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HALT , AUSTRIA , AND THE 7 POPE . Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty , which became Afuneral dower bf present woes and past , On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame , . And annals graved in charaeters of flame . On Cod 1 that _lhonwat in thy nakedness _Xjess lovely or more powerful and could ' st claim j j , j _rights aud awe the robbers back who press To shed thy Mood , and drink the tears of thy distress . . _-ffe cannot quit the _"Condition-of-Italy-Quea _jjon " which has occupied this department of the Star for so many weeks , without a word or two as to ? he position in which England is placed with regard + _o that question . Unfortunately it is our' painful doty to confess that that position is a Yery disgraceftl one . ' ' - - ' 7-7 _' 7 ' t
__„ _xA- - _ - __ _ _-. _r From the murder of _Gabacciou to the opening of _iMA-amsletters , England has , by her aristocratic _Rulers , been made to play a _treacUerous , cruel , and shameless part towards unfortunate Italy . Peruana some bf our readers have never before heard of the murder of Ca baccioli . After the abandonment of Naples , by ( the French Republican ) General Macdonald , in May , 1799 , and the fall ofthe short-lived Parthenopeau Kcpublic , the friends of liberty were * everywhere subjected to proscription and slaughter at the hands ofthe agents of the restored monarchy , and the fanatic lazzaroni excited to the utmost pitch of sanguinary madness by the infamous priests . A number of French troops and native Republicans remained _ masters of , or rather
-were shut up in . the castles of Uovo andNuove . Hard pressed , and finding their - situation desperate , the besieged capitulated : The King was yet absentlis _Neapolitan Majesty __ having some months previously decamped to Sicily , taking with him all the treasures and moveable valuables of the palaces , together with some millions of money , and setting fire to the - dockyard , —but Cardinal Ruffo , who- had headed the reTolt of the "loyal" Neapolitans , acted in name and by authority of the runaway King . By the terms of tiie capitulation , agreed upon between the Cardinal and tbe besieged , complete security for person aiid property was guaranteed to all within the forte , whether French or " rebels . " This treaty was not only solemnly entered into by the Cardinal ,
as representative ofthe King , but was also sanctioned by the Turkish and Russian commanders , and by Captain Foots on the part of tlie English . Before , _lowevery ; the / treaty could be carried into execution , _UieBritish fleet ; under the command of Nelson , arrived from . Sicily , and _Neison peremptorily ordered the treaty to be-annulled , declaring its conditions to be " infamous . " He insisted that the " rebels , " should surrender at discretion , and submit themsdvestothe " clemency" of their " gracious King . " As he could not induce the Cardinal to share in this iniquitous procedure , he took the responsibility upon himself . In tne treaty so infamously broken by NEtaos , Prince Cabaccioli , if not named ; was understood to be included , this unfortunate man
had been forced into joining tke French and serving with them . Cabaccioii had fled , but a price being set upon Ms head he was taken , and by Nelson ' s orders was immediately put upon his trial for "high treason . " The victim , was seventy -years of age ; he lad served his king as a naval officer for forty years , and was generally beloved and respected ; but all this availed him nothing . Nhuos thirsted for blood ; blood was , to usehisown words , liis only " comfort . " Writing from Palermo to Captain' Tkotjbridge , in command ofthe blockade of _Kaples , a short time previously , he had said , " Send me word some proper heads are taken off . This alone will comfort _^ _sie . " Poor Cabaccioli was seized at nine o ' clock inthe morning , tried at ten o ' clock , without being allowed
a moment to prepare his defence , Lis principal judge _. Count Thusx , being Ms personal enemy . In less than two hours he was condemned to death , and immediately after the finding of the court , Nemos confirmed the sentence , and ordered the execution to take place at five o'clock the same day . The unhappy victim in vain demanded a" new trial , in vain offered to prove that he bad only taken up arms on compulsion , Nelsoh was inflexible . Abandoning himself to despair , Cabaccioli entreated that he might be' shot , and not subjected 1 tothe disgrace of hanging , bnt even this poor boonwas sternly refused . To the humaue and repeated entreaties of Lieutenant _PiBKisaos , Nelson brutally replied , "Go , sir , and attend to your duty . " As a last resource Cabaccioii begged- Lieutenant Parkinson to try to get Lady _ILoiiuosto intercede for him , bnt that shameless ,
