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LETTERS OF AN. EXILE. No. ~.
nba Reyoluffou In LOmbardy-ktuin OeFatin
for Austria and her Provinces.
CossTANrINoPLE, Friday, Sept ~, 1907
IN the Editor Of the Neto York tribune;
In the year ls47, Austria had shown symptoms
az being in desperate condition. After having
for long years extorted from her Italian Provinces
the utmost that they could give, the Court of Vi
ANNA formed new scheme and committed its
execution to the Austrian authorities in LON,
hardy
This paternal Government was bent on getting
hold Of the property forming the endowments OF
the public institutions of charity such as hospitals
work houses asyums for children, for orphans, Tor
old oeople, etc These establishments are both
numerous and wealthy in Northern Italy.
OF course the Austrians promised to fulfil ex
actly and faithfully the intentions OF the plous
founders of these Institutions, and to secure to
them from the revenues of the Imperial Treasury
the same income they already enjoyed. They
also proposed to enter into engagements with the
Lombard Municipalities, by which, at the expira-
t;on of term Of years. the latter were to have
tion for considerable sum Of money.
Another proposal was Of less monstrous nature,
hat equally indicative OF the condition OF the I'M
nerial finances This related to the guard Of
honor, created some years since by the Milanese
M,nicioalitv Oh occasion of visit of the present
Emperor. He came to Milan to receive the iron
crown this guard was instituted in token OF graf
itude for the honor thus conferred on the city
The PROPOSAL now was to dismiss the guard, and
relieve the Milanese from the charge of maintain
ing it. provided they would bind themselves to
pay a million of Austrian forms yearly, or, what
would be better, forty millions at once, This was
proposed and at the same time, 1t was rumored
that the same offer was to be made with respect
to all the public charges, taxes and lmposts OF
every nature, and that one vast sum was to be
asked by way Of perpetual release from them
All this looked on by some as 4 piece OF mum
bug; by others as the work Of most lmpudent
extortoner and by others, as the last effort OF
power in its dying agonies.
The Lombard Municipalities were unanimous
in rejecting the proposals without even delShlh5
todiscuss them This first act OF resistance nav
inc erboldened some of the Italian Councillors,
+bev wrote detailed accounts OF the country
wrongs-presented them to the Austrian author
;t;ns sent them to Vienna, spread them III the
towns and even allowed them to be secretly
r,intcd in Switzerland Then came the death oil
the Austrian Archbishop, and the election OF
now, one whom the Pope was determined to
- o,oonu the Italian clergy. Then came
the festival on the installation OF the new FHmG'e
~ ov;os of Ija0 Pho H. the frenzy OF the police,
and the massacres which ensued The Lombards
could not bear more, and resolved TO predA tueh
nhoirs They had no arms no liberty to assem-
I Sle - snnok or TO write to each other yet
Dss' W 1 Lnord The universal uproar raised all
.H.'i f+alv AGAINST their opprcssors, they
I.S; 70 make the best of that fortunate
determined " i'i">0 '"0
Impulse, ~, ,l,o 18th or March of the wear
Accorolii6,s, ~, nf tho ronstifntjon bestowed
1o49 "nen s.aG ., i;ian some men of the mid
or 9i seS ,ynnt throurb the streets
ulin5 "nu "" T. IL Tostituf;oqe - When they
s sLlT tba Go,e,no,s palace they asked for
bo eT me- (4oyenor escaped; the insur
@n4.'"' 80" tlt tbe1 were readv} entered. pos
S en'' VI,soos ri. tha nalacc and of the papers
sesso;' s - - as ,i ne NJ the Guns aud swords
IN 80 MI, ~. rena;red 10 the Hotel de
Vii ~ uos tLs ciyil authority THE Pc.
5estaI and where other bodies of insurgents We're
already assembled The soldiers came ont ana
heoon firing in the streets ON those VINO opposeu
md insulted them
Such was the beginning OF that extraordinary
ravolution which overthrow the Austrian domin-
ion in ialy During five days the hilIanese PEG,
ME fought in the streets, from the windows aod
Tho roots of the houses, without any weapons but
those thew snatchcd from the enemy, against
aiCbteen tbonsand soldiers provided with artillery
and protected by q strong fortress, And such was
the yalor the perseverance and the resolution o.
tho c;t;zens that nothing could resist them, and
that Marshal Radetzky, with his troops, cannoa
nd materials OF war, was lain to steal away by
night. meaning, however, to revenge himself on a
better occasion a..
While these things happened in Milan. they
we're repented, in every town from the Tyrolean
Alps to the Pc, and even Venice, conquered its
liberty.
The King Of Piedmont instigated by some Mi
lanese deputies sent to Turin orthat purpose drew
his sword and marched with his troops, 8 Italian ia
independence seemed insured But irem t t!s