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nothing but yield to it. The friendly tendencies arose
gradually from a natural re-action against the long deadly
historical fend which found its acme under the first Em-
pire, from a feeling of the evil results of the contest to
both the nations, and from the spirit which stirs, provi-
dentially, within the heart Lf mankind, urging it to ge-
neral brotherhood. You availed yourself of them for
your individual ambitious purposes, and perverted them
for a while. Within your heart, Sir, you hate EoglAnd.
Antagonism to its greatness is a family tradition with
you. The Corsican vendetta-feeling lies deep in the
narrowness of your soul, and your having lived a poor
negleeted exile in England has only embittered that
feeling ; we can learn to love the shelter of our prescribed
days ; sensuous selfish natures are only open to the feel-
ing which makes the benefit heavy and distasteful. Be-
fore the Peers, in 1836, you declared that you represented
a principle, a cause, a defeat—that the (Meat was
Waterloo, and that you were bent on avenging it.
Hatred to Albion has been your watchword to the by-
racks immediately after the coup d'etat : the recent ins°.
tepee of your colonels is but an echo of it. War to Eng-
land was then, as it is now, your impotent dream ; and
the dotted maps in your Cabinet de travail could bear
witnesses for it; But you felt weak, isolated, frowned
at. You yielded to necessity, and embraced the grow-
ing popular tendencies. You did not create the alliance;
you countersigned it, with a mental reservation.
The French-Anglo alliance, I do repeat it, is the
thought of the two nations. Englishmen, too frequently
unjuA now to the Republic of 1848, ought not forget it.
Tne February movement had been welcomed—not, cer-
tainly, by the English official world—but by the majority
of the British people. And never was the welcome eo
joyfully and gratefully received as by the Re-
' publicans of 1848. The diplomatic tradition was
not for one instant broken between the two na-

tions. Lord Normanby—kept officiously in his place
during the first period—was officia ly accredited
by England as soon as the Assembly gave its sanction
to the change. The Russian ambassador,. IKieseleff,
proffered,_ rom the _beginning,,s Anse alliance-with as
Czar against what he Was calling the common eneniv,
England, and was refused by the young Republic. A
known general, now an exile, proposed soon after an
invading filibustering scheme against England, threat-
ening the destruction of London and its sources of
wealth, and wanting nothing for its realisation but a
certain number of soldiers, ships, and steamers, given up
to his orders. The scheme was indignantly rejected,
and the general sent back to his military commandment,
which, for the sake of the proposal, he bad suddenly
abandoned. With such feelings at work, the least op-
portunity, the least advance from the English Govern-
ment, would have, doubtless, given ri,e to an alliance,
and to a more sincere, moral, and fruitful one than that
which you, sir, have urged England to.
You stepped in, and engrafted on the sacred thing
your selfish schemes, your ambitious aim. Of a solemn
reconciliation, which, under the banner of Freedom,
would have been like a blessing from on high on man•
kind, you made a sad w,thering compact between liberty
and tyranny, between life and death. England has been
to you a mere stepping-stone for a dyna tic interest ; the
alliance, a bridge between the distrusting European
Powers and yourself.
Your first advances bad been to Russia. Your natural
tendencies, the logics of despotism, and some vague re-
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You wanted something which would at once record
your being accepted amongst the legitime Powers, a
Diplomatic Conference in Paris, your signature on a
Treaty of Peace. The way to peace was war. You
provoked it. England entered it by your side, re-
luctantly but in absolute good faith, and once the first
steps taken with a stern determination to win from it
some practical permanent result. You wanted, how-
ever, both to avoid any awakening of the national insur-
rectionary element and to play a primary part in the
war. You sacrificed, therefore the strategic problem to
the political one. To Riga and Odessa, you preferred
the Crimea. There was there no fear of a Polish rising;
and in a long protracted siege, your naturally superior
land military force was to shine prominently over your
ally. Beside-t, the war concentrated in the siege of an
oy:wino
iuEtthhnt
gehtlevha ientp:4Col, szopsainarbcri;etl is tiaty9rfowoutafhssa:
aroused,
enablingalwoul friendly
youoh pempire,
evnet outposti
on
struck opening,
awl
lai ands
him,
youktleaving
tt
ahudrtreaofey
to you and to the culpable yielding weakness of the
heart—l spared you. Thus, owing
British Government, the war, diverted from its natural
lines of operation, became a brilliant dud au premier
sang with no possible result—the one excepted which
you were pursuing, At the conclusion of the first ,tage,
when England was beginning to feel both the nece,sities
of the contest and its true European bearing, the Cz it
echo
enrsieanbteedd decayEtoast f
rn soohra
eme. whileo haelfyntl fielrmmesn, tof hiswitho Lug
without
tany
reel guarantee for the future, you ha-t,n,d to gvant his
wish. As you had dragged reluctant England into the war,
you compelled her to accept, however re uctautly, au
sum-
moned. Your aim was reacoed. The Eastern question
unsatisfactoryhas be nmere py
e aeses.iadjourned,aurlie hsetncrerni gsr:l sv
d".f Pans
P a nwda is sti
i
aylrioyangowgi
paunn:i
your name
hl
sydrtpo,
ouwawg nu powerlessness.
future
acne
silentlysi
vhernl
ue
sad::
sr
co 1.r
anTdhethTeurckoinshscei:niupsinreesiss ofsink
te
No barrier has been raised
onagchrheennits.ilitarTyheraCsozuarress
of the empire. War is looming in the distance. But
appeared amongst names of long-estab-
lished Sovereigns, at the end of a Peace Protocol ;
and you might, should favourable circumetarces arise,
whisper to the Czor, "I spared you," and fight by his
side against the old ally.
Tee advantages of the alliance have all been reaped by
you. England has had none. You have, by your shielding
for a while your usurped despotic power under the foto!'
of her free national banner, sown distrust and rancour
against, her in the heart of the oppressed nations. Yeti
Slavonic,haveien alit% fernoime, haenrdthße
osuymmapianthpieospuolfa forsakenttiboensofh
te
Turkish Empire. You have succeeded in deviating her
statesmen from what ought to ba her national policy—
civil, religious, and political liberty for all Europe.
Ought you not to he satisfied I Ought you not prudently
to forbear from uttering claims to her gratefulness and
sympathies