heartless wretch , wouldnot be seen ; she , however , was prescntathervieum ' scxccation . CAKACciouhadbecn tried on board an English ship , the Foudroyant . He was hanged on board one of his own nation ' s ships , the Minerva frigate . Bis body , as had been , ordered by his chief assassin , Kelson , was thrown into the sea . It is a singular , bat notorious fact , that notwithstanding a weig ht of 250 pounds was attached to the body , the sea would uot retain it ; a week after the execution -the body was observed upright , and half floating out oii the water , bearing -down towards the _Foudroyant . The King , _Netsox , and the _liiim--aoxs were on board the Foudroyant at the time , and , to get rid of tuis ghastly witness of their crime , a boat ' s crew . were ordered to take charge of tbe corpse , aud consign it to " Christian burial , " whieh was done 7- - ¦ - *
. Many executions of the unfortunate persons whom Kelsos had seized , and given up to " the _clemeney of the King , " accompanied -or followed that of Cabaccioii . Nelsoxfound liis reward in the . title and domain of Bronte . - . . The history ofthis assassination will give -our readers a better insight into the real character of _Ivelsos than they will find ia three-fourths of the accounts of this " naval hero" which they liave hitherto been conversant "with . Nelson was a clever _imhtin-r hrnte . whose treed was , "Fear God and
honour the King ; " great on the quarter-deck , but disgraced by the lowest vices and most ignorant prejudices . We hope , for thehonour and happiness of mankind , that we shall have no more such heroes to make tlie English name famous and infamous too . His column in Trafalgar-square is yet -aninscribed ; and if thc inscriotion , that is to . be , was written by the _finder of truth , other achievements besides those of St . _Vincent , the Nile , Copenhagen , and Trafalgar , -would be Masoned thereon . Viscount jNelsox and Duke of Bbosie would also figure
as" Paramour of Lady Hamilton , Executioner to the Ebig of Naples , and Murderer of Caraccioli J " "When thc fall of _Natolbos at length came , again wasltaly betrayed , and England disgraced , by the infamous Ministry of whom the execrable Casilebeagh was the head . When invoking the nations to rise against _JNipoiEOX , Italy , amongst other states , was appealed to , and promises _vrera made to the Italian people which were shamefully broken the moment that the end sought by the allied despotisms was accomplished- The partial restoration of Italian _nationality under 2 ? aboleox , although dependent npon , and subjected to , French domination , had been
productiveof the happiest results tor _ltaiy . iue iwa-ease of _Tmaterlal prosperity , the growth of _fiaternization , and the progress of intellect , ui pro vinees previously miserable , exclusive , and benighted , proved the immense good which the mere partial restoration of Italian liberty had effected , and plainly showed what great things were , destined to be achieved by the descendants of the world ' s masters , provided that Italy , " one arid indivisible , " was guaranteed to them . Under these circumstances it was impossible that the Italians could sympathise with the enemies of _Xapoieox , unless thev had been led to hope from them greater concessions than they had _gained ftom the -Gallic _conqueror . These concessions were promised , aad the English Governwork of deliberate
ment was foremost in the iMacherr . Generals Witsox , 31 _'Eaedlse , and Iflrd W . Besvjxk , proclaimed , in 1814 , the liberty and independence of the Italian pesple . " _Isberta , e _tadipcidenzaltaMca " were the words inscribed on the standards of the Le gion , _alsa called Italica , organised by tke English Government in ; Sicily to be employed in Tuscany . The English agents everywhere desscrainated copies of the Sicilian _Constitution , of thai Constitution which was gnren to Sicily srhen that island was important to England as a fialitary position , and afterwards ifi & mously _abandoned , in spite of promises , in whiek the hononr of _^ England was _invoked . . , . j _^ ismxos fallen all these promises srere Tiolated
