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13EArtgr at Mihin 'in July, 1533, whe.
possessing tho confidence of Mazzini,
Nata!e-Imperatori, who had been one of GatieldiTtaii
panions in the expedition of Marsala, in 1859, and or hat
reason was in the receipt of the pension of the Thousand.'
Imperatori announced himself as the originator of the plan
to make an attempt on the life of the Emperor of the French.
Greco and he met at Lugano in the month of September.
Imperatori persisting in his determination, Greco requested
him to write to Mazzini, and received from him (for the
Litter) the following letter, dated the 15th September,

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in vain fur letters addressed poste restante, they
manifested the 'greatest disappointment. Their
going backwards and forwards, their agitated man-
ner, their disquiet—all revealed their design ; and
this was thought the best moment to secure their
persons.

" ItaspectaU;e M. Mezzini,—After having several times
communicated to your friend G. my desire and nay firm re-
-B,,lution to proceed to Paris, in order to attempt the life of
L. N.—seeing that the aforesaid did not seem disposed to
second my enterprise and my firm determination, I have
determined to address myself to you, certain of being
seconded in my firm resolve.--I salute you, and am youre,
66 6 IMPERATOIII.NATALE.'

January Trabuco and
" At half past four on the evening of the 3d of
de Naples, were arrested. The police at once visited
their rooms ; the visit was attended with these re-
sults—in the room occupied by Trabuco, and in the
drawer of a clothes chest, was found an oilcloth bag
Greco, who were at the Hotel
fastened by a lock. Trabuco, when requested to
open it, said at first that the bag was not his, and
that it had been given to him by an Englishman
to take to London. He was searched, and on him
was found the key of the bag, which contained,
rolled up in a handkerchief, a poniard and two bombs
charged with powder, and furnished, the one with
12, the other with six, nipples. With another key.
which was also found on Trabuco, they opened the
wooden box bought at the trunkmaker's, Liard, and
in it were discovered revolver cases, three packages
of percussion caps, and an instrument for adjusting
the nipples of the bombs.
" In the writing table of Greco was found a tra-
velling bag which one of Trabuco's keys opened ; it
contained, rolled up in a handkerchief, two bombs
charged with powder, and with 12 nipples. The
bag contained, moreover, an instrument for screwing
on the nipples, two papers of powder, and a formid-
able revolver, ready loaded and primed. They dis-
covered, too, in the possession of Greco and concealed
in various ways, several documents, some of them
emanating from Mazzini.

"This letter was communicated by Greco to Mozzini, and
then returnz4l by IJazzini to Greco as useful to try and to
hold Imperatori,

" Greco next added Trabuco. This individual had long
led a vagrant life. In 1850 and 1351 be was employed as a
physician, receiving wages on board the French ships Al-
gesiras and Pandora. He disappeared, leaving debts behind
him. He was convicted in Paris on the 14th October, 1857,
and sentenced to imprisonment for one year, for swindling
under the name of Belisario. Having been expelled on the
13th October, 1858, by an administrative decree he went to
Italy, where he served with the Chasseurs of the Appenincs,
and thence to London, where he was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment for robbery on the 10th of August,
1861,

" Greco, who saw him for the first time at Naples in 1860,
met him again at Genoa in November, 1863, and again at
Lugano and Mendrizio in December. Frequent meetings
took placo between these two men. Trabuco enjoyed the
reputation of being a daring conspirator; and Quadric), one
of Mazzini's secretaries, assured Greco that he should
find in him a devoted auxiliary. He entered into the plot,
in which it was seen above he took a particularly active
part.

" In fine, three or four days previous to the departure of
Greco for France, Imperatori came to him to present a young
man named Scaglioni, one of the Thousand' of Marsala
who had been compelled to quit Paris, a warrant having
been issued against him for some act of violence. Scaglioni
declared he was determined to attempt the Emperor's life.
Greco explained to him, in the presence of Imperatori, the
danger they were about to incur. Imperatori repeated that
for his part he made the sacrifice of his life, and that he was
resolved, inflexible as fate. Scaglioni wished to consider
the matter. He returned, and said he was determined, and
asked to be permitted to join in the plot. Greco admitted
him, assisted him to procure a passport under the name of
Maspoli, and they prepared for their departure. The Em-
peror had takeroup his residence in Paris for the winter.
" Greco only waited for an air-gun which he was to receive
from Mazzini. This weapon was delivered to him in Decem-
ber. The following day the four prisoners quitted Lugano,
having each in his travelling bag two of the bombs procured
by Greco, who wished to take only eight of the 10 bombs
received from Mazzini. They were provided with other arms
and with gunpowder purchased by Greco in Switzarland.
They crossed the frontiers eight days afterwards.

