New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-07-23
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be ratified, her army daily sssails Rome-ausis
in vain. After receiving these answers 70 bis let
ter and proclamation. Oudinot turned al the force
Of his cannonAde TO make a breach, snd began.
what no one even in these days has believed
/ possible, the bombsrdment Of Rome.
Yes the French, who pretend TO be the advanced
guard Of civilization, are bombarding Rome. They
dare take the risk Of destroying the richest be-
quests made 20 man by the great Past Nay, they
seem 10 do il in al especially barbsrous manner.
IL was thought they would avoid. as much IS pos
sble,- the hospitals for the wounded. marked 70
TIER view By the black banner and the sides
where are the most precious monuments bat
several bombs have fallen on the Chief hospital,
and the Capitol evidently is especially aimed at
They made breach in the wall, but it was in
nedistely filed up with barrissde, and all the
week they have been repulsed in every attempt
they made to gain ground though with consider
able loss Of life on our side theirs II must be
great. but how great we cannot know.
Ponte Male, the scene of Rsphael's fresco OF a
battle in the Vatican, saw again fierce struggle
last Friday. More than fifty ere brought wound
ed into Rome.
But wounds and assaults only FIRE more and
more the courage Of her defenders. They feel
the justice OF their cause and the peculiar iniquty
Of this aggression. In proportion as there seems
little aid to be hoped from they seem to claim
it from God. The modest sentiments are heard
from every lip, and, thus far their acts amply cor
respond.
| The eve of the bombardment one or two officers
went round with fine band. 1t played IN the
| piazzas the Msrseisise and Roman marches
and when the people were thus assembled they
were told Of the proclaim atom and asked how they
felt. Many shouted loudly Guerra, rira Ia Re
puJiica Romano Afterward, bands Of young me n
went round singing the chorus,
"vogHamo sempre quens.
NogAmo Liberia"
owe want always one thing we want Li5er-
ty'D Guitars played, and some danced. When
the bombs began 70 come, one of the Trssteve-
rnes, those noble images Of the old Roman race,
redeemed her claim 10 that descent by seizing one
and extinguishing the match. she received
media and a reward in money soldier did the
same at Palszza Spada, where is the statue Of
Pompey, at whose base great Cesar fell. He was
promoted Immediately the people were seized
with emulation armed with pans of wet clay
they ran wherever the bombs fell, to extngush
them Women collect the balls from the hostile
cannon and carry them to ours. As very little
injury has come to life in this way, the people
cry. Madonna protects us against the bombs
she wills not for Rome to be destroyed.
Meanwhile many poor people are driven from
| their homes, and provisions are growing very
dear The heats are now terrible for and must be
lar more so for the French. It is said vast mum.
| Der are i'll Of fever; indeed it cannot be other
wise Oudinot himself has it, and perhaps this
IS one explanation Of the mixture Of violence and
weakness in his actions.
| He must be deeply ashamed at the poor result
TO his bad acts that at the end Of two weeks and
so much bravado he has done nothing 10 Rome,
unless intercept provisions kill some Of her brave
| youth. and injure churches which should be ss-
cred to him as to US. St Maria Trastevere, that
ancient church so full of precious remains, and
which had an air of mild rePose more beautiful
than almost any other, is said to have suffered
particularly.
| As 10 the men who die, / share the imprisoned
sorrow of the Triunvirs O Frenchmen e. they
| wrote. "could YOU know what men you destroy
| INfu are no ilNC buosC " ~ hH WI
ranks but the flower Of the Italian youth, and the
noblest souls Of age When you shall know OF
what minds you have robbed the world, how ought
YOU to repent and mourn
| This is especially true of the Emigrant and
and Gsribaldi legions.' The misiortunes OF North
and South Italy, the conscription which comPel'
| TO the service of tyranny all that remain, mas
driven from the Kingdom OF Naples and from LON
hardy all the brave and noble youth. Many are
| 10 Venice or Rome the fororn hope OF Italy. IA
detsky. every day more cruel, now impresses aged
men and the fathers Of large families. He carries
them with hi in chains, determined, if he cannot
have GOOD troops to send into Hungary, at least u
revenge himself on the unhappy Lombards
Many OF these young men, students from Pisa
| Pavis, Padus and the Roman University, Ia
| wounded in the hospitals, for naturally they rus n
| cd first in the combat. One kissed an arm which
was cut off; another preserves pieces OF bon'
which are being painfully extracted from bii
wound as reliques of the best days Of his ile-
| The cider men, many OF whom have been sadden
ed by exile and disappointment, less glowing, are
not less resolved. A spirit burns noble as eve
animated the most precious facts we treasure iron
| the heroic axe. suffer to see these temples O
the soul thus broken, to see the fever-wesry day
and painful operations undergone by these nob'
men, these true priests OF a higher hope, but
would not, for much have missed seeing II at ali
Toe memory will console amid the 'Pectsces @
mesnness sefshness and iaithlensness which hit
NAV vet have in store for the pilgrim.
| June 23.-Matters verge TO crisis The Frenc
| Government sustains Oudinot and disclsims Les
seps. Harmonious throughout, shameless IN false
hood. il seems Oudinot knew that the mission {
| Lesseps was at an end. when he availed himse
of his pacific promises to occupy Monte Mario
When the Romans were anxious al seem
French troops move in that direction. LesseP
said it was only done to occupy them, aud con
iared the Romans to avoid all collision whic
misht prevent his success with the Treaty To
sham treaty was concluded the 3oth, detschn en-
OF French having occupied Monte Mario the u On
of the 29th Oudinot flies into q rsge and refus e
to sign Nj. Leseps goes of to Pans meanwhils
the brave Oudinot attacks the 3d. after writing e
the French Consul that he should not tai the ath
10 leave time for the foreigners remaining 70 retire
He attacked in the night, was possessing himsel
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