New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-19
Tile RETREAT OF TUE AUSTRIAN Army.


| To as Editor qt .te LOrto- 1t-e
SIR: In The Times ~ June - find letter syned
OK T." giving extracts from the correspondence OF
an ofic,r in the 9TH Austrian corps aG,HSe wiz ~.
wife, and smarkipg that, had CnT uyulal Guy e'
al his genera's alone and gone 10 beo hmseit, tney
would most probably have brought the ba,'' o' ga
eenta to dlftvre nj termination The ani.er N
which the generals wee to act Is TINS stated IN '''
correspondence:
ceiyed letter from Lichtenstein telling him he had
h. AID from Clam that the French he'd passed the Tcino
at Turbgo; he was still reading this letter when
SchwargeI berg arrived to consult abort whs: SHOULD
BE- done. They immediately decided that nothing els
was 10 BE- done bot that Schwarzenbeg, Eichteustein
and Zobe with their three corps SHOULD at cocs march
to magenta aud support Clam. Zobel started mmedi'
etely.'
Twill not irsult Genera! Zobel BY defending him
from The absurd charge here brought against him OF
nArchI his cor ps without an order from his Com
auder in Chief An intelligent reader will at once
conclude from the above extract that the three corps
named received orders from Count Gyuai TO march on
Magenta, and that the ger erals highly approved the
plan This Is the fact; but, fully 10 appreciate the
beauty of Count Gyu'as arrangements II must b. re-
menbered that he ordered up also the 9TH and Nh
corps-Stadions aud Benedeks-by the bridge of Pa
via and Bereguardo Had his Exceency gone to
bed the six generals would have had some dlihcuiy
in combining then operations.
Now for the of these corps arriving at Magen-
ta son late and rot at ALL The Off ,er writes TO
his wife that Zobel met Gyulai at Abbate Graso at
o'clock and was Immediately ordered 10 remain where
he Vac. This is not possible, Ter ga. Count Gyulai
at Rosa'i al p and rode with him 10 Abbate Grasso
aiterwad, arriving there at I.
The facts are these and they most astounding:
The whole of Gy ulais army was, on the morning OF
the 81 Of June, full march toward Magenta, the 'th
% and ID corps by Vigevano and Abbae Grasso, the
18th by Beregusrdo, aud the 9Th by Pavia. The two
latter to bivonac that night about ~ miles south
Of Magenta the others much closer. Had this march
not been interrupted the Emperor Napoleon and his
Guards must have been taken prisoners the next
morning. Nothing but miracle could save him-the
miracle took psce. At u O'Clock on the morning of
the 3D. as Count Gyuls rode through Bereguardo, he
net Gen. Hes, his superior officer, who had been
sent by the Emperor to advise him. was present at
the time, then snd there wrote you letter, which
fear you aid rot receive. For four hours and half
the two Generals were closeted together in room
of the old pothouse. 4 have heard since that
Gen. Hess wished the army marched back to NOvara,
and battle to be fought there, but this do not know
for certain. What | do know, what saw, was thst
after quarter of All hours consultation orderly officers
cent to every corps with orders 10 bait Inc .h
ard ID corps were already across the Ticno and IN
Iombardy the Sd on the bridge, and had OF course
to move back and take up deiensbe position IN Pied
mont. At 10 O'Clock saw officers galoping on WIN
fresh orders for tire continuance OF the march Out
was too late.' Lombardy was already lost. Ine men
did all men could do. The 5h corps marched TIL :
in the morning Of the itb Part OF TIE 9TH marched to
CoTbetta tie same night, and i cav Genetas
Reichach and Lebzeltern wounded two hours before
action. You know the details of the battle Of Magenta
From IL til 1, about 70 900 Austrans fought, without
gaining or losiug ground against that part OF the
Frer eli arm brought the bridge at Buhalora
by Napoleon himself Had tue Austrian third corps
been up II en- the French must have been annlhated
but did not reach the ground till nearly Then the
tide of victory seemed flow for the AustIans, and
till they pressed the enemy ste 1diy back hicMahoh
arrived ana turned the scale, but had station anu
Bel edek corps been there, he too would have been
overpowered. Had Gy ulai not been interered WITH
StadiOn ana Benedtk womb nave Deeu tnei", Oh"
Lombardy might still form part of Austria.
That the army should blame him Is most natural Tor
net twenty persons in it witnessed Gen. Hess Inter
ference and who that did not witness miracle VIII
believe itl miracle it certainly was that man OF
&c MUS as Hess has proved himself to be, should con-
nit such u palpab.e error as to stop movement
actually begun In TIE face of superior enemy, AMI
during several hours keep half an army on enc side oil
river ike the IicLo, ana half on the other Enough
however know the facts OF the TO insure Gyuai
fol- acqua in history from all blame IN that transao-
ton; il his own time ana in his own country he must,
however, bear the obloquy.
What concerns us is the lesson we may learn
fton Austrias disaster. Either Gen. Hess or Gen.
Gyulai alone must have gained q victory over
the French; together they have lost Iomb3 al
least When the French, Russian, Italian, Spanish
aud Danish fleets are joined against next year, or
the year after let hope that man may have alb"
solute control over the British fleet.
YOUR LATE COkREsPoNDENr FsoM
AUSTRIAN HEADQUhRrERs