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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 415
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«O» The Vicissitudes Of Italy, Since The...
p font ing lost the , h reg j the ions mental of temporising irresolution or and concealment scruples that . To quailed the author from outstep of the - of the work and the sentiments
it Speranze contained d ? Italia ; at the , he same expressed time , his fearful approval of committing himself in the eyes of the Retrogrades , he did not give his sanction to its publication and in his states to .
_Gioberti He wrote on with his JPri his ? own nato ; hand and nevertheless a letter full permitted of praise obstacles congratulation to be offered to its circulation
his undi il disp His gnifie leasure sp d irite molestations d at . attitude the political of towards Piedmontese condition the Emperor of commerce the country of Austria early drew in , who 1846 forth stooped to general mark to
hand approval , he , soon and after was haile yielded d as , thoug the harbinger h with evident of great reluctance changes , his , to ; on the the fixed pressure other for
of his ministers , and countermanded a grand review of troops the national beginning demonstrations of May , in were the same to be year addressed , because to him it was on this rumoured occasion that . Thus some ,
lib worth althoug erty , h the of once dark the more departed passages proclaimed heroes of bygone by of many years his race as forg the disclosing iven destined , and with champ itself a vista ion before of of Italian g him lory
y , shackled " The time by Ms came fatal , and indecision the time , he passed of dared ; not and venture it was reserved upon forth the for in the itiative Europe inaugu . to
rator witness of the a work extraordinary of regeneration sx > ectacle , for wliieh a Pop the e standing tears , the prayers as , the blood - of Italy during thirty years had been offered up . "
These reforms of Pio Nonoin which Charles Albert tardily but heartily acquiesced , fired the , train of events which in 1848 to
exploded so disastrously for Italy , and led more immediately those petitions for reform in Modena and Parma , which were met bthreats of Austrian bayonetswhile the Neapolitan government
sternl y y repressed the moderate and , dignified demands of the people for constitutional government . While Italy was thus striving to
effect her liberty by legitimate and constitutional means , the French revolution of 1848 broke out .
The Sicilians , " with a solemn protest of the justness of the cause , declared themselves insurgent , " and the King of Naples , pressed on
all sides , found himself reluctantly obliged to concede a constitution . the ateful 1 ' jubilant Ten days lause Neapolitans only of had elapsed their le loyal political since from the regeneration traditional cannons of sympathies , ere St . Turin Elmo rang and announced princi with the le to
gr hesitate ' to whom to app , ' offer in the the simp strongest a peop le language proof of of his his confidence manifesto in , their ' their devotedness King did p and not ,
without moderation " This _jwofound was by the publishing Rubicon emotion the . of He statutes Charles was conscious of Albert a representative ' s that destiny he , was nor government despoiling was an it absolute . passed ' , not onlhimselfbut his descendantsof well nih all thatas
authority decision sive soverei y step gn unknown , in once he the , had taken monarch in been his , his taug previous conduct ht to in career hold his , thenceforward sacred . The evidences and natural g inalienable assume of stru sincerity d , gg a les ; boldness but in of the the exp man deci iring _^ and - .
, were , case , tain Unlike that liis wliieh brother they sovereigns took the , who first readil opportunity y swore upon to annul the , Glospels the Charles constitution to Albert
mamwhich looked the upon exi himself of as the irrevocabl times had y compelled bound by him his to oath bestow to . Unlike theiu , he descended gency from his throne into voluntary exile , sooner the than degrade boon of his
country by the _jwesence of a victorious foe ; or purchase poor a
Notices Of Books. 415
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 415
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/55/
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