The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

When I first beard front Sir William of this brutal out •
rage committed by the Neapolitan police upon Ms.
,clooolars, and or the breach of treaties agallt.t
Mr. Hamilton hi►tt.rlt. my first and paramount duty was
to 'oblige this Italians State 'officially to wekssowletige that
British sltitieets. residing :st Napless powwowed an indefeasi-
ble right to visit and reosivto one another its their own
houses', for all objeetos of social intercourse and of religions
and secidar education. 'When` never eionla be a plest I'm
that the Neapolitan times, lit had indisputable power
'roes. 11W 'lets ethleallsoll of it.: own subjeeth. and that
beyond a 'ornate expression of my topinioin I esoultl not in•
terfcre with them. 1 'lid. therefore, simuit from the Ni. 3.
politan (love nt an official recognition of that right ;
and, mole Ihau this. I obliiilletl 1.1.0111 it that a British
sehosol, which hall hitherto eligited, as they stated, 11% OM.
nuance and borlsearance. should be hereafter publicly
authorised and eatablished under the protection of the
ltritkli NI th.ion.

%Ir. II lion gave tut. to understand that his u►nutl
pl•e•lits trout Ili..t.llesll 111110111111441 to 11N►1. he now
puts the•ul sit As it hail been dosed for iieitr4
months. and N. Mr. llainilton had been paid, by my orders,
ni4slithly allowsnee pending the dispute, and. further-
litore. RN I never heard Of his pniperts listing suffered. I
1...11.141..n.il a SIMI Of 111141/. tile• title eU1111N•Ilaalion for his
lass, NMI I seeordingly insisted upon its being granted
the Neapolitan tioveninient.
_ _ _

"There su•e:' says the Leder, •• son►e very
" ugly circumstances connected uith this
" ease." There are indeed : not the least
" " in our orb l i 11l 1, is that journals in the
position Of the l:.tvrnti►rer•, the Leader, and the
Times should print such stuff as this extract
from Mr. llAM►►,To\'s pamphlet, as they be-
lieved it :

At the end of seven or eight months' urgent anti nices.
sae application to his Lordship, I was surpriaed to lie
vaned one day to his Exeellency the Neapolitan Minister
for Foreign Atlkirs, who retpterted me to accept the sum tit
p.tieitbs as a present from his Majesty the King. in
proof of his royal sympathy and respect t'or me ',emotion).
When I mtattsl that in the fats' of toy obligations smell it
num was wholly useless. and that I had hoped that Lord
Maleneslairy would obtain wherewith to pay the school
creilitoni ni full, his excelleney alas Is' laugh irons
derately. " Why," said he, " you must Is dreaming '
You think, perhaps, that Malmesbury is likes Mir
lord Palmerston, ready to listen to et ery
tzslaint, and
obtain redress fur every griev twee ! Put, lite( ! he
is not quite so Quixotic as that. Why, only look at this
letter which we have just received then Prinoe our
Ambassador at Loudon--ssie what lw 1111y1 I had a
long conversation with Lord Nialmetibury. I did not fail
to try to impress* on his mind Ike necessity of his taking
every opportunity to prove his sympathy with the low.
reigns of Italy and Austria, more especially by dews)*
raging the complaints of British traveller*, and other per.
SWIM who might consider themselves aggrieved. His
Lordship quite agreed with Ule that 1.40111 Pahniastou, iu
seeking to protect individuals, had almost ruined the
nation. And when I adroitly turned the converse •
upon the else of Mr. Hamilton, I had the satisfaction to
hear his Lordship say, " You can give bim anything you
Ilke, it dews not matter what it is, so long as I salt say
that you have given him something."'
When his excellency had finished reading this extract.
he said emphatically, " And remember, sir, that this is a
wind, letter from the Ambassador, and nut an official
one ; and I suppose you know that the truth of any /sub-
ject or nem intent is always contained in the private cones.
ptintlenee."

Mr. HAMILTON himself in his pamphlet,
admits that Lord MALMEIIHURY suggested that
" there must be some mistake of names in the
" Sicilian Ambassador's letter." In this first
denial there is dignified courtesy, not un-
mingled with contempt ; in this second there is
just indignation expressed in plain English,
richly deserved :

The ridiculous conversation which you have extracted
am having taken pluc•e between Niner Parini and toe la.
front Iwgiuniug to end, a groom invention ; and I leave it
to the two Neapolitan Ministers and to Mr. Munilto.' to
deten AA tt 4' who the author of such trash van la•.

The Leader mournfully concludes :

3lr. Hamilton points out that, although the known de-
parture of Lord Palmerston from office gave a new tune to
the Neapolitan police, it had alretuly exenitted an unjust
anal lawless oppressi 111 l upon a British subject by the suf.
Prance of the 'transit Nlinister who has so long *thorned
the Neapolitan Court. Well may hump doubt whether
England ever means to act. Well may Russia conceive
the idea that England is but a scarecrow whom no sparrow
of spirit would tlreital, since subjects of Queen Victoria and
subjects of persecution, whom Nay paltry I aovernment may
molest, are synonjinotts i4.1111'4. If Mr. liamilttin haul
heti, an American citizen we need not 'Rustic
that point.

A moment's thought might have prevented
our contemporary from ever entering upon it.
Hut we will suggest an emendation of his
hypothesis, and furnish at conclusion to it as
well. If Naples had been America—England's
equal, and able to cope with England—instead
of at petty despotism, rotten to its core, be-
neath whose surface the secret revolutionary
fires are as busily bubbling and burning as is
the volcanic lava Of its own Vesuvius, then
Lyra biALMESBURY ;night Lave taken ilia atand