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1238 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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Armours I-Iiio And Acts In Hungary. My T...
stood pondering defeat instead of organizing victory ; he stood meditating treachery instead of thinking how best he could serve Hungary and live , or serve Hungary and die . While Gtryon was fighting , G 6 r £ ei waa askmg himself , with a cold-blooded egotism * whether it would not , have fceen better , " although thousands looked up to me with firm confidence , f ^ a tj would not let them be destroyed , " to have forborne , that . step which ha < J led him so far as to prevent him from returning ; whether it would not have been better to have issued " a pacific summons to a voluntary l & Mitg down of arms , " instead of the " defying proclamations" of WaizefrP ^ And he asked himself this question , not for the first time ; at Leutsohati ; he had asked it three months before at Presburg , ' when also he was speculating on the chances of making himself a , dictator . . And while . he & £ & reckoning with the past , his own . officers wepe . hplding a soireerfq ^ sante , When he Wiien
hebeinff too much . " racked with incertitude" to join them . he being too much , " racked with incertitude' to join them . ne was at Waizen he believed that " the contest , would be a . fruitless one - — he writes this and italicises the word ; yet he resolves , probably within the range of the dance music , certainly out of the range of the enemy 8 cannon , that " those who looked tip to me with firm confidencey that ' L would not allow them to perish in the desperation of fruitless efforts , ; » id well in TBXTSTiNG me . " The small capitals , are his , own , ; And that was the way , and those were the circumstances under which he , cried " . quits with the past . " General Kmefcy , who was stationed in position ^ the riht to his bitter that " the
river Hernad close by , has a g sarcasm , perception of great dangers near at hand , " instead or urging Gorgei , as he says it did , to " the height of intellectual activity , " should have urged him to the height of the Branyiszko pass . ; ¦ ; ; , : » Chiyon ' s victory upset Schlick ' s combinations , forced him to ' i retreat , and enabled Gorgei to effect a junction with Eiapka shortly after , . at Kaschan , ' on the 10 th of February , 1 & 49 . © embinski ; wa « soon , appointed commander-in-chiBf ; Gorgei ' s corps ; d ' armee was , absorbed antp the , mam armv s . and henceforth he had to share his , glories and Ins , power with , a
p ' ple _ he hated the Poles—and submit his haughty spirit to the orders 01 a superior . In yain . He did not siib ' mit ^ insisted on havin g his dvrti corp s separately supplied with provisions '; commanded out of his' place' -in the two days'fight at Kapolna ; and when the army under Dembinskl retreated on theTheiss , after a series of disasters , Gorgei declined ito retreat when ordered , and insisted on retreating when ordered to maintain his ground . , . - , But there the army had no confidence , in Dembinski . He was in , a measure deposed by the army- —Gorgei , declaring beforehand that he ' had no objection to the appointment of one of his juniors , Repasy or Klapka ; a clumsy way of hinting a strong desire for the baton of command . Vetter , after much negotiation , was appointed to the coveted post ; but he ,
unfortunately , fell sick , and the chief command was provisionally transferred to Gorgei . But he who censures and ridicules the plans of others for the continuation of the war , had too much sense to think of forming one of his own . Again , the chief of the general staff of the seventh army corps devised a plan by which , executed by the skill of Aulich , the sturdy bravery of Damjanics , the coolness of Klapka , and the valour of Visoscki , Kmety , and Nagy Sandor , carried the Hungarian army to victory four times in eight days—at llatvan , at Tapio Bickse , at Isafezeg , at Waizen . Windisch Grjitz , by the 26 th of April , was in full retreat for the Vienna frontier , and Komorn relieved . But hero ends Hungarian successes . Gorgei , for once , declined tq follow the advice of , the chief of his staff , and pursue the Austrians while they were demoralized b y five or six victories . Ho followed his own inclinations . He wasted time in
storming the fortress of Ofen , which could never be regained . He kept up las intrigues in fche army and at Debreczin , and thought more of humbling Kossuth , dissolving the Diet at tho point of tho bayonet , and treating with tho Austrians , not for independence , but for the constitution of 1848 ; than of his duties as th , c head of the fighting army of Hungary . The Bussians were silently marching through the pukla Pass , while Gorgei was weighing and balancing the probabilities of making himself a kind of prime minister of Hungary , under the house of Hapsburgh . By the declaration of the Diet on the Mt ; h of April , 1849 , Hungary was declared independent of Austria , and tho houso of llap » burg was deposed . Gorgei , a servant of the nation , instead of receiving thifl news as became
