The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1851.

refused to degrade itself by selling those to whom it had
afforded employment, protection, and citizenship. While
the negociations were being protracted, the agitation and
excitement of the population was hourly increasing.
On the morning of the Ist of July, a soldier who had
escaped from the breach told me that when Morisini was
taken prisoner he was already dangerously wounded.
Though tormented by own ...nand, which, without being
dangerous, caused much suffering, I hurried to the Trium-
%irate, from thence to the mini-try, and thin to the town
hall, to ask for a permission to go out of the city. After
three hours of fruitless journeys backwards and forwards,
I succeeded in obtaining it, and went off to the French
camp, without, however, being provided with a safe coa-
-1 duct. On being arrested at the outposts, I contrived to
describe the cause of my anxiety, and the officer, moved
by a kindly feeling, allowed me to enter the ramp. I was
conducted to one of the camp hospitals, and asked the first
surgeon I met after a young Lombard officer who had been
wounded in the defence of the breach. I received for

LITERATURE. , The operations of the Piedmoutese army having, Ida lett*il nulled singly forward to reconnoitre ; 1
the Lombard at the same =t he was surrounded and attacked so
ended with the battle of Novara,
--- suddenly as to render all aid hopeless. lie defended him-
The Indian Volunteers and Lonsiyard Rifts Brigade. By legion had no alternative but to surrender to the self for a few minutes with his sword' and then with
Evict° Des onto. Isongraan. Austrians or proceed to !tome. It is well known pbtob, anim sting Lis men by his ' eatures uritil, struck bya
It is meet that a Dandolo, a deacentlant of the that they took the latter course. Th•-y were in no- ball in the stomach, and at the same time receiving a thrust
ffeat Doge,should celebrate the glorious heroism and wise enamoured with the republic of which Maezini from a bayonet, he fell,and the enemy pressed forwards. This
&Notion of his patriot countrymen. The fact that was the head; but they were anxious to nerve Italy little band of riflemen, after a desperate resistance, attacked
from behind, at the thinks, surrounded, decimated, at lust
the moat glorious historical Italian names, for under the only flag which then was raised for her threw down their arms. Four of them had, however, pre-
instance, the Nlanamq, Morisinis, and Dandolos, independence. W ith these feelings, on the 20th of . Nippily contrived to take up the fallen Morisini, who was
perpetually re-appear in the annals of the late war April, I universally beloved by hie men, and, having placed him on !
answers most completely the assertions of the reac- THE LEGION ENTEns RoNS. a litter, and availing themselves of the general confusion,
tionists in this country, who would fainlpersuadc us On the morning of the tith of April ws mule our entry made their way towards Villa Spada. But this was already
that the late Italian movement was exotic in its into the city. The streets were thronged with a countless surrounded, and they consequently fell in with the French,
character. No sooner had the standard of Italian wcrowd,eswt who awaited
approach and greeted us with the wrelaiiittozititue;iijnorrittaadkstiggetLeGui,gtreeefn" " Prisoners,"
oneemtsyle
independence been reared on the walls of Milan than Our battalion brought with it a reputation for bravery somei ruse, rushed forward with their bay „smelting
Ilome, Naples, Tuscany, Sardinia, Romagna, and the and morality—a reputation which had bens contiimed by One of the soldiers who had carried Morisini relates that,
Lombarilo-Venetian provinces sent out combatants— persons preceding Ui from Porto d'Anao and Albano, and , finding themselves again surrounded, and their lives threat-
generime youths of noble birth, with minds tam- who were enthusiasti Nip their praises of the military bear- ened, rendered ferocious by the combat, they laid down the
pored by many studies—men of mature age, dis- iantigdaonfdtronsw.ervilue
undhaunneti:itceufoofuorrd,tueTdiienno.ur officers,
ttetetrr,uapapodnuetnteumpted
andtottetuatt theirten way throutghttahe
trhaenksouorf
tinguished in science and the arts—labourers To the varied and somewhyat affectedly loud eyelet's lad was seen to rise, and stand erect,strange
on ehios bloody couch,p
and brave mechanics flew to arms, exulting in which saluted us on every side, our men, accustomed to grasping the sword which had lain at his side. He eon- 1
their cause, which had been blessed (but hypocriti- maintain the reserve and self-command befitting soldiers, tinned to defend his already ebbing life, until, struck a se.
eally) by a pontiff, revered as the liberator of Italy. made no answer—a circumstance whh somewhat cooled cond time in the body, he fell once more. Moved by the 1
The revolution of Milan, the brave defence of Ni- ! or
tu r
underof a p=l atei omnh who had
ererhy thuertpuortsetezttyluutf seiognhrteoyfer
hnizetho ettoteuir:ntiut, alitddsunchthmeitsrfeunrtereets, the t tench
the
cenaa, Treviso, Brescia, Bologna, Venice, and Rome making a profession of their political creed. f'revionsly to The accounts given of ti., deatht were many and various.