, and -broken . In vasi did the deputies of the Italian people appeal to _thegoodfattk of England . England W 3 s , ' -a $ fortunatcly _, _represented by Cask _^ _s-jagi _! _, and that miscreant , ; who had sold Ireland for the price of Mood , aed was at _^^ that ' Tery time preparing to attempt the renewal in England of those despotic and Woody ad * which lie had previously perpetrated in his native land , was not likely to play any other part than that of _jackall to JLeAHstnan monster . -Mt . Mazzixi has appended to Ms pamphlet a report of one of the conferences of the Italian deputies with _Casiixbeagh . irAll that thedennties could get from ik e representative of England was the _assui-ance that Italy had nothing to ' dread from " the paternal
Government of Austria . " Three months after this insurance Had been given , Italian officers , .. and _civilians of every rank , were crowding the prisons of -Ualy , Austria , and _finnory . FwMly _wtth the _vmefioa and concurrence of the abominable English _fKS ient , the Congress of _Viennax _^ wsih one _Seof thfl pen , erased the liberties , the reforms , _^ _S nnesTf the Italian people . The old regime tte _SiSsc _ns-established , pernicious and hatcttaaert ry « w _* _^^^ for vengeance _, _'ihemfelas m . _"Vh L f l _gsfl , _ie-717 1831 , and the countless surrections V _pnecriptions , confiscations , _incar-Tsssnp . fami- * i i ju . pi _-jggjggyiatioiis which CTerj * ceratioM . and _. _« uuh . » _- « -
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year has since witnessed , Have' been the legitimate fruits of the _enoraous fraud ' and wrong perpetrated in 1814-15 , in which England , by its rascally Government , was made to be a principal actor . _d : ! i - * , ¦'¦¦ - ' ¦ It was in allusion to the betrayal of-Italy - by'the English Government at this period ; that our glorious and immortal poet ; _Btrojc , wrote the following words ' , in his introduction to the fourth canto of ' " _ _(^ _ie _^«) W "> -7 7 ; 77 7 7-7 : ' 7 ' ; 7 ;'" 7 ; That man must be wilfully blind , or ignorantly heedless , who iB not-struck with the _extraordinafy capacity of this people , or , if sneh a word be admissible ; their capabilities , the facility of their _accjuisitions , the rapidit y of their conceptions , the fire of , their genius , their sense of beauty , and , amidst aU the disadvantages of repeated revolutions , the desolation of battles , and the despair of
ages , tbeir still unquenched " longing after immortality '' —the immortality of _indepen-ieuce . Aud when we ourselves ,. iu riding round the walls of Kome _. 'heard the simple lament of tne labourers' chorus , " Roma S Roma ! Soma ! Roma non e piQ . come era prime , " it was difficult not to contrast this melancholy dirge with the bacchanal roar of the songs of exultation still yelled from tho London taverns , over the carnage ef Mont St . Jean [ Waterloo ] , and the betrayal of Genoa , of . Italy , ! of France , and of the world . * * * Whit Italy has gained _^ by the late transfer of nations it were useless , for Englishmen to inquire , tUl it becomes , ascertained' that ' England has acquired something more than a permanent army and a suspended habeas corpus ; . it is enough for them to look at home . For what they have done abroad , aad especially in the south , " verily , they _«& Item their rewardj" anil at no very distant period . ' - _; . _, ; .. ¦<
Come we now to the damning and more recent act of treachery and villany cummitted : by the . English aristocratic Government—the seal-breaking ... and opening of Mr . Maziisi ' s letters . Here-it strikes ns diat we shall do well to _answer-jthe question , "Who is _Joskpii Mazzini ?" : We take , the following answer from the Westminster _Rwew ;? _- _^;? - : . . j-..:.-,-The pregentstale of Italy oouldnotbe better illustrated than by describing fie - circumEtances' which' threw Mazzini into his present position ; He first attracted the attention of the " governments of Italy by the freedom with which , through various channels ' , he discussed literary _questions . We need hardly say that _forpoKlicaJ questions tliere is no channel in -Italy . ' A _^ 'Westminster Renew" would be a * greater curiosity at' Home than the Thames Tunnel , " in 1828 , Mazzini published , at Genoa , a _weeklyUterarygazettei called the "Indicator Gehovese . '' It appeared under the double supervision ofa civil and an ecclesiastical censorship ; batat the end ofthe year it was suppressed . In 1829 he attempted a similar journal
