The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-19


ORsINI's LETTER TO LOUIS NApoLEox-The follow
ing address, which was written by Orsini in prison.
was, by permission of the Emperor. read by the
counsel for Orsin during his address to the jury:
10 Napofeon III, Emperor Of the French.-The
dispositions which ! have made AGAINST myself in
the course of the political proceedings which have
been instituted on occasion of the attempt of the
l4th January, sufficient to send me to the scaf
told, and shall submit to my fate without asking
Tor pardon, both because | will not humiate nv
self before him who has DESTROYED the reviving lib
erty OF my unhappy country, and because in the
situation in which am now placed death for me
will be relief
Being near he close of my career, | wish. how
ever to make last effort to assist italy, whose in
dependence has hitherto made me pass through so
many perlls and submit to so MANY sacrifices She
was constant object of all my affections, and it
is that the idea which wish set forth in the words
which address to your Majesty.
In order to maintain the balance of power in Eu-
rope 1T is necessary to render Italy independent or
to loosen the chains by which Austria holds her in
bondage. Shall | ask that for her deliverance the
blood of Frenchmen shall be shed for the Italians?
No; do not go SO far that. Italy demands that
France shall not interfere against her, and that
France shall not allow Germany to support Austria
in the struggles in which she may perhaps be soon
engaged. This is precisely what your Majesty NAV
do, II you are so inclined; your will, therefore,
depends the welfare the misfortune of NV coun-
try, the life or death of nation to which Europe
Is IN great measure indebted for her civilization
Such Is the prayer which from my cell dare ad-
dress to your Majesty, not despairing but that nv
feeble voice may be heard. ! beseech your Majesty,
restore to Italy the independence which her chill
dren lost in lS49, through the verv fault of the
French. Let your Majesty call to mind that the
Italians, among whom was my father iovfully shed
their blood for Napoleon the Great wherever he
chose to lead them; that they were faithful to him
until his fall; and that, so long Italy shall not be
independent, the tranquility of Europe and that of
your Majesty will only be vain illusions.
May your Majesty not reject the last prayer of a
patriot on the steps of scafold. May vou deliver
my country, and the blessing of five millions
OF citizens will follow you to posterity.
FELICE ORSINI.
Prison of Mazas, lth February, 1858.
Galigaani regrets to learn that Marshal Bosauet,
though he has recovered all his mental faculties,
has consequently in need of constant medical at
tendance.
We take the following items from the summary
of the Liverpool Mercury:
The number of persons arrested in France since
the event of the l4th of January exceeds l500 and
OF these 800 have been arrested in Paris alone
Nevertheless, arrests are still being made en- mosse
In the southern departments, and chiefly in the de-
partment of the Herault. These rigorous measures
create avery bad impression, and exercise depress
ing influence the trade of that part of the coun-
try-chiefy cloth manufacture
The official journal of the two Sices states that
the total number of iYes lost by the earthquake in
December was $3.50, and that 1850 persons were
wounded.
The insurrection of the Christian population in
Turkey, which supposed to be confined to causes
purely local. is gradually assuming European i'm
portance
A letter from st. Petersburg shows that the Chi
nese have resored to force push back Russian ag
gression ON the Amoor.