" At 7 o'clock the same evening Imperatori and
Maspoli were arrested in a wine shop. They were
conducted to the Hotel de Naples, where a search
was made in their presence. Nothing of a suspicious
kind was found in Imperatori's room ; but the
drawers of Maspoli's clothes chest contained four
bombs charged with powder, each with six nipples,
a revolver loaded and primed, a package of powder,
one of bullets, three boxes of percussion caps, two
poniards, and divers others objects appertaining to
firearms. With these things discovered before their
eyes, it seemed difficult for the accused to deny their
criminal projects. They at first attempted to main-
tain that they had no culpable intention; but they
had eventually to make up their minds to a full
avowal. Greco was the first to do so, and his de-
clarations, now corroborated in the essential part by
his accomplices, unfold in a precise manner, the
origin and the details of the plot.
" At the head of this plot is Mazzini. This ardent
conspirator, already condemned by default on the
3d September, 1857, by the Assize Court of the
Seine, was found guilty of having formed, with cer-,
tain persons named Tibaldi, Bartoloti, and others
a plot for the assassination of the Emperor, and has
not ceased to attack, in the person of Napoleon 111.,
the principle of order and authority of which the
revolution is the implacable enemy. During the
trial of 1857 papers were seized which revealed
these plots, and it is requisite to refer to them in
order to show the criminal persistence of the chief
of the party of action in Italy.
" On the 10th of Jute, 1557, Mazzini wrote to his
fellow-conspirators, Massarenti and Campanella,
these words The carrying out this attempt is a
vital affair for the country. . . . It is nearly
the whole question, . . . The affair of Paris is
more than ever desirable and urgent.' He recom-
mended them to call to mind all he had told as to
the line of conduct they were to follow; he informed
them of the means of procuring funds ; and he added,
I would give millions, but I cannot.' At this
period he again wrote on the subject of the conspi-
racy which was to spread over all Italy, but which
he had not been able to bring to maturity, ' The
structure that has been raised with infinite pains
and unhoped-for success up to yesterday has been
overthrown. . . : It is enough to make one
dash his head against the wall. Ido not do so,
however; we have to begin again,'
"Mazzini was preparing for 1863 a vast revolu-
tionary movement, the signal for which was the
assassination of the Emperor. Greco, a second-class
conspirator, seemed to him at once obscure enough
and resolute enough for the matter to be entrusted
to him. 'Greco,' said Mazzini, in a letter addressed
to the Times on the 14th January last, is an enthu-
siastic patriot, who has taken an active part in the
expeditions of 1860 and 1861 in the South of Italy,
and as such was in relation with me.' The rela-
tions of these two became intimate in April, 1863.
Mazzini was then at Lugano.
" The plan Iv as then arranged, and it was decided
that Greco should proceed to Paris in the beginning
of May to examine the state of affairs, and when
opportunity offered, to make the attempt. At the
moment of his departure Mazzini wrote, in his pre-
sence, a note to serve as the key of his correspon-
dence. In it everything was carefully provided for
—the relations to be formed in Paris, with a view
to baffle the vigilance of the police ; the necessity
for money, arms, and assistants ; the notice to be
given on the eve of the attempt. Finally, Mazzini
mentioned, as the place to which letters were to be
addressed to him in London, the house of a woman,
named Rosselly, the daughter of a man with whom
he had political relations at Lugano. The note was
in these words :

" The facts avowed by Greco were at first denied by the
other accused. Trabuco pretended in his first interrogatory
that ho knew nothing of the use for which the articles found
in his room were intended. But he shortly afterwards asked
to be examined again, and he declared with great violence
of manner, that it would be found in some pages written by
him since his arrest that the bombs seized in his room were
intrusted to him, that ho had brought them to France, and
that he meant to use them to kill the Emperor, whose death
he had sworn since the affair of Aspromonte. He admitted
that Greco showed him a bomb at Lugano, telling him,
'this is real justice;' to which he replied, it is the truth.'
" Trabuco, with whom were deposited the keys of the
trunks in which the bombs were placed, had been particu-
larly charged to examine the approaches to the Opera, and
it was proved that ho obtained information as to the Em-
peror's habits. Scaglioni, after some denials, fully corrobo-
rated Greco's account, adding that each had threatened the
the others with the disgrace of withdrawing from the plot.
He explained that the bombs were to have been thrown
under the Emperor's carriage, and, if necessary, the Em-
peror was to be put to death by means of poniards and re-
volvers. As for Imperatori, he at first pretended he knew
nothing of the plot, hoping, as nothing was found in his
room, that his position was better than that of his accom-
plices.

