The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

GENERALS CIALDINI and GARMILDI.

The following is the text of General', Maldini's
letter to Garibaldi, of which a telegraphan, sum-
mary was published yesterday "
Turin, Aptirt
e
General,—From the day I first knew y. liv
been openly and sincerely your friend, an. 'lave
been so when it was a subject of blame in Inany,
persons' eyes either to be so or to acknowledge it.
I hate frankly applanded your triumphs ; I have
admired your military energy and originality.
Whether among your friends.er my own, in public
.and in private, I have always and everywhere tes-
tified my high esteem for you; and I have admitted
that_ I could not hate- attempted the enterprise
which you so skilfully achieved at Marsala. My
confidence in you was so great, that when General
Sirtori uttered fatal -*words in the 'Parliament,- I
retained a certainty that yon.would :feel the necesg-
sity and find the means of contradicting them; and
when I heard that you had quitted Caprera, landed
at Genoa,-and •were gat Turin, I believed that you
came for that, and that alone.
Ydur reply to the address of the Milanese work-
men, your language-in the Chamber, have painfully
but sompletely deceived me. You-are not the man
I thought you a vou are not the Garibaldi I loved.
With that illusion has disappeared my, affection for
you. lam no :lorit!!rrer' foiir friend, and I pass
•dis-
tinctly and openly into the ranks of your political
opponents.
Yon have dared to put yourself on a level with the
Ring, affecting ttispeak :of him' with the familiarity
of a comrade. ,slt is...polif intention to • plade your-
seff above social,ct(Spins, by presenting yourself to
the. Chamber in a-stranke dress; above the Oeverna
mentaby treating the Ministers as traitors;becanse.
they have not given themselves up to you; ZI3O-Ve
Parliament, by loading with reproaches the depu-
ties who do not think after your fashion ; above
the country, by wishing to drive it where and how
you. choose.
Well, general, there are men who are not dis-
posed to bear all that, and I am of the number.
As the enemy of all tyranny, whether it wear black
or red, I shall combat to the uttermost even yours.
I know the orders you gave, you and yours, to
Colonel Tripoti to receive us in the Abruzzi with
musket shots. I know the words spoken by Gen.
Sirtori in Parliament ; I know yours ; I follow out
with certainty these successive indications, and I
arrive at the inmost thought of your party. It
wishes to make itself master of the country and the
army, and thratthii-ds; in the opposite event,
with civil war: I ani)liot 'in a 'position to knoW
what the country thinks of it, but I can affirm that
the arnly doe's not fear your threats, that it fears
only your domination.
General,;you accomplished a great, a Wonderful
enterprise with, your volunteers ; you: have. reason
to boast of tut you are wren.. in exaggerating
its real effects. You were in a bad position on the
Volturno when we arrived. It was not you who
took Capua, Gaeto, Messina, Civitella ; it
was not you, but we, who beat, dispersed, and
made prisoners 56,000 Bourbon soldiers. It
is therefore incorrect' to say that the
Two Sicilies were entirely delivered by your
arms. In your legitimate pride do not for-
get, general, that our- army and fleet took some part
in it; that they destroyed more than half the
army of the forme'r kingdom of Naples, and that
they took the four strongholds of the state.
I conclude by telling you that I have no claim or
authority to speak to you in the name of the army;
but I think. I know it well enough to be sure that
it shares the feeling of grief and aversion which
your insults and those of your friends have raised
in me.—l am, with the greatest consideration, your
very devoted servant,

ENRICO CIALDINI.