at Leghorn , under the title of the " Indlcatore livornese , " but in a few inouths this also was suppressed . * ' Theeame year he wrote an article upon European liiera ture iri a review caUed ' the"Anto * . osia , " published at Florence . The review was suppressed , after having been in the first instance' prosecuted : In 1830 occurred the revolution oi July ; and fromthe _exeitement it occasioned in Italy it was deemed prudent to put under arrest every person oi knownorsuspected liberal sentiments ; ' Hazziui wasot ' course amongst them . ' ilazzini ' sfather , who is professor of anatomy at ' the University , ! . of Genoa , ' went ' to'the governor of the town ( _VehansonJ to inquire what offence his son had committed ; and 'found that the' chief ground of accusation was the following : —" . Your son , " saidthigovernor , "is in thehahit of walking every evening in the fields and gardens of the suburbs , alone , ' and wrapt ; in meditation . What on earth can lie ha * _re at his age tu think about ? We don't like so much think , ug on the part of young people without knowing the subject of , their thoughts" .. " 77 J 7 " _' _*'!' ' v ' ¦
A commission of senators was appointed at Turin to try Mazziiii and his _frieuds ; but , as nothing could , be proved against them , they were _acguittcd . The acquittal , however , ' signified nothing . Ifazzini was ' detained for five months in solitary confinement in the fortress of Savona , and then banished the couutry . ' ¦ - ¦¦ -- "'• - ; . At this time _Xibais Philippe _^ newly seated on his throne , had not ' been recognised by the absolute sovereigns ' ct Europe , and it was thepolicy of the French governmeni to protect and encourage the discontented ofall _nationp , especially Italiaus and Spaniards ; many of whom received money , and semi-official offers of assistance . The object
of Louis PhUippe in this case has siuce been explained . Itwas merely to embarras the allied powers wiih thei : own subjects , that hostilities against France might he rendered impossible . When this end had been answered , revolutionary propagandists was disavowed , and protection was withdrawn from the refugees ; but hot till many among tliem had been led to commit themselves too hope lessly against their own governments to dream of returning to their native land . The unfortunate Spaniards and Italians fell alike into thesame snare . Who among them could be blamed for believing thatthe time had arrived _when-i blow struck for freedom could not be other than
successful ? They wore deceived by a prospect bright but transitory ; soon to _beovercastwith dark shadows , which could not he foreseen . "Mazzini was permitted to publish at Marseilles "La -Giovine Italia , " audio form im association of Italian liberals , under the same name . , This association differed from that of the old Carbonari in various points , but especially in repudiating secrecy , whenever it is practicable to claim " and exercise the right of public discussion . A free press hot existing in . Italy , ihe press of foreign countries was used as a medium for tlie ' open dissemination of liberal principles . The poUtical tracts of "iha . Giovine Italiai" were smuggled by Italian inerchaut ships from Marseilles , into Italy , and immediately produced an effect which alarmed the Italian governments for the result . In various states the symptoms of an impending revolution could aot be mistaken . In some the people broke out into open _instruction—a movement in which the foreign exiks hastened to take a part . - ' . ' ,. '
It coaimehced too late . The policy of France had chauged . The new House of Bourbon came to an wider-Standing with the Souse of Austria , ami Italy was . sacrificed as the price of peace . The refugees at Marseilles were now sent isto the interior .. Hazzini , without form of trial , or reason assigned , was ordered to quit France . He refused . Hope had notyetbeen abandoned , and it ap . _pearcd to him _BtiU important to keep himself in _cdmmiiiiication with liis countrymen . He remained at Marseilles for twelve months , baQing the vigilance of the French police and Italian spies ; but so rigorous was his seclusion , chat only twice during the whole period did he _renture to leave his place of concealment to breathe the fresh air , and that only at night , once in the dress ofa woman , in the other instance disguised in the uniform of the
National Guard . When a . large body ef Italians _assembled in Switzerland , to aid a populsr movement in Savoy , Jlazzim joined them . The attempt then made , although frustrated , chiefly through the misconduct of their military leader ( General _Bamorino ) , brought upon Switzerland the ire ofthe great powers . Diplomatic notes were showered npon the government of the Cantons . Austrian and French troops were poured upon the frontiers _ilazzlni and his friends were compelled , to fly from Geneva to the CantondcVaud ; thence to Berne , thence to Solothurn ; thence to unfrequented villages iu the mountains ; everywhere receiving marks of sympathy aiid kindnest from the people , -but . finally compelled to look to England as the only country in Europe in which it would be permitted them to find aresting . place or a safe asylum . : -