were due to volunteers, to men unused to military our hieing lodged in the quarters assigned to us, General I could only gather with certainty that he continued to lice
habits. Wanting alike discipline and competent Avezzams reviewed our battalion. He thought proper to for thirty hours, resigned, praying, speaking of his family, 1
leaders, and therefore without determined plans, d!..iMiSA WS with an oration ending with rien fa fiepabfieo ! and forcing tears from the bystanders, who crowded round,
The soldiers remained silent and motionless at the word. gazing on him with silent wonder. On the morning of the
they carried on the only war possible to theM, a " Present arms! Viva Fltalia!" shouted Manaus, per- Ist of July he expired calmly, and without suffering.
war of barricades and guerillas, and, elevated and ceiling the general's einharraaantent. " Viva!" was the Here let me pause for a moment, while I dwell on the
sustained by tho enthusiasm which a generous scuts- unanimous reply; and the soldien broke up their lines and memory of this incomparable youth, admired, respected,
tient inspires, they raised the people of Italy to the retired to quarters. and tenderly loved by all who knew him, and whose cruel
level of their ancient virtues. rite myriads of Aus- The first impression which most of us experienced on fate had left an incomparable void in so many hearts. Not
reienwcase
itlhaltreofriduenitilunsabLet melancholy. Our yet eighteen years of age his attractive,his angelic good
tenon soldiers who, planted at the Inds of every catering !tome ness had rendered him the model and the wonder of the
'street and alley, now hold Italy, are an eloquent tea- the fir,t spar of dissolution in a government or• in a whole hattalioa. Though he was the moat youthful of us
timony to the native valour displayed in the unhappy city, and in Rome we recognised with grief the very same all, we almost looked on him as our mentor, and were used
struggle of Ifiari-D. In spite of ages spent in de- aspect which Milan had presented during the latter few to sail him our guardian angel. So great was the unsullied
wonting the intellect and breaking the spirits of mouths of its liberty. We seemed to obszveette vert sair me punter of histetzienhdutteet, and the unswerving rectitudert of his
Italians. both Pope and Emperor are brought to con- overweening regard trivial persons sought,
withoaacrergLe inesatir anamtlatf,
eglocre.Thettremairwas the raaelea super- tal jeTean its'
fess before the world that Lombardy, Venice, and abundance of standards, of cockades, of badgm of party, maintain unoomtaminated in those who were his friends !
Runic yet produce men, and not the much-desired the same clanking of swords along the public streets ; and It was indeed a touching sight to behold him under the
herd of tax-paying image-worshipping brutes. those various and varied uniforms of officers, not one match- enemy's lire, erect wherever dangers were the thickest, and
l'he history of the last war abounds with lessons as ing with the other, hut all seeming fitter for the embellish• whilst his lips moved in low-breathed and submissive
meet of the stage than for military service; those epaulets, prayers, commanding his soldiers with the coolness of a se-
practical as they are solemn. Austria, the Pope, and
thrown us it were by chance on the shoulders of individuate, teran captain. But alas ! he is henceforth numbered with
King Ferilinantl are taking advantage of these, for whose very faces seemed to declare their unfitness to wear the dead; yet shall his name and memory long survive in
they feel that " the end is not yet." Military histories them ; whilst in addition to these things, the applause' of the sorepanul hearts not only of his parents, his sisters, his
of Itadetsky's campaigns have been printed by tens an unwarlike population, echoing from the windows and relatigyeilind friends, but of all who had, but to know him,
of thuustiab in Vienna, where the Italians are from the coffee-houses, seemed to us to indicate but too to p him a model of angelic gentleness, of courage,
rather regarded as dangerous animals to be shot at, clearly that we had arrived only in time to be present at the of ti'lltetnt,.iitzd of
n tvirtue .
last scene of some absurd comedy. Accustomed for some *di .re breaches having been taken, the
than us human beings, each, by the very constitu- time past to judge of they matters with the eye of regular •
firing became general at all points.
tion of his being, requiring a free development of all troupe, all this array of warriors in glittering helmets, with
FINAL itersca, DEATu or NANARA AND DISPERSION OF
his intellectual and active, and, therefore. of his NH- duuble-barrelled guns and with belts armed with daggers,
Tug LLOIoN.
tical, faculties. On the other hand, brave, enlight- reconciled on but little to the scanty numbers of real well-
ened, and initriotic men of all shades of opinion, drillnled soldiers. The day dawned, and with it the courage of our men
the evening, when fatigued by our long match, we revived; mustering their forces, they attempted with their
have deserilad the course of the struggle from the gladly answered to our names, in hopes of taking some re- usual daring to repel the advancing enemy, who were break-
national point of view. Ono of these is Signor pose, the drums beat all of a sudden to arm., and the whole ing in on all sides ; but all order wits at an end, and each ma.
meat *welled hand French funks. Our riflemen collected at
Dandolo, nn open-hearted, honest soldier, eminently city was in movement to resist the approach of the French.
