The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

THE CASE OF THE MADIAI.

The following despatch, from the Foreign Secretary to
the British Minister at Florence, has just been published:
" LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO SIR HENRY BULWVER•
" Foreign-office, January 18, 1853.
" SlR,—According to the last accounts received frovi
you the Grand Duke of Tuscany still hesitates on the sub'
ject of the Madiai.

" But this is a matter on which hesitation implies caPi;
tal punishment. It is the same thing in effect to conder°,o
a man to die by fire like Savonarola, or to put him
death by the slow torture of an unhealthy prison.
"It seems to be imagined, indeed, by some govero4
merits on the continent, that if they avoid the spectacle
of an execution on the scaffold they will escape the °dial
to themselves; and the sympathy for their victims, whigco
attends upon the punishment of death for offences 0'
political or religious character.
" But this is an error. It is now well understood tbae
the wasting of the body, the sinking of the spirits, the
weakening of the mind, are but additions to the capi
punishment which long and close confinement too often
involves.

" If, therefore, as has been lately reported, one of tlt
Madiai were to die in prison, the Grand Duke must
expect that throughout Europe he will be considered s,,'
having put a human being to death for beinz a Protestant
" It will be said, no doubt, that the offence of Fralii
gi
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seduce not t
ihtetatethdeo
ethers
so being
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thevNotihuaardtiina Tuscan government had the most inercifg
oceifnaffenitsedtechnenieisonc,annnoodtmbeeapnetrtmo have shortened the period of iro,'
prisonment allotted by, law to his offence ; that such
interference.tboeamiraienntdtlhyast
"All this, however, will avail very little. Throughoe
the civilized world this example of religious persecutioo
will excite abhorrence. Nor will it be the least of the
reproaches addressed to the government of the Gray,
Duke that the name of Leopold of Tuscany has been 010:
desecrated, and the example of a benevolent sovereiC
thus departed from. The peaceful, mild, and ingeouot"
character of the Tuscan people makes this severity the 1e55
necessary and the more odious.
"As this is a matter affecting a Tuscan subject, it Of,
be said that Her Majesty's government have no right ti
interfere. If this means that interference by force at
arms would not be justifihble, I confess at once tboo
oHveerrelkigloajethstey
shragsonmoetotthsewrbigiflli
nothing but the most extreme case would justify ellc
toti lievdd
swordin the
tmosto punish
g inations
opinions, againsti et 0 ,
st
" You are, therefore, instructed to speak in the ref i
serious tone to the Minister of Fore'gr. Affairs, and to 11;,
tuhtiosaree:p‘leoyßoifndputerttenhoiveyfuaithe truth of such an allegation.
before him all the considerations stated in this despecto
You will do it in the most friendly tone, and take'care,ot
assure the government to which you are accredited, tPo,
none are more sincere in their wishes for the indePeri4C
ence and happiness of Tuscany than the Queen of G 1,7
Britain.—I am, &c.,
" J. RUSSELL.
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