Star.
London, England, 1821-04-27 00:00:00

ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION AT GENOA.

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On the 15th of March, after a long delay, the Go-
vernor of Genoa published a Proclamation, an-
nouncing that at Tulin the Spanish Constitution was
proclaimed, and that the King Victor Emmanuel
had abdicated, appointing the Prince of Carignano
Regent of the Kingdom. By the same Proclama-
tion the Spanish Constitution was. given to the Ge-
noese, and received with great joy by all the inhabit-
ants. Everything remained quiet at Genoa: it even
aneared that the Genoese were willing to remain
spectators of the struggle between Piedmont and the
common enemy of Italy, Austria; when, on the 21st,
a fresh Manifesto was published, as coming from the
new King Carlo Felix, calling the Patriots rebels;
and threatening them with the vengeance of GOD
and the Allies, if they did not return to the ancient
; but without a word of amnesty.
To this was joined a Proclamation from the Go-
vernor, praising the Genoese for their former tran-
quillity ; and threatening, if they did not continue it,
to call in the Austrians. It was obscurely added,
• that the Prince Regent had already conformed to the
King's pleasure. As soon as this Manifesto appeared,
there was heard in every part of the City a sullen
voice of indignation. Twenty students ran tumul-
tuously to the Governor's Palace, and forcing him to
grant them an audience, demanded the new Consti-
tution, the National Guard, and the Regent's letter.
Two of their demands the Governor absolutely re-
fused : as to the civic guard, he promised they should
be satisfied. On receiving this answer. the students
sallied forth, and, assisted by the citizens, disarmed
almost all the guards, who were soon replaced in
great numbers ; and the Governor himself proceeded
on foot to the Palace, to hold a Council, followed by
great crowds execrating him, and throwing stones.
Some tumult continued all night; but no serious dis-
turbance occurred. The next day two Regiments
supposed to be disaffected, the Marines, and the Sa-
luzzo Regiment, were shut up in their quarters. Mi-
litary law was proclaimed, and a strong guard
planted in every part of the city : on the Ponte Reale,
opposite the Exchange, the cannon, loaded with
grape shot, were turned towards the city ; and the
soldiers had orders to fire on the least alarm. In the
meanwhile the Genoese preserved a stern and reto-
lute silence, the constant forerunner of a storm in
Italy: it was generally said that the city was sold to
the Austrians, but that they should buy it dearly.
At night, on some slight alarm, a pistol was fired
near the Governor's palace, on which the cannon
began firing ; and there being none of the citizens in
the square, fourteen soldiers were killed, and some
others wounded. On the morning of the 23d the
same appearance continued in the city: the Gower-
nor's emissaries were at work, sowing dissensions be-
tween the soldiers and the people, and between the
different regiments: on the other hand, a party of
fifty students, who, having given a dinner to fifty
Officers, in honour of the Constitution, were marked
for vengeance, and were eager to increase the num-
ber of their adherents. It was at last resolved upon
to quell the approaching revolt by the sword, when
at twelve o'clock a cry or "-Long live the Constitution"
was heard near the square of tie Exchange, shouted
forth by the marines. The guard before the palace
presented their bayonets: but at this moment the
Officer commanding them was pushed against the
wall by four Genoese, who, presenting a pistol at his
throat, whispered in French—" Long live the Con-
stitution, and make your soldiers do the same, or you
arc a dead man r"lhe Officer replied by instantly
obeying the order; his example was followed by his
troops, who threw down their arms, after firing a
feu-de-joie, and embraced the people, who, assisted
by the corps of marines, seized op the Ponte Reale,
and turned the cannon again4owards the sea.—
Apother party rushed into the palacetakil were drag-
ging the Governor down stairs with loucr*crations,
when two young Genoese merchants, named Pera-
quallo and Chiaccalugo, forced their way through
the crowd, and taking hold of the Governor, led
him in safety to the house of Chiaccalugo, on the
Piazza Campetto, where, under the bayonets of the
self-constitutecf National Guard, who had taken pos-
session of the arms at the Arsenal, and amidst the
shouts of an immense populace demanding his head,
he signed a paper, resigning his. authority into the
bands of a Junta, all Genoese. The Junta also pub-
lished a paper proclaiming anew the Spanish Consti-
tution: In two hours everything was tranquil, and
the city was a scene of universal rejoicing ; part of,

the soldiers dividing the duty of mounting guard
with the citizens, and the rest singini.Fl:triotic hymns
and dancing amqng the people. Officer com-
manding the small troop of Cavalry, as soon as he
saw the cause of tyranny defeated, rode, full gallop,
to his quarters, and ordering. his soldiers to mount,
fled with them through a private military gate to-,
wards Tuscany. The next day the Governor was
carried to the Palace, where he remained under the
strict custody of the National Guard.
The Revolution was unpolluted by any act of plun-
der or revenge. Even the Governor's Palace was left
untouched by the populace, who merely seized on
the arms they found there, and threw his papers out
of the window. A party of wood-sellers, having in-
telligence thai he had lodged 60,000 francs in the
hands of the Captain of the Port, took them from
him by force, and carried the whole sum untouched
to the Junta.