The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1848.

Goito has become to the Mincio what Lodi has
been to the Adda, ever since the immortal Italian
campaigns of the young and heroic BoNA-
PARTE. The bridge of Goito has become
identified with the first disaster of Austria
in the war of independence which has just com-
menced upon the glorious soil of Lombardy. On
the Bth of April 1848, the soldiers of RADETSLY were
covered with confusion by the valour of the patriotic
Piedruontese—they were driven from their position
on the Mincio with a loss of two thousand prisoners
and four pieces of artillery—their departure was
almost a mare qui peat towards the suburbs of
Mantua and Verona—the broken parapets of Goito
were
very nearly rendered the Caudine forks of the
German legionaries. While these extraordinary
efforts at liberation arere ei being made in the
southern portion of R an°
by the combined
forces of Sardinia, the volunteers and national guards
of Lombardy are effecting a divers. n in the RlOll/3-
t 4 to
inons regions situated the north of Trentino.
Scarcely has the bulletin of CARLO A xvo
historicL sm been
i•--sued from his head-quarters on the
Ca,tiglione, when a proclamation b y (round
ALI.CMANDI is disseminated among the Italian Tyro_neral
less, caring upon them to rise for the furtherance of
their common nationality, and for the subjugation of
that alien despotism which has involved even the
compatriots of HOFER in the bonds of an absolute and
irresponsible authority.
Supposing this attempt to germinate a revolution
in the Tyrol prove as successful as the aggressive
policy of the King of SARDINIA has already done
over the first military demonstrations overf Ay
ustria,speedily
the
army of RADETSLT
ll
in a most deplorable predicament. No passage can
be effected through the Tyrolean acclivities without
a perfect understanding with its inhabitants, and that
understanding seems to be at this moment more than
ever of a doubtful character. During the last great
struggle between the continental powers it was suffi-
ciently shown that the untutored and undisciplined
mountaineers of the Tyrol could, with the most simple
contrivance and the most ordinary co-operation,
bade the science of a great captain,
quer the superio • quite
and con-
rity of a veteran host
as eff vi ecsuauy v.s t
in impeding the v.
the naked barbarians of the north
CuaTrus and 'AN
ranks of the Macedonian.
who have recount:: are
not the only historians
rocks over the pitiles:hehtriumph of a shower of
narrative has been repeated by of a phalanx. The
hf3' Rovnao and
DeAu. The biographersLiman-
t NAPOLEON have rei-
terated at least one circumstance coincident
of
coincident with
the facts recorded by the biographerssance
ALEXANDER.
That one casualty
may soon
novetnassailedents of inferior
acquire a new illustra-
tion in the retrograde
ure by 0,,e
generalship. B. A DRTsI.
may 1p
: rh
formidable weapons
destruction alike on the shakoes orfw eh o
Nhth
on the helmets of ALexxen.
Tyrol present a
barrier for the retreat of the Austrians p
and may thus, by a bold and patriotic ctoi
conduce to the capitulation of an army, an
of peace. Tile dEssinie, ti
rati-
fication of a treaty
entire peninsula rlpose in a manner at the feet of the
Tyrolese. Let the word be spoken from the summit
of those memorable bills—those altars of freedom
those colossal tribunes from which the Apostles of
Liberty have spoken to the whole world the great
truths of emancipation I—let the word be spoken from
the elevation of those famous hill-tope, and Italy will
be free. In the event of such an insurgent rising in
the Tyrol but one miserable outlet would remain to
the Austrian forces in Lombardy, by traversing
which the suburbs of the capital might be attained.