Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-13
POLITICAL CONDITION OF NAPLES.
Mr.. sLADsToKE's PAMPHLET ON NAPLES.
FROM rHx LosDos SPECTATOR.

Mr.. GLADsToEE's PAMPHLET ON NAPLES. &
FROM LosDon srEcrAroR.
or all the events Of this year. home or abroad one Of
the most striking is the publication Of Mr. GLApsrosEs
pamphlet on the State Prosecutions Of Naples II the mere
has caused such demand as to call forth
second edition almost before the first published the Pc
rusa of ii will excite still greater sensation in this country
and though for different reasons the continent In this
country will create sentiments of surprise and horror Al
though the general character Of the statements il not new
they before the world with aapec. wholly novel,
From this pamphlet the cautious Engshmsp will learn with
that the charges Of the Italian Patriots against the
Government of Naples not only true bat even fall short of
the reality that the stated with every conceivable
caution, by Pepe Mszzini but by Gladstone
leader of our Conservative party, man only too scru
pulous and asdiousy exacs Stronger than they ever
ceived it to be- ed@
The very precautions that he uses to exclude every thing
but his main object-to avoid every thing like cumu-
atve against Napessve to his narrative an appalling
force The reader understands that be psrusng only part
Of the whole history against that inquous Government Be-
fore stating the facts, Mr. Gladstone expey sets aside any
political social questions, whether Of logical relation or Of
legal right arising out Of the constitution he treats that
dream fiction He excludes the question Of Sicily
He raises political questions except hoss which are forced
upon him by the details that he has relate He begins a
member Of the great Conservative party 10 Europe with
bias 10 favor of established government We need not Tell
readers who Mr. Gladstone with what high constit
ona feelings, with what disciplined reasoning, with what
deep Of responsibility he must upon statement
Of the kinds statement deliberately received BY nobleman
not less than himself distinguished for minded conserve
tism Lord Aberdeen, Minister for Foreign in Sir Ro
bert Pee's administration
Such the writer He begins BY contradicting the
era impression that the organization of the Governments Of
Southern Italy defective that the administration justice
is tainted with corruption that instances Of abuse cruelty
among subordinate public unctionaes not uncommon
and that political offences punished with severity and
with great regard the forms Of Justice" This vague
superstition has relation the actual truth Of the Neapo
Titan case: e. Is
t is not imperec,ion, corruption in low quar-
tiers, not occasional severity, that about to describe Il
is ncessant systematic deliberate violation Of the law by the
power appointed to watch and maintain it. II is such
violation fhuman and written law this carried for the
purpose Of violating every other law, unwten and ETERNAL
human and dine il is the wholesale persecution Of virtue
when united with intelligence, operating upon such scale
that entire classes may with truth be said be its object
that the Government is in bitter and cruel well utterly
illegal hostility to whatever in the nation really lives and
and forms the mansprng of practical progress and i'm
provement it's the awful PROCLAMATION of public religion by
aon of every moral law under the mulant Of fear and
vengeance it is the perfect prostitution Of the Judicial Office
which has made it, under wells only too hreadbare and
parent the degraded recipient Of the vest and cusest
forgeres got up wfuy and deliberately by the immediate
advisers of the Crown for the purpose of destroying the
peace the freedom aye, and not capital sentences
the life Of men among the most vruous upright, intelligent,
distinguished and refined Of the whole community the
savage and cowadly system Of moral well in lower
degree Of physical TORTURE through which the
tracte from Of int
effect
"The effect Of oil this total inversion Of all the moral
and social IDEAS Law instead of being respected odous
Force, and Affection is the foundation of government
There is association but violent anagonsm between the
idea of freedom and that Of ORDER The governing power
which teaches of itself that is the image Of God upon EARTH
clothed in the view Of the overwhelming majority of
the thinking public with all the vices for its attributes
have and heard the strong and too expression
used this is the negaon of God erected into system OF
government
General belief calculates that the political prisoners in the
kingdom Of the Two Sciles in number between fifteen
twenty and thirty thousand. The Government seems to
ss to two thousand, but the reader of Mr. Gadstones
pamphlet will believe the Neapolan Government Facts
and figures stated by Mr. Gladstoneoca but not possible
to be conceaed-how that the estimate of two thousand
unreasonable, that of twenty thousand not unreasonable
Amongst the persons imprisoned exiled the whole
Opposition" in the Chamber Of Deputies elected under the
Constitution. aata "a b.vaf
The law Of Naples requires that personal liberty shall be
invioabe except under of of justice; but
fact continually seized by the by the hun
dred by the thousand without any whatever
times without any written authority at ALL any thing be-
yond the word of without any statement
whatever of the of the offence The lowest creatures
employed police agents the prisoner is tainted into
sedtion, charges fabricated the courts refuse to
ceve evidence in favor Of the prisoner. As specimen
the treatment, Mr. Gladstone relates in detail the Of Carlo
Poerio distinguished lawyer, late cabinet minister strict
constutionas Of the respectable English pattern He
accused by Of repeated sees and bareced abca
ons Of belonging to republican sect His accuse was
Jevoino, disappointed applicant for some low Office One
Of his prisoners nobe vanIy urged by the d.
rector Of police, under promises Of aagnmen and threats
Of destruction" to testify Poeros acquaintance with
certain revolutionary handbs AT the trial Jsrvono could
no Questions about the pretended socety witness
deposed that ervono received pension Of twelve ducas
month from the Government Poero allowed to call no
witnesses Hisudge Of the persons threatened
to be aaled by the pretended society and the judge
makes secret Of his opinion that all persons charged by the
Kings Government ought to he found guilty.
One specimen Of this judges effontsry may be given
"In two happened be within the knowledge Of
the counsel for the prisoners that the peured witnesses
against them did know them by sight In Of
these the counsel desired be allowed ask The witness
point out the accused persons among the whole number Of
those charged, who were all sitting together The ~u re-
permission In tue other tho counsel challenged
the witness point the Of whose proceedings
was speaking. II l am rightly informed, Navarro, whom
have mentioned. tha ones