Daily American telegraph., 1852-03-09
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
From the New York Times.
Nr. GIadstone,s Pamphle lets.


. aIHa From the New York Times ott i
gn DIR. GIadstone,s Pamphlets.
Mr. Gadstone's first two letters upon the
atrocious tyrannies of the King of Naples, pro-
dnced one, if no other good effect in bringing
out an official reply from that Government,
The responsibility of the monster to the COM
mon sense Of mankind was admitted. The ju-
risdicton of the Court Of Public Opinion was
conceded, and the accused came forward, as the
kings OF antiquity were wont to answer sum-
mons to Republican Rome, to stand a trial at
the bar The pamphlet Of Mr.. McFarlane was
authorized and made their own special plea by
the Court of Naples. They circulated it through
Europe. The Minister at London quarreled
with the foreign Ex-Secretary for not sending
it about everywhere, under his official stamp
BY every Imaginable token, the plea has been
sanctioned by the accused and the prosecutor
has thought proper to treat it as a regular stage
in the proceedings
Another pamphlet Of Mr. Gladstone has con-
sequently appeared in London. 1t may be re-
garded as the final and pretty thorough answer
to the Neapolitan defence, employing facts,
their own admissions the shrewdest logic, and
the most undeniable candor, in stating the
actual criminality of the culprit Nine-tenths of
his original charges, Mr. Gladstone says, are
not even alluded to in the defence, and must
therefore be taken pro confesso. For the rest,
and the writer does not think it worth while to
add to the damning sum of evidence already
heaped up, he admits few immaterial points
to have been enormously stated Thus torture
was not among the suferings Of Settembrini ::
nor was he condemned to double irons for life :;
they were no part Of the commuted sentence
Six Judges were not dismissed for undue elem
ency, at Reggie three were dismissed, and three
removed to less honorable positions. The seven
teen persons massacred at Procida were not
nvalids, but prisoners as yet uninvalided And
these, the only statements susceptible of amend
ment, are substantially correct The gentle
Settembrini is not double-ironed, but he is shut
up in small room at st. Stefano, with eight
so on through the long, revolving catalogue Of
crime.
Mr.. Gladstone subsequently discusses some
of the representations, as to the number and
treatments of prisoners which had been denied
without being disproved Thus, with respect to
the admirable PORTO and his companions, whose
condition, says the Defence has been much
ameliorated at Ischia. Mr.. Gladstone proves
| that, at the latest advices, PORTO was chained
to ring in the middle of his cell the sentries
| who guarded the prisoners preserved order by
the use of hand-grenades, flung among the un-
fortunates; the prisoners had to sleep on the
naked stones at their meals they had neither
seat, table, nor cup, and were constantly sub
ected to every species of indignity and ill-treat
ment. Some are still chained in dungeons ;
some are ill and dying, others are dead.
Through all its errors preversions, false
hoods, and sophstries, MIR Gladstone follows
| the defence, without leaving it the slightest
| apology or a possibility of veracityi and con-
cludes with the following eloquent passage, to
which the addition of any remarks of our own
could not but be ill-timed and superfuous
"And now, have done-have uttered, as
hope my closing word. These pages have been
written without any of those opportunities of
personal communication with Neapolitans,
which, twelve months ago might have enjoy
ed They have been written, in the hope that
by thus making, through the press, rather than
il another mode, that reioinder to the Neapoli-
tan reply which was doubtless due from me,
might still, as far as depended on me, keep
the question on its true ground, as one not of
politics, but Of morality and not of England,
but Of Christendom, and of mankind Again |
express the hope that this may be my closing
word. express the hope that it may not be-
come hard necessity to keep this controversy
alive until it reaches its one only possible issue,
which no power of man can permanently inter-
cept: | express the hope, that while there is
time, while there is quiet, while dignity may
yet be saved in showing mercy and in the
blessed work Of restoring Justice to her seat,
the Government of Naples may set its hand in
| earnest to the work Of real and searching, how
ever quiet and unostentatious, reform that it
may not become unavoidable to reiterate these
| appeals from the hand Of power to the one COM
mon heart of mankind TO produce those pain
| ful documents, those narrowing descriptions,
| which might be supplied in rank abundance,
of which have scarcely given the faintest idea
or sketch, and which, if they were laid from
time to time before the world would bear down,
like deluge, every effort at apology or pallia-
tion, and would cause all that has recently
been made known to be forgotten and eclipsed
in deeper horrors yet lest the strength Of Of
Tended and indignant humanity should rise up
as giant refreshed with wine, and while
sweeping away these denominations from the
eye OF Heaven, should sweep away along with
them things pure and honest ancient, venera-
BILE, salutary to mankind crowned with the
glories of the past and still capable Of bearing
future fruit
From the London Times
Mr.. Gladstone's Examination Of the official
reply of the Neapolitan Government" from
which we published large extracts on Satur-
day, has purpose beyond its immediate scope.
In answering the Neapolitan official, the Eng
lish statesman deals not 80 much with an
anonymous Secretary as with o great public
principle; and in treating the particular case
of the recent Italian excesses, he grapples with
such questions as the nature and duty of Gov
ernment, and the problem of reconciling intel
lectual and social progress with traditionary
reverence for authority. Directed in the first
Instance To tho hnrharitins inAictnd on pnrr;n