The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-19 00:00:00

TO TIC CDITOI OP TOT IMPINB.

husband has now been two months in
the hands of the brigands, and his restoration to
me seems more hopeless—or at least more remote
—than it did in the middle of May. I then thought
he would either be at once released by the troops,
or else be set free on payment of a ransom. But it
sow seems the soldiers cannot release him, although
they number about 6,000 men iu this province
alone.
I think, then, that I have cause to compl►in
that they will not allow me to attempt to ransom
him. I can now send neither money nor letters to
the brigands, as no person will dare to go to them
without a pass from the General, and this is re-
fused me. . .

My husband is in a far worse position than the
Italians who have been captured in this province at
various times, for their friends were allowed to
negotiate with the brigands. I know that it is
irregular and illegal to connive at brigandage, and
to allow brigands to receive ransoms ; yet these
things have regularly been permitted by the Italian
government in Southern Italy up to the
date of my husband's capture. Had this not
been the case, brigandage could not have
flourished, as it has dune, and my husband
would not have been captured. Besides, if it be
irregular and illegal that the government should
connive at brigandage, it is still more irregular that
the government should permit peaceful travellers
to be carried off by bands of armed men. My hus-
band and I were travelling—in perfect confidence
in the strength of the Italian government—along a
road which we were assured was perfectly safe.
Though the authorities at Salerno knew that it had
become unsafe within the few previous days,
and that the brigands were then in the
plains of Paestum, they neither warned us of our
danger, nor afforded us any protection against it.
If the Italian government be now really in earnest
to put down brigandage, I only wish they would
allow my husband to escape before they put in exe-
cution their new strict and severe measures. It
would be far better for him if they continued to
show their former nonchalance and supineness. It
is very, very cruel that, because he is au English-
man, he should fall a victim to a severity which
has never been shown when the brigands have cap-
tured Italians. _ . .

....
I trust to your kindness to insert this letter in
your powerful paper, that my unhappy position
may be made known to my countrymen.—l am, &c.,
ANNIE MORNS.
Hotel Vittoria, Salerno, July 12.

THN RDITUZIN OW THE NICOTIATIONS
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