" But his letter to Mazzini, seized upon Greco, left no
doubt as to the part he had performed. Ho in vain endea-
voured to make it be believed that the letter had not the
bearing attributed to it; next that it had been forced from
him, and that since then he had never ceased to be the vic-
tim of moral constraint. He was at length obliged to admit
his relations with Greco. He admitted that he introduced
Scaglioni, that he was aware of the object of the journey ;
that he assisted in bringing the bombs into France ; and
that he knew Greco had assumed the name of Fioretti. The
other prisoners explained that no arms were found in his
room because the furniiure could not be firmly closed.
" Seaglioni had possession of the two bombs which were
to bo used by Imperatori. In fact, the proceedings of Ina-
peratori in Paris, as proved by the police agents, show that
he was incessant in preparing for the execution of the plot.
As for Mazzini, the protest which, according to custom, he
made in the foreign press, both on the present conspiracy
and on that of 1857, cannot prevail against the precise and
corroborative declarations, the information, and particularly
the written proofs collected during the preliminary pro-
ceedings.

"Competent judges were appointed to examine the arms
seized on the conspirators. It was ascertained Ly firing
two of the bombs that each of them broke into more than
44 fragments, which would produce the most terrific results.
As for the poniards, which Greco confessed were poisoned,
a gummy matter was found, and tin sheets which had served
to fix a poisonous substance, but that substance, which had
left a trace on the blades, had evaporated and the experts
could not discover its nature.

" At the time the prisoners were arrested, the execution
of the plot was evidently near at hand. Trabuco was about
to leave. He had announced at his hotel that he was going
to London; he asked for a hammer and some nails to close
a box, and he wrote an address for it, which was found in
his room. Scaglioni had written to his family to request
they would send him money to Geneva.

"Greco wrote to London to say that all was going on
well, and asked for money which, in fact, arrived on the
6th, after his arrest, under the form of a draught for 500 f.,
supplied by a house known to have relations with Mazzini„
In fine, the bombs, which it was agreed should not be
charged until the last moment, were filled with gunpowder
the evening before the arrest of the prisoners. This was
done by Trabuco and Greco, with the help of Scaglioni, and
in presence of Imperatori.
" Trabuco, for a purpose which it is difficult to under.
stand, sought to maintain that he had not participated in it;
but, being confronted with his accomplices, he answered,
in his last examination, I accept the answers given by my
friends.'

" From Paris to London.—To Madame Roselly,
58, Myddelton-square, Pentonville, London.—lf you
come in contact with Murat, you are to tell him,
among other things, that you have good hopes as to
your military career. If you are absolutely in want
of arms, you are to ask permission to dedicate to him
a fantasia of your own composition, 2/ roto, for the
piano. If you are absolutely in want of pecuniary
aid, you will tell him to send you, buying it for you,
Balfe's last opera. Address and hour. If there is
great probability of doing the thing, you are to
write an insignificant letter, and conclude, 1 will
write to you in a week, in three or four days. If
there be absolute want of an intimate be pleased to
tell me the price of a Broadwood piano iu London.'
This note was one of the documents found in pos-
session of Greco. It is manifestly from the hand of
Mazzici,as an expert has abundantly demonstrated.
Together with this paper Mazzini sent a sum of
money to Greco. Greco then set out for France, by
way of Turin and Mont Cenis, and reached Paris
early in May. Under the name of Fioretti, and
sometimes under his own name, he lodged succes-
sively at the Hotel Saint-Marie, Rue de Rivo,i, and
at No. 198, Rue St. Honore. He found a pretext,
as had been agreed upon, to present himself at the
house of Prince Alurat, one of whose secretaries he
frequently saw ; and he succeeded in this way in
making the police agents, who had at first watched
his movements, believe that their, surveillance was
superfluous.
" The Emperor had for a short time left Paris.
It was decided, in a correspondence between Greco
and Mazzini, that the attempt should be postponed.
Greco quitted his hotel in July, leaving behind him
a portmanteau containing various articles, and say-
ing he was going to London. He returned to Lu-
gano, where he again found Mazzini. His relations
with him were continual.

