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

physician, resident at Rome, may be relied
ON as an authentic statement Of the facts
narrated, many Of which are new and all Of
which are intensely interesting. We are
sure that our readers have nowhere seen a
more vivid presentation of the. events at
tending the French attack on the Roman
Republic. Y. Tribune.
Correspondence Of the Tribune.
ROME, May 3, ls49.
"They have wiped of the dust that, inglorious,
4 Solong on their banners has lain;
/ And have shown, DER barbarians victorious,
| That Romans are Romans again."
| These are the facts, as accurately stated
as possible. From dispatches, addressed by
i A. Lowe, U. S. Vice Consul at Civita Vec-
CHA, to Mr.. Brown, we lealn:
i "24th April, Gen. Oudinot and staff,
800 men, are suffered to land and peacea-
bly, to occupy the city, There were some
1900 men and 100 guns init. 25th.-The
rest land and issue humbugging proclama-
ton.
+" 26th.-This morning the troops, say
about 5000 to 10000 men, left this town
for Rome. There remain only sufficient
number to garrison the place, which is put in
state Of siege, and every day the French
authorities are becoming more rigorous the
forts are held by them; Roman troops par
TALLY disarmed, the theatres closed by order,
&c. SC. +; the presses seized and printing
offices shut !"
The 29th, Garibaldi sees some French
advancing fires, kills them, brings in a Cor
sican Captain prisoner. The Civita Vecchia
road being cut up by an immense barricade,
with some feld-pieces, they made detour,
and 1000 strong, with several guns, some
/, pretty heavy, some IL lbs or more, APP
preached the walls at A. M. From pa
per found on the body Of superior French
officer, it has since been ascertained that the
! plan of attack was as follows: "A double
attack is to be made on the gates Angelica
} and Cavallegieri, so as to distract the enc
my. The first will muster its troops on
J Monte Mario, and then occupy Porta An
gelica. The second attack to be directed
against Porta Cava. Having mastered the
J gates and scattered the hostile troops, our
forces will meet on the square Of st. Peters,
, Recommendation followed, to be sparing Of
French blood, SC. Several attacks were
, made the two most violent and valantly
resisted were at the walls Of the Vatican
Gardens and the Gate of San Pancrazio.
The former, the wall attack, was an insane
J attempt against people who had any means
|. of defence and means to use them. The
walls Of the garden are not much more than
breast high from the garden, but 80 feet or
SO above the road, up which the French pro-
ceeded, protected by thick hedge. They
brought up gun to breach the wall, upon
which they meanwhile opened brisk fire Of
musketry. Rounds of grape from Roman
gun did no execution, pointed by an unskilled
hand At length my friend Major Calan-
deli came up, altered the direction Of the
fire, and drove them off with great slaughter.
They then occupied peasants house be-
hind, which was quickly battered about their
ears by Calandelli. They again and again
attempted to breach and scale the walls
TIE gunners were shot away as fast as they
appeared, as continued fire was kept up by
several hundred citizens, SO or so firing,
who then stopped down to load in perfect
safety, and the others kept up the game.
The valor-fool- hardness if you will--ot the
French was astonishing, and their loss i'm
mense in proportion. Only fire Romans
were killed, and few wounded. The
French at least got enough.
| The gates are shut and the roads filled by
thousands Of armed combatants coming to
the succor Of mother Rome. The star-span-
gled banner is our trust against French and
Neapolitan croats, beside 10000 fighting
men within our walls.
Now for San Pancrazio: A barricade Of
2 guns was erected across the road. This
body of French rushed up to, resolutely and
| fiercely, but unsuccessiuly attempted to car
| ry. Garibaldi, with part Of his legion, 1000
or 50, 700 of the University youths and some
500 Of the refugee battalion, were stationed
near. Garibaldi watched his moment-at
last roared out, "Tiraeurs, right and left
deploy!"-caught 100 French prisoners in
as many seconds the rest withdrew into
Doria Gardens he threw himself in likewise
and there met the main body of the French.
These he directed the University Legion to
dislodge The gallant youths did SO, and
drove the French from post to post at the
point Of the bayonet. Unfortunately, many
Of these valuable young men, the hope and
flower Of their country, were victims-some
fifty killed and many wounded. At length
the French, after hand-to-hand fight Of
many hours were driven out and so scattered
that 80 of them were picked up in sight of
the walls, who had quite lost their road and
we're crying misericordia at in the morn
ing, About 700 prisoners were taken in all.
If Rome had possessed regiment Of good
cavalry, the 700 prisoners might have been
three times as many.
3oth. About 10 yesterday morning they
showed again, and poor Ciccarni sat 6 hours
on horseback to receive wounded, who never
came Some French officers came in, their
eyes blindfolded, to treat, yesterday. They
had previously applied for, and obtained,
some surgeons to look after their wounded,
who were sent to them. But they want an
exchange Of prisoners that is, they offer to
exchange the MALARIA battalion, Kidnapped