The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-20

to send for surgeons to dress their wounded,
which was granted them. The prisoners
have all asked to join this Republic against
Naples, and 50, they and their government
were deceived. Nj
To-day the Neapolitans have come. Gar
lbaldi has gone to meet them with 2 800 Ro-
mans, and utterly routed their vanguard, who
have fled, throwing away arms and baggage.
They are going from here in hackney coach
es in full pursuit. W.
Nay BY decree Of this Republic,
their deceived and unhappy brothers, SOL
diers Of the French Republic, captured on
the ever-memorable 3Oth Of April, were un-
conditionally set free. They left to join
their country at Civila Vecchia. But pre-
viously they perambulated great part Of
the city, each Of them arm in arm with two
Romans. This was honor for the poor fol-
lows, but was at first planned so, chiefly to
secure them from ill-treatment For day
or two after the battle the greatest care was
required to preserve them from the fury Of
the ,oomen Of Trastevere, who very logically
argued that :" they had killed our lovers,
fathers, brothers, husbands, who never
harmed or offended their people why should
not we kill them 7" But yesterday, after a
lapse Of week, all this feeling had subsidized,
even in that class. During their detention
every kind Of indulgence had been heaped
upon them. The soldiers, who had been
daily, nay hourly, visited by all classes, uni
/ fnrp,l,r fba,r al Is L.
iratricid;l" war, and affirmed that they
came to fight the Austrians, and never knew,
till they saw and heard them, they were OPP
posed to Romans and Republicans.
The officers sat mute and detected, or
burst into invectiye against the "infame
guet-a-pens" their government had led them
into. One Of them, lieutenant, and the
only man left alive Of his company, wept
bitterly at the disgrace he had been subject
ed to, adding (Which was echoed by the
others) that had he known he was to fight
against the people and the Republic, he would
have broken his sword and refused to serve.
So yesterday they paraded the city A
hundred thousand handkerchiefs waved from
the windows and balconies, hundred thou
sand voices rent the air with enpipas for
both Republics, the band playing the gori-
Gus Marsease alternately with Roman
marches, the people rushing on the French,
hugging and kissing Omen and women their
"cari frateM republican," so that there
was much probability of their being literally
killed with kindness the French soldiers
staring with bewilderment awhile, then doing
their best to shout for the two Republics
a strange scene.
At st. Peters where the people induced
the French to walk round and admire their
glorious edifice, one Of the officers burst into
a food of tears and wiped them off, faute de
mieur, with his coat flap. A female gently
stepped up and applied handkerchief to his
weeping countenance, then handed it to him,
saying: "Take this as remembrance Of a
Roman woman"
Wonderful is the calm and cheertulness Of
the Romans Of both sexes, amid their dan
gers, difficulties and suferings; wonderful
the order and dignity, and respect Of pro-
perty and person. Even the priests, with
the exception Of some two or three, who fired
on the people and were caught, Papal ban
ner in hand, urging on the French soldiers,
have been unframed Some were useful to
the wounded, however, and some fought well
at the barricades. But the sun-burnt, bright
eyed women at the Fountain, and the deli
cate citizens daughter in her salone, all
reason alike: Pic TX, year ago, would
not fight the Croats, because he was man
Of peace; and now he sends barbarians and
bandits to slaughter us, his children'
regret to say that the French did not
deserve the kind treatment they received,
(some Of them, at least, as they barbarously
slew many unoffending women, and even
children at the breast, in the gardens and
vineyards outside the walls! The monsters!
Not only is this official news, but know it
from personal observation and from others
who sought for wounded after the action.
They had also inhumanly killed and mutila-
ted six or more wounded Of the. +" Corpo
Universitario." Good gave US courage"
observed citizen to me the other day, 81
never knew | had any before ~ Twenty
cannon balls, shot into the cupola of st.
Peters, are sent to France, and one that
made hole in Raphael's tapestry Cou-
riers dash every FIVE minutes by my window.
Lord Napier, it is said, has made some
arrangement with France, and no other
power can harm Rome seriously Such bar
ricades--in fact, they are fortresses. The
Villa Strozzi is filled with cannon, artillery
officers and men, being convenient point
Nothing is damaged at present.
Yours, j. P.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
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