Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-13
Tea Years IuprIsonns1t in The Dungeons
n Nnufea.


Ten Years ImpEia0Hment I'm The Dungeons
Or Naples.
English journals notice the neWl published
narrative Of Antonio Nicolo, one Of the sixty
political prisoners from the horrid dungeons
Of the late King of Naples, who were enabled
a year and half ago, BY the dexterity and
boldness of the young sailor Settembrini, to
alter the course Of the vessel appointed for
their transportation heyond the Atlsntic, and
70 seek the protecting Hospitality Of Great
Britain. NicOlo was concerned in revolt
Of the National Guard IN Reggie:
Defeated and dispersed by General Nunzi-
ante's army, they fed 70 hide themselves in
every home or hole where desperate lives
could find shelter all over the country side.
Wandering from one friends dwelling to
anOther's, and encOunteTing some romantic
adventures, the author Of this little book con-
trived TO escape being arrested until SePtem-
Der, 1859, when be voluntarily surrendered
that bis family might be relieved from the
incesssnt persecution to which .hey were
Subjected TO compel them to confess where
he was. BE was condemned to nineteen
years imprisonment with chains, reduced si-
terWGrds 70 thirteen years.
Linked in the dreadful irons with a savage
murderer, crammed with sixty or seventy
other persons, many Of the vilest criminals,
intO q ilthy chamber Of the Bango at Nisidas
smidst stencil and smoke, and beastial ne
glect-then removed 70 the subterranean cells
Of Procida, where the stone pavement, twenty
yards below the level Of the soil, is almost
hidden under coating of humid filth, the
Shiny walls emit horrid stencil, and fetid
green water drips from the ceiling constant
ly kept fettered day and nigt, scarcely led,
and sleeping in dirty straw or rags, infested
with the most loathsOme vermin-liable to be
cruelty beaten By the servants Of the goal for
the smallest offence, and insulted OF abused
in every way By the licensed rufianism of
bis companions-thisu unhappy Italian gentle
mar, IS well ss Barren Peorio and Signor Set
tembrini, passed through several years Of an
existence as painful to men Of their constitu-
ton and previous habits as we can easily
conceive. Il was the fate Of some hundreds
besides them, As we perfectly well know.
Latterly they were beset with mensees and
impOrtunities to make each Of them sign q
,o;-, fession and apology addressed to Ferdi-
naD5 II the Jesuit Father Vigilaute presorib-
ing this form 'tbst being sednced BY the en-
emies of the throE.es he was LED to offend
against the most righte,aus Of nonarcns, put
that he is nov penitent >ad implgres his
rVajesty's oclemency' This vs. ailer 'he
Pfednontese and English denuneiss9 s9ons naa
made the Kings atrocious and notoFiOuS ln' :
government a scandal to al the world, %
that he was anxions to diminish the number
OF political prisoners, whom our own CORES
pondenf at Naples contriTed NOW and1hen
70 count. The scheme Of shipping then of
to q condition ltlle better than slavery ID the
wilderness OF South Ameriea, which Ferdi-
nand lattefl5 entertained, was suggested by
the same motive to afIoid him an answer to
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