New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-05
effects of Gsribaldi's visit in the English prov.

eneCt8 OF GarlDdlulS vlSlC III inc EugtlSn prov.
inces. There the influence of the aristocracy
would BIO less powerful, and the receptions as
well as the speeches of Garibadi were likely to
be of more democratic c. 'racter. 1t was
therefore deemed best to pr all upon him not
TO accept the invitations oft PROVINCIAL towns,
but at once to return T. Caprera. England,
and with England the civilized world, which
followed his movements with the intensest in
terest, were suddenly surprised at learning
his intention to forego the welcome that
awaited him, and TO leave England at once. At
first the state of his health was assigned as a
reason for this sudden change of the programme
This was soon found, however, to be an lntena-
bic subterfuge. The denial of Lord Palmerston
and the Paris Moniteur that the English
Ministers, at the instigation of France,
had caused Garibaldi'S sudden departure only
strengthened the general belief that an improp-
or pressure had been brought to bear upon the
General. At length, Mr.. Gladstone, to whom
this pressure was traced, made in Parliament
the remarkable confession that she ventured
TO represent to the General that sit was
scarcely possible for him to go through the la
Dor without great injury to his health, and she
reniured also TO point out that there was some
risk that the magnificent reception which had
been given to him in the great metropolis of
England, which already formed great national
event, might possibly lose some of its real dig
nifty from being repeated frequently elsewhere. "
We find in the English papers and corre-
spondencc many facts which fully confirm
the popular suspicion of wish to get
rid of Garibaldi. Tn. Daily Ners states
that as soon as Garibaldi, Oh arriving in
England, declared that he would see his friend
Mazzini, some ofcious persons made earnest
efforts to dissuade him from this resolution, and,
failing in that attempt, they urged him to be
satisfied with stolen interview. But Garibaldi
disdained the suggestion, and Mazzini went to
the Isle of Wight at the Generals request.
Garibaldi, on the next day. returned the visit,
but the same persons who Intellectually had
endeavored to dissuade him from receiving
Mazzini managed to describe, in report sup
piled to the press, the visit to Mazzini as q
visit to " Mr.. James France"
An intimate friend Of Garibaldi, Karl Blind,
states, in letter written soon after the arrival
of Garibaldi and when nothing was yet known
Of bis speedy departure, that the purpose Of the
Duke of Sutherland in inviting Garibaldi to Stat !
ford House was to isolate him from the Liberal
party. The Duke, who now processes so great
an attachment to the Liberator of Italy, is said
to have spoken of him in q very uncharitable
manner after the battle of AspromOnte, and to
have dissuaded some female members of the
family from subscribing to the Garibaldi
fund. Mr. Blind also states in his letter
that member Of the House Of Commons, who
is personal friend of Garibaldi and Mazani and
the Treasurer Of several funds to be placed at
the disposal of Garibaldi, had the Greatest diff
Guilty in obtaining an interview with the General
at Southampton. When he saw Garibaldi at
length, he found ont that all his letters to him
had been intercepted, and this interception was
acknowledged by the persons who surrounded
Garibaldi.
In view Of such facts il seems TO us there can
be little doubt about the reality of the wish of
the aristocracy to rid themselves Of an unwel. |
come visitor. The originators of the scheme |
presumed on the Generals natural gentleness,
but, as the result shows, they did not take into
account his unyielding devotion to his demo-
cratic principles and his democratic friends.