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us as fellow-prisoners ; and if it is not 'torture, it
appears to me to be something very synonymous.
" One of their proceedings with myself appears
also to be of rather a terrorising tendency—perhaps
the mildest kind of torture.
" I was taken out of my cell, handcuffed, and
escorted by three gaolers, we proceeded down a
dark passage. When at some distance, the men
told me to stop, and stood whispering behind me.
Then they told me to go on again, and then again
to stop, followed by the same whispering. This
process was repeated several times we still going
through the dark passages, until, I must confess,
the thought occurred to my mind that they were
going either to make away with me secretly, or, at
the very least, apply some species of torture. But
after all the whispering, andascendingand descend-
ing and turning in the passages of the prison, we
arrived at the chamfers of t:,e Procuratore Generale
or Attorney-General, where I was subjected to an
interrogation,' the learned gentleman's object
being to get me to substantiate certain assertions
which he made. But to rett-n to the intimidation
question. When he had finished his interrogations,
and. the attendants were about to convey me away
again, 'take him,' said the A ttorney-General 'the
other way ;' and lo ! I Was in my cell in a twink-
ling, having passed through nothing but one well-
lighted passage.
" Whatever might be said of the irresponsibility
of the Neapolitan government for the cruelty and
extortion practised by the ¢,molers upon the unfor-
tunate inmates of the Vicaria, it is impossible to
conceive the intention or source of command of this
species of interrogating.'
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in regard to ourselves. If you were not a party
to the insurrectionary movement,' said he, why
did yon not hinder the insurgents from proceeding
on their voyage ?" Because we were acting on
compulsion,' answered I. 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 he ; but it is evident you
might rave burst the boilers. Why did you not
do that ?' Such is the manner and the quality of
the justice dispensed at the Vicaria.

" Before taking leave of this wretched place,
the three months' residence in which had re-
duced U 4 all to a very low state, and lmid turn d
the brain of my unfortunate companion (Mr.
Watt), I will just relate a slight circumstance,
in order to show the brutal characer of the treat-
ment meted out to one of the crew 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 ro
weak as scarcely to be able to stand. The gaoler,
whilst fixing the handcuff., asked the prisoner what
countryman he was. The prisoner, thinking that
the question was put out of curiosity, resp-ndecl in
a simple mane-r, lam a Gen ese.' And I'm a
Neapolit.tu,' added the gaoler, wrenching the hand-
cuffs so tight that the ma❑ bore the marks for
weeks after. _ _

"At last the time came for our removal to Si-
lerlio, the assize town of the district, wl.ere the
landing had taken place, and thither we were re-
moved, at night, in vehicles. Mr. Watt and I
were placed iu a carriage together, handcuffed,
and then our arms were tied together above the
lbaw, 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 blcod
b,ing stopped. We bad two gendarme s with their
tirelocks in the carriage, oppo,ite to us, and one on
the hos with the coachman.

" Bad enough as this treatment may appear, still
our gendarmes thought they haci been exceedingly
clement, as upon finishing the journey they begged
to be remembered.
" When in Salerno we had a b-tter cell and bet-
ter air, but still very confined and close ; but our
great-at sufferingi arose from the despair in which
we were, as we were now above six monlis 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, iu a fit of despondency,
seiz d a razor and would have saved the King of
Naples and the Ell 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 diff rent 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
k.-pt constantly in the necessary funds by the kind-
res of our Neapolitan friends ; without which as-
sistanco, I have no hesitation in saying, we should
have both perished in our loathsome dutageon.
"At last, after some seven mouths' incarceration,
we received a visit from tho 11,,v. Mr. Pugh, the
protestant Clergyman resident at Naples, and soon
ff,r from Mr. Bat bar, tnt'
some miSapprenenst:m caused by the former gentle-
man's report of our condition and of our sta.ements
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
he 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 paraded 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 pi isou nine months, 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 felon., in one category.
But he said be had no power to make any al ora-
tions, ks it 'v-ia the law. However, when the affair
began to be discussed at hum s, 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. 'lnatea,d,' said he, 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.
Over. to-eldep.under at night, or-aomegnore focal.'
"At the same tiine,Are were allowed exercise in
the'prison yard, and a larger and airier room as-
signed to us.
"Of the 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
Gaeta (the residence of the King), he had but little
to say, or rather to decide. The bench of judges is
composed of s.,ven, 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 indiament that a certain
number of insurgents were killed in an encounter
with the troops cimmanded by Colonel So-and so.
The prisoners denied this, and affirmed they had
surrendered and were shut afterwards, 56 of them.
That is the man,' cried one of the prisoners, point-
ing to the colonel, who had enterei the court,
that is the man who commanded the.priconurs to
be shot.'
" The gallant colonel's spirit Seemed sadly.
troubled. Baron Nicotera, who, it will be r.emetind
bsred, was the leader at the seizure of the ship, I
esnly
maintains throughout his courage, proclaims
oYand,
his intention of subverting the Government;the baron) had
upon one witness deposing that
or never did
Never , n
; for, said he,
given orders to cry Viva it Re, helle( denied the as-
sertion Watt's refusal to
°Moral from pri-
son, cry Viva for such a tyrant.'
his tgselacind. I have only to add
saottn‘e:nYdeuthaerceoaulrrte,ady aware onfellnftrr.
that,
imprisonment, I am now
on a months'
of honorary bail, awaiting
and his return toths,
the issue of the trial
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