an holiest man , either by accepting it , or throwing up the . 'command , boasts that lie sent back a message to . the Diet by the courier who . brought him the news , that "it was high time they ceased to be cowardly in adversity and insolent in prosperity . " And While' be privately arid' " among his creatures entertained' these opinions , the bettor to mask hi ' a designs he published , on the 20 th of April , a . Hfirri ' ng address to bin army , Attacking tho llnpsburgh dynasty , Adopting'the L 4 ( h of April , and giving the watchword of " Forward , comrades , ibrward ! " ! : ,. Vct in writing an . acuoiint of his conduct immediately after , he coolly tells us tljaji , political . . motives induced him to abandon tho idoa of an uninterrupted oJlcnnive ! ll , « avmh offered the Ministry of War , and accepted ' it , for the express purpose of deceiving
Konsuth and the Diet , of purging the- latter of tliofiO wlio passed iho declaration of iiulcpcndetico , and tlie army of those olHcei ' s not devoted to him . He deliberately toll ' s us be "' <> vtn '< anio bin ilionil aversion" to do this ; be describes many stop ' s in deceit , consequent , upon' il . ; and being once entangled in , Uic jnoshcH . of . lw '« own treachery ,,, h < v did not escape from tho net until Uio ,, | , £ . | i . sH , i < jji . s curved , nn outlet forhim , at Vilhi ^ os . From the cai > ture olj ^ X ' en , jn r ) u ; , W | , to thq t fatal surrender in August , ( Jorgei , and no other , " ilpst ( ho c ; uise . lie Av ' as plotting \\\\ cn hv should a \ r * fa \ ¦ * i « lii \* m *\* wijmi , l ^/ ou tii \ i » Miiinii . 4 ¦ V * Wln | l M f lil , 1 11 LZ \ 1 J 11 I 1 IM' nllWtlll . 1
have been lighting , i iiga <; e ( l 'in ( Mrcu ' inVeiitiiVj V K ' os ' sutlt tvllen be should have been nerving tlio natioli ; : i , l « . gglir < f ' wlil'ii ne nhotilvl ]) U 1-hiic ; arid jigliting fierce lm 1 itl <> M when tliVv ^ 'l uwiee of b ( Miol ) ting by jilte victory bad slipped by . ' Having niado up . his . mil id to < l <^ Htroiy the dl ^ viewinient of the ] 4 . th of April , > ho ( Uuunved KossutJijd ^ iieived Klapka , d <( ceivotl everybody . He led the army by circuitous routes , inirjw ^ sejy ,, betwtujii , tho . Russians nnd Austrians , resolved to surrender to the former , and ( lit , least be tmyn so ) to fight I be Taller to the last ' , lie obtained tbo < li ( 't ^ torsbip from Xossutb at the last hour , made ; no torins with tho enemy , mil . surrendered at discretion . ' Tho other gencrnla who gave thomsolvoB up were shot and hunir ; but
Gorgei was escorted to lOagenfurth , supplied with money from the pursa of Paskiewitch . . , i ; . ; , The . characteristics of Arthur . Gorgei , were not those which form a great man . or , gave a . great : country , " \ Jfe are almost inclined to accept the sarcastic estimate of General Kmety , ^ vho says that Gorgei had the mind of a sergeant ,. and was amnestied ' with all the sergeants of the Hungarian army . ' Tie ' 'hid the pe'dantry of a bureaudrat J ill the council , and the valour of a dragoon in the ¦ fields btit-lie had nob ' the foresight of a statea-: , w the -unerring judgment of a great soldier . With the pride of the Magyar he had none of , the ( patriotism , -of . .-, that , race ; and haying learned in Austria to despise ^ epr < rP eA . ^ tive , 'institujfcjions ,. he never , regarded with any . aifectfon those of ^ . i . . ^ i ye . land . . Indeed , he was ignorant of her laws , her customs , her ^ -ightsT—of tlie genius ( of , ' her people arid of her gloriojis ! pasti' He did not evbn know the gedgl'aph ' y of tHe cbtintry ; and mis' he natv ^' conftfss ' es himself , -with the air df a' itfran who is above it . His ambitiolnFwas as boundless as his envy of other men ; his capacity wa » scarcely above the average ; his self-esteem inordinate . ; Throughout the whole of the , period he spent in the se , ryice , pf , ; his , country , , he sought first . his ., own glory and ,. his pwn power , and through them only the . glory and power of Hungary . He was not" a vulgar traitor '; , hedid . not , he had not the -wit to scheme the betrayal of his cdunti ^ , but ,, setting himself first and her secdnd , he brought disgrace upon her flag , he carried chains and misery to ' he ' r children , and he earned , even from his enemies , the crowning distinction of infamy ^ We write these Words in sorrow , , not in anger , for ; to us ., Arthur Gorged is . as lauclaa thing of the past aa the , jack and , ljhe ,: thumbTScrew ,- . ,,-,. . .: .,, :. . ,, i .. ,. , ,, ; .,, , -, /> .,, - , - ,, . , , .,. ¦ .,,. ! ^ s pne redeeming quality ( was hip impassable . valour ; he knew not wh ^ t fear is . His one hatefiil defect was envy ; . 'he " nqver revered or loved , £ i ''" / superior' man . ' Ariel , now at Klagenfurth , "Ms proud'heart itiWardly ' bleeain ' g frbrii a wound 'time'ftannot staiich ^ his tense of a ' mighty 1 Taihire ^—a woun ^ which we ' ctm' scarcely hope that penitence will ' ever heal ; he i livfiK iwkt > itiedjTin-friended . iinmoiiFDiedv and / lAJone . ; ¦ ;
1238 The Leader. [Saturday,
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We should do our utmost to encourage the , Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Goethe .
