The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-08 00:00:00

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ITALY.

THE ENGLISH NNCILNEERB Del
IN NAPLEIi.
?BOOMS' OF TIM TRIAL.

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BALEEN°, ens. 2.
Intimately connected with a report of the trial
will be that of • visitor the prima when the aecused
are credited. On peeesating ourselves, we were
admitted without • culty, and were taken to the
rooms where Perks sad Watt and the rest of the
crew of the Cagliari are confined. Passing through
SO outer room appropriated to the sailors, we see to
that 111 which the English engineers, Captaia Elton,
Dseeri, and the two mates, are imprisoned. All
'Eared to be in good bodily health and in good
le. They had nothing to complain of bat one
, and that was that they had been confined 90
or even confined at all, for the asesetion of
their innoceoce was as strong as any ass could
make, and their indignation .T-s greet at the injus-
tice and fraud whit E had been practised upon them.
" We were treated as innocent up to our arrival at
Naples," said Perks; " then we were. begged to land
as a mem form to give our deposit:Wes, and being
tine shirt, for we should be only detained erne day ;
but we had no somas landed than we were hand-
cuffed and taken off to prison." The captain
especially was very angry at the false map
of his coarse which Ind been drawn up,
and showed as a map of his own design.'
ins, from which it was evident that he was
coming straight to Naples at the time of his inyture;
" besides, ' said he, " had I chosen to fly, in the
lame time that it took me to oome off Capri I might
have been half way to Malta." We were shown •
hat and an uniform of the captain's, a part of the
property only recently delivered up by the Neapo-
litan authoriuse, but they were so destroyed by rats
that they were perfectly useless. A list of articles
amounting to 85 in number, including money, had
been sent in to the Sardinian authorities as alto- ,
gather missing; the prisoners had not received, them.
At the time of the capture of the Cagliari I noted
it as a great informality that none of the authorities.
belonging to the prisoners had been requested to be
present when the inventory of the articlasitusweisb.
I did not like ,the appearance of Watt; he looked
fat and well, but there was a want of mental clear-
ness and brightness, I thought. The room in which
they are is large and airy, though not clean ; they
have cash a bed which is purchased with their entire
prison allowance. " And what should you do with-
out friends who supply you ?" " Do! we should
starve. All that is allowed here is four grain
or lid. a day for ever3rthing ; as for beds, a bit of
straw and nothing move is that is allowed. There,
go sad see the prigsse in the next room after yea
leave these two rooms. We live very well," said
my informant, " for, as you know, we have amistense
from several soctroes,and the cook of the Cagliari pre-
pares everything for us, We should starve were it
not for this. Conunr. de /Magnolia reported that we
complained of oar prison his because we wanted to
live well ; we could not eat it." Leiving the poor
fellows mach cheered boar visit, we went to the
room to which we wereted, and where 16 men
are confined, of whom five are Sardinians, one
an Austrian, and several are Romans. Close against
the wall of the door I observed small heaps of straw,
which looked as if it had been cut, so fine and dusty
it was; these were the beds of the prisoners on nights
when the neighbouring mountains were covered with
arum." " liars you no mattresses, no coverlide ?" "No,
sir, nothing. Two of us have been very ill, and this
dirty-looking blanket has been sent to them as a
special act of grain. Another of us had a blanket
belonging to him on board, which has been restored.
The others have literally nothing to cover them,
nothing to lie upon except this powdered straw.
Look now, sir ! " and he took it op in his hand, and
let it drop half fall of dust.
In my lest I spoke of the wretched appearance of
some of the prisoners, who depended altogether ou
the bounty of the Neapolitan government. Their
hoes, their crouching tonne, as they went pacing
through the street with a painful tread, haunt me to
this moment. Their uniforms I said looked suftl-
°lastly new to have been given for the occasion. I
have since been informed that it was so. The
President, it is said, wrote to the Procurator-General

to say that it was impossible for the priso;ers to
appear in court in their actual dress, and an order
was given to provide them with this uniform for the
occasion. But if they appeared frozen and withered
in this, what must have been their sufferings during
the term of their imprisonment ? I now resume my
report of the triaL
foe court opened again on Saturday morning, the
30th January. We were treated with the same
courtesy, end the same forms were observed as on
the former occasion.

Some delay took place in consequence of the posi-
tive refusal of Watt to appear. fhey might bind
him and bring him down by violence, otherwise he
would not come. It was suggested that his heed
wee Dot in a right state, as had been proved during
hie Weems, sad that the use of force might
drive him to frenzy. It wee agreed, therefore, that
le should be reported as ill, and that the case should
proceed. I meet remind you that Parks has been
@abject to flts (the last he had on the night of the
earthquake), and Watt to thin aberratem et Naiad
since and in coesegeenee of his coellameent.

After the asnaereconimendatioa of the i'residest
M Moderation, the Attorney-Cieneral continued amd
concluded the reading of the " Mb di amnia," when
began what is Galled the " interrogatorio" in the Nea-
politan eode. Each prisoner is called on to assent to
az correct or add to his former depositions, which are
Ant read to him.

Baron Nicoten tram the fint. If yon don't hear
well, you may come nearer, said the President. 1
bear quit* well, was the answer.
His depositions contained a full history of himself,
in a political point of view, for some years back. He
hated sects, and never belonged to them. There were
three great parties in this country: the National, the
Marotta, and the Piedmonts... He himself bo-
lo ged to the first. Hs hated Muratism, and it had
bean one of his shiftier to anticipate and destroy it.
lie neve. weld ifigldsgainst &domestic sovereign, to
put his wintry osier • foreign rule. France had
given her support to Msratisin with a view to extend
Ler territory. Saadi was at the head of the move-
ment. Hitherto Bagiand bad bafiled the attempt,
but Mantis= numbered many followers, and would
yet succeed. The Piedmont... party was small. He
acknowledged his full participation in the conspiracy
for which they. were on trial, and in trying to iigh
against Mustiest be believed he had done well fo
his country.
On the conclusion of one of the depositions Nico-
tine rose, and with great emotion said—Signor Pre-
sident, that was never read to met it is false.

Proeurator-Oeneral--We do not require any " tee-
timonianza ".to the " atto di amuse" which has Men
received by the court ; the documents are all in the
chancery.
Nioosera, however, still persisted in saying that
the document was false.

The President showed u much indulgence u he
could to the prisoner, but the Procurator• General
insisted on the depositions being read without any
farther interruption.
You may now add anything you like, said the
Prwideat.

Nicotera then handed in a pelmet* the Procurator-
Gsessul, which contained, he said, a WI exculpation
et the new of the Cagliari, and a report of the
abases to which they themselves had beam subjected.
bo Aaron demanded that the paper should be read
the coat.

cannot be read ; it is con-