Whoever could have se,,lves
free from prepidice and conceit, and as candid in hail a glimpse of, Rome that night V soots Satliuerveilluie'ards"aanrilbliocitrig' thetre P'airaktedortlilseaolf
From
others use lie is self-denying and patriotic. vtrho,sld not. haveanrdecwogn irseedoithe
ienitza:r.R. h he bud seen in
change mead sow at vile
.givean, and ell rushed forwards wittra-
From early intimacy and habits of friendship he was the. ompinrc:nags'vhieh haed depressedsoj usmogn our first arrivar but impetus of courage, whilst the French were driven hack
as a brother to the great Lucio Nlauara, the leader In all the streets in the neighbourhood of Porta Angelica at all points by this desperate effort of their already van •
were bivouacked small but admirable quishelloppouents. Meanwhile the enemy's coupon roared
of he celebrated column of that name, the first and Cavalleggieri, without intermission; our ruined battens without artil-
to march after the five days of Milan, and regiments of the line, two magnificent battalions of can- without
for they were lying dead in heaps round their
to bleed and din on the walls of Roine. Infuser., with four or five parks of field artillery; two regi-
ments of cavalry were stationed at Piazza Novena • name- Pieces) could not return the tire ; and the ground was
This chief our author accompanied through rota bodies of volunteers kept watch on the walls : 'and the strewed with our soldiers, for the most part mortally
all his dangers. and for about a year acted as whole of the National Guard were all in perfect order at wounded. Villa Spada was surrounded; we shut ourselves
lti:I udjiitant and military secretary. Above all, their respective quarters. Then, as might be expected, the into the house, barricading the doors, and defending our-
he was his inseparable companion in the reverses fantastic costumes were
esteuliuuirn!hiii:tvastautiiot
uannderdrfngatha;
lost eight of, and every one who solves from the windows. The cannon balls fell thickly,
sed
h
cLcfrolnodursthgeraspelv in his
dh7dnthet weaplt:
which led him to the tomb; and therefore he has wore
lhe nattioon itmherroisugl tthhee ViitlactLtem=
Elie means of viewing in their true light the per- great aqwuuare of St. Peter's, me.nehaneted witht the night
windows. It is maddening to tight within the limits of a
plexing changes of events in which Mumma and his aid with finding ourselves in the midst of soldiers, a•
nd of a house, when a cannon ball may rebound from every wall,
and where, if not thus struck, you may be crushed under
OuLtiraides were no lamentably entangled and ruined. confiding and resolute population. We then saw that
Leming to Italians the duty of rendering the Inn- Ruins was capable of offering is noble resistance, 3,4 we the shattered masonry ; where tho air, impregnated with
smoke and gunpowder, brings the groans of the wounded
hanked Heaven that, in the midet of the shame and cais-
sons on organisation and political action which this • wb- bwe more distinctly on
thanked Heaven that, in the midst of the shame and eala- smoke and gunpowder, brings the groans of t e wounded
sons on 'ii'g:mtmisution muusl pslitmeal action which this mities uf Italy a field had Ist• i bpenidthe ear, and where the feet slip alongthe
-ople uml adeeting narrative contains, let us salter - -.,. show Clint'' our hard hadfateem been. unmerited. IL
I biolltly pavement, while the whole fabric reels and littera
.... ■
' - the redoubling - -

answer—he is dead ... He was my third, my last remaining
friend, the one for whose safety I trembled the most; and,
whilst his death was not only most distressing to me person-
ally, it was an irreparable calamity to his family, of whom he
was the idol and the only son. 1 thought of his mother, and
of' his relations ; I thought of myself left alone in the world
—nor could I even weep, surrounded as I was by crowds of
soldiers who stared at me with a sort of hostile curoisity. I
entreated that his body at least might be given rue, in
order that I might convey it to his family. The surgeon
replied that it had been already removed to a burial-ground
at two miles' distance. At my urgent request, he Sent off
instantly to countermand the interment. Meanwhile I was
obliged to wait, and, while devoured by heart-rending an-
guish, was forced to dispute about politics with the officers,
who showed themselves completely in the dark as to all that
concerned us, asking me why we had not seceded to the
terms offered by Lesseps, and what we had done after the
victory which bad been obtained over us by the Neapolitan
army. More than an hour had already passed in this way
when a captain adjutant-major came in ; he was excessively
surprised at seeing an enemy's officer without a safe con-
duct in the camp. lie ordered the officers who had received
me to be arrested, and sent me instantly back beyond the
line of outposts without listening to a word of explanation.
