The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-22
forrisn Correspondence.
ITALIAN AFFAIRS.

h0t.-C 0slsulship at GeSt0a.-Hs C0nuilerctdt ID
pabiiiies. General Ram@ino. Minister Of
Foreign .a6airs.- Count Baibo's Mission to the
Pope-F}ench intervention. Camp al 81. Maui
,ics.--.asstria. 80 Yenice.--Rome
GENOA, May 26, l849.
1t may have reached you through the newspa-
pers, that, during the late commandments of this
city, the American Ship Ambassador was struck by
a bomb or cannon shot, which caused some scatter
ing of splinters, and little damage to her hull and
tmbers The fact having been communicated to
our Charge at Turin it was unoficially mentioned,
as understand to the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
who Immediately sent orders to this place to cause
accurate surveys to be made of the damage that had
been done to friendly shipping, with view to in
demnly in every such case. Ample indemnify, l
am informed, has since been made in the case of
the Ambassador, without the formal presentation
of any claim, and in consequence merely of the cur
sorry suggestion in that behalf of our Charge 1t
might not be amiss, if the American Government
were equally the alert, to render similar satisfac-
ton for injuries and losses sustained by their own
citizens, to whom claim for Indemnity" for any
considerable amount is generally sure forerunner
of ruin.
There is no consul here at present-the lately APP
pointed official not having yet made his appearance.
And this suggests word that would gladly
whisper, if could make whisper audible across
the Atlantic, in the ears of the new Administration.
Sufficient attention has never been paid hitherto to
our consular selections The consulate here is Just
now of no great importance, and do not wish to
recommend myself for it in the event of changes
but il is capable of being made of much usefulness
to our commerce, if man could be found to fill it
who commands the confidence of the merchants
and manufacturers at home. There is no better
place in the Mediterranean for depot of Ame-
rican manufactured cotton of the cheaper and
more substantial kinds, which would find a pro-
ftable and growing market in the Levant, along
the coast Of Africa, and in the Black Sea, whose
waters are constantly ploughed by a myriad of the
small Genoese craft, which carry on an active and
extensive commerce in every description of the "as-
sorted cargoes' which are to be found in the free
port of Genoa. have doubt that the cotton
and tobacco shippers wond find it greatly to their
character consul at this port, to say nothing of the
great commercial and manufacturing establishments
of the Eastern and Middle States There are
channels of trade here, yet unopened, which would
lead enterprise to wealth.
General Ramarino, who disobeyed orders by ne
gecng to place his division of the army in posi-
ton to defend the Sandman frontier opposite to
Pavia on the Goth of March, was sentenced on the
third instant by military court to be hanged
This sentence was so far mitgated by the King, as
to permit the victim to be shot. The general in
terposed an appeal to the Court of Cessation, on
the ground that an armstice is time of peace, and
that therefore, according the laws of the coun-
try, the decision Of military tribunal had no va
dity till the sentence had been sanctioned by the
civil courts. 1t was decided, however, on well es-
tabllshed principles, that armstice is a time of
war; and the sentence, modified by the King,
was carried into effect on the Odd instant IL lis
due to the memory of this unfortunate man, whose
culpable neglect Of duty not only changed the for
tunes of the campaign, but probably postponed the
independence of the Italian race for an indefinite
period, to state that he met death with manly cou-
rage. He walked to the scene of his death. ex-
horted the soldiers to obey the obligations of mill
tary discipline, and to their King with fdell-
ty; then, taking his position, uncovered his head
and ordered his executoners to take deliberate aim
and to fire.
There has been another change in the foreign
offce-the eighth that has occurred within a
txVel he
has been called to the Presidency of the Supreme
Council of Sardinia and the post of foreign affairs.
M. p'AzEGLIo is of talents and avowed ibe-
rasm. His writings, with those of Gioberti and
Balbo, gave the first impulse to that general move
ment throughout Italy, which last year aimed to
wrest the independence Of the Italian peninsula
from the odious and oppressive yoke of Austria.
IL that effort had not run into every conceivable
excess Of demagogical fervor, it would doubtless
have been successful.
One of the first acts Of the new minister was N
send Count BALBo a mission TO the Pope, with
the view of dIssuading him, on his anticipated resto
ration, from entering a resctionary movement to
the prejudice OF those constitutional liberties in the
papal States, which he was the first TO copcede 10
his subjects. In despair Of realizing the ndepep-
dence Of Italy, M dAzeglio will exert himself, in
conjunction with France, to rescue those constitu-
tional forms Of government which were granted by
the respective Italian sovereigns, and which are now
so much endangered by the sscendency Of Austria.
A body Of 10000 imperial troops have entered
Leghorn; and another body Of 1900 have taken
possession Of Bologne
What new events may grow out Of the French
Intervention, in consequence of the late elections,
cannot be foreseen. Certain il is that the probable
iiy ofajoint harmonious occupation Of the States of
the Church by the Imperial and French troops is
very much diminished.
The Sandman Government has formed camp
of $4,000 men, at ST. Maurice, under the Duke Of
Genoa, for exercise and improvement; that they
may be ready to meet those menacing possihil;,i.,
,uhich chs h,