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Ilitans. He therefore sent orders to Lieut.-Colouel
Desna to arrange a storming party, and try, by
some way or another, to get within the castle.
It was then a quarter to 12 o'clock. The Neapo-
litan Colonel Lorenzo had been mortally wounded,
and as far as General Gallotti was concerned, lie
was happy enough to get out of the scrape as soon
Illa he could. The flag of truce was hoisted ; the
INeapolitans asked for a capitulation. This was
soon granted, and it was agreed that they should
retire to Naples by sea with their arms, leaving in
our power all the materiel of the forts, besides the
imules and horses of the artillery.
At this moment when I write it is 4 o'clock, and
the Neapolitans are parading before the windows
of the room in which I am sitting ; they are wait-
ing for the boats which will convey them to a
French mercantile steamer that is to take them
to their destination. When one sees the martial
appearance of these men, perfectly armed and
cleanly dressed, one can scarcely imagine how they
could capitulate belore the darnel-looking soldiers
of Garibaldi, who are scarcely covered with serge,
and are fed God knows how. But the love of
liberty animates their breasts, and they fight for a
noble cause and under the lead of a man who knows
how to make heroes of them. This is the only
secret of the Nroaderf ul victories which, since the
landing at Marsala, have illustrated this modern
epic of the Sicilian campaign.
'The losses which the Neapolitans bad sustained
in the action of yesterday may be fairly reckoned in
120 men hors de combat. On our aide we have to
deplore the death of a noble young officer, Lieu-
tenant Camerini, from Sermide, and that of eight
men belonging to Bizio's brigrade. Two Calabresel
officers, Cuzzoorea and Plotino, were also wounded
in the last attack on the castle. The wound of the
last-named gentleman must, however, be slight,
for he has been appointed by Garibaldi governor-
general of Reggio Province.
The National Guard of the town and province
proved very useful to Garibaldi, not only before
but during the fight. The Calabriana seem to me
of an altogether different stamp to the Sicilians.
They are fino men, who know how to manage a
musket well, and, as is always the case with the
inhabitants of mountain countries, they are ac-
quainted with danger, and patriotism: is strong
Iwithin them.

LATER CONFLICTS AND CAPITULATION

OF YRS ROYAL TROOPS.
VILLA BAN GIOVANNI, AUGUST 23.
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Garibaldi is really accustoming n; to wonders.
With the characteristic rapidity of his movements,
be always marches close to the heels of the enemy,
to whom no respite is allowed. Yesterday, at 12
o'clock, after a fruitlees interview with the Neapo-
litan general, Brigance, at Accerello, he gave the
order of march, and up we went to the bills, which
are beyond the ridge facing the gulf. At dusk bur
coltmut reached a sort of plateau near a place on
the left of Mattinitti. General Coseuz had already
reached on Monday last the heights of Aspromonte,
intending to operate there, in combination with the
main body of Garibaldi's Atm= lie had lauded
between Scylla fort and Bagnara, when entering
the small village of Solano on Tuesday he net a
body of Neapolitans who tried to oppose his march.
Besides the brigade he commands he had with him
the English and French companies, commanded by
the gallant Colonel De Flotte, the well known de-
fender of the Paris barricades in the bloody days of
June, 1848. These two companies, having been
suddenly attacked by the bth Cacciatori battalion,
had to tight hard to repulse it, in which, however,
they succeeded after a fight of two hours. The vil-
lage lied been already carried at the point of the
bayonet, when poor Colonel De nate, anxious to
make prisoners of -a few Neapolitans, ran towards
a lane of the village, sword in band, summoning
them to surrender. He had scarcely reached the
corner of the lane, when a Neapolitan soldier,
