The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

COUNT DE CHRISTEN.

'IF
The following letter has been forwarded to us for
publication. It tells its own tale :

" TO THE VISCOMTE CHARLES DE ST. PRIEST.
" Citadel of Alessandria, Sept. 2, 1863.
"My dear Cousin,—l have just received your kind letter
informing me that your efforts in my favour with M. Ming-
hetti have been unattended by any good result. lamin no
way surprised, as I never expected a different answer, the
reply being in entire conformity with the usual mode of
action of the Italian government. What does surprise me,
as it always has done, is the conduct of the French govern-
ment, which, although perfectly aware that one of its own
subjects is unjustly detained in an Italian prison, after hav-
ing been for two years the victim of treatment so inhuman
that no government would have dared to inflict it on the
lowest criminal, should ask for his liberation as a matter of
favour, and submit to a refusal from the Cabinet of Turin
couched in the most insolent terms.

"Never have I asked for mercy, feeling strong in the
sense of right and justice, as could easily be proved by no
less than eight letters I have addressed to their Excellen-
cies the Comte de Sartiges and M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and
of which letters five have been suppressed by M. Peruzzi,
Minister of the Interior, who at the same time informed me
that he had not thought proper to transmit my reclamations
to the French authorities.

"In consequence of these repeated sequestrations I find
it impossible to address the representatives of my country,
and I, therefore, call on you, my dear cousin, to act ener-
getically at the opening of the Chambers that I may, if
possible, obtain that justice I have vainly invoked for two
years. You have a clear ground for action, and have only
to request those who take the initiative in laying my
affair before the Senate and Corps Legislatif to move for
the notes taken by the consul of France at my trial, and
by him transmitted to his superiors, as well as the report
of the entire proceedings. My innocence can be clearly
proved by these documents, for no honest mind can fail
to perceive the infamy of my condemnation. I recall to
your memory the fact that the entire judgment rest on
the denunciations of two false witnesses ; one an agent of
the police, who accused me of conspiring, without being
able to say where or how, and entirely on hearsay. The
other, a cab driver and cammoristi, who pretended that
he had received money from me at a period when I proved
to the satisfaction of all present that I was not even in the
kingdom of Italy. To these worthy Italians 1 may add
one still more honourable, the procurator general of the
King of Italy, Signor Claus!, who, with a forged letter in
his hand, attempted to prove that I had conspired with the
Chevalier Carracciolo. Unhappily for his credit M. de
Belligne, junior consul of France, observed to the Court
that the document was a forgery, and demanded a public
rectification. Observe further, that what I here state is
to be found in the authentic report of the trial, and I claim
that it should be brought before the notice of the represen-
tatives, that the Chamber may be edified by the way in
which justice is administered in the kingdom of Italy, and
the manner in which a French subject is treated in a friendly
country. It is, however, scarcely a matter of surprise, if we
recall the debate of March 11, in the Turin Chamber, when
the deputies Alfieri and Evandro pressed the Government
to use all severity in my regard, as my being a Frenchman,
according to the above •named deputies, made my detention
a matter of national amour propre. As for the hopes
Signor Minghetti holds out to you of my being comprised
in the earliest amnesty, I trust you will consider it as
nothing beyond a compliment, as more than a year since
the same reply was made to Lord Russell, and when his
lordship inquired when that amnesty would take place, he
received for answer that it would be when his Majesty
the King of Italy made his triumphal entry into Rome,
his capital.' Three years have now passed by since the
Southern provinces were annexed to Piedmont, and in
that interval every nation in Europe, inclusive of Turkey,
has given an amnesty to its political prisoners more than
once, and it is only the paternal rule of Piedmont which,
far from setting at liberty its political antagonists, adds
daily to its long catalogue of fusillations and imprison-
ments.
" I trust, therefore, in your acting with all possible
vigour to obtain justice as early as may be ; for though up
to the present time I have always found the neee:sary
energy to surmount all the sufferings of my terrible posi-
tion, 1 fear if matters are allowed to drag on much longer
my strength can scarcely do other than fail me. You at
least will not, I trust, be deceived by the premises of the
persons you name, for you may take for granted that If it
depends on the goodwill of thew who are my gaolers I
shall never leave my prison a living man.—l rely on your
friendship, and am, &c.,
" Comte THEODULE EMILE DE CHRISTEN,

" P.S.—I should have mentioned to you that the new
procds commenced against me and my division, in defiance
of the treaty signed by bI, de Grammont on the part of
France, has not been by any means abandoned, and that; I
am consequently still liable to a capital condemnation. It
you can find means, it would be well to warn the Minister
of Foreign Affairs that a number of unfortunate Neapli-
tans are going to be sent, some to the galleys and the
others to a shorter death, for having blindly confided in a
treaty guaranteed by the French flag."

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