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

General,—From the day I first knew you I have
been openly and sincerely your friend, and I have
been so when it was a subject of blame in many
persons' eyes either to be so or to acknowledge it.
I have frankly applauded 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 have 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 you would feel the neces-
sity and find the means of contradicting them; and
when I heard that you had quitted Caprera, landed
at Genoa, and were at Turin, I believed that you
came for that, and that alone.
Your reply to the address of the Milanese work-
men, your language in the Chamber, have painfully
but completely deceived me. You are not the man
I thought you; you are not the Garibaldi I loved.
With that illusion has disappeared my affection for
you. lam no longer your friend, and I pass dis-
tinctly and openly into the ranks of your political
opponents.
You have dared'to put yourself on a level with the
king, affecting to speak of him with the familiarity,
of a comrade. It is your intention to place your-
self above social customs, by presenting yourself to
the Chamber in a strange dress ; above the Govern-
ment, by treating the Ministers as traitors, because
they have not given themselves up to you Lab9ve
Parliament, by loading with reproaches the'llepu-
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 knbw 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 threatens us, in the opposite event,
with civil war. lam not in a position to know
what the country thinks of it, but I can affirm that
the army does 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 it; but you are wrong 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 former 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 CIALDIN I.

THE NAVY.

The Thunderbolt, 16, and Etna, 16, steam-floating
batteries, are still in Chatham harbour in charge of
Lieut. Bateman and a party of seamen from the
Cumberland, 70, both batteries being unable to pro-
ceed to their stations in the Thames in consequence
of the non-arrival of their cables from Sheerness.
The cables are expected to be on board to-morrow,
immediately after which the batteries will proceed
round to the Thames to take up their positions
on the Kentish and Essex sides of the river at
Shornemeade and Coalhouse Point.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamvessel Ca-
radoc, lately employed as a packet carrying mails
and passengers in the Mediterranean, has been or-
dered to undergo thorough repairs at Woolwich.
Her boilers and machinery, after eight years' hard
service, are in course of being renewed, when she
will be recommissioned for similar service.

Yesterday Capt. E. G. Fanshawe, superintendent
of Chatham dockyard, returned from a short leave
of absence and resumed ',his duties at the establish-
ment. Capt. G. Goldsmith, C,8., the late superin-
tendent, quitted the dockyard yesterday.
The following screw steam gunvessels now in
Chatham harbour have completed fitting for the
steam reserve :—The Pigeon, 5, 60-horse power ;
Dart, 5, 80-horse power ; Serpent, 4, 200-horse ;
and Lnnet, 4, 200-horse power.
The Racehorse, 4, 200 horse power, screw gun-
vessel, and the Plover, 5, 80-horse power, fitting for
the steam reserve at Chatham, are in the hands of
the contract engineers.
The Louisa gunboat, GO-horse power, tender to
the Edinburgh, 60, at Leith, is having the defects
to her hull and machinery made good at Chatham.
The Fairy, Royal screw yacht, Master Com-
mander Welch, steamed out of Portsmouth Harbour
yesterday, and tested her machinery under the
supervision 'of the officials of the dockyard. Every-
thing working well, the Fairy will resume her
duties in attending on her Majesty to-day.
The Marlborough, 131, screw, Capt. W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., completed shipping her three lower
masts and bowsprit in the steam basin at Ports-
mouth yesterday.
The Euryalus, 51, screw, fitting out at Ports-
mouth in the first-class reserve as a future flagship,
is ordered to receive her guns at once alongside
the north quay of the steam basin.
Ths Cruiser, 17, screw, Commander Bythesea,
V.C,, and the Inflexible, 6, paddle, Commander
Brooker, according to present arrangements, will
pay off at Portsmouth, the latter on Saturday
next, and the first-named on Monday.
The Admiralty paddle-yacht Osborne, Master
Commander G. K. Bower, anchored in the Tagus,

from Portsmouth, on her way to Madeira, at 6 p.m.
of the 15th inst., after a fine passage out: She was
expected to leave again the next morning for Ma-
deira, after coaling.
A court-martial assembled yesterday (Wednes.
day) on board the flagship Impregnable, at Devon-
port, to try Mr: John Rivers, assistant-paymaster of
her Majesty's ship Magicienne, on a charge of
drunkenness on board that ship on the night of the
11th of January, 1861. The Court found the
charge proved, but, in consideration of prisoner's
good character, merely sentenced, him to be placed
at the foot of the list of paymasters and to be
severely repremanded.
Twenty boys were draughted yesterday (Wed-
nesday) from the flagship Impregnable, 104, to the
guardship of steam ordinary Indus, 78, Capt. Astley
C. Key, C. 8., both in Hamoaze, Plymouth.
Yesterday the stripping of the jury rigging was
completed, and the masts and bowsprit were re-
moved from the new ship Defiance, 91, just brought
to Plymouth from Pembroke.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Bann (tender to the
Fisguard, 42, at Woolwich), was put into No. 4
dock at Devonport yesterday, to be examined.
• The paddlewheel steam frigate Magicienne, 16,
Capt. J. E. Commerell, at Devonport, will be ready
for paying off her crew on the 30th inst.
The steam gunvessel Weser, 6, made an experi-
mental cruise yesterday (Wednesday) from Hamoaze
outside Plymouth Breakwater.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the AdMiralty :—Wm. Waterfield, second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ;
H. Sugden, second master, to the Marlborough.

LONGEVITY.—An old lady, named Marks, died
last week, at Woodbury (Devonshire), aged 103 years. Up
to the period of her death she retained her faculties, and for
some time previous she was enabled to rejoice al the fact of
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