The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

Accounts have been received from Rome to the
17th. Up to that date no breach had been made in
the walls. General OUDINOT had endeavoured to cut
off the supply of water to Rome by damaging an
aqueduct. The last barbarian who perpetrated
such an atrocity was TOTILA.
The Roman Monitor of the 15th inst. publishes a
proclamation, addressed by the Triumvirate on the
14th to the National Guard, stating that percussion
muskets being indispensable for the defence of the
city, all citizens who possessed such guns were re-
quested to surrender them for the use of their
brethren of the army :
" Flint guns," it says, " are sufficient for the defence
of order and of the interior of the city, and such an ex-
change is consequently the duty of all good citizens."
" People," says another document, contained in the
Monitor,—
" In order to be closer to the point attacked, the Com-
mittee of Barricades is removed from the Boromeo Palace
to the Faruese Palace. In this latter armorers will Le
found to repair, gratuitously, the guns of the people.
(Signed) "THE MEMBERS OF TUE COMMITTEE.
" Rome, June 15."
The following appeal also appeared in the Roman
Monitor :
" All the owners of a Stutzen gun or a Vincennes
carabine are requested to present themselves immediately
to the Chief of the Staff of General Garibaldi, at the
gate of San Pancrezio, to be formed into a legion, under
the direction of an intelligent officer. Independently of
rations, each will receive five paoli per day. The said
legion is to be employed on the ramparts. The country
greatly relies on their ability, and trusts that none shall
be deaf to the invitation.
(Signed) " The Minister of War, AVEZZANO."
The Roman Monitor of the 15th inst. states that
the Legion of Masi and the corps of Arcione ob
tained an important success on the side of the Ponte-
Milvio. The French had retreated after having
suffered considerable loss, first burning the positions
they could not held. In the Transtevere an inge-
nious mode has been adopted of extinguishing bombs
by covering them with wet clay before they explode.
The French National publishes the following letter
from M. Mazzini, refusing to attend a conference
which that journal declares was proposed to him,
von-officially, by a person cf some standing in Gen.
Oudinot's camp:—

" Rome, June 13.
" Sir,—lt is impossible for me to go to the ad vaLced
posts to see you. Our conversation, besides, unfortu-
nately for us, cou'Al have no issue favourable to your
views cnd ours. I h,ave the conviction that we have ex-
hausted cli possible means of conciliation, and that it
only remsius to us to fight. We will do so—we
sill do so, you may b.) assur d, from wall to
wall, from street to street, from barricade to bar-

ricade. We may be cot.quercd, but not pat down. We
had flAttered ourselves with the hope that Frauce would
at I.ngth fe,l how much there is noble, sacred, and
worthy of herself in our attitude, and what there is

—perinit me to be frank—coo Ludictory and tyrannical
in the Tart that she plays here with us. We have
proclaimed towa:ds France, not a state of war, but a
state of defence ; we have sent back your prisoners;
we have rejected all the occasions which presented
themselves to us to combat your troops with advantage;
we offered healthy cantonments to those who could not
be accommodated at Civlta Vecchia, and we declared
that we were ready to concede all, one thing excepted—
the occupation of Rome, And yet that is what is re-
quired. France, after having fought against us, blockaded
us, disarmed us, deprived us of all our resources, condemnt d
us to see, with arms in our hands, our territory invaded by
Austria, now says to us—`l will have Rome. I will have it
without condition, without a programme, or I will en-
deavour to crush it, to bombard its monuments, which
are venerated by all Europe, and to massacre its brave
population.' To that you must perceive, Sir, that there
is only one reply to make, and we shall make it. I know
not whether we shall fall, but I know that there are falls
which confer honour.—l have the honour, &c.,
"JOSEPH MAZZINI."
The bombardment still continues, and the following
public buildings have received considerable damage :
The churches of Saint Pantaleon, Saint Agnes, Santa
Maria Transteverana, Santa Maria del Pianto, and
Santa Maria in Vallicello. The Pantheon has been
struck, and sixteen bombs have fallen on the capitol.
The villa Borghese, fitted up by the Princess PAU-
LINE, from the suggestions of the Emperor NAPO•
LEON himself, (who, to his honour be it spoken,
during all his wars treated all works of
art with an almost superstitious reverence,
and never destroyed a public building) has been com-
pletely wrecked by the troops of his nephew, but the
laurels of the two NAPOLEONS have been won after
different fashions. NAPOLEON the Great fought at
Marengo, at Austerlitz, at Jena, and at Wagram ;
the other NAPOLEON fought in the streets of Rome as
an insurgent in 1831, and walked in the streets of
London as a special constable in 1848. It is not
surprising that Constable BONAPARTE should follow
the example of Constable Bonus:Kix.
The lllilan Gazette describes the capitulation of
Ancona, which we had already announced. It took
place on the 18th after a well-sustained bombardment.
The conditions of the capitulation, according to the
same journal, are a political amnesty for the inhabi-
tants, the dissolution of the corps forming the present
garrison, and the occupation of the fortress and of
the port of Ancona by the Imperial troops in the
name of his Imperial Majesty.
Letters from Turin state that the treaty of peace
is on the point of being concluded; the only question
is that with respect to the amnesty to be granted to
the Lombards and Venetians.
The Concordia of Turin, of the 22d, quotes a corre-
spondence from Venice of the 16th, stating that the
Austrian shells reach no further than the canal
Reggio, which has been abandoned by all those who
are not engaged in its defence ; they have been
accommodated in various palaces, among others in
that of the Duchess of BERRY. In the sitting of the
15th the Assembly, by a new vote, confirmed its
decree of April 2, to the effect that Venice would re-
sist to the last. Two commissions had been named
—one for defence, and the other for treating diplo-
matically with the powers.
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wanting, as the surrounding islands furnished abund-
ance of garden produce.