The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

The following is the full text of the report ad-
dressed to the King of Italy by M. Ratazzi, recom-
mending the amnesty granted to Garibaldi and his
followers :
" REPORT PRESENTED TO RTC MAJESTY IN THE COUNCIL
OF STH OCTOBER.

" Sire—The causes which have hitherto induced your Go-
vernment to council you to resist the generous impulses of
your heart towards Gen. Garibaldi and his accomplices
have ceased to exist. The empire of the law is being every-
where consolidated ; confidence in the frank and prudent
policy which you have inaugurated has tempered the impa-
tience which drove that General into the path of rebellion
until the catastrophe of Aspromonte, where he has been
enabled to discover that if, fighting the enemies of the coun-
try and of liberty in your name, he was allowed to aecom-
plish prodigies, it could not be so when, forgetting his
duties, he took up arms against your rights without regard
to the consequences.

"From this lamentable example we have all derived a
salutary lesson.

"Italy, now assured against the impatience of factions,
and remembering the services rendered by Gen. Garibaldi
to the cause of national unity, ardently desires to forget that
there was a moment when he turned a deaf ear to the voice
of duty, to 3 our warnings, and to the law.

"This wish of the country finds an echo in every civilised
land, among all those who warmly espouse the cause of the
liberty and unity of Italy, and who fear nothing so much
for her as the return of those internal discords which, for
so long a time, kept her divided, and rendered her such an
easy prey to foreign ambition.
" The forgiveness which on all sides is implored for the
principal chief is with greater reason solicited for those
who, led away by the prestige of his name, unadvisedly
followed him in his enterprise.

" It is no longer necessary to refuse compliarce with
these solicitations. By granting them the Government will
acquire now vigour without prejudice to the conditions of
public order, which has placed in your royal hands the
power of satisfying the national feeling as well as that of
your own heart, without sapping the laws upon which
public peace rests.
" When it was necessary to suppress rebellion, to restore
authority to the law which had been outraged, and to re-
establish order, your Council did not hesitate to advise the
most energetic measures. All danger having passed, it now
cheerfully makes itself the interpreter of the general
wishes, and implores from your Majesty an act of cle-
mency which, by effacing the remembrance of one of the
saddest episodes of our national resurrection, will result in
keeping alive only the memory of services rendered to the
country and to the dynasty.
" The enemies of Italy, whose heart gladdened at the
prospect of civil war, will alone behold with sorrow this
act, destined to keep united and intact all the strength, as
well as all the glory, of the nation.
" Your Government could have wished the amnesty to be
complete, and all those who in the enterprise which termi-
nated at Asprornonte incurred the penalties prescribed by
the law should be liberated from this debt to justice.
" But the necessity of strengthening, on every occasion,
the sentiment of those great duties which, for the protec-
tion of all rights and of all liberties, are imposed upon the
army, does not admit of comprising in the number of the
amnestied those soldiers or sailors who on this occasion
violated the special laws which govern them, or failed in
their fidelity due to the Prince.
" The honour of our flag forbids us to see in the acts im-
puted to them those circumstances which militate in favour
of those who were free from the obligations of military ser
vice.
" Your Ministers are well aware how heavy the excep-
tion which they propose, and upon which they insist, will
fall upon your paternal heart.
" This pardon, sire, is not without precedent in our free
system.
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