hoe e
legislatei
ocl
El
law,
It is not mine to discuss with you what you urge E g-
land to do concerning the exiles. I am an exile and your
enemy. I cannot stoop to argue with a tyrannical power
about what I conceive to be my right and my duty. I
overthrow it if I can. My words might be misinterpreted
as a pleading for ourselves, and I shrink from that pos-
sibility. Any law that may be enacted affecting our po-
sition is perfectly indifferent to me ; juat, I accept it ;
unjust, I pledge myself to violate it, whatever the results
power protecting as,
may be. Ours is a state of war. We have not chosen
it ; it has been, it still is, forced upon us. Tyranny has
robbed us of our country ; we have none ; we have no
can appal, no justice on earth except when we ourselves
no passport, no law to which we
can enforce it. Throughout all the Continent we are,
merely because we are republicans or upholders of our
national lags, declared suspects, and as such imprisoned,
prived of any possibility of secure ettlement,
it:el:sr:Ca persecuted, treated as pariahs, bunted as helots. I ac-
cept, for my part, this consequences of my position, and
protectril s
l oi
conspirator! oueorsf
al
tot
hau
elrWl all? ;
, no account to give of my opinions or
lofhtanvye,
doingslaa etxoilea
man, now a persecuting Emperor,
,übtlses, any British born subject
oursha s a a n
right exile,
t answer But, d
something like the following terms your complaint; and claims in
:
"You have been, sir, an exile in England ; from this
land you incessantly plotted against a constitutional
and you finally organised an armed descent on
whom you had pledged your honour to conspire
kuthoinegm:ohtrooere of Fraace. We took no notice of it ; why
should we alter now our laws for the sake of watching
traditions of an individual
over and persecuting men, who are in their turn attempt-
ings
blessing to our land, by
Power ? Why should we,
espionage, Secret police doings,
are to be enforced at
fleiorbi
for your
ettoyi
n,ogv
sake,wemrhet
ihacr hou r
desertewhsay implying,
sou
prthrosvoel
id despotici
ft h 0 y
should we abandon
d of legal definitions, and
resort to those vague formulas of excitation and instiga-
tion, which gave rise, in your own country to preces de
all,aonu 1. alai wholesaleorbnietsrtareyleiat girtyprtpreernitsoaeft interpretations
h? 0 Nay
tendance, so often branded by you when you were still
Why
how is it that you
should we, in fact,
teen ask you for help
against plotters an
for You ? You rose to power on
d murderers I You chose to put your-
is that a reason for
asuEe:nldf wantgea I
btnopa uncrownedkyr protection t
otte
corpses ; can we prevent the living recollec ion of the
victims to summon forth avengers ? You sent, you still
send thousands of untried men to linger and die in the
swamps of Cayenne : can we eradicate hatred and its
consequences from the hearts of their friends and rela-
tions ? You have chosen to suppress liberty in all its
forms—press, meetings, associations, speaking ; you
have hermetically closed all safety-valves to the power-
ful breath of a nation peculiarly fond of External life :
are we to bid the compressed power not to burst "ut
through some unforeseen, irregular outlet ? You a Re-
publican still, sent an army to bombard, enslave, kill,
crush Republican Rome : that army of unlawful in
'Jailers is still there : can we suppress Roman revenge ?
Are we to turn our free island into a police-office for
the sake of insuring the days of all men who choose
to make themselves tyrants--for the King of Naples,
for the Pope, the Czar, you, or Soulouque ? The
dagger never gleams when the vote can speak out the
thought of the man ; grenades are never thrown at royal
or presidential carriages in England, in Belgium, in
Switzerland, in Piedmont, in America. We have no
demands for anti-conspiracy bills from these countries :
we have from you. Does it not clearly show that 'some-
thing is rotten in the state' of France I And are we to
legislate, at your bidding, for the sake of keeping up
' rottenness ?' The plotters, you say, are living in Eng-
land ; the avengers come to you from England ; you
send them here ; where else can they live I whence else
can they start 1 Every year, every six months, your gen-
darmes convey to us, par stapes, all the disaffected, or
1 those believed to be so : can we undertake to organise a