IIow safe that asylum mnst have proved to some who have since left it unconscious that the reputation of Great Britain for honour and hospitality only masks the same system of secret espionage which , prevails on the continent , we leave the public tojudge ,, Mazzini landed in England in 1837 , andhasremained a guest of this country from that period to " the present ; esteemed by all who know , hhn , and enjoying the . con & ience Jand personal friendship _^ of many of our ablest literary . men . "We need not reiterate the disgraceful story of our country ' s degradation , caused bythe opening of Mr . Mazzki ' s -letters At the time when the'facts in connection therewith _^ were , thanks to Mr . Duncombe , made public , we took the part whieh our love of freedom , our -veneration for justice , our sympathy for Italy , and our regard for England ' s honour dictated .
In common with the better portion of the press ; we demanded the punishment of the traitors ; and the expungiuir from the statute book-, of that odious and infamous law which authorised the abominable acts of _Graham , Aberdeen , and their predecessors . The efforts to obtain justice , made within and without the walls of the legislature , were , however ,. made in vain , because the members of that legislature represent not public opinion , and are irresponsible to the mass of thc people . Still , we must confess , that even the unrepresented people were not altogether blameless . For a time the charges preferred by Mr . _DcscoMBE _. the admissions extortedfroin the Government , and the disclosures made by the "committees , " excited considerable ferment , but this soon died away . - The aristocracy , regarding Air . Mazzixi as one of the
principal representatives of the democratic principle , were consistent in tlieir defence ofthe spy system , knowing that it is to such means tliey must look for safety against the attacks of the masses . Their _eoaatrr _' s honour was nothing to them ; ifc was enough that aristocratic domination abroad was endangered by tke _acts of Mr . _Matzssi and his compatriots . This was enough to induce thera to sympathise with those of their own caste , and connive at any means , however base , to crush the friends of liberty . The middle class care not a straw for England ' s honour , or Italy's liberty . If they have any dislike towards the present political system in Italy , it does not extend beyond _diilike ofthe Pope , because he will not permit them to traffic in nulroads within his dominions * Could the English middle classes have the _tarifii of the several Italian Hates modified to suit thpir _Kinn / _unns views . * and could the Pope be
induced to allow thein to overrun the "States ot the Church , " with railroads , no matter whether Fope , King , or Devil ruled the land , no matter what are the sufferings and wrongs of twenty-two millions of people , these matters would be perfect !} indifferent to the English _profitocracy , - provided tbey could suck and plunder the Italians as they suck and plunder their own countrymen . They had' no sympathy - therefore , for Mr . Mazzixi . ' The working classes , so far as they became aware of the-facts of _Gbaham-s spy-system , "did earnestly sympathise with Mr . Mazzixi , and burned with indi gnation for the wrong done to Italy , and the blight cast upon their own country '** name . Still , there was nothing like an organised expression of the opinion even of this class , as most assuredly _^ there ought to have been , had it been only for theTindicationof their country ' s honour . But they' had another and-a _stroneer motive which should hare impelled them to active hostility against
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that system under which Mr . Maizini ' had been * so grievously wronged . They , too , 7 hadi been wronged . It _wasi proved , admitted by the * . Government , tha ' t the letters of a great number of the leaders of . the Chartist party had > been regularly onened for the avowed purpose of entrapping the writers , and immolating them for their political views and intentions . But let us see what Mr . Mazzisi says on this subject ; we beg onrreaders to weigh well his words : — And how , if I were an Englishman—if the prejudice of distrust that still clings _: too much in this , country to the name of foreigner ( a term that should have bad no meaning since Christ spoke ) , does not abstract weight froni the truths that fall frbin ' my lips—this is the Ian . guag _^ my hand on my heart , that I would hold , not to you . Sir _Jamei , but to your countrymen , to whom I am writing under your namfc
