The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

enclose a copy of a letter I have ad-
drt ‘ssed to Lord Brougham on the affairs of Italy,
and I shall be glad if you should think fit to
publish it.

Your obedient servant,
ELLENBOROUGII
U 2, Upper Belgravo-street, Nov. 8.

e" THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGII TO LORD
BROUGHAM.

" Southam, Delabere, Nov. 5.
*" My dear Brougham,—l propose to subscribe a
SIT Lail sum to the fund for the purchase of arms to
be placed at the disposal of Garibaldi.
" If all those who wish well to the cause of inde-
pe n deuce in Italy would, for the same purpose,
su.biscribe such small sums as they can spare with-
out: inconvenience, the aggregate amount of their
con. tributiens would be large, and they would ma-
teri ally assist in supplying the Italians with the
me, a ns of making themselves respected.
6" Arms, organisation, and discipline constitute th©
real! strength of a people. In proportion to that
strel igth is the respect it obtains. Upon that foun-
dati )n alone the independence of every country
mue t really rest.
6" I admit, with deep regret, that the Italians
have, as yet, made but little use of the opportunity
why .ch the events of the war have placed before
then n.

" They have confined themselves very much to
reje icings in anticipation of the independence
wbi ch they have neither achieved nor deserved.
,y have been waiting to receive from the hands
of ( )thers that which they should disdain to owe to
au) • hands but their own.
4" Acting under the direction of men hastily se-
le ci and unequal to the crisis in which they
w ce called forth to govern, they are even now, I
fe in Central Italy, insufficiently prepared
ag7a inst the threatened invasion of the two most
coN temptible of armies—those of Naples and of the
Pol
' I will still hope for better things. I will hope
the t, stimulated by the insults to Italy which are
coe ,veyed in the demands France is about to make
in. the Congress, they will rise to vindicate their
ri ht to choose their own Government, and clutch
ti: Le arms by which alone it can be secured.
f," There is in Italy one man who has at once a
hc id to direct, a hand to execute, and a heart which
te'E Is him what is right. That man is Garibaldi.
' Let the Italians follow where he leads, and they
wi; 1 at least acquire the honour which has been so
lord g unknown to them as a people.

has no measures to observe with France. If
he should obtain success, he will not consent to hold
th 4 provinces he liberates as a fief of the French
enal Are.
He will not lend himself to the carrying out of
tkie idea of the First Napoleon, that France should
be. ; surrounded by weak dependent States.
4" If the Italians should obtain no change but that
of substituting the influence of France for that of
A- at itria, they will only have changed the outward
fo of their humiliation, and have laid the foun-
da ti .ons of perpetual disunion and of constantly re-
en n ing war in their country.
" I believe that the creation of a great, united,
an, I independent State in Italy (and to be inde-
pei 14 lent it must be great) would tend more than
an: r other measure which could be adopted to secure
the peace of Central Europe.
Incapable of entertaining projects of conquest
be, rt nd. the Alps, which it would be evidently im-
po able to realise, such a State would have a cont-
ra( n interest with Austria in closing that natural
bai r ier against the foreigner ; and Austria, relieved
fro no . all apprehension on the side of Italy, would,
in union with Germany, present on the Rhine and
on ;she Vistula a concentrated strength which no
am b. ition would assail, because none could hope to
ovc r come.

This was the opinion I formed at the Congress
of ienna. I expressed it in the House of Com-
moi u ;in 1816. 1 have adhered to it through life.

' The unexpected events in the early part of this
yce cr appeared at one time to place this great result
ale lc )st within our grasp.
I will still trust that such high hopes have not
be I.T i held out to Europe only for a moment, to be
th rsn dashed away and to deceive. I will trust that
ti le Italians may prove themselves not unworthy of
t 1 pair fortune, and may be mindful of other and
h igher traditions than those to which France has
d irected their regards.
" At least, let us, sympathising with them in
ci .rcumstances which were once our own, place in
t! ieir hands the arms by which alone, under Provi-
dence, their redemption can be achieved.
" In the will of Providence must rest their sue-
c ass, but with arms in their hands they may at least,
i; lsteadof being unresistingly transferred, like cattle,
b y foreigners, fall nobly like soldiers in the field,
a rid acquire that glorious name which has been ac-
e girded by the concurrence of all ages to those who
erish in the attempt to liberate their country.
It would give me much satisfaction to learn

that you approve the step I propose to take, all
that, although you may not agree with me
.1n a,e
particulars, you agree with me in the main in tu
views I have expressed.
" Ever, my dear Brougham, yours most sincere)",
ELLENBOROUGU.