I was compelled to return to the city, and be the bearer of
melancholy tidings to our anxious friends. I wrote to the
head officer of the French staff, asking to be allowed to
enter the camp in order to remove the body of my deceased
friend. I received the order to do so on the morning of
the tad. While on my way I fell in with Manara's funeral
peewee-sit:ou. It was a sight which struck me to the very
heart; the two battalions of 900 men, now reduced to 400,
marches! in front, without officers, owl, spiritless, and hag-
gard. I saw passing before me ten or twelve soldiers, the
lost remnant of my brother's company, without a captain—
without even a lieutenant; all my friends had died in the
hospitals, or were prisoners. A Roman military band fol-
' lowed the soldiers; then the bier, covered with a blood-
stained tunic; then a hundred wounded soldiers, who hail
dragged themselves painfully front their bed.; to pay a last
tribute of respect to their poor colonel. The aspect of the
vanquished city, which, before admitting it. conqurors,
presided mournfully at the obsequies of one of its noblest des
fenders—the thought of that gallant young man who had
fallen on the very last day of the defence, at the age of
twenty-four years, leaving behind him three infant
children, and all the bright hopes which seemed still in
reserve fur him, accompanied to the tomb by his fellow-
soldiers who had lost in him their last stay—the
wouuded men—the flowers strewed along the whole
length of the road—the pressure of public calamities added
to the weight of private sorrow, filled up the measure of
my grief, and lacerating a spirit already weighed down by
suffering almost deprived me of reason. The sad procession
entered the church of San Lorenzo, in Lucius, where
sumptuous funeral rites were celebrated, and Padre Urea
Bassi (who was afterwards shot by the Austrians with re-
volting additional marks of obloquy and cruelty) pronounced
a funeral oration over the body. It was one of those scenes
which leave their impression on a whole life, and cannot
be recalled without a thrill of horror. Not yet recovered
from this sock, I had to return to the camp. At
the outposts they bandaged my eyes, and then made
me walk under the scorching rays of the sun for tittereru
of two hours. When they stopped, I opened my eyes on a
newly made grave—hlorisini was already buried. I bad
to be present at the diahumation, to follow with my eye
each stroke of the spade, which seemed to re-echo on my
heart, and then to see that angelic countenance, begrimed
with blood and earth, lifted out of the grave and carried
befuro me on a bier into the city. Oh ! this was the lest,
the most tremendous refinement of suffering to which I had
been reserved ; in enduring this I seemed to have fulfilled
my task to the uttermost—and in the delirium of my
anguish cursing my very existence, I asked what remained
for me to do here below.
While these events were occurring, the uncertainty and
confusion of the city had become still greater, many of the
populace (popolani) circulated through the streets in large
demanding with sinister vociferatious that the war
should be continued. The greater part, however, of the
inhabitants were preparing in disdainful silence to bow
their males once more beneath the old yoke. But not a
barricade was demolished, nut a watch-house of the national
guard was deserted, note magistrate abandoned his post.
Deputations to and fro from the camp followed each other
in rapid succession. Still nothing was concluded. At last,
as if by some sudden decision, the gates of the city were
flung wide open, the troops were consigned to their quar-
ters, and a message was 'sent by the Assembly to that army
which had at first presented itself as a liberator, announc-
ing that, yielding to force. Rome resisted no longer, and
that the French might accomplish their ill-augured man-
date. That same morning Garibaldi, having mustered his
troupe and volunteers in the great square of St. Peter's, in-
vited ail to follow him who did not choose to lay down their
arms, declaring that his intention was to throw himself
into the mountainous districts, where, however, lie could
promise nothing, except hunger, thirst, perils, and fighting.
Four thousand men answered, to this call, and to the amaze-
ment of the more prudent, who could not conceive what
Garibaldi could hope to accomplish with a handful of dis-
pirited soldiers against four armless, he marched out at the
St. John of Lateran Gate, and took the road towards Tivoli.
The end of this adventurous expedition is but to well
known, mad unfurtuuatelv it dues not from the only dreary
episode of a most melancholy history.
On the and of July, at lour o'clock in the afternoon, the
French army made its entry into the conquered city. All
the Streets were deserted, es cry door and gateway was
closed, a death-like silence reigned everywhere. On arriving
opposite to the Piazza del Popish), the French regiments,
who had perhaps expected to he greeted by the acclama-
tions and festive welcomes of Al people restored to liberty,
suddenly drew up, petrified by the aspect of the city,
which seemed so threatening iu its sullen silence. Orders
were given to put the caps on the nipples of the firelocluy
and 12,000 men, preceded by a powerful vanguard, marched
into Rome with quickened puce and fixed bayonets. At
the some moment, the constitution of the Roman republic
aas proclaimed with pomp at the Capitol, in presence of
the whole Assembly and a vast concourse of the popula-
tion. But the Assembly which made a show of Spartan
pride in rejecting all proposals of accommodation, and who,
in imitation of the senators of ancient times, resolved to
await in their chairs the decision of their fallen country's
destinies, would have done better bad they not forgotten
what they owed to that country's defenders, who were
left to the mercy of the conqueror. No measures what-
ever had been taken to secure their safety. Some regard
was especially due to the survivors of the Lombard legion,
against whom every part of Italy was now closed, and who
began anxiously to enquire what fate ;was reserved for
them. Mtwara, who had constantly protected their rights
, with unwearying energy, was no more; others, on whom
this noble duty DOW devolved, had either little influence,
or were too much engrossed in scouring their personal in-
terests to think of contending for others.

sing. tg nui—
admire in u few extracted passages the nobler, if
sometimes mcluncholc, aspects which the Italian
cumpoigit presents, here is a picture of
♦ 711 I 1.1 I ef
It is a fin. sight on Sunday to see the mar celebrated on'
the hittht st summit of the 1111 l tintain, under the open sky,
and unpict within sight of the rnCtily. Two firs plated so
us to lean :I. gigantic trona a table, a drum, two candltsdieks,
onto rut.our :duty. The boundless sky above, the valley
with its winding riser beneath, the distant lake, the two
villages at our fret, the soldiers seatfrred in
grup, on tin dtt livity, the distant riflemen arranged u
sewn. s, the gunners round their pieces, the solemn silence,
and, state all, the ideas wnich crowded on the mind in see-
ing that handful of min (of whom many, perhaps, might
never s. p tomorrow's light), at three milts distance from
the enemy, joining reverently in the celebration a. the sa-
crifice of peace, in the presence of nature and of the Creator,
all coitspired to produce in each heart :t gentle and pro-
found ...notion, "'fanning it with the desire and the multi-
- unknown

might
The whole weight of Signor Dandolo's testimony
was needed to make us believe that a French officer
could practice the following
DIANOWVILE.i Or WAS.
