New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-10
THE PAPAL APOLOGY.

assumptions Of the Romsn Government. and an
elaborate statement 70 this erd hiss appeared IN !he
Gio,nale III Po-ra Peruga. il will b. recollected,
il city Of Central I.aly s5cut seventyfve miles
north of Rome With eighteen thousand inhabitants
| Participating in the eu'husi,sm for italian indie.
retde1ce hich vas manifes,ing Itself 10 all drec-
,ons srourd them. the inhabitants, on the l4th OF
June initiating the example of Florence, Modena,
and other Italian cities, rose 10 insurrectlon and
established Provisional Government, with view
| f. union With Lombsrdy and Piedmont. They did
| tbs wi.hou. boodshed AID without violence, tie
Pspa authorities retiring or resigning quietly when
they found tie entire population united against
them
The 1eople rf Perugia in taking toe government
Of tier ctJ into their hands in this way, were
sctusted not by d, sire 10 make war upon their
.osertigr, the Pope, but upon Austria the common
Enemy Of Ialy. Their object was simply TO unite
their forces with the Northern Italians in the sacred
var If independence All around them volunteers
were marching for the battle fields of Lombardy.
Is il to be- wondered at that they eded to the gen.
erous enthusiasm which prompted them to JON
tier countvm in arms, and that they displaced
ard sent away the obnoxious functionaries, who
sought to serve the AustIiins by depressing the
popular feeling for Italian independence The
"Pontfcal Government" says the Giorndte di
Roma could not re main Indifferent TO this act of
rebellion" TIE POntifcal Government which re-
fused to join in the struggle to free lt'y from the
Austrians, on the ground that Christian bishop
could not make war even upon the enc MES of his
country, promptly dispatched its Swiss mercena-
ries 70 Perueia, sending with them Siguor Lat
tarzi. who, on the morning Of the 10Th of June
"preseoted himself before the Junta OF the Sc
" ditious Provisional Government, TO persuade them
not 10 resist the troops, but TO receive them In
friendly them that all resistance
would be useless and fatal against disciplined,
resolute force" Unfortunately as the Pspai
journal unOcently observes, "no attention was
"psid TO these remarks Signor Lattanzi ex
pended his el)quence in vain. The Provisional
Government quietly told him that the city was de-
termiued on resistance, if attacked ard that force
would be repealed by force. Signor LaitanA IN
mediatey left the city. The Swiss mercenarles oil
the Pope were already at the gates. Without any
further attempt 10 calm the excited population, or
70 restore the city to obedience b. peaceful means
these brutal adventures were at once let loose
upon Perugia The treachery Of some monks OF
the Dominican Convent admitted them within the
gates The people of the little city made gallant
but unsucce ssful defense. Their heroism is admit
It'd by the Papal organ itself, which says
that their efforts were desperate. Those
who could not obtain arms threw upon
90 the troops from the doors, windows, and house
d" tops boiling water, stones, and other instruments
"of destruction. They made bloody resistance
through the whols distance from the Monastery
" of San Petro to San Ercclano. Everyxhere the
" rebels attacked the soldiers. When their con-
"msnder, Buschi, saw the failure OF the deenses
" of the Monastery of San Pietro, he ran into the
city crying out TO those on the roofs and at the
" windows TO continue their resistance, aud throw
down anything which they could lay hands on
Z" Such resistance required the soldiers to fight
4" fercely aid produced the deplorabe cOnse-
'quences which it is impossible under such cir
'cumstances to avoid"
Even while denying that as many outrages were
committed by the so.dery after their victory, as
had been slleecd, the GtOrnale d Roma admits
sickening list of horrors, which it only attempts to
PALATE by saying that such things always occur
when city lie taken by storm. Undoubtedly they
do occur. But what shall we say Of the holy aud
paternal Government that knowing they do occur,
orders one Of its own cities to be assaulted BY
foreign hirelings, the common stabber' aud ruiz
fisnly oiiscouriuss of Switzerland, who sell their
blood to the highest bidder, utterly regardless of
the right, or justice, or principle OF the cau'e for
which they are ordered 10 fight and glsd OF any
occasion TO crafty their Inst and greed of plumber
:" In the suburb of San Pletro,' says the Paps or
gan, many houses were set on fre-the houses
of Vignaroli, of the brothers Santirell, and OF
Francisco Borronei, tob1ccodealer, who was
killed by a ball while standing behind ms VIM
dow. Mauro Passerlni had bis house sacked aud
"was killed, together with his wife and relative
named Candida, because the soldiers found one of
their body killed there. The houses of Gacomo
"Rossi, Antonio Tomassni, Salvatore Rosa Gia'
como Temperini Count Yalenti and Adamo Gee
"carelli wele sacked. Stones having been thrown
I" from the roof of house in front OF the gate OF
San Croce, the soldiers rushed furiousyi IN. and IL
1.-The excitement and confusion Irene Polidori snd
1.-TWO Of her wOrkwomen were killed
The last sentence lifts corner Of the vail which
coycrs this scene of horrors. Ii in SINGLE house
taere women "n the excitement aud confusion
were killed by the brutal yictors it is appalling 10
speculate on what was enacted throughout the city
on that terrible 20,h of June
The Official journal also contains an aonounce-
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