The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

FENCE AND HER DEFENDER.

20 Till EDITOR OP 21111 SINLESS.

811,—Signor Angeloni has requested me to trans.
late the following letter. Will yon kindly insert it
in your columns P I. MERITON WHITE.
28, Ashley-place, August 29.

813.,—An article, furnished to the Gazettn Officials
di Milano by M. Enrico Montszio, the London cor-
respondent, concerning the fate of Ciceroacchio,
having been quoted by the English press, permit me
to refute the statements made by the above-men-
tinned gentleman.
After a sneering allusion to the article in the
Times on Onibildee letter, the correspondent al-
leges that Cioerosechio and his children were not
shot by the Austrians, but that they "were
drowned while endeavouring to cross a stream in
their flight from Rome. He who wares me of this
feet," says the correspondent, " is an alimo gala*
ltiomo—s certain Giuseppe Angeloni—who, after
the fall of Rotes, came to London, married an
Englishwoman, and now earns an bocce livelihood
as an hotel-keeper, which employment he would find
more profitable if his extreme good-nature did not
snake him the dupe of so many emigrants, who,
abasing his kindness, feed themselves at his ex.
pease."
I, Sir, sin the humble individual with whom
family affairs M. Mnntezio thinks fit to trouble the
public. I feel obligid by the respectful terms in
which he mentions me, and am sorry to be obliged to
repay them by asserting that his statements con.
aerning tho information given by me to him
about Ciceroacchio are utterly false. I remem-
ber, about two months since, when dining at my
table d'll4ite, M. Montazio questioned me concerning
my poor friend. I replied that I supposed he
was dead, my invariable supposition about all of
our friends of whose fate we are ignorant, and
whom we know to be obnoxious to one or other of
the Italian governments. Had I been in poisoning
of any particulars, • table-d7i6te was not the place in
which I should have revealed them, nor was M.
Montssio the man I should have chosen for my con-
fidant. But in this instance I was totally in the
dark. When I parted from my friend in Rome, he
accompanied Garibaldi in his retreat, and I embarked
for England is a steamer off Civita Vecchia, the sth
July, 1849. From that moment until . General
Garibaldt's letter appeared in the papers, I
base waited sox:only for tidings, fearing the
worst. Hence the " stream, the " crow
iogs," and the " death by drowning." exist
only in the inventive brain of the London cor-
respondent of the Ossetia Officiale di Milano. Per-
haps if I had been in the habit of receiving Austrian
money for communications fabricated for an Austrian
official journal, I might have been in possession of
Austrian secrets, and long since have given over
hoping against hope that some future day might
give me back my friend again. As it is, lam but a
poor innkeeper; but so far from complaining of the
"male fed* di molti emigrali," I am glad to see at
my table those of my brothers exiled for the holy
canes in which the noble Ciosroaochio and his sour
together with such myriads of our countrymen, have
lived and died.
I have written a letter to this effect to the Gautfa,
though well aware that it has no chance of insertion. I
ask you, sir, to give publicity to my statement. It is
due to General Garibaldi, who affirms, oa the word
and researches of Colonel Sacchi, that those sena
• brave cuss fell by Austrian bullets—that false user.
Sans should not prevent the inquiries of honest men
, into this matter. And for myself, I should ernes
that my brothers in exile, and my brothers in my
native land, should deem me a traitor to the common
• enose.—l am, sir, with respect, you G. Ars,
NGELONL
, 32, Warwlek4quars, August 29, 1858. •
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. genespesdnee, and etietnatieett it as "a seta invention of
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