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down, and Monte RotOndo taken. The Pontcals
refuge the casteconyent and renewed the defense
The Garibaldans protected, and did not
suffer much the attack the town walls Emboldened
the they had achieved they pressed forward the at
tack convent Two hours before daybreak white
up from the tower and the Ponca troops yielded at
discretion They dispatched to the frontier the officers
left free return to Rome and the only condition
posed the soldiers that they not to against
the volunteers Altogether there about three hundred
taken Garbads loss very heavy he had four hundred
hos de combat but he took three guns forty horses and
four hundred neede-guns march forward at
determined on and the volunteers advanced to the
Tiber."
The London Star publishes the following proclamation of
Mazzini:
TO ITALIANS.
To be to be? Such the question put before you
by the foreigner.
French soldiers garrison Cva Vecca Brennus is at the
gates of Rome.
Will you them your fathers answered, by the
sword will you cowardy and degenerate sons bow your
neck to the outrage?
Will you declare to- Europe Mexico is nation we are
not? We are but multitude lost to all sense of freedom
and right submissive any who dares declare himself
master; will you by uprising throughout the length and
breadth of land, your rights liberty and honor
the present. and determination to be great in the
future?
Whatever be your answer it is final To be not to be
the present hour decides your fate.
The who sends those soldiers tell you Rome
Iay she mine he who stained wbhe blood your
wohies shed in defense of the sacred city eighteen
ago. he who tore from you Nice and your Businesses the
Alps he who has twice degraded you in the eyes of Europe
by stamping the sign of vassaage the brow of Italy, he
whose eight long years mastery of your Government has
forced you economic run moral anarchy and the shame
of Cusoza and Lsa and wrought the utmost danger toyour
unity And now because you have suffered all this in silence
he depises you and it for this that he who shrank before
the of Juare and the sconul words of Bismarck in
suits and assails YOU
If there be any among you who dare these
who speak of prudence and patience who bid you put
your trust in augh other than the living strength Of your
country who suggest the protests OF the weak the petit
ton of the ncrduous where what is needed action and
war; they either sultifed by fear seeking beay you
In the face the noble and manly efforts by which Rome
has O.
Monte Rotondo and Porta del Popolo of Garibald in
hourly peril at the vanguard of the natonevery delay is
dshonor and ruin.
You have but sole means by which to be-to insist
upon the Governments declaring the foreign INVADER
to rush to the barbados
To the barbados in order enable you yourselves make
the declaration of which others either will dare
not make yourselves of the indispensable means
of waof your arsenas of the purchased with your
god of the army composed of the flower of the nation
You without guilt any longer allow the best and most
devoted of Italian youth to die for Rome armed with
pistols only. You are bound to conquer
Immediate barrcades No longer eernally
deceived-to accept any other alternative Even your
rulers should send the army the Papa frontier it will
be to bid habelieve who has deceived
the gates of Rome to frame cowardy compact with
If you would not be wify deceived behooves you
compel them Bid them draw the sword and throw away the
scabbard.
War barricades: if the Government accept the first
watch and support in arms; if it refuse and seek to
sAe the cry of Italy, overthrow it, 1t is then longer
Government but the instrument of shame and death to
Italy.
God inspire you to your duty.
October %.
These lines written before reading the Royal procla
nation; cannot alter syllable They point out to the
Italians their duty it is understood by the party which
proud to belong If there be one born italian soil
who forge denies that duty the for him it but in
the necessity that the nation should fulfill it against
whomsoever it be.
pointed out choice between two alternatives The Royal
proclamation anticipates the answer and reduces them
If the Italians do not resouely choose that one let them
renounce alike the and the life of a nation They are
Init of andlt whiC
serve. JOSEPH MAzzINI.
| October 49,
The following is the circular round by Mazzn to the
various Center of the Party of Action in the different towns
of Italy:
BROTHERS. The Royal proclamation issued while the Roman