But I have yet to relate events and misfortunes of a more
porional nature. In orderto take up the thread of my sad
narrative, I must refer to what has already been in part
described. A short time after our arrival at the gate, my
brother and I were seated near each other striring a piece
of bread, when he received an order to go out with his
company. Ile started up with a bound, squeezed my hand,
and, drawing his sword, was in an instant at the head of
his men. After passing through the barrier they turned to
the left by a narrow path across some vineyards, and, with-
out losing time even to fire a shot, marched in good order
up to the flat terrace surrounding the Villa Corsini. The
shower of balls fell thicker every moment. At each step
the company was lessened in number by those who wen
struck down ; while the remainder, silently closing their
ranks, continued the combat, e- 17 my

under ts. shucks of the cannonade. The defence
hadalroady lasted two hours. Manua passed continually
frost one room to another, seeking to reanimate the cum-
, batants by his presence and words. I followed him, dis-
tracted by anxiety, having had no news from
a ball 'rebounding from the wall wounded my right arm.
Perdiu! exclaimed 31anara, who was standing at my side,
"Are you always the one to be struck? Am Ito take no-
thing away front Runic ? "
A few minutes afterwards he was standing at an open
window, looking through his telescope at some of the enemy
who were iu the act of planting a cannon when a shot
from a carabine passed through his body. "I am a dead
man," he said, falling; " I commend my children to you."
surgeon hastened to his assistance. I looked inquir-
ingly into his countenance, and seeing hint turn pale, lout
all hope. Ho was laid on a hand-barrow, and, taking
advantage of a momentary pause in the firing, we passed
through a broken-down window, into the open country.
Mantra, letting his hand fall into mine, kept saying to me,
Du not abandon me • stay with me;' and I followed him
soldier was ts--

tics s•frneveiber In ...-..10W11 &Mews mad lodger . until • - unequal --oat, eneOuraged
rs. iy r - --- ---.---- ---•- - -
with a bleeding heart. My duty as •
all Mai be accomplished. Oh, who mould then tan fore- brother, who, foremost of all, by his impassioned w word; and
cam hest ; the must painful office of a Mend was all that
magnanimous example, showed at what value life should be
sees that a year afterwards we should be called to leave our remained fur me to do. After many windings and turnings
held when exposed to danger in a noble cause. All of a
lam hopes, our choicest blood, at Rome, only to see our we reached the ambulance of ha. Maria della hula, where
that, were it sudden a French company emerged from one side of the
country fallback into a condition so wretched,la a hundred of the most Nevsrely wounded had been already
palace, headed b• an Piker, who I f • II •
not for the • sperience gained, see might almost look back ) he l inal
e d nen*y signaplaced, it being impossible tu have them conveyed to a
with his sword, and,. when 34 advance alittle nearer,
on the past with regret, and might even wish to return to
called out in Italian, " siamo ;mica' owe are friends."greater distance. The moment we arrived, Manure desired
Mar ("rime state and condition, which, although it had beenme to send for his Milanese friend, Dr. Agostino Be
In
My brother ordered his men, who had opened a vigorous
so lone to, very tree patriot the object of indignant inipre-the meanwhile all the sus vans wens preparing to do what
fire at sight of the enemy, to cease fi •g. All of us had
cation, 'wear. ), t to be surpassed in misery and hopelessness
then. such faith in the honour and kindly feeling f
n the they could fur him; but he continued eaying " Let me die
by that which ha. sat •d it.in peace; do nut move me." lac consequence of having been
• h Freuch army, that it was at once believed that this officer
The following pasargc describes an affray with ____,• - his- assured by the medical men that he had but a few hours to
peeresses. coming over to us to turning arm.' against
a far superior body of Austrians near Breocia : tis. When, howeser, be had got within thirty paces, he live, I bent down to his ear, and said, "Think of your
Tile CUMULI OF Lisee-ro. halted fur a moment, and a tremendous discharge laid a Lord and Saviour." " Oh, I think of him, and much, "he
But we had hardly mad arms when our ears were third of our company un the ground. My brother was shot replied. I then beckoced to a Capucine monk to come
Wens' by a distant tiring it' musketry, and at the same through the chest ; young Lieutenant Mancini wu near, who, after having received the signs of the dying
time see kunit that a Luse body of the enemy from lie- wounded in the thigh ; and two soldiers, who hastened to man'i contrition, imparted to hint absolution. Manua
amuse. had fallen upon our troops on the lulls close to sultan' him, fell in their turn; while another ball gassed then wished to be supported by the Viaticum, and I aux-
Leman, '1 he' drum. heat to ann., and, without having had through Mancini's arm; Lieutenant Silva WWI struck in iewsly endeavoured to prepare Wm as well as I could for
time 1., taw s other fusel or rest, we marched on towards the hand ; Lieutenant Colombo had a ball which went in his great change. A feeling of soothing consolation penes
Den n oino, where the long wished-fur encounter awaited US. at his mouth and passed out through his cheek. The stir- tested my mind in seeing the truly Christian spirit in which
The 006.1 Mom L 0041,0 rises by a winding ascent, and 'iron, drew back terror-struck. Morisini alone remained my most beloved and suffering friend encountered death.