' . Before all things , hasten to wipe from your foreheads the burning stain of dishonour that your statesmen have planted there . Youhave , truckling to the foreign absolutist police , in the persons of your statesmen , played the spy for five months in most ignoble fashion , on patriots who are seeking to raise from Papal-Austrian mud the land in which their mothers live and suffer . Hasten to throw off , by blotting- from your laws an odious and useless power , all identification between you and your statesmen . , Do net suffer it to be said by the world , that the nation which abolished the slavery of the negro tolerates with , indifferencethe slavery , of'the white ; and that be T sotted with' calculations of immediate material gain , blinded by the sordid divisions of political , party _. ishe has lost the . morai sense or the courage to carry out' such
inspirations and their , logical apnUcation . rikhow many men among you , . deploring from , thehottom ' of , their hearts what has psssed with regard to myself as immoral and unworthy of England , who gave their vote ' in favour of _Ministers , not , to shake a . power already . too much threatened . These , in my opinion / are the true culprits . They have forgotten that they are in their place * not to support such and such men . under all ¦ circumstances , but to support what is just ,. to overthrow what is unjust , without reference to secondary calculations . They have forgotten that the safety of England : is not linked with individuals whatever name they may bear , bnt with . the degree of morality : she possesses , ; and which . her representatives-are bound to . make , fruitful . Never _hasj a moral people wanted a . Government , worthy of it , :: t
The map of Europe is to redraw . The system of old monarchical _nationalities , of the treaty of _Weshphalia , is decayed . . -The papular element has dissolved it , and is preparing a " new system . The treaty of Vienna , in organising a- ' tyranny of . the . great powers _^ over . the smaller states , explicitly avowed the , danger without succeeding in averting it . All that as . occurred since then has / been in contradiction to that treaty .. Europe is tending to recomposeitself in greatuniform masses ; resulting from a spontaneous popular impulse ,- —creating a mutual equilibrium as respects guarantees of internal independence—harmonising themselves to a common' aim , pursued under various systems , forthe civilisation of the world . -Who among yon scans this map of . future Eliro pei * New nationalities prepare everywhere to form .
In a period more or less distant ,, but inevitable , Spain and Portugal wUl' found one Iberian power ; Poland will revive , -, a nucleus for . Slavonian organisation ; Greece will outstep her ; existing boundaries , to incorporate all those colonies kindred in language and belief ; .. Italy and the southern Slavonians will cause the empire of Austria to vanish : and which statesmen of yours occupies his _tUougtite -with these configurations oft the future , whose signs are already visible on the _horison ! ; . Which of your statesmen asks himself— - "What-will be the character and the power of "England when these things come to pass , ' if / revolving in the egotistical circle of her policy of a day , she shall have prepared for herself and these new nationalities neither homogeneity of tenderness , recollections of gratitude , orgerms of sympathy !" _:. ¦; i ,
7 Twenty-two years' ago . there , was a man who ,-Jrf he had - net a just conception bf the mission of England , had at least a clear intuition of the state of-things . Mr . Canning told- yon within the venerable walls of Westminster ( 28 th April , 1823)— ''It is perfectly true . * ' . * # , # , that there is a contest going on in the world between the spirit of unlimited monarchy and the spirit of unlimited democracy . Between these two spirits , it may be said that strife is either openly in action or covertly at work throughout the greatest portion of Europe . Itis true , that-in no former period in history is there so close a resemblance to the present as in that ofthe Reformation . _Uiatrue—it is , I own I think , a . formidable truththat in this respect the two periods do resemble each other . " Then with this spectacle before him , witli Europe before him in arms for evil and for good , he coldly concludes — "Our station is essentially neutralneutral not only between contending nations , but between conflicting principles . " This , was precisely contrary to the' conclusion drawn in -analogous times by Elizabeth and Cromwell . ; > . . - .. ¦> _:-..
