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laughter, but the soldiers held their Peace.— 1
The people the.' pursued General Church, who
aeught to save himself by quitting the city.
Seeing alru the impooibility of rejoining the
troops, he sent General Caglimre, who went round
rat order to arrive at the +(sillier,. Ile wished to
have united them for the maintenance of order. In
this eocleavour he received a in the thigh. The
people were already intermized with the soldiery.
The people then not seeing; the carriage of General
Church, believed that he had,gone home; theyaeg
immediately- to the hotel In Grande Bretagne. and
.ought in vain fix the General , the hotel 'was pil-
laved of its plate; the glass and furniture was .
thrown out of the widdows and burnt. The card-
nize.4 of the General, and even those of some other
travellers, who were unfortunately in the Paine hotel,
were also burnt. On the Sunday following, while
111 e Prseter and the Consuls, delta Maestrante,
were deliberating on the means of ieeestablishing
the public tranquillity, the populace rushed to
Castellani:ire, penetrated into the fort of Garen', iti
the :bastions of the King's Palace, and in the fort
of the Mole, where they took povsestion of all the
anus they could find. Each one arined himself as
lie could. The confusion was now at its height, no
per.ter knew whom to obey. The rebels and the
-eithers fraternized together in the forts and in the
trret.. A band of them went with canton' to the
pri.m, where state criminals and galley slaves were '
• olofilltA. The p•resle toll( possession of the poi-
>ini, and let the prisoner out.
Another baud went to the place Vigils's°, end
pillaged the- house of the Malinger of the Theatre.
Carbaja. In a moment the house was reduced to a
heap of ruins. The mob prepared also to pillage
the house of 'the Marquesi Fermi, Minister of
State and of Finances, but his house was spared on
the represeitatioss of tonne of the leader., who re-
collected that this Minister had rendered important
services to Sicily. They went Hnellreffli to attack
various establishments of Government—the office
or the custimt-house, the timber registry, the mode
gages the Director-General Of the Forests, the
tribunals, the chamber of notaries, &e. Every
a here they tore down and broke the arms of the
King. All the establishments were pillaged, the
furniture broken and burnt, nor did they even
spare, the registry of mortgages or the archives of
!:he kingdom. Several of the public buildings
were also burnt. After these expeditions the pee
pulace took a seeond thought and returned to
the hotel of the Marquis Ferrer', who footman:ly
hail escaped with his family. the house
was lAA sp.ered; the populace spee.iti like a torrent
thrcugh the apartments, pillag;ng and breaking all
that they could lay their hands on. The furniture,
thrcan out of the wisdoms, was curried on carts to
the Place de Its Marine, where it was burnt. A
niegtiifieent library, containing precious remains of
emiquity, which hail escaped the ravages of time.
oal entirely destroyed by these vandals. Those
who from .imprndence'or by treachery had opened
tee ports to the populace, began to perceive their
• trer, and wished •to find the means of remedying
t heir ovelsight.
in Ili* night of the lath the Prietor and Consuls
riellbersted at the house of Cardinal Graving.
was also present the Prince of Cattolica, the
Pr.;:.co of Cutu, the Ex-Comm:ruder Anne. and
y other persons of note belonging to Polertiso,
caeseione of the fault which had been come
in delivering the forts to the people, con-
sul:l.A together as to the meats of retaking
tree They gate orders to disarm the pose
Poet!, and in arm the citizens who. paid tarter.
Tie Micheis were oidered to hold theses/Ives
• readiness for n Nap sic mein, and eery en-
tesroue was used to drive the people out of the
'tc:.ts of Csotellaipore and the Mole, in which they
si ef,et`dell in the eight of the IGth. But when the
ice., cadets s.ive that all those alto were possessed
• et anv thing began to make common cause, and to
sepsrete tht`nsselves from the ruplo without means
,and the vegsboode, they immediately raised
the cry of . treason, and. eel about retaking
Vie forts at all Weirdo, in which they sue-.
credit! towards • toie-day on the llth of July,
utter the • altait ' violet& iiMmults. The fort pf the
Mild only made a tong resistance; it was stmounde
rd on all 4404, stitl.,Ske teeter cut off. Notwith-
standing which the soldiers crime out of their bar-
sacks, having at their head catvelry and cannon,
tied advanced *gains' the insurgents in order of
betle. la this desperate siterifiun the people call-
.rd to their rad live ortiornahr• and galley slaves:
all thu• were corkfined imme forth. and the cannon
which had pointtd to resumes those criminals were
0,..„! by theist eg.lieet the • troope which advanced.
The effect eiCsoriaro became the scene of carnage
sod ruin.
The 'soldiers retired fighting on the Place de
Boriteli.aort there reformed. Tire cavalry, Wilynit.
trl try stone*, piece!, of furodure, and boiling oil,
which *ere thrown on 'them from the tops or the
licoi4l, were obfiged- to subunit. The people pose
sewed theasseletwof their borers sod arms, and, Iv-
ied-weed by the people of the betroths and neigh..
ben, mg, sitting", pursued that pert of the istrionry
witula still rewarmed meter arms.

.INENIVA.

(From the National htelligenrer.)
AMERICA AND FRANCE.
The moat licttsr.toog teettire to tux. Ihe Irte
new. frnro Eutor, u the excitement produced in
France by the painuge of nil Act imposing new
tnumge alutidS on Fretaeli ve4srls. From the
',Kathy feeling of this country' 'unsaid. Frame,
that Act...as waled reluctantly. inti will be Clit4s.
fully ituspencled, according to the prown.ioni it coo-
trios. authorising that course when the Govern-
mew of Fiance *hall think fit to reciprocate with
us the liberty of our commercial regulations. The