answerable
state
na yourytnshwoei fnueu :Rnayhdpbe
oeaall
ruecvmher
LpbgohneouelcuoelaiwtDrsusteeteoprhdob:; neiei
B—leapi
close, secret watching, an espionruige, around each of
them ! Can we prevent some from retracting, with what-
ever intentions, their steps to Franca ? Are we to he
zpti szerpmui
duenpi oaoi cosfimpnhi nnse;gndo-ollfifyi youekatsfhlerlaeaoltitnlrorhocatwasat:cn:rdytiosettsodo 0,
PFnmoaroavar
France
ca ;etit dalh
espionnage—we have none. Cannot you guard yourself
without harassing, calumniating, and threatening your
peaceful, unconcerned neighbours? You quote apologies
of tyrannicide printed in England : what of that ? Are
we to eliminate from onr schools the old history of Rome
and Greece! to suppress the translations of Schiller's
Wilhelm Tell I to issue a warrant against any re-edition
of Milton ! The press is free in our country. It is not
in France. You keep under your thraldom all manifes-
tations of the mind of your nation. But we do not ask
you to suppress the apology of the murder of the Hugue-
nots, or the reprinting of your uncle's legacy to Can-
tillon. Depend upon it, Sir, tyrannicide is the off pring
not of a few theoretic pages, but of the hateful fact of
tyranny. Suppress that ; you will have suppressed the
danger against which you seek in vain for a help abroad.
You cannot exact from that we, allowing the fact to
exist, undertake to forbid the fatal consequences which
may eventually flow from it."
Such, sir, is the answer which England has virtually
given, and will always give, I trust, by the voice of her
people, to your illiberal, unwarrantable demands.
Through these demands, meanwhile, and through the
indirect threateniup with which you coupled them, you
have descended one step more on your downfalling
career. You have aroused the old independent Saxon
blood within the hearts of millions. You have unveiled
the shameful price which you would fain set on a barren,
when not fatal alliance. You have unmasked to the
world the terrors which, I,ke the shadow of crime, are
ever walking by your side. You have once more
awakened the hitherto dormant sense of self dignity in
the conscience of Ten, and given
_rise to a resistance
which will soon become a. Fluropeau one. Yon have
caused the only prestige which still hovered around you
—the approval and friendship of a free people—to
vanish. You stand new, Sir, whatever soft-mouthed,
self-disguising diplomacy may talk, alone in Europe.

TDB CASE OP THE CAGLIARI.

MR. PARK'S NARRATIVE.