then de. ides into two branches, one of which leads to Silo, near his dying friend, serving as a mark fur the bullets of '
A ter having purtakeu of the sacrament, he did not speak
the unser to Deo:nano ; it embraces in its 1111111C11.0 wind- the enemy, which, however, passed Win without injury. for a considerable time. His first words were to commend
logs the click of smiling hills which elope down to the After a momentary pause, the firing 0%41 vigorously ye- his sous again to my care. " Bring them up," said he, "in
lake. Arrived at the crews roads, the column divided, one newest on our side, and two soldiers rushing forward took the love of religion, and of their country." He begged me
half taking the direction of Sae the other of Desenzano ; their expiring captain in their arms, his lips still moving in to carry his remains into Lombardy, together with those of
and a few minutes afterwards we perceived, 111010110,1 on prayer. lie IBIS hardly raised from the ground ere his my brother. Perceiving that I wept, he said, " Does it
the 1,4, round a low dwelling-honer, a battalion of Tyro- trim had returned to (sod. indeed oain you so much that I die?" and, seeing that my
errs chaaatura with a lung line of infantry formed in their At length the awful 30th of June arrived, when suffocating sobs prevented my replying, he added, in an
rear. Char skirmishers, under cover of the brushwood, had •
i moat be taken, under tone, but with the holiest expreseson of resignation,
already commenced tiring. We quitted the road and hur- the cty zu • "It grieves me also. . . . ." Ile called to his side the
Mel across the fields, in order to reach the point of action me VERTU OF EMILIO MORISINO. soldier who had been one of his orderlies, and begged his
more quickly; but nom that disorder which is inevitable On the evening of the 21th of June, after some hours of pardon if he had sometimes vexed him, "se I' areca akanc
in soluuteer troupe, it happened, as usual, that the more repose passed in the Corsini , our battalion was ooltesfigto impozzire." He then asked again if there were
timid, nut keeping pate with the others, broke the order of formed and returned to the St. palace,
erazio gate. The rain no news of Morisini,.expressiog a desire to have him near
the colossal; at the head of which remained only the fell in torrents. The soldiers, drawn up in the open air, him. I knew already from vague reports that he was a
nest eourugeous of the different companies and corps, awaited further orders. Atter sonic time, two companies prisoner, nod had consoled myself on this amount, ',thee-
followed by a strong rear-guard of the more prudent, who, were told to remain as a reserve at Villa Spada, and a sag him to be out of danger; but, aware how much Maness
though Sl,O in disorder, possessed, at least, the advantage third went to occupy the breach in bastion No. N. Op- was attached to him, Iliad not ventured to tell him this,
of moving with becoming gravity. pressed by the deepest melancholy, I accompanied my poor fearing that the intelligence might re-awaken hi. anxiety.
We mouutest a little eminence, which row at a distance friend Morisini Emilio Morisini to his post in the breach. she A abort time before he died lie took off a ring which he
about OM paces in front of the enemy, and, though too night closed in dark and tempestuous ; our feet sank in the valued greatly, placed it himself on my finger, sod then,
muds scattered to rush forward resolutely to the assault, , ground which had been lately turned up by the spades of drawing me close to him, said, " I will embrace your bro.
open,' a bred, tires which did 'not fail to do some execution the workmen; and our lauthorns flickered so as to prevent ther in your stead." Saluteris rico fsatello per le, n' i rerof
aiming the compact hies of the Austrians ; our hire was our sseing the lurniuous arches traced by the bombe, or to When Domini arrived, Mauna was scarcely able to
viguniuniy returnee', and it was not lung before many of avoid them as they fell. The soldiers, obliged every mo- speak; only, on feeling himself moved in order to have his
our Well fell to the ground. A battery of rockets, which merit to fling themselves with their faces in the mud to wounds dressed, he raised himself up a little, and clasping
the Austrians played off upon us, without causing 118 great escape the explosion of these projectiles, advanced slowly, a his hands, exclaimed, " Oh, Bertani, let me die quickly! I
hoe, slid not fail, from their novelty, to create a certain prey to the must disheartening terror; whilst many, taking suffer too much." This was the only complaint that ever Pocono. By GEORGIE MEREDITu. John W. Parker.