who was concealed in it, shot him dead on the
spot. The loss of this offioer was keenly felt, both
by Garibaldi and the army, for Colonel De Flotte
was highly esteemed and beloved by all who knew
him. His mortal remains were buried the day
before yesterday, and a subscription has been
opened to erect a monument worthy of him. Gari-
baldi has, however, already paid an honourable tri-
bute to his memory, in a touching oiler of the day,
in which the military capacities and social virtues of
this lamented officer are recorded. As soon as
Mane was carried by the ardour of the English
company, who after Colonel De Flotte's death were
led by Ca Goodall, General Conine could follow
his without being farther molested by the
enemy. This brilliant result is in great part to be
ascribed to the boldness of the English captain
mentioned above, who after the action was highly
complimented by Garibaldi himself. Lieutenants
Walker, Richardson, Styles, and Patterson also
fought like true Britons. You will, I hope, excuse
this short digression, which is intended to pay a
well deserved tribute to a gallant French officer
and to your own countrymen.
To return to the main subject of my narrative, I
may tell you that we bivouacked on the barren
ground of the plateau, chilled by a cold north
wind, which made us desire to feel again the heat
of the preceding day. At dawn, the order of the
march was given, and our column went down a steep
spur of the mountain towards the Neapolitans, who
were encamped at Campo, a sort of plain on our
right. To perform this march, and to reach one
of the Fiumare, or beds of the torrents which
cut these mountains, we had to pass within the
range of the Neapolitan brigade, which was under
the orders of General Milandia, and well provided
with artillery. When we left our camp this bri-
gade was massed before the village of Male, and
seemed disposed to contest our march, which was
intended for turning the road of the Pezzo Fort
below. This was indeed the case, for our ad-
vanced guard had scarcely made its appearance
on the spur of the mountain, when the Neapoli-
tan skirmishers opened their fire against na,
and their artillery began to shell our little
army. Some of their projectiles killed half
a dozen of our men, and their rifle balls wounded as
many as double that number. The movement was,
however, successful, for the Neapolitans are too
prudent to taste the steel of the Garibaldian bayonets.
In less than two hours !Claudia' brigade had been
entirely out-flanked, and we were besides in a posi-
tion to threaten the road which from this village
leads to Perm, Alta Fiumara, the Torre di Cavallo,
and Scylla forts. Nor was this the only result ob-
tained by the bold and well combined movement of
Garibaldi, for General Brigante, being still in pos-
session of Villa San Giovanni, had his communica-
tions cut with the main body of Milandis' brigade.
As soon as Garibaldi thought he had aooompbslied
his object, and secured the result of his strategic
manoeuvre, he sent to General Milandis two
officers, namely, Count Treochi and Major Vecchi,
summoning him to surrender. A flag of truce
was hoisted, and the two officers proceeded to the
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and answered that he could not give an answer
before lie had referred to Lieut.-General Viale, the
military commander of Calabria Ultra. Four hours'
delay was therefore asked for by him and granted
without difficulty. It was, however, arranged
that the chief of lifilandis' staff, accompanied
two officers, should proceed to Garibaldi's camp, and
discuss with the general the conditions of the capi-
tulation. Count Trecchi and Major Vecchi took the
three Neapolitan officers to Ganbaldi's head-quar-
ters, and the pourporlers were at once entered into.
The Neapolitan officers then had the barefaced im-
relinee to ask Garibaldi whether be would raise
them a grade if they would join him. To this the
honest man answered that he could not do such a
thing, for it would be at the same time unjust and