We have been favoured (says the Manchester
Guardian) by a gentleman connected with this city
w.th the following narrative, taken down by him
from the recital of Mr. Park, the second engineer
of the Cagliari, two days after Mr. Park had been
set at liberty by the Neapolitan authoritit s :
" Shortly after leaving Genoa, on our voyage to
Cagliari and Tunis, between which ports our
steamer carried the mails, I observed to one of the
stokers, who happened to be standing near me on
the deck, that there seemed to be a large number of
passengrs on board, to which he answered in the
affirmative, adding that the most part of them were
seamen going to join two merchantmen lying at
Cagliari, waiting for crews. I requested him to
ask oue of the men what ship they were going to
join, which he did, and received for an answer that
we should soon Elie what ship they were going to
join ; the man aiding in a very significant manner,
'You had better go below, and mind your work,
and you will not be butted.' These words, added
to the men's appc:arance, struck me so forcibly that
I went below to the engine-room and stated my
belief to my fellow-engineer
a gang of pirates on board, who were going to seize
the ship. This startling communication naturally
sent him on deck to satisfy his curiosity, which,
however, was soon done, as he came below again in
a short time, with the best proof of the correctness
of my suspicion, having seen the captain seized by
armed men, and placed under restraint.
"In a few minutes after learning this momentous
fact, I went up to see what further was going on,
when I had scarcely reached the deck before I was
seized by four armed men, and taken into the pre-
sence of an individual, who held in one hand a
letter and in the other a drawn dagger, and who,
presenting the letter to me, demanded me to an-
swer its contents. I replied that, as it was dark
where we were, I would go to a light and read it,
and then give him my answer. To this he as-
sented, and I went down into the engine-room with
it., and read it there to my fellow-engineer. Its
contents were to the effect that. if we continued to
do our duty, and work the engines as usual, no
harm should come to us ; but that the least resist-
ance or refractoriness upon our part would be fol-
lowed by instant death.

" We considered for a moment what was to be
done, and having our helpless position in view, we
concluded that our only way was to obey the
orders of our new mast rs. Our consultation was,
however, cut short by the appearance of the men
who had dragged me before the ringleader, and
who now, descending into the engine-room, and
puiutiug their arms at us, asked us to state our in-
tentions. Uron learning them they desired us to
cry, Viva l'ltalia,' and, upon our cemplyiug, em-
braced us, and called us brothers, (tee. By this
time the eutire ship, with crew and passengers,
were in the hands of the pirates.
"It may here be observed that the person who
presented the letter to me was the Baron Nicotera,
who, as it is seen, thus took a most active part in
the affair from the commencement, and who, even
after nine months' weary imprisonment, shows still
an undaunted spirit, and boldly avows before the
judges all his acts and intentions.
"The letter itself, it must be borne in mind, was
neither direc ed to anyone, nor subscribed by any
one, but was simply a notification of their inten-
tions written in English, and intended for the en-
eiweers of the boaelwhoever they might be ; the
ringleaders of the party knowing well that the en-
gineers of all the boats were Englishmen, and sur-
mising that they might not understand their mean-
ing so well if they communicated it iu Italian as if
it were written down for them in their native
tongue. However na'ural this may appear, still
t'le Attorney-General of his Majesty of the Two
Sicilies saw in the existence of this letter, (whi&, I
had even copied into my log-book, for fear it might
be lost, seeing therein the justification of ourselves)
a positive proof of our participation in the conspi-
racy, being, as he stated, iu correspondence with
the insurgents.
" But to follow the thread of my narrative. The
insurgents being now fully masters of toe vessel,
began to make free with the good things on board,
and broached some champagne to the success of
their enterprise.
" If all things had gone right we were that night
(the first after our departure from Genoa, to have
fallen in with some boat or boats, with 60 men and
100 stand of arms, coming from the shores of Tuscany
to join our expedition ; but, whatever might have
been the cause of their absence, come they did not;
and thus the first part of the scheme failed. This
circumstance caused a visible depression of spirits
amongst the party.
" The captain of the Cagliari being confined in his
own cabin, a passenger who was a seafaring man was
compelled to take command of the ship, and received
orders to steer for the island of Ponza, a penal set-
tlement of the Neapolitan Government, lying off
the mainland, and perhaps 80 mike from Naples.
Oa this day, and whilst near the island of Elba,
we passed the British squadron sailing to the
northward. To prevent any signal being made
of what was going on, the craw and ourselves were
sent below and watched by the insurgents until the
squadron had passed; so that it was impossible to
make known our position to them. Baran Nico-
tera and Pisacane, who took the command, em-
ployed themselves during this day in examining the
captein and crew, and having ascertained from the
steward that there were some cases of fire-arms in
the hold (part of the cargo), got them up and broke
them open. They turned out to be for the meet
part blunderbusses end fowling-pieces, and they
were distributed amongst the insurgents.
" We also came in for our share ("examination,
and having stated in answer to a question that we
had not much fuel on boa, d, having left Genoa ten
tons short, we were told th we were to use great
economy, and that in the event of the ship running
short of coal, our (the two Eoglish engineers) heads
should be put under the boilers.
" At last we hove in sight of Ponza, and a
signal was heisted for a pilot, and as soon as one
came on board, a pistol was held to his head, and
he was told that if he did not answer all questions
truthfully, he would be shot instanter. The poor
fellow, in great fear, told all he knew about the
number of prisoners (convicts) and soldiers on the
island, and the ameunt of arms and ammunition
they possesed. The governor of the island, who
had also come on board, was quietly locked up
with the captain.