" Never was crime more skilfully prepared—never were
conspirators better chosen, and supplied with arms more
terrible and more sure. Never was attempt against society
at large so near its accomplishment, when the vigilance of
tho authorities penetrated their designs, foiled their plots,
and delivered over to justice the guilty.
" Wherefore the persons named--Ist. Pascal Greco, aged
os years, professor of music, born at Pisa (Italy), residing
in Paris, No. 176, Rue St, Honore ; 2d. Raphael Trabuco,
aged 40, born at Citta di Averzl (Italy), residing in Paris,
No. 176, Rue St, Honore ; 34. NAtale Agestino Irapera-
tori, aged 33, bookbinder, born at Lugano (Switzerland),
same residence ; 4th. Angelo Scaglioni, aged 22, student,
born at Sc. Joseph (Italy), same residence; sth. Giuseppe
Mazzini, born in Italy, absent—are accused of baying in
1863 and 1864, with the design concerted and decided be-
tween them, formed a plot having for its object to attempt
the life of the Emperor ; the said plot having been followed
by an act committed or commenced towards its execution;
the said crime being against the 86th &lid 89th Articles of
the first section of the Penal Code."

REVIVAL OF THE STOCRs On Tuesday after-
noon three boys were kept in the stocks at St. Ives, Corn-
wall, for three hours, for having played marbles on Sun-
day. This mode of punishment had not been adopted in
the town for 30 years, and the novel sight consequently
attracted several hundreds of spectators.
LAUNCH OF A DANISH WAR VESSEL.—Oa
Wednesday afternoon an armour-plated frigate, intended
for the Danish Government, was launched from the build-
ing yard of Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, at Govan. The
length of the vessel is about 280 feet, and she is of 3,500
tons burden and 600 horse power. She is covered from
stem to stern with armour plates 4} inches thick, upon a
strong backing of teak and iron plating. The launch was
witnessed by a large number of persons on both sides of the
river, and was conducted without the occurrence of asy
mishap.

A NEW SuNLocK,--The Edinburgh pap ere are
enthusiastic ant Mr. Alfred Wic,:an'B i!performance
of this greet Shakespearian character. On Monday night,
in the presence of his loyal Highness Prince Alfredard
suite, this favourite actor appeared for the first time in his
new part, and his impersonation of the fierce, exacting,
greedy, passionate Jew, completely carried away an
intelli-
gent ant somewhat critical audience. Mr. Wigan, we un-
derstand, will appear in another of Shakspere's characters
at Liverpool, on occasion of the tercentenary festival to be
celebrated there, playing the part of lago, with Mrs. Wigan
as Emilia. It is another proof of tbo utter want of taste
and judgment on the'part of the committee of management
at Stratford-upon-Avon, that Mr. Wigan has received no
invitation to attend there. These who can recollect Mr.
Wigan's performance of Falconbrid go at the Princess's,
certainly ono of the best concepti ons of character ever
realisedmay r.aturally feel some sur-
priseiEssniognlisohf his name frt .m the programme. A
a t theon the
om
national dramatic festival, from which our two best artists
in their respective lines—Mr. Phelps and Wigan—will be
absent, will certainly not athquatply represent the present
position of the gualish stage,

" In consequence of messures adopted by the Swiss au-
thorities the Mazzinians who resided at, Lugano found it
expedient to disperse. Greco retired to, .I\lendrizio, but he
came several times in the week to Ma zzini's lodgings. It
was during these interviews the orga:aisation of the conspi-
racy was concluded. Mazzini frr,ra the commencement
declares that, having gone to London, he left the address,
written with his own hand, to wh'ich letters for him should
be directed, M. Flowers, 25,
Thurloe-square, London.'
This note was seized, with severld other notes signed by
Mazzini with his usual abbreviati on, together with four of
his photographs, two of which we re signed by him.
" Eight days before Mazzini quitted Lugano he left 1,300
francs with Greco. He next sent him I,ooof. from London,
and again 2,000 f. in bank notes.. At the same time he col-
lected arms. Greco received: 10 bombs, revolvers, and
poniards, through various Ma zzinian agents, and particu-
larly through an individual named Mostel, of Genoa.
Finally, Greco selected, with the approbation of llazzini,
'the comrades who were to accompany him to France.
4‘llo land already oecurcd silie amistauce of Imperatori.