LTWOPENCE.

scandalous to compensate men who hail slain their
brethren at Palermo, and who supported a govern-
ment which had bombarded a harmless city
of 200,000 inhabitants. The young Neapolitan who
had the more insisted on being raised. to the reek
of a captain turned out to be the brother of one of
Garibaldi'e soldiers, I think holding the rank of a
sergeant ; and the modesty of the one is contrasted
with the stupid and selfish arrogance of the other.
The Neapolitan officers were dismissed without
Icomin to any conclusion. The four hours asked
by having, however, expired, Garibaldi
ordered a soldier to go up to the roof of a country
house, and for the second time hoist the flag of
truce. This was quickly done ; but the poor sol-
dier had scarcely got on the roof when he was shot
through the head by a Neapolitan caccia-
tore. This deed excited great indignation amongst
our men, and made Garibaldi so indignant that he
was on the point of commanding the attack. Two
new messengers were, however, sent by Milandis,
and they were received by Garibaldi iu a manner
which made them more than once turn pale. lie
told them that they commanded a hind of brigand's;
that to shoot the bearer of a flag of truce was one
of the most infamous actions a soldier could do ;
tad be said other rather unpleasant things to them,
which must have fallen upon their souls—if,
indeed, they bad any—like melted lead poured upon
a wound. After *kis incident, he ordered the
Neapolitan officers to return to General
Milaudis, and tell him that ff by three
o'clock he had not surrendered, he would
I attack him at once, and throw the whole
of his brigade into the sea. The consequence of
this peremptory summons was that Milandis was
obliged to accept the conditions imposed upon him,
and this was the signal for the total breaking up of ,
his brigade. The Neapolitan*, when made aware
of the capitulation' threw away their arms and
came up to our lines to fraternise with our soldiers.
I have no doubt that the prime MO' lye of this was
fear, but the result was obtained, and! 2,500 men
more had been forced to lay down their arms before
a corps of so-called filibiesterv.
Whilst this long busiuess of the capitulation was
going on we could witness from the heights of our
camp a most extraordinary spectacle—a Neapolitan
frigate and a war steamer engaged in a deadly
atrugble with our batteries on Faro Point. We
were negotiating for peace up in the heights, and
down below a mail-of-war, hoisting the Italian
colours, was spreading death amongst the quiet
population of a poor Italian village. The duel •
between our guns of the Faro and the Neapolitan
frigate was kept up for more than an hour, and
her suddenly steaming off towards Messina made
ua believe that she did not get the beet of it. •
A lamentable occurrence, which might have led
to complications fatal to the cause which Garibaldi
is so nobly defending, occurred on Tuesday last at
the Faro. A French steamer of war, called, I
think, the Muette, was passing through the Gulf,
when the Sicilian gunnels !Mistook her for a Nes-
politau vowel, and consequently fired at her a few
shots and shells, The French man-of-war did not
return the fire ; but, as you may easily imagine,
the French government will seize this opportunity
of making a diplomatic row. Let us hope that the
men high in power will not attach too much hn-
portant* to a fact which was after all but a re-
grettable mistake.
To return to our Neapolitans generally, the con-
sequence of General Milandi's surrender was that
his colleague Briganth was also obliged to capitu-
late before night. Whilst lam writing his men,
about 1,200, are lying in the principal street of this
village, waiting for the boats which are to convey
them to Naples. They will embark during the
course of this eight. The garrison of Pezzo Fort
has also surrendered. It is now occupied by the
battalion of Garibaldi's son, and our outposts are
by this time within the range of the Alta Fiumara
Neapolitan battery. General Garibaldi is going to
pass the night in this village, which, as you know,
is one of the most picturesque along the coast.
It is situated below the slope of the
lower range of the ridges which form so
picturesque a scene, viewed from Reggio to the
point of Scylla. The glorious mountains of Sicily
stand opposite to us, in all their beauty ' • and
groves of orange trees, pomegranate and palm
trees, Indian figs, and aloes, adorn the numberless
terraces and gardens of the shore.
SCYLLA FORT, Amer 23.
Here we are at last, and I write to you ou the
very table upon which the commander of this fort
wrote his orders of the day, exhorting his soldiers
to catch Garibaldi, and his filibusters. It seems,
indeed, that the epidemic of capitulation has in-
fested the whole of his Sicilian Majesty's army
which was echelumbe on this coast. Yesterday morn-
ing at 6 o'clock Garibaldi left his headquarters at
Villa San Giovanni, and rode down towards Alta •
Fiumara, with two battalions of the General Corms
Brigade. He stopped at a bridge near Cavallo
fort, and sent Colonel Paggi to summon the garri-
son to surrender. Bad examples are always con-
tagious, and the fort surrendered at seven. Then
came the turn of Scylla, and old Scylla did the
same. It was in our power yesterday at about
half Lust ten o'clock. Some of the soldiers de-
serfel battalion of the 4th Regiment of the
line, to which they belonged ; the others embarked
Ifor Naples. What a glorious army to be sure !
The fact is, that the name of Garibaldi and
the wonders he has achieved in such a short time
have excited the utmost dread amongst the merce-
nary and demoralised instruments of the Bourbon
tyranny. I have been told by a Neapolitan officer
• e has joined our army that since the last month
they had loot all control over their soldiers owing
to the fast that some agents of the Camirilla of
Gaeta were purposely spread amongst the ranks,
in order to detect the liberal feeling of the officers.
Be this true or not, the fact of the greet demoralima-
tion of the Neapolitan army is fully proved by the
almost incredible results we have obtained within
the last sixty-two hours.
It seems now that we are going to start for
Bagnara, and walk our way towards Piano della
Corona, where it is stated that a Neapolitan corps
d'arinise, 12,000 men strong, is awaiting us. The
place, as its name indicates, is a wide plain, one
hour, march in width and length, all free from
trees. It is two hours' march from Bagnara, and
stands on the high road to Naples. Another Nea-
politan force still stronger is posted at Monteleone,
and that place an be reached in 12 or 15 hours'
march. What will the heroes of Piano della Corona
and Monteleone do l Most probably they will imi-
tate General Lanza, Bosco, Gallotti, Milandi, and
Brigante—capitulate or bolt. As the Calabriane
say the Neapolitan soldiers " ragtime rieparmiare
la pendia pei fiedi di &timbre," or in
plain English, they are not anxious to die.
It is generally thought that in this world the past
is • good criterion for judging the future. If that
philosophic axiom be true, we may hope to reach
Naples before the 15th of September.
The postal service being very uncertain in Cala-
bria, I fear I shall not be able to send you my let-
tem so regularly as I endeavoured to do till now.
readers of your paper will from time to time
get them all in a lamp.
P.S.—The General arrived at Bagnara last
night, and his staff is going to join him in a
few minutes. Cosenz' division also left for the
Paula destination at 8 o'clock p.m. The news we
receive from Palmi informs us that the Neapo-
litans there have disbanded, and that the army at
Monteleone is in a complete state of demoralisation.
I was not, therefore, mistaken in telling you that
the march of Garibaldi to Naples will be simply a
triumphant one.

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