" The insurgents (whose number was 25) then
got the boats manned by the ship's crew, and
leaving seven of their number well armed to guard
the passengers, engine,r, and the rest who re-
mained on board, went on sit ire to liberate the
convicts of Potiza. We had flattered ourselves
that we should be able to eseapl with the ship by
slipping her cable when the pirates lett us, but they,
foreseeing this, had given orders to those left to
guard us to keep us locked up in separate ,
so that all possibility of escape was cut off _
places
'• The 19 armed insurgents, lutritig mastered the
garrison of the place, liberated the convicts, about
hoard, we
300 in number, and bringing them on

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weighed anchlr, and steered for Sapri, in the Bay
of Salerno. He' e the plot failed again, for it hate
been imagined by the conspirators that the prisons
of Ponza wera filled with politic a offenders who
would eag Tly embrace th-ir calm ; but instead ,of
that they found murderers, assassins, and the very
worst sort of criminal offenders ; all very willing
to be set at liberty, but having. little inclination to
rally round the standard of Italy's freedom.
" Any person may imagine what a ship we had,
with 300 of the most vicious convicts on board,
and without subordination.

" From Ponza we steered for Sapri in the Golf
of Salerno, and upon nearing the same we passed
another steamer, when all our convicts were ordered
to lie down on deck, in order to avod raising
suspicion by their great number.
" At last we reached the place of destination, and
we were happy to see the lawless gang of revolu-
tionists and felons leave our decks, to embark on
their perilous enterprise, and for the first moment
we felt ourselves free agents, which we instantly
took advantage of to set sail, and so part company
with our late masters.

" What course the insurgents took after leaving
us does not properly appertain to my story, but in a
few words it may be related. Many of the convicts
dispersed immediately upon landing, and set to
work plundering the population ; and even some
charges of murder are brought against them.
Others deserted as Loon as convenient, and the
revolutionists and remainder having penetrated
into the interior, expecting to find 600 men in
arms to join them, met instead with the soldiers
sent after them, and, being without ammunition,
were soon overpowered, and partly slain, pa:tly
taken prisoners. _

