated, and he sent
General Schlick towards Szolnok, while he moved by
Kecskemet and Theresiocel towards Szegedin Prince
Paskewitch left the pursuit of Georgey's corps to General
Grabbe,who soon advanced to EperiesaerdKaschau,wher.
his force was strengthened by the junction of the ad
vanced corps of General Saeken. The Russian Field-
Marshal then placed his army in the following positions.
The fourth division fell back to Mezo Kovesd, froze
whence, as circumstances might require, he could pro-
ceed to the support of Grabbe, by way of Miskolz or b)
Esege to Debruczin, before Georgey could prevent him.
'Flee second and third divisions had been ordered to pro
teed by rapid marches to Poroszlo, to force there the
passage of the Theiss and seize Thissa Fared, and thee,
either attack Georgey's corps, if he should approach
from Tekay, or join the army of Field-Marshal Utlynau
at .'izegyclio, so that together they might attack and de-
stroy the insurgent force. Thus it appears that they
could rapidly advance imposing masses, which could be
applied at two strategetic points in such a way that the
most important results might be expected without need-
less bloody and partial battles, while a division of the
forces might render this inevitable."