Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-02-10
From the London Courier Of Dec. "A.
DISTRESSING CASE.

A..
DISTRESSING CASE.
Observation-Disclosures do.
putation from about 60 to 70 Italian re.
fugees, who are now In state of the
deepest misery, waited upon the Lord
Mayor to entreat his Lordship's aid 70
save them from perishing.
The deputation informed his lord
ship in the French language, that thew
and their unfortunate fellow-sutferers
very few Of whom had eaten a morscJ
Of any sort of victuaIs for a hour
had been all officers in the NeapoIi,sp
army, and had subsequently Joined the
Spanish Constitutional troops s form.
ed what was called the "Sacred Band.o
that the Government of this country
humanely allowed to the Italian militia.
ry, who fed hither from death or incar.
ceration, a certain weekly sum, which
prevented them from falling victims to
hunger and cold. This allowance. had
they said, ceased for nearly month,
and they were all sunk into an extre.
nifty from which nothing bur the hu.
manity of the British people, or a mi.
racle, could save them. They had now
not shilling amongst them. Mum.
bers of them had been turned out of
the wretched lodgings which the report
that a subscription was about to be
raised had procured for them, and were
in the streets of Mary-Ie.bone, without
shoes to their feet, and subject to pull
monary and other diseases, from the
almost total want of covering. They
were all qualified from their education
to support themselves by literary exer-
tons; but they were without recon-
mendations and from the want of in
PRODUCTION and patronage, the dreadful
privations, amounting in fact to &C.
neral famine amongst them, necessarily
sprang. They expressed their regret
at being compelled to beg from a
public upon whom there were so many
loud calls of domestic nature but
they were persuaded that there were to
be found in London friends to the un-
happy strangers, who owed all their
sorrows and perplexities to that nation
al spirit which was SO well appreciated
and so constantly acted upon by Eng
lishmen.
To this entreaty was added, the APP
peal of some Spaniards, between and
600 of whom are pennyless and hungry
about our streets. One of the poor
Spaniards, in very feeling manner,
described the condition of his country
men. He had, he said (and he was
anxious to exhibit his wounds) three
bullets in his body, received in battle
while fighting under the banners OF
Wellington. A morsel OF food had not
entered his lips since the day before
yesterday, and he knew not where to
look for mouthful. Itwas dreadful
humiliation for a man, who had been
an officer in the army % years, to soil
cit or beg. His countrymen were in
this condition, many of them. They
were wounded and famished, and had
no alternative but death, or thehorrible
toll of the common beggar.
Those miserable objects excited the
deepest compassion. We may fairly
calculate that there are about 500 fam
ishing Spanish, and $50 starving TIA
liam officers, now in the metropolis, for
whom, if a subscription is not speedily
raised, the consequence must be terri
Bile. In the list of the unfortunate SUI
ferers, many of them are described as
having a great number OF gun-shot
wounds iu their bodies.
IA public meeting was held in Lon
don on the 18th December, for the pur-
pose of raising fund for the Spanish
and Italian Refugees in and about Lon
don, when 100 pounds sterling were
subscribed, and measures taken to pro-
cure further subscriptions.
Townsend, the celebrated pedestrian,
recently performed the extraordinary
feat of walking 432 miles in six con-
secutive days, making 70 miles per day.
According to one of the last London
papers, the French Ambassador, Nj.
HYDE de Melville has quit Lisbon for
Paris. lis rumored that total change
in the Portuguese Ministry was ex-
pected.
The sale of Fauntleroy's effects at
Brighton, commenced on the 2eth ult.
1t is said that Lord Whitworth bought
the villa, with its fixtures, for 1850
pounds sterling.
Accounts from Madrid Of the 10th
of Dec. state that the establishment OF
the inquisition is not yet certain, the
King having not consented to it.
Ferdinand also refuses, positively, to
recognize the loans Of the Cortes.