"To return, however, to ourselveQ. As soon
as we got rid of our self-constituted captain, and
were our own masters, we steamed off, and
our Captain shaped his course towards Naples,
thinking it the wiser plan to proceed thitner,
and make a declatation of what had occurred.
Upon our way, we were met by two
Neapolitan war steamers, that had been
sent in our pursuit (at which time we were
some 12 miles from shoi e), when we were, brought
up by one of them firing a shot across iv', and the
captain was ordered to go on board with his ship's
papers. Hereupon our ship was taken possession
of, and we were escorted back to Sapri, where we
lay several days ; the officers of the war ste milers
telling us that they would give us coal to take
us on to Cagliari, whither we were bound before
the act of piracy took place. At last orders came
that we were to go to Naples, and upon our arrival
there were much sympathised with by the man-of-
war officers, who expressed themselves very sorry
to see us in such an unpleasant piece of business.
At last they said we would have to go on shore for
a few days, and that then the ship would be set at
liberty, we should have coals given to us, and we
could depart. We, taking all these fair words for
truth, and never suspecting what was in the wind,
consented to everything, and .went on shore with
the captain, crew, and passengers, when we were
put into carriages, and immediately handcuffed,
and, escorted by military, were conducted to the
Vicaria poison. I must not forget to state that a
gentleman belonging to the arsenal, seeing myself
and fellow-engineer handcuffed together, told who
we were, and the handcuffs were taken off, on the
road to the prison.
" You know that the Vicaria is the worst of the
prisons in Naples, and it richly merits its notoriety,
for it is beyond belief that iu a European country
such an abominable den should exist, or that a
Government laying claim to being a Christian one
should dare to offend the dignity of human nature
by confining human beings in such damp and filthy
places.
"The first proceeding upon arrival at the prison
was to unclothe us entirely, and search our clothes
and persons, even to the hair on our heads. We
were then conducted by a dark passage through a
number of massive doors, each of which was un-
locked and locked again as we passed, until we
arrived at a cell into which eight of us were put.
This cell was so small that our mattresses placed
round the walls were touching each other ; we
had no chairs, but sat on the beds ; and the
only light was furnished by a window strongly
grated, and which we were prevented looking
out of, as a sentry (a Swiss mercenary), who paced
the courtyard, had orders to shoot any prisoner
who might stand at the window. Besides our cell
was horribly damp, so that we nearly all suffered
from its effects in pains in the legs • and it was so
infeited by rats, that in one night shortly after our
arrival I caught seven large ones, having made a
trap of one of my boots. But the worst evils were
the bad air and bad water. There was no v,ntila-
tion, and a large wooden tub, which served us for
the most necessary wants, emitted such effluvia that
we lived in a constant state of nausea. This was
heightened by the turnkeys neglecting sometimes
to emp.y it, in order to force a bribe from us, and
in which they were generally successful. The
water, too, was served to us in a wooden pai!,
which was so dirty that it gave a taste to the water,
which made it unfit to drink. This was also made
a source of emolument to the gaolers, for they
served us with drinkable water for one halfpenny
a glass.
The King of Naples allows his prisoners straw
and a damp floor to sleep on, vermin and rats

for bedfelloWs, a small loaf of black bread and a
plate of soup for food, a pestiferous atmosphere to
inhale, and musty stale water to drink ; but he also
allows his gaolers to sell victuals and drink, and to
let beds to such prisoners as are so fortunate as to
havo friends with money to pay for them.
"Upon our entrance into the gaol, the first ques-
tion we were asked by the atteniauts was, If we
wanted beds ?' as we could have them by paying 4d.
per night. Of course we asked for beds, and re-
ceived each a low bedstock and mattress, which bit-
ter was, however, extremely uncomfortable, owing
to its being made of unpicked oakum. Still the
greatest evil of the beds' was one which discovered
itself afterwards—namely, their being full of ver-
min, with which we found ourselves soon covered.
" I must not forget to mention another sort of
companions which were sufficiently numerous—
nimely, fiat lizards, which ran up and down the
walls and added not a little to the repulsiveness of
the place.
" As we two (the English engineers) had some GO
francs on us when we enter, d, and as we believed
we were only going to stop a few days, we speut it
pretty freely (getting at the same time very little
for our money), but as day after day came and no
signs of liberty, we began to get rather anxious for
our future condition, more particularly as we bad
fully expected to have been visited by the English
Consul, or some one in his name. But no consul,
no friend, and we were just on the verge of being
obliged to content ourselves with the black loaf
and plate of bean water yclept soup, and to see our
beds taken away, and substituted by the truss of
straw and the damp floor of our cell, when succour
arrived by the kind exertions of some private indi
viduals resident in Naples, who, aware of our des-
perate condition if left without help, had succeeded
in bribing the turnkeys to take us money is, so
that we ware thereby enabled to avoid tile miser-
able lot of the Sardinian crew, who were put into
large filthy dungeons, and obliged to sleep on the
floor without covers, and upon a straw litter that
was dirtier than any farmer would allow to lie in
stall or stable.

