The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. .Additional.)

On my arrival at Gaeta I began to protest against
my imprisonment. I had been taken as a simple
spectator ; I did not hold any commission in Gari-
baldi's army ; I was an English subject, and I
.asked to be allowed to write to my minister at
Naples. General Vials and General Ferrari
seemed to recognise that I could only be considered
as a mere spectator ; but having applied to the
King, who had taken the Wale view of my case and
that of my oolleagne, the ministers were consulted,
and they all decided against me. I was, how-
ever, told that I could ,write to Mr. Elliot, and
I did im but, as I discovered on my arriv-
ing at Naples, my letters were not for-
warded. Two days passed away, and I was
taken ill. All my money had been taken from me
by the Neapolitans who bad arrested me at Sant
Angelo, and the scanty allowance of the prison was
not enough to support me. On the fifth day I was
attacked by fever. My illness seemed to increase
my courage, and I asked to be brought into the pre-
sonce of the general. I wrote to him a sort of
statement, whiah..he promised to present to the
.King. Paarndlebilanetet who served ua I heard
one morning t►at I was suspected to be a Mutatiet
.agaot ; another fellow-prisoner told me that-ha bad
beard a captain say that I was sent by Lord Pal-
merston to Garibaldi in order to try to get Sitify far
England. At any other time I should have
heartily laughed at this stupid nonsense. On
Wednesday morning I was suddenly summoned'
before General Viale. Although ill I went down,
and, arrived iu his presence, the general
handed to me a Journal des Debate, in which my
name was mentioned together with that of the
800. Evelyn Ashley and that of another English
gentleman I now forget. The general told me that
the article in question proved plainly that I had led
the soldiers of Garibaldi on the 19th of September.
I pointed out that the article was a,uonymous, and
I wrote a letter in which I said that I never had led
soldiers, neither on that day nor on any other, since
1848. I also protested against my captivity, and
told him that I had airm faith in my government;
that it would make the dignity of the British nation
respected in my rise, as it had done in the ear of,
the Cagliari. Next day passed away without any
new incident, but on Friday I was suddenly sum-
moned anew to the presence of General Viale,
where I met a Signor Materasso, our agent at
Gaeta. This gentleman had not been idle. On
hearing that au English subject was amongst the
prisoners he had sent word to Mr. Elliott, who had
claimed me. A council of ministers bad been sum-
moned to consider my case more fully, and my
liberation had been decided. I was asked to write
a declaration that I would not carry my arms
against Francis 11. This done, I was handed over
to the consul, who took me to his house, treated
me in the -kindest manner, sent for the doctor,
and cared for me as for one of his family. Yester-
day morning the French man-of-war Muette tame
into harbour. Signor Materaaso asked the captain
to take me to Naples, and yesterday evening I ar-
rived there, where I was greeted by my friends
as one risen from the tomb.

Here I must stop. I have already written too
much about my personal adventures, and I beg
your readers to pardon me if I have dwelt too much
on a theme which can have so little interest for them.

SIR JOHN PATTESON ON JUDICIAL LABOURS.

After the dinner at the annual ploughing match
at Feniton, Devonshire, ou Thursday last, Sir JOHN PAT-
TI:RON joined the company. His health was drunk very
cordially, and In reply the venerable knight said—l very much
regret that I was not here to dinner today ; my excuse is
that I am tamed seventy years of age ; that I am as deaf as
a post, and that I suffer constant palm from rheumatic
gout, which has deprived me of that active exertion, which
is former years I used to enjoy. Wane the last meet* we
have bed to deplore the lees of a very intimate and good
friend, who has ponied from among us, and whom I cannot
feel it in my conscience to pass bver in silence. I mean my
late exoellent friend, Mr. Head. He was an excellent man,
of kind and Christian feelings, a gentleman in every
respect, and a luau who wee ready to do good to every
within hie reach. lam sure I have every reason
person
ny
so, bemuse as rector of the parish, when I
Cilllo here tooter circumstances that required mow

