The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-24
INTERESTING PERSONAL HIS
TORY,

The Pal Mall Gazette of the 9Th inst,
has the following:
IN. Rosetti, described by Mr.. Reuters
| agent at Bucharest as "a journalist who
has several times been imprisoned by
order of Prince Couza, and who appears
| to have been at the head of the secret
organization which succeeded in de
throning that monarch. has, before now,
played an important part in the affairs
Of his native land. It was Rosetti who
directed the democratic revolution
which took place at Bucharest on the
23d Of June, 1S4S, and which led to the
occupation of the city by tie Turks. On
1.-THE abdication of the HOspOdar; he
thought it sufficient to make him sign
one Of those charters to which so much
Importance used to be attached eighteen
years ago, and to appoint new minis
try, of which he himself, together with
M. Galesco, now one of the members oi
the Lieutenancy, formed part. The
sbort-lived ministry of 1S48 consisted of
lawyers, professors and Writers; and the
great watchword of tue movement was
the Liberation of the peasantry from va
rious servitudes, and the absolute
cession to them of the land for
which they had previously been
required to perform task work. This
was the eminently democratic re.
reform which Prince Coma afterwards
carried out in so decisive a manner and
with 80 little regard to the interest of
the landed proprietors. BY 80 doing
he may be said, almost literally, to have
cut the ground-the peasants ground
from under the feet of the extreme lib
erals and this time 1t was only by means
ofan aristocratic com bination, or at least
a combination with preponderance Of
the aristocratic clement in it. that there
was any possibility ofunseating theruler.
Such families as Those of Ghika and
Cantacuceno, both of which are repre-
setted in the Roumanian ministry Just
established (the latter by one, the former
by two members), were not consulted at
all i'm connection with the movement of
1S4S, indeed which was opposed to their
interests. Thefact that the new government
includes both liberals and conservatives
would seem to show that the deposition
of Prince Couza las not been merely the
work ola faction, and that the "nationalr
character claimed for the revolution by
its principal leaders ready belongs to it,
1.-THE instruction of lS4S having been
followed by a counter-revolution, sup
ported chiefly by the army, Rosetti was
arrested and thrown into prison. But q
popular rising took place, the prison
was broken open, and Rosetti was set
free. Then came the entry of the Turks
under the actual command of the Rus
sian General Duhamel, who accom-
panied the Turkish army in the osten-
sible character of commissioner. Rosett
was haranguing an immense mass of
peasantry, who had assembled on plain
near Bucharest, when he was invited to
the Turkish camp, where the Pasha
prOfessed great anxiety to hear from his
own lips an exact account of the state of
affairs. Rosetti, however, found not
only the Pasha, but also General Du-
hamel, waiting to receive him; and.
after what Prince Gortschakoff would
call an Interchange of ideas with that
officer, he was again arrested, and this
time ordered to leave the country under
Turkish escort.
"Rosetti was much aided i'm his revo-
lutionary enterprise by his wife, an
English woman, or rather Scotch wo
man, by parentage, daughter of Captain
Grant, an officer in her Majesty's ser-
vice. When the revolution first broke
out Madam Rosetti was on the point of
being confined, and the popular leader
first born-a young lady who afterwards
received the appropriate name Of Liber-
ty-to proceed to the palace and force
the Hospodar to abdicate or sign Con
stitution. But for Rosetti and his in
PREVENTION both the Prince and his Prime
Minister would have lost their lives. and
popular indignation was for nneaent
turned against Roeatti wnen 1t was
found that it was lie who had aided the
Minister to escape. The courage, how
ever, with which he took the whole
responsibility on himselfand denounced
as towards those who would have shed
the fallen courtier's blood soon gained
the people over to his view; and the
only lives sacrificed in the Roumanian
revolution of 1S4S were those of some
two hundred municipal guards who, in
disobedience of orders, opposed the entry
of the Turkish troops. Rosetti and his
wife bad in the first instance been told
that they were to be conveyed across
the Austrian frontier aud set at liberty !:
bit they learnt from one of the guards
that they were to be consigned to a
Turkish fortress in Bosnia. They there
fore resolved to make their escape, and
in passing through village on the Hun
garian border contrived first to lead the
Turkish escort on to Austrian territory,
and secondly, to make every member Of
it intoxicated.
"Rosetti, Nine. Roseth and little
Liberty went wandering through the
Banat and through Hungary proper,
amid perils of all kinds-for the country
was in arms, and Hungarians, Croatians
| and Wallachians were engaged in sort
of triangular civil war-and arrived in
Vienna the day after its bombardment
From Austria the Rosetti family pro.
until after the Crimean war.
IN. 'Roeetti is not only we'll known a
q journalist and politician, he is ais