Since 1828 . this contest has but enlarged : The eftbrts of nationalities — for that is my only ground in this debate '— suppressed or unrecognised in ths treaties of Vienna , in some parts alrcadyvietorious _; elsewhere not yet so , have proved , do each day prove , tliat this contest is not a transitory J effervescence , but a sacred-war between fact and right , between the will of millions and the protocols bf the old diplomacy . Tour policy has been the same . Now - as then , you pretend to stand calm , immoveable , iu the midst of the European ferment ; now as then , yon declare yourselves neuter _belwesn two opposite principles / '' That is to say , you , a Christian nation , declare yourselves indifferent between the good andthe evil , thejust and the uujusfc ; you . a people believing in the'unity of the human race the creation of theDeity , deny . all onenes 3 with it , all duty towards it ; you , the emancipators of the blacks , you say— " despotism or liberty , Austria or Italy , it matters not to us ; we give alms to the'exiled Poles—we give fetes to their persecutor _: we serve God and the Devil— -and -that is our
part . 7 But this . part—this degrading , selfish , and atheistic part—jou cannot sustain . Thank God , the force of principles k so great , that you must elect fin-Vine or the other to ascend , or descend . Tou deduced , the sole , logical _consequence of your pretended neutrality when you said , " let everyone look at home 5 there shall Ve no intervention on-our part anywhere ! let there be no intervention from any one else . " And yet you were obliged to look on quietly upon Trench interveBtionin Spain , upon Austrian in Italy . You said , ¦ " Iu virtue of ; our neutrality , we afford _h-sifipitality to all the proscribed , come from what part they may ; " and see . wbaty * ur Government adds to this proud'declaration— "Good 1 but upon condition of opening their letters , forthe convenience or Baron Neumann , or any other , agent of a foreign despotic power . " You , men constitutionally governed , who say that liberty is a holy _diing , lower yourselves to the footing of spies , to crush tlAs holy thing elsewhere and confirm tyranny on the Continent as long as possible _^
¦ Let our readers ponder on Mr . Mazzisi ' s words : •—" Never _hets-a moral people wanted a Gouerftsnent wortliy of it fl The English democrats , though they are of the people , are not yet _"*/« * people , " but with the words of stinging rebuke from Mr . Mazzini ringing in their-ears , will they not do more than they have ever yet done to _wrta their principles on the hearts of the multitude , and induce the majority of the nation—the veritable people—to ; overthrow that accursed system which makes their country ' s name a thing of - scorn and hatred , instead of what it should be , a beacon of hope , a watchword of love , for the patriots of-every clime ? . _-.. ' ¦ ¦ Mr . Mazzini concludes his pamphlet—nominally a ' •' Letter to Sir James Graham , " but really an appeal to- the Britbh people , with the following _imrdst— ¦ ' ' -- " " - ¦
' I would not be misunderstood . I do not invoke the French propagandist _arinj of 1703 : 1 do not wish it for my . country , for it is riot the' fact , it is the' conscience of liberty that we want ; arid we can acquire that but by emancipating ourselves through our own -efforts . But I ' do wish that there should be at least one nation in the world to set ' ah example of public morality ; one nation professing a belief , whose language and acte should continually harmonise with that belief ; one nation whose international policy should not bean insult to its internal policy . And I would wi 6 h , that cheered by active manifestations of sympathy here afforded us for our misfortunes and our efforts , my countrymen , who how sorrowfully _sayi —• " We have all the world against us , even free England , " might repeat encouragingly to each other , — ** If . we succeed , we shall have friends and allies ; if we fall , ' we shall be lamented and admired . . As for myself ; Sir James , whom you have selected for the object of your diplomatic amiability , all that I have hitherto written must teach you what I think it my duty
to "do during the years of life that remain to me—to speak , to write , to act , by every fair means that are or maybe in power , for the emancipation of my unhappy country . I have had it said to me , that in affording hospitality , England did not intend to grant me the right of labouring on her soil for the wellbeing of my country , for the destruction of a great injustice . ' 1 reject such language with all my energies : and in rejecting it , I believe myself to he more English than those who proffer it . I do not believe that the hospitality of England is limited tothe &< xiy of the exile : ' tis tbe soul—the soul with all its aspirations towards the just and the true _| with all that constitutes the human being—that she intended to welcome . Otherwise , , the hospitality she is so proud of would be but a bitter irony . The man who sets foot on this soil of England is free—free in thought as well as in the instruments God has given him so realise that thought . I am using , and I shall use , this privilege : let him who would notdo as much for _InVcountry stand forth and condemn me .