trepidation; but this actuation gave place to merriment edentate of the darkness, and of the confusion of the escaped from his lips. In the convulsions of his last agony,
when we perceived the harmless slowness of then: ill- march, dropped off and returned ;so that on arriving at when lie began to cling, in that last death struggle, to those , - •
If M 111 edi h Dir. er t had written a volume of the
directed projectiles, the breach there were not men sufficient to relieve the senti- who stood round him, I grew faint, and was removed to a ordinary verse that flows copiously front the modern
Foremost of all, animating the rest by his gestures, stood has. It now blew a hurricane ; we were drenched with distance, lest my loud sobs should increase the sufferings of press, ho might hare been disnussed with a few
Pannone, directing, as well as he could from the top of the rain; and the darkness became almost impervious. The the dying man. When I recovered my senses, I returned words; but as the case stands more courtesy is due
hill, the irregular oscillations of that long line of our rise- I poor riflemen, burial to their knees in mud, struck down to his bedside; he was already motionless and cold; his to hint, and he is worth earning. is
a friendly 1 • li•
men. I stood beside him with the standard, which, serving !by the Inqueat and fatal descent of the bombs, took the heart still beat blow'''. Little by little the warmth of life ,
as a mark for the lire of the enemy, was in a short time perilous places assigned to them in silent discouragement. ceased entirely, and the soul of that young hero tied to ' contains ms, man • steps removed from
vo ume poc , y
torn ill various ohm:es by their shot 'Those who were near It was a sight which one could hardly bear to witness. heaven, to rejoin the friends who had fallen before him and medioeVey. ; in truth his Daphne will probably
.be
use rri. 4 out to me to lower it, in order not to odd to the Gild forgive those who were the cause of so useless a with him! .. . For fifteen months we had shared each imprea on many poetic minds as a conception rich
dung, r of our position; hut thinking it a shame that the slaughter . and doubly do they need that pardon, inasmuch other's dangers, joys, and hopes: there had been no eon- in imagery, gracefully versified, and presenting on the
tricolor of Italy should bow before :the black and yellow as they were already convinced of the impossibility of all cealments, no jealousies between us. Drawn together by whole a picture of istoral passion that may rank high
banner of Austria, I held it erect, and as high as possible. ulterior defence, which conviction was hacked by the use- natural sympathy of character, that sympathy had been ithe t.B t then throe hootthe •I n poe tic world. u roug to ume
Drooped aruuud our standard were many officers who, i aeration of the most intrepid and intelligent military men. soon changed into a brotherly ffective& I lost more than
owins *o the contunun of our ranks, Misting themselves , Yet, against their own conscience, and the remonstrances of a friend in losing Illanara. Oh ! what did 1 not suffer in
so many careless and trivial jrassages mar the good
witinmt soldiers to command, had caught up their muskets ! others, they obstinately continued the defenes, and fur the pressing to my heart those cold remains, so beautiful still performances that the reader hurries through his
and miiintained the firing, together with half a company of sake only of being enabled to say, "We did not yield"— in their paleness: one thought alone seemed then to sus- labour of perusal in no very excellent temper. Con-
rill, muter the gallant Roza. Suddenly the light wing, I "mini non cedentnio"—they did not shrink from adding use- Min me. Morisini at least, us we all believel, was safe! tititmil it occurs to him that the author has rushed
hololl by Colonel kamiensky, rushed resolutely forward lessly to the number of %tenon. The multitude, neverthe- Meanwhile the lighting was fiercely continued: our men, into print, and at last it is not unlikely that he asks
upon the enemy. Thou intrepid Poles, grown grey in war, . less, are ready to clap their hands, and to proclaim as the headed by Omibideli, charged for the last time with the
and in deep-rooted animosity against tho Austrians, threw ' most glorious name in all Duly him who sat quietly aloof bayonet, and drove the I reach back behind the second himself whether or nutthe tcould li • h. poe ate seen his
themse lvi n upon them. hand to hand... With reach impetuosity,' from danger, and, provided with a safe conduct. ran at the line. This final eff set exhausted all the remaining force proof sheets. This is painful when the excellence of
that many 1 yrialene were actually killed with the knife. ; worst no greater risk than that of returning to his aecus- ,of our poor soldiers. A report began to prevail of the some of the matter is fairly taken into consideration
Astounded by such a vigorous assault, they precipitately , tamed and most easy exile ; while the names of those gene- ! municipal authorities having sent to the camp to capitulate, _psinful that the determination no longer to waste
uhanduned the height and be to retire. A shout roma spirits who sacrificed their lives to their duty. are and the tiring gradually ceased. Night drew on, silente his sweetness on the desert air, should have so se-
of joy arise from our lines, the drums beat the charge, either already forgotten, or will soon be buried in oblivion! ' and gloomy. Abnoet all our posts were abandoned; th .ou
and we all rushed pell-mell forward in pursuit. But at At about 11 o'clock, my duty calling me to the side of numbers a our dead and wounded were fearfully great; ri sly marred the honey of M Meredith's
this moment, on the road to Salo, we caught sight of a Manant, I left Morisini, after fervently embracing him, and yet the courage of the survivors was still admirable ; but Here and there, too, are strained images that, by
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strong column of infantry, preceded by about 300 dragoons. entreating him, if possible, to preserve a lifo which was so it was easy to foresee that Rome was lost with the loss of suggesting the weariness of effort alter effect, jar