"Thus we two English subjects were kept for
three long months rotting in a filthy dunge }n,
awaiting our trial in a town in which resided an
English Consul, and within gun-shot of an English
man-of-war, whilst the authorities at borne were
blandly explaining to the house that the jurisdic-
tion of the government was beyond all doubt.
" I believe (being since informed) that upon
being moved by the aforesaid friends, the English
Consul at Naples had applied at the prison
had
admittance, but was refused, so that if
perished in our prison, the fault would havev‘re lan.,
at the door of the government at bome;.(-1
perished we certainly should, had we not bweeno aided,
as already explained, by our friends ; for
cohiAroid,
live three months in such a dreariftirep "'
with the
to put
wi, hont succumbing, if obliged and as
prison allowance ? It has been re,ctised in these
stoutly denied, that torture
waapspPertaining to my
prisons ; and, although not _ e
not
amiss to
state
rhaps b
own history, it will pe
observation as an inmate
what has come under,rtio
ibis subject.
of the prison in regard
we
saw him,
was
in
the
~ A prisoner n
condition, shaking his limbs as if
most wretched
as, att:lek of paralysis, told us ho
whilst in bed, conve ed
labouring under
to the •
estedy prison,
was arr
tied by a rope in the way inknown as
„nd ° g interrogated to ; -,,ned, was as his knowledge of
11-
the robbery. As he denied all knowledge of it the
rope was tightened up behind, and the question put
again, followed up by another strain, until his
.-loows were brought together ; but still denving
all knowledge, he was after a time taken away, and
confined iu a subterraneous cell for 25 days, and
was, when we saw him, upon the point of being set
At liberty upon his promising solemnly t.,at be
would never reveal outside to what usage he by d
been subjected.
" This is what the man himself comtnunieated to

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appear 4 te ra • to be something weer iiYLlAtiel ..
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also to ee er rather a terrortsitt
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the mildest kind of tostitte. --, ~. -
" I was taken out of my c 11, handcuff d, and
escorted by three. eitolose we er s:eed 1 down a
dark passage. Whet et ezeiie dsan e, ths men
toll me to sop, and stout wine te is e be,•:nd me.
Then they tole me to ...,6 on agaifi, ,i'd t e i again
to step, followed by the same eiesperieg. Tuffs
process was repeated several times, we still going
through the dark passages, Intl],
,I must confess,
the thought occurred to my mind that they were
.going either to make aw:ty with are secreily, or, at -
the very least, apply soma species of torture. But
aftser all the whispering, andascendingand descend- -
ind and turning in the passages of the plisin, we 4
arrived at the chain! era or t tie Procurat ore Geterale 'r
or Attorney-General, where I was subjected to an '
' interrogation,' the learned gentleman's object
belie, to get me to substantiate certain assertions
which he made. But to return to the intimidation
question. When he had fioisised his interrogations,
and the attendants were about to convey me away
again, 'take him,' said the A ttorney-General, 'the
oth-r way ; and lo I I was in my cell in a twink-
ling, having passed through nothing but one well-
liglited passage.
'' Whatever might be said of the irre-Tonsibility
of the Neapolitan government for the cruelty and
extortion practised by the emilers upon the unfor-
tunate inmates of the Vicaria, it is impossible to
conceive the intention or source of command of this
species of ' interrogating.'
" I cannot pass over one observation of the
learned lawyer by whose hands the ' justice of the
King of Naples is dispensed, and which will show
very clearly the animus by which he was inspired
in regard to ourselves. 'lf you were not a party
to the insurrectionary movement,' said he, ' why
did you not hinder the insurgents from proceeding
on their voyage ?" Because we were acting on
compulsion,' answered r. 'But, having charge of
the engines and boilers, you could have altered the
course of the ship.' The ship's course is guided
by the helm.' That we shall have to inquire into
further,' continued ho ; ' but it is evident you
might have burst the boilers. Why did you cot
do that ?' Such is the manner and the quality of
the justice dispensed at the Vicariae
" Before taking leave of this wretched place,
the three m :'!'e• residence iu which, had re-
duced us all to La very low state, anti had turn d
the brain of my unfortunate companion (Mr.
Watt), I will just relate a slight circumstance,
in order to show the brutal charac:er of the treat-
ment meted out to ono of the ere* of the Cagliar'.
The man, being taken with fever, was ordered to
the prison hospital and taken there handcuffed.
When so far restored as to be ordered back to the
dungeon, he was again handcuffed, although so
weak as scarcely to be able to stand. The gaoler,
whilst fixing the handcuffs, asked the prisoner what
counttymau he was. The prisoner, thinking that
the question was put out of curiosity, responded iu
a simple manner, 'I am a Ge.nsese. ' And I'm a
Neapolitan,' added the gaoler, wrenching the hand-
cuffs so tight that the man bore the marks for
weeks after.
"At last the time came for our removal to Sa- •
lerno, the assize town of the district, where the
landing had taken place, and thither we were re-
moved, at night, in vehicles. Mr. Watt and I
were placed in a carriage together, handcuffed,
and then our arms were tied together above the
elbow, as we sat side by side, and so tight that on
arriving at cur destination we found them quite
discoloured, owing to the circulation of the blood
being stopped. We had two gendarmes with their
tirelocks in the carriage, opposite to us, and one on
the box with the coachman.
" Bad enough as this treatment may appear, still
our gendarmes thought they had been exceedingly
clement, as upon finishing the journey they begged
to be rememl.ered.

