The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-12 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION BY GEN. GyuLAL

The following has been published as the text of
a proclamation addressed by General Gyulai to the
inhabitants of Piacenza :
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" A provost-marshal's court is organised, a
only applies one punishment—that of death. The
following are considered crimes incurring r
th,,°t
penalty: 1. High treason, or any act tending '
forcibly change the system of the empire of Austria
and of the duchies, or to attract or increase any
danger from abroad against the said states. 2. The
concealment of arms or ammunition of any kind.
The public are particularly
.reminded that the
whateverpunishment
his of
condition may
be inflicted
e cr howevertedonan rreyioner
proachable his previous conduct may have been,
who shall be found in possession of arms or amino'
nition, either on his own person or in his house, or
in any place to which he may be supposed to have
access. 3. Taking part in assemblages, whether
armed or unarmed. 4. Illegal enlistment, acting
as spy, seducing soldiers, whether they belong tg
the Austrians or allied troops, and
generally e"
that may occasion disadvantage to the Austrian°
and advantage to the enemy. 5. Armed resistance
or any aggression against sentinels or
patrols, and
the slightest violence against any Austrian or allied
soldier. A warning is also given that the sentinels
and patrols will not only have a right, but are
ordered, to use their arms against any one wile
shall not yield at the first summons." •
Numerous comments are made by the French
press on this proclamation. The Sleds has the fol-
lowing :
, .
"We could hardly believe in General Grnal,o
proclamation, but several journals published it
though declining to vouch for its authenticity. It
is the first occasion, after a long lapse of time, that
a general threatens peaceable inhabitants with
death, and that courts of provosi marshals make
ready to do execution on any citizens even who
may happen to join some unarmed meeting—aye'
on such even as may be suspected of having aryls
or ammunition in some spot to which they may he
suspected of having access. It is the first time tha'',. the idea has ever been conceived of dragging before
a court-martial the keepers of coffee-shops or of
eating-houses for not closing at the hours specified
by the regulations of the police.
" Barbarous proceedings like these are Austria's
condemnation ; it is the commencement of the grind
ing tyranny imposed by her on Lombardo-Venetia
and the Duchies. When we read documents of this
documents stamp, whn
provingewe
that compareth the Austrians
thme withha authenticvefl eg
ged
women, we understand why the Austrian rule will
be impossible in Italy for the future. They most
be expelled from this sacred land of art, freedom"
and civilisation. By General Gyulai's prochone.
tion Austria puts herself out of the pale of the law.
She alienates the sympathy of statesmen who had
blindly favoured her cause, the English Tories, the
petty German princes."
The following is from the Pays :
" The conduct of the' the
Austrian troops on Piedmontese territory excites deserved indignai .
tion. In Europe one had no longer an it but
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such warfare; there was a tradition of it only'
the Croats are renewing the exploits of the Pan,
dours. Pillage, robbery, rape, burnings--there is
no sort of outlawed villany they have not coil"
mitted.

" What a difference from the scene presented b 7
he Russians and French in the Crimean war'
where the officers exchanged bottles of chamPalrei
whilst the soldiers gave each other bread an,
brandy. They fought with courage, but felt mutual,
respect, because the same sentiments of honour and
humanity obtained on either side.
" The Austrian troops appear to have been
brought up in another school ; far from alleviating
the miseries of war, they delight in aggravating
them, and already the l'iedmontese Government
has found itself obliged to lay an embargo on Aus:
trian vessels. Thus excesses elicit reprisals, bub
the, entire responsibility rests upon the head of the
provoker.
" The following fact, taken from a thousand of
such, will prove the thorough patriotism of the
Piedmonteso in this contest, in
which the barba-
rism of the assailants will be shattered on its CO-'
lision with the courage and self-denial of the de-
fenders of Italian independence. In the province
of Vercelli the Austrians captured the brother
of M. Noe, the director of the Sartarina reservoirs,
by means of which the whole country can be
under water, 'lf you wish to save your brothers
life,' said a letter to M. Noe; ' stop the inunda-
tion.' By way of answer, the intrepid and pa-
triotic official ordered his men to discharge twice the
q of water already given off from the flood-
gates, so that the whole detachment of Austrian!
folind themselves up to their breasts in waters Tne_
letter from which we obtain this information de!! g
not say whether the Austrians dared to put their
4hreat in execution on discovering the energetiu
resolution of M. Noe."