Magyar army on the one side, and the
Austrian revolution on the other, was now
perilous.  The destruction of his whole
force was universally considered certain.
Great, therefore, was the astonishment of
Europe when it was reported, immediately
after the Emperor's flight, that the Ban,
at the head of a compact and well-organised
force, was before the walls of Vienna.
He soon succeeded in effecting a junction
with the forces under Prince Windischgraetz.
For, the powerful army promised
by "Kossuth to the Vienna Radicals existed
only in his own imagination, or in theirs.
In a few days Jellachich was master of the
Austrian capital and master of the Austrian
empire.  He had only to stretch out his
hand and receive from his Croats the
crown they were ready and able to place
upon his head.  Had he then chosen to
content himself, merely with the titular
possession of Croatia, Sclavonia, Dalmatia,
Istria, Carniola, Carinthia, and Southern
Styria, he might doubtless have created
on the Adriatic a new kingdom, resting,
with sufficient strength, on the command
of the seaports of Trieste, Zara, Fiume,
Ragusa, the enthusiastic alliance of the
circumjacent Servian, Bulgar, Bosniac, and
Montenegrin populations, the adoration of
his subjects, and his own military genius.
He aimed, however, at something higher
than all this, something higher and (judging
by the rarity of it), more difficult.  The
faithful fulfilment of a promise.  He had
promised himself and his imperial master
that he would save the ancient empire of
Austria.  He kept his word, and died a few
years later.

We should wander too far from the
subject of this memoir were we now to dwell
upon the events which immediately followed
the victory just recorded.

On the 30th of October, 1848, the Magyar
army was defeated by Prince Windischgraetz,
on the plains of Swechal, not far
from Dobling, where Count Szechenyi
was still languishing in Dr. Gorgen's
asylum.

On the 22nd of November, 1848, Prince
Schwartzenberg assumed the direction of
affairs, and commenced that political career
with which the government of Austria was
so long identified.

On the 2nd of December of the same
year the Emperor Ferdinand abdicated,
and was succeeded by his young nephew
the present Emperor Franz Josef.

On the 8th of January, 1849. Batthiany,
who, since the fall of his cabinet, had
retired from political affairs, and, confiding
in his innocence, remained at Pesth, when
the Magyar government removed to
Debrezcin, was arrested by Prince Windischgraetz,
and, on the 5th of October, he was
tried by court-martial, and sentenced to be
hanged.  During the night he attempted
suicide, and his neck was so fearfully
lacerated by the dagger with which he had
endeavoured to destroy himself, that the.
next morning it was deemed expedient to
shoot, instead of hang him.

On the 19th of April, 1849, Kossuth
proclaimed the dethronement of the House
of Hapsburg Loraine.

On the 15th of that month (that is to
say, four days previously) the young
Emperor had invoked the intervention of the
Russian Czar for the suppression of the
Magyar revolution.

On the 11th of August (that is to say,
four months later) the Hungarian general
surrendered his sword to the Russian Prince
Paskievitch.

On the 17th of that month Kossuth
escaped into Turkey.  In the month of
February, 1850, he was joined, in Asia
Minor, by his wife, Theresa, and shortly
afterwards by his daughter and two sons:
who left Hungary with the permission of
the Austrian government.  So ended the
Hungarian tragedy of 1848.

We now return to Döbling.

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