Thew were the 1.400 men who had set out to occupy Saha precious to his family and his friends. The cannonade con- that day's battle. The French occupied all the bastions terribly upon the ear, and go far to obliterate all
and who had limn recalled in Mate to strengthen the tinued incessantly during the whole of the night, mid from and the Vascello, and had pushed forward as fax as S. previous sensations of pleasure. To talk about
Audi ..in ranks. The sight stopped us at once ; the result , time to time there were discharges of musketry at the out- Pietro in Montorio. startheof dearth dkl illumini
of the battle could no longer be doubted. Our volunteers posts. Who shall, however, say, that the 30th of June, though ," te ary ng a nation's ef," gri
bad already marched 15 miles, were still fasting, and, after lAt two in the morning the enemy broke in upon our line, ending' so fatally for us, hadbeen inglorious for Italian lis to utter absurdity—the more glaring by being
thee. hours' fighting, hail acatcely streogth left to load their and, favoured by the darkness of the night, and the ineffi- arm; although too many precious lives had been sacrificed iin direct contrast with a prelude expressive of intense
fire:edam. ' deny of the guard at several of the outposts, forced their in that fruitless combat. The three days which preceded I earnestness. Nor is Mr. Meredith altogether pat-
After half an hour's firing, Manua commanded the in- way to the different breaches in the city walls. Roused by the entry of the French into Rome offered the melancholy , k,ss of• affectations in metre, which stern criticism
treat to bas e beaten, and it w high time; the enemy's rifles the frightful uproar of this unexpected assault, in the spectacle usually presented by a city on tats eve of surren- I
were penetrating through the brushwood, and rapidly our , twinkling of an eye we were all on our feet; the cry of der. On the Ist of Juiy the Constituent Assembly decreed cannot pardon • but, accepting the dictum of Prime
rounding us ; • few minutes more, and all was over with alarm was given, and the drums beat to arms ; the night that the defences which had become impossible should be Albert, that the work of the literary and art judge
us. In fact, scarcely had we began slowly to draw back-' was pitch dark, the sky being still stormy ; whilst the dies relinquished. The Triumvirate resigned ; another govern- should be undertaken in kindliness of spirit—in op
wariln, than all the heights which we had occupied were charge. at musketry, mingles' with the shouts of the ap- meat was chosen in its stead. The ministry sent in their position to certain criticism that conceals a rotten
swanning with Tyrolese. I was the lost on the hill with preaching enemy, increased the general confusion and do-- resignation and the munieipality undertook to negotiate judgment under strong and malignant epithets,—
thatd ; and it depended lost on the turn of a hair may. I saw Garibaldi spring forward with his drawn with the enemy. The Assembly continu
alone,is sittings with-
acce itin kindling the • '
of the
RS proper incentive
lay temerity hail not mat the leas of the ensign, which sword, shouting a popular hymn. A few courageous fel- out interruption, declaring that force should diasolve 1..1 . q
had Is en the first to emerge from the gates of Milan, and lows premed on behind him ; while others, as if petrified by it. In the meanwhile it deereed that the Triumvirate had ' critic, it is just to pass over these affectations with
wheso.oeitour bad been maintained snealfted ins so essay, a panic terror, stood rivetted to the spot, expecting to be merited the thanks of the country, bestowed the rights of the simple utterance of a warning—with the simple
perils Scarcely had I time to shoulder it, and to hamy st ; instantly surrealldstil and cut to pieces. In a few minutes Roman citizenship on all who ha borne arms in defense of record of the fact that they are affectations.
tag speed down tee declivity, followed by a Mat and does ; the French had overthrown every obstacle, and had ad- the republic, and authorised the Minister of Finance to Mr. Meredith has a strong poetic insight mg-
discharge, whisk soma to pat wimp to my feet. I minced as far as the log barricade at the gate, a few paces provide for the most necessitoue. While thew things were
y, and for the t
doubtedl
otis he should receive ll timt
Anita at Lomat% ud own solemn in some measure distant from Villa Spada. At this eight, our corps, regain. going on, however, the populace were restless and tiumaltu-
reorganised, we permed ORE Marsh rapidly. sod reached, lag 001412111, oPcied their fire; the barricade was alter- ow: they fortified afresh many parts of the city, and even acknowledgment .pulalie appreciation ; but be.
Gamed° the some evening, after eighteen man of &Sinai . Rawly mat and regained amidst shouts, blows,. the roar of erected barricades, and attempted to organise troops. would do well to spend long hours over his volume
exhausted with haw bat prase of having proved to the l cameos, the Inwstinge bombs, and the crashing of roofs The most strange and appalling reports too, circulated 'in the labour gf correction and reconstruction. His
Austrians, who ha se,
Dot ammo& tO mrtlll4 plir tßitalk 'ma ekellasthe air itself being filled with such a deafezing through the city : there was uncertain sews Prom the camp, garden is wotth the trouble of weeding. In con-
that we did sot, eves in Glom days of diosouralloomell, uproar as can !candy be conceived by tine wildest Mumma- and • freak attack was apprehended. General Owlinot
cluaion, we commend' public attention to his poem
shrink from an manatee ; nay, from going in quest of one ties. Morkiiites post was one of the first to be surrounded. demanded the surrender of all the Frenchmen who had
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when not forced upon us. No sooner did the shouts of the enemy reach his ear, than fought against their countrymen; the:Roman government owed Daphne," and to one or two of his songs,