" When in &dein.° we had a better cell and bet-
ter air, but still very confined and close ; but our •
great st sufferings arose from the despair in which
we were, as we were now above six mouths in pri-
son without seeing our consul or a friend, or with-
out being brought to trial.
" As I have before stated, Mr. Watt's mind had
become affected, even whilst in Naples, and upon
arriving in Salerno he, in a fit of despondency,
seizd a razor and would have saved the King of
Naples and the Earl of Clarendon any further
trouble by putting an end to his life, if he had not
been prevented. As for my part, I was attacked
with fits at difforent times, to which I had not been
ever subject before.
" During the whole of this time, although to-
tally neglected by our own government, we were
kept constantly in the necessary funds by the kind-
ness of our Neapolitan friends ; without which as-
sistance, I have no hesitation in saying, we should
have both perished in our loathsome dungeon.
"At last, after some seven months' incarceration,
we received a visit from the Rev. Mr. Pugh, the
protestant clergyman resident at Naples, and soon
after from Mr. Barbar, the consul. There was
some misapprehension caused by the former gentle-
man's report of our condition and of our statements
to him, but the matter was to a certain degree
rectified by the consul.

" The rev. gentleman must have felt inwardly
convinced of our lack of want,, as he reported ; for
ho took 20 ducats away with him that had been en-
trusted to his care for supplying our wants, if
needed, without ever proffering them.
" When the trial commenced, we were taken in
the morning from the prison to the court-house,
handcuffed two and two, and were p traded through
the town—a goodly show of some 250 released con-
victs, and the passengers and crew of the Cagliari,
who had been rotting in prison nine mouths, in the
same clothes they were taken in, and fed on one
loaf of bread and one plate of soup, besides what
they could purchase themselves.
" I begged the judge not to cause us to be hand-
cuffed, and placed with felons, in one category.
But he said he had no power to make any altera-
tions, as it was the law. However, when the affair
began to be discussed at home, and the attention
of the ministers called officially to the subject, the
law' was relaxed, and instead of the parade on
foot we were conveyed to the court in carriages.
This called forth the indignation of one of the Sar-
dinians. Instead,' said ho, addressing the court,
of sending us here in carriages to deceive the pub-
lic, it would look better if you were to give us a
cover to deep under at night, or some more food.'
"At the same time we were allowed exercise in
the prison yard, and a larger and airier room as-
signed to us.
"Of 'he trial, or rather judicial farce, I will say
no more at present than that the presiding judge
seemed to me to be a very good old man and just,
leaning towards all the accused, but as every point
of law has to be settled by the telegraph wires from
Gaeia (the residence of the King), ho had but little
to say, or rather to decide. The bench of judges is
composed of soien, and there is no jury. The At-
torney-General, whose bias may be tested by what
I related of him above, leaves no means of chicane
unused to push the accusations against all parties.
There were some moments of interest during the

trial. It was said in the indictment that a certain
number of insurgents were killed in au encounter
with the troops cmumanded by Colonel So-and-so.
The prisoners denied this, and affirmed they had
surrendt!rod and were shot afterwards, 56 of them.
'That is the man,' cried one of the prisoners, point-
ing to the colonel, who had entere I the court,
that is the man who commanded the prisoners to
be shot.'
" The gallant colonel's spirit seemed sadly
troubled. Baron Nicotera, who, it willbsehripemsetmili
b:Ted, was the ieaderat the seizure theof
proclaims openly
his maintains throughout his coma
upon one witness deposing.tliziaet
' be denied the as-
intention of subverting. thegei:e (tht: Governmentro ) and,
had
given orders to cry Viva
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Watt'suo never
refusal
d it do
a I from
only to pri-
son,ad dsection ; for, said he,
I, cry Viva for such a tyrant.'
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eqouent .remov
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