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. ' ,. ' , , , , . , \ Nq . V- : ' ' ¦¦ ; , . ,- . : ..: . . GRACEFULNESS . f HE doctrine tha , t tbeteim Beauty is our general expression for those aspects and properties , of things which habitual ) y give us pleasurable feelings , or that our notion of beauty is a result of accumulated pleasurahle ; experiences , —a doctrine with winch , under a certain expanded form , I wholly agree , —has not , J . think , been . applied , to that quality of form and movement which we , term Grace , , There can be no- dpubt that the attribute to winch we apply this term is some perfection iu the tiling possessing it , —that . graceful movement is movement having some essential superiority over that which j . g ungraceful , and . that thejike , is , true of form . , We do . not & ee this attribute in cknvns , cait-horsesi , tortoise ? and hippopptami ; hut we doscc . it in antelopes , race-, liorscs , and luujiau beingswho ha , ve been cjcvelopcd , under , the most favourable conditiooa . What j ) eculiur superiority is it , then , which we , see iu these more highly organized bpings ? O « c night whilst watching a dancer , and inwardly c ( on < lemning her pirouettes and tours da forco , ^ barbarisms wl » ich , would be hissed , were not people such cowards as always to appkud .. what , ; tl ^ cy ( hmk it the fasliiou to . appiUuul .-r-. whi . Ifit , as I sny , inwardly qpiylcmnms ^ Ue ^ q ungiuiily feats . of ,-. strttngtli , it o ^ c ^ rr ^ Up me that flic , truly grn ( -eful ^ otious wbicli were ioccawoupily introduced , w ^ e those ixu-fpnnecj , w ^ tl ^ co ^ purative ^ y little cflbrt ; au « l , after . witciijliig » i , wlule , nnd being . rexniude . d of siiiuji ^ r cowiin «» - torV fiwfts , Icjune .. to tl > c general .. cqneiussjon , that ,, g iven . a , certain chunpe , « F attitiuk to . bc ^ oww ^ UwugU-r-fti ^ rMWW action , to be achieved , , t ) , i . cn it , js most gracefully , achieved , wlum JH-bieved wit )> -t , be least qxpenditur ^ of ^ for , cc . . . I " otlierwonls , . ^ piee , as j ^ plicul , <;<> motion , dcsei ^ bes ^^ o ^ on , ^»» t _ . , ifs c ( U : < ^ l with-an economy . of , wuseular p , ow , er ; p ; r , yx ; e ,, u ^ i applied to miiin ^ l favui * , denoribcy ; fovvis < : « . pid >|< t of tliiii , v < iouoif » y ; gpiee , a ^ s upplietl to , i ^ s turfis ,. * " :-aeriha . * . poHliu-w tli » t , may > , l } 0 ^ linli ^ uM ^ yiftU thJK ( eeorHnny ; nnd , gw ,. IIS applied to iuwiin ^ e objetrts , , < li : $ cribes s > u-h us po ^ ess certain aiinlotf" * tl ) tlwhti uttitud « K will foruis , ,, ,. ; , ,:,,,,, T : i u . : ¦¦' ¦¦ 'I'llat tliis ^ enenilization , if not the whole truth , contains , at least , u luiyypart of it , vv \ ll , I think ; become . / obvious , on eonNidwiiif * how lmbiturtlly wi ; covplo tbe words wsy and , < jr } i « ftd ; aiid ^ t ^ l | iioVe , <) U ftillfMK to' mm " floiru ; of the lacts on wliieh Hum association is bma \ . A soldier , drawmK himself bolt ' upri g ht \ Vhui liis scrjpihl ; shouts " aUeiition , " is more 1 ^ l" ° '<"' bunn gnu-Quiincws tlwni wl ' ieu liei-elaxe ^ nt . the , ' iv « rdrt " stand , i \ t case . " I ll ( j rfuwhc visitor , sitting stiflly oirtlio v \\\ £ V of hitt ehuir , and bis Holi-poMsc-ssc * host , whose limbs and body dispose Ibeniselvos ns e ^ tlVeniMuT duitates , »» ' " coul l-asl . s as iruu-b in f . flor ' t ' as in dc ^ uueti . "Whcu « ta »< uuK , IW vmwwW . V economise our stW-n ^ tli b y throwing Our weig ht ¦ chiefly an one leg , wlin- > we wtraighten to make it servo an a column , whilst iye ' relttM thd other ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25121852/page/18/
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