The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-09 00:00:00

CAPP ELLO

The bumble name of Cappello, a chid of Palermo,
accused of feigning dumbness and deafness, to
escape the Piedmontese recruitment, does it not
recall to your minds, my lords and gentlemen, a
tale of most atrocious tortures if Europe trembling
with horror whilst perusing the frightful details.
But it has but uselessly stigrr atised the exeeutioners
of the poor Sicilian, tortured on the rack (revultdfs
volants), and seamed, it may be said, with 152
bleeding wounds. I myself saw his lacerated body,
that body which was one immense sore, and I could
not restrain my tears. 'Well, what has Piedmont
done, in face of the general indignation and horror ?
Has she disavowed the infamous deed ? Has she
imprisoned and condemned the wretch who in-
vented and applied this torture ? Has she taken
any steps towards offering the victim the satisfac•
tion to which he is entitled ? No I
my lords and
gentlemen, Piedmont has done every thing to excuse
her agent, and she has placed on his breast her cross
of St. Maurice and Lazarus, her cross of honour, as
she had placed it on that of the photographer who
is inundating with obscenities the young kingdom
of Italy.

Towards the middle
e nd
CARMINE DE
of themtmonth of December
last a conscript of the Principato Citra
himself before the council assembled at Salerno,
certificates and produced medical presented
testifying that
he was subject to frequent fits of epilepsy.
After his examination
someake
they conducted him to
the hospital, where, atthe
he had an attack of
his fearful malady. The
determined
Piedmontese doctorstool. m days,certain
that it was not simulated,. they garrotted him
his bed of suffer
m
on g, and applied red-hot irons
to his legs; the convulsions increased
still more
under the irritation of the
°urns, but the execu-
tioners continued with
unabated cruelty their ex-
periment, and stopped it only when they saw that
it endangered the life of their unfortunate victim.
The epileptic fits having returned several times they
at last set him at liberty , • but they forbade him,
with terrible tbreats,to speak of the tortures which
they had inflicted on him. On the 7th of April this
unfortunate man still lay on the bed
of pain in the
hospital of the Principato Ci
-tra, Within 30 miles of
Naples. His name is Carmine de Marino; he was
born in 1843, in the coinmune of San Leonardo, in
nce his torture the con-
the above principality.
Si
vulsions have reached their paroxysm, and to his
last moment he will bear the painful cicatrices of
his numerous wounds.
ANTONIO DEL TIO.

January, 1862,
conscript On the 17th
certified that a young
medical certificates
of the TerZi
d'Otranto was afflicted with asthma, which rendered
him incontestably unfit for military service. The
Piedmontese agents desired more certain proofs
thereof ; they loaded him with arms and baggage,
make a forced march
to
from Lecce to Taranto.
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When
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miles—thatte
failed
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ha him
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the way the soldiers
struck him with the butt-ends of their bayonets to
drive him on, but it was in vain they redoubled
their threats and brutalities—the unfortunate crea-
ture suffered so frightfully that these men deemed
it necessary to halt. The Neapolitan conscript
lwledherAeultioenia del Tin, and was
expired, nine hours
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en
a,
born in 1844, at lganduria, in the
Terra d'Otranto.
Areus those,
imaginary tortures, and martyrs who
cannot be found P
acc
ations,my lords and gentlemen, chimerical
Have you not shuddered at the
has contributed to preci-
pitatethought
outrhs aty
intoour
the
the torturers of uppers
Italy ? The noble Parliament of Great Britain,
cannot it find a word of blame for the executioners
and a word of mercy for the victims? Ah, if during
the lapse of a few months, despite threats of death,
three of these atrocious deeds have reached the
knowledge of the public, how many such have there
not been committed which are as yet unknown, and
perhaps which will remain so for ever ? But per-
mit, me to say that, to chow yourselves indulgent