The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

GARIBALDI.

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The official report of the encounter at Aspro-
monte is not yet out ; its publication may be put
off for a few days longer. Several accounts of the
melancholy event are, however, in circulation, and
I hope you will allow me to sum up, compare, and
sift their conflicting evidence, so as to convey to
your readers all the positive knowledge on the sub-
ject which has till now transpired.
General Cialdini, upon hearing of Garibaldi's
landing at Melito, in Calabria, lost no time in lay-
ing his plan of operations. He directed Generals
Revel and Vialardi to occupy the narrow isthmus
of Tiriolo, between Nicastro and Catanzaro, a
strong position which, if strongly guarded, most
effectually cuts off the extreme peninsula of Cala-
bria from the adjoining mainland. Having thus
shut up Garibaldi within this comparatively small
compass, Cialdini ordered the Royal cruisers—the
IGaribaldi, the Vittorio Emmanuele, and Tripoli—
to ply along the gulfs of Squillace and St. Eufemia,
and so to watch the coasts as to prevent Garibaldi
from re-embarking. Ho then collected a consider-
able force at Reggio, and, placing Pallavicino at
their head, he bade them to look out for Garibaldi,
to press upon him as closely as possible, so as to
drive him towards the divisions of Revel and
Vialardi, on the Isthmus, and whenever they came
up with him to attack him, " anywhere and any-
how," unless he consented to an unconditional sur-
render. In less than, forty-eight hours the troops
had taken their positions.
Garibaldi, it seems, had landed at Melito with
2,500 to 3,000 men, but, as he compelled his men to
very laborious marches over the mountains, he
strew so many of them on his path that, accord-
ing to the report written by the officers of his
Staff on board the Duca di Genova, on the 31st of
August, only about 1,500 of them had kept up with
him when he took up his position at Aspromo,oouts
on the 28th in the evening. He had on the Prertred
day felt his way here and there, and recorlara,
the grounds towards Gerace, St. Eufemia,
and Palmi ; but the first skirmishes 1:i with the
Royal troops soon convinced him that he had to
tched his
deal with earnest adversaries, and h© pi
camp on the brow of the hill. Panevicinoilooked
lancing upwards,
est
for him along shore; but, upon gocunintain, w
he beheld the red shirts on the 13!
divided his troops
and following orders, he instate,'
,bed. He had with
into three columns, and, part of the 25th
him the 6th Bersaglieri ba of light foot part of the
battalion of the same corps
Eberhardt,' a Prussian,
1860, and parts of the
companion of Garibwa d
angular
4th Regiment, under
_oilionae-
eats. On the whole his force
29th and 57th itegive exceeded 1,800 men. The
to
orate consists of a vast tri
rcitrev7ar s the sea on the north-west,
does not seem
d
wild wood on •
the inland side,
table-land,
aiis men under cover of the wood,
but covered wit-
the main Appenine ridge. Gari-
baldi
ibsandePadja-cneuarters were in a v
of the two huts rising in the centre of that
very small room
Alpine platform. The place bears the name
ldoduhie
of
!:llafkorestali." The night between the 28th and 29th
was cold and rainy. There were heavy showers
from time to time, and violent gusts of wind, putting
out the volunteer bivouac fires. In the evening and
the morning scanty provisions were distributed,
but the Garibaldian column was too strong to be
able to support itself in the mountains, as it was
too weak to fight its way through the Royal forces.
Garibaldi had come to the resolution of dividing his

little army into two bands, with intent to direct
them through different roads to a given point ; but
the Royalists had already reached Arci, they had
fallen in with the Garibaldian outposts at St.
Stefano, and before Garibaldi had collected all his
stragglers, previous to a start, Pallavicino was upon
him. It was on the 29th (a Friday, unlucky day !)
Pallavicino was at St. Stefano ; two hours' march
brought him to the table land, on a level with the
volunteers. Garibaldi crossed a small stream, that
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