Wien at his band., he pre ft in the' kidded sad
most Christian manner possible. nosily have to lament the
loss very much. Ido not pretend to my that I agreed with
him in all his views on pariacolar points ; certainly not, but
then he well knew it. He would discuss them with me very
often—more than I sometimes cared about—but he was a
man whq although he held his opinions stoutly. sad vigour-
mealy, yet he had mat forbearance, and greet indnlgeace to
thaw who differed from him. It is indeed a greet loss
which we have sustained. His sufferings were great, for he
was 'Minted with • dreadful calamity, which he bore with
and with Christian fortitude up to the very last.
etsa is not a thing that ii unuseaL All who have
come to that time of life that I have attained must have
nee falling around them many of those with whom
they have been associated by the ties of kindred or
friendship, and they must submit to the ways
of Providence and not repine against them. Be-
sides that I would say in the words of the famous
Rama poet--1 mean Viegll—who when sposkiug of the
rod al the Sybil. who was we of the oracular deities—the
golden rod, which budded continually, said—there ts newer
meatiag another to supply itephice, and the same tioreeeence
and bsp of the golds. rod will remain eontinually. Now
form I will onl sayy this : I toes for a great many years
—lei tweaty•two • judge in her Majesty's Court of
Qesew's Bench. In recollecting similar meetings to the
milll remember my friend John Pyle, rather throwing
ity teeth that I had not worked for nothing, but I
told biro, Mr. Pyle you do nut know what you ars talk-
ing about. (Laughter.) We are all workers ; the name
who ploughs the Uhl, end who dip the hedge, h •
worker, but there are other workers in other stations of
life as well. For myself I can sey that I have bees a worker
ever Mow I have been a boy. Whim Mr. Pyle mid. " You
the well paid for your truity" I said I will tell you
the real fact. When I accepted the oMce of jadge, I had
a salary of a thousand pounds a year below what I was
Men* by my own exertions at the bar. Tree it is that I
lid this I retired freak the bench, which a judge
is .0 10.1111 after be has served l 5 year., but I bad
mare. Recollect, I might have continued at the
be, apt have meth a larger income and saved more money
ems Mu I have got by the pension. Mr. Pyle sat down
ist he did not understand it at first, but that he was
of it now. Then I told him that the Alm of
of
was by no means • sinecure, for that a judge worked
es say mw in the country. He hue to work at
Nveppmlt el law which are brought before him
esmiYealla, Ting him peat anxiety, sod sometime" the
thee el his f w-crestunie are placed in his hands, and are
dependent very much upon the manner in which lie plows
tie facts before the jury. (Hear, hear.) That is a
Metter of no little anxiety, I can ware you. LW any
man think as he will, there is no man who has been
*lough the ordeal for the length of time Mutt I have, but
mast feel ormerlocus of the importance and gravity of the
duty which is oast upon a judge. I
of am.f7zeto say that,
during the 22 years I filled the effloe ' , there were
fewer pirates ceedemeed to death sodssuffered the extreme
1:711.:1 ofieUe 11 time Noe MI Icc would tuvetios:rbedellere that
not mead thus epos when it was my painful dety to
pass the extreme amisms of the law, and who wallemt the
penal* el Math. her sellesei esiMtly ; sod, *meta%
arieadmdmi, • 1,, quit m Mat respect. hir John then
I. the labour of his two ism—cm* of when
ems sow estlssi es mile( Imes ter fee Mesa Imeartars,
sad who Mil had ea Ws Asa 1010 abisslism le Riper et,
and the ears was jM.bwt
__lo he merle • blimp in the
ItSemelas Work at the Paello—to show that men of the
upper Arm wasted ardeseely_ , and that it was wrong to
swum Met the aim who gisegbed or dug the land was
Os ably OM vie Wiled MM . Sir Jahn was loudly
almond es reessing Ws int.

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5,000 f.