The History of Italy, from the Abdication of Napoleon I, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Italy |
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Page 379 - ... fugitive inhabitants would be no gratification if it should be found a heap of ruins, ashes, and bones, and that as I had no force to land and keep order, in case of the French army retiring to the fortresses, I should leave an opulent city a prey to the licentious part of the community, who would not fail to profit by the confusion the flames would occasion ; not a gun was fired...
Page 431 - As you will believe, the cardinal and myself have begun our career by a complete difference of opinion : he will send the rebels to Toulon — I say they shall not go.
Page 424 - Foote was sent out of the bay ; and the garrisons, taken out of the castles, under pretence •of carrying the treaty into effect, were delivered over as rebels to the vengeance of the Sicilian court. — A deplorable transaction ! A stain upon the memory of Nelson, and the honour of England ! To palliate it would be in vain ; to justify it would be wicked: there is no alternative, for one who will not make himself a participator in guilt, but to record the disgraceful story with sorrow and with...
Page 433 - ... every thing necessary to existence ; we have nothing but bread to eat; we drink nothing but putrid water, or wine mingled with sea-water, and have nothing but the bare planks to sleep on. Our houses have been...
Page 438 - Note, and on which the Rebels came out of the Castles, as they ought, and as I hope all those who are false to their King and Country will, to be hanged, or otherwise disposed of, as their Sovereign thought proper.
Page 342 - ... delivered; and yet, if I am rightly informed, it has been stained and polluted by murders so ferocious, and by cruelties of every kind so abhorrent, that the heart shudders at the recital. It has been said, not only that the miserable victims of the rage and brutality of the fanatics were savagely murdered, but that, in many instances, their flesh was eaten and devoured by the cannibals, who are the advocates and the instruments of social order! Nay, England is not totally exempt from reproach,...
Page 434 - Rebels — that even the Paper which they signed was not acted upon, as I very happily arrived at Naples, and prevented such an infamous transaction from taking place ; therefore, when the Rebels surrendered, they came out of the Castles as they ought, without any honours of War, and trusting to the judgment of their Sovereign.
Page 424 - ... much inclined to adopt the same principles. He instantly declared the capitulation null, as not having obtained the King's authority, and entering the harbour at the head of his fleet, made all those who had issued from the castles, in virtue of the capitulation, prisoners, and had them chained, two and two, on board his own fleet. The King, whose humanity could not endure the sight of the punishments which were preparing, returned to Sicily, and left the administration of justice in the hands...
Page 291 - I exceedingly regret, ss well as do all the ministers, the not being able to preserve to Genoa a separate existence without the risk of weakening the system adopted for Italy, and consequently exposing its safety; but we are persuaded that by the mode adopted we have provided much more strongly for the. future tranquillity of Genoa, and the prosperity of her commerce. The generous dispositions of the king of Sardinia, whose ardent desire it is to fulfil as much as possible the wishes of the Genoese,...
Page 435 - Nnplet, by the Russian commander, and by myself, all duly authorised to sign any capitulation in the absence of superior powers. This was not a treaty of peace subject to ratification ; it was not a truce liable to be broken : it was a serious agreement for surrender, upon terms which involved the lives and properties of men, who...