The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

GARIBALIn TO THE WOMEN OF

SICILY.

According to a letter in the Presse, the want of
self-reliance anSicily has occasioned persevering energy of the men of
a!ioned Garibaldi some disappoint-
ment, and has led him to appeal to the women in
the following Proclamation :

Liberty I the TO TILE SICILIAN 'WOMEN.
has been gained
taut precious gift of Providence to peoples,
of the Sicilians, 'd the generous aid of their brethren of
flr Sicily, thanks to the manly resolution
keep, as all pal
the continent. Lberty, difficult to gain, is more difficult to
y for ages has experienced to her cost.
recurSicil to foreigny
is suer, a country that there is no need in her case to
hstories to find examples of all kinds of
civic virtues,
and the women there have at all times dis-
played a courage Which has astonished the world. From
the women of Syracuse, who cut off their tresses to make
ropes of them in tle old Roman days, to those of Messina,
encouragedvnan their k.eir relatives to attack a bombarding host,
:weds of this sex in this island. The
Irt whohee
Vespers,
re
erasr7evaliant
also,
an event unparalleled in the history of na-
tions, saw the fair islanders fighting by the side of the
combatants for
natonal independence.
~,.
I myself kir recab the occasion with emotion), in denounc-
t of Palermo to this generous people the
humiliatingingf ro n I the
pPralac e
te
Nona of their tyrant, heard a groaning
wcinen who crowded the balconies, deep
repentedal oug h t
ub y the t
urn
c'
all army pale, and that groaning was the
tdheeastipnhoientrsteofnrfecel it it true ; a single citadel only remains in
tyranny.
e (nem_
y ; but 11 years ago Sicilian valour
achieved the same result ; and yet that free land, through
not having chosen to make a last effort, fell back into
slavery, was trodden once more under mercenary feet, and
brought to a worse condition than before the glorious revo-
lution. Dear and
-. gracious women of Sicily, hear the voice
of the man who fa
iterely loves your beautiful country, to
which he is bound by the affection of his whole life. He
asks of you nothing for himself, nothing for others ; but for
the common fatherland he asks your powerful assistance.
Call to arms the inhabitants of this island, and shame
those who cling to
their mother's or sweetheart's apron-
strings.
La Cairoli, of Pavia, a rich, noble, and beloved matron,
had four sons. One died at Varese on the body of an
have at Palermo, scarred with the wounds he received at
Austrian
h and whom he had killed ; tho eldest, Benedetto, you
Calatafimiw
his skull was split open in those battles ; and the fourth
Palermo ;• the third, Enrico, lives, though
has been sent to join the same army by that incomparable
mother. Women, give us your sons, your lovers I Few—
the struggle will be long and doubtful, and full of danger
for all 1 Many—we shall conquer without battles : and
you will see realised the hopes of twenty generations of
Italians ; and I shall restore to you your dear ones bronzed
by the battle-field, crowned with the aureole of- victory,
and blessed even by those enslaved and suffering peoples
who have sent forth their sons to win back for you your
country.
Messina, August 3.

G. GARIBALDI.

111. R. COBDEN AND THE FRENCH

TREATY.

is an extract from a private letter,
dated August 13, addressed by Mr. Cobden to a
The following
friend in this country, and we have received per-
mission to publish it :

still no reason to doubt that matters
will
to a satisfactory result here. Up
to the present moment I have experienced nothing
but candour andstraightforwardness in my dealings
libe have
esght
with the French Government, while all the misre-
presentation, h
side
, falsehood, and difficulties which I
: encounter have come from the EChannel. Nothing disgusts English
hp raevseeonhf tatat iedh to
me more
than the
cowardice and want of honest princi-
ples
own politicians. 4 Anything for a
momentary
cry which may give a triumph over a
political opponent' seems to be the motto to our
party men. You will see that in less than a couple
of years all our politicians will be eager enough to
claim the merit of having always been friendly to
the French treaty. The paragraph you enclosed,
giving a conversation of mine, is one of those
.ras-
cally acts of eavesdropping for which American
newspaper writers are so notorious. There is a
good deal of the paragraph which agrees with w
hat
I have thought ; but whether I expressed it in
private conversation is more than I could swear to,
as no one expects to be made responsible for private
gossip. There ought to be the punishment of the
pillory or the stocks revived foi those who publish
in newspapers the unguarded remarks which fall
from a man in private conversation, when he fre-
quently. speak merely to provoke a reply and keep
people. from going to sleep inter-
change ' over too serious an
of views. No ; I did not help the Emperor
to prepare his pamp
hlet about the English and
French armies and navies. Take my word for it,
however, that the, e is a vast deal of systematic
lying in England about the French armaments.
You remember that charming old lady, Madame
Wolley's landlady, whom we visited, who remarked,
' Pauvre John Bull; quand on veut enlever son
argent, on lui fait peur de nousy I am quite
ashamed of the child-like simplicity with which
Englishmen allow themselves to be imposed upon
respecting anything French. You will see a great
and sudden reaction in the public mind soon. Com-
mon sense, aided by the publication of the new
'French tariff, will put an end to the panic."