¦ * Before * we conclude , let us ask why the conductors of the "liberal _^ press have , with two or three honourable-exceptions , so shamefully neglected Mr . _Mazeim ' b-p amphlet ? The Morning Chronicle , when it had a party purpose to serve by showing up the misdeeds of the "ins , " because its own party was " out , ' ! was loud in ita denunciations of 'Sir James Graham and the Earl of Aberdeen , for opening Mr . ' ¦ M azzisi ' s letters ; hut not a word has its columus contained respecting _^ this pamphlet : on the contrary , it denounced the recent insurrection at _Rimmi-as a " disgrace ' - ' to the brave but unfortunate men who took part iu if . We have been still more surprised at the silence of ihe Weeklv Dispatch . Occasionally , that paper has d ' ane good service , in the cause of general liberty by jtis notices of Italian politics , but not a word _evon ha * - ' tlie * . * Republican " Diqxach said in favour of -Mr . j h _' _-Uzzixi ' s appeal to the English people , which it was sir essential should be made widely known . The greater part , at least all the hi \ _MS _POJntS 0
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Mr . _MAaam _' _B _^ ampUet , _haa-. _now-been Jaid : before ouirj « aders , 7 We should'not Jiavefelt ourselves at liberty _toJiave reprinted so much of that gentleman ' s work , had we hothad his permission to do so . That permission _lie _. kindly gave , and we have availed ourselves _^ of it _^ to the full ,, our desire being , to make _HT _nf _^^^^ _' _^ _^ o'Wng-classes , the actual state oftheir Italian brethren .. We will now _. add , that whenever Mr . _Mazziw , or any of his known and trustea countrymen , think proper to avail themselves ofour columns to publish the wrong g of their country , or vindicate their holy cause . to the English- people , ia e columns will be found open for . that purpose * _,: We had purposed to have offered someobservations of ourownas to thepresent state : and prospects of Italy , and the duty the ; English ¦ Demoeracv . owe to their Italian brethren ; but the great . length to
wliich this article has _exteiidedforbidsthis . Enough for the i present , ! that for ourselves , and for the democratic party- of England , we repudiate the slavish doctrine ot Canning ; the " neutral" is hot our position . We have ranged ourselves on _theside of progress , and taken our stand with the men of every clime who have sworn to devote themselves to the overthrow of tyranny and the emancipation ofthe nations . We sympathise . with Italy , and therefore we execrate the Austrian despotism . We _commisserate the Poles , and therefore we do not join in fetes given to their persecutor . . We are the advocates of freedom , perfect freedom , for all mankind , and believers in the everlasting progress of the human race , and therefore we have voiyed inextinguishablehatred and unceasing war against all who would keep the minds _' _atid _bodies ot our _tellow men in darkness and bondage : " *' _¦ "
We respond , to Mr . Mazzini ' s ailusibh' tb the word foreigner ; itis _ajword we ' repudiate : We ' bid liim _e , , _^ _,, _!? his mission ; aiid ' _successas thereward of his labours . It is bur unfaltering ' hope that Italy will yet ba free , liberty and fraternity be in the ascendant throu ghput Europe , and '' / _' ; ' _" ;\" ' ; "Man toman , the warldo'er ,, - ; _Brithers be and a' that . " -..- ' . '" .
A Tale Of Mystery. 7
A TALE OF MYSTERY . 7
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Gkavbsekd , SATtiRDAr ErEJfiNo . —Ah j occurrence of an extraordinairy character , ' which ! at present is enveloped in considerabb ., mystery , ' has . been discovered at Cobham-park , four miles distant from this town , the _^ princely _\ domath of , the , Earl of Darnley , and which has created the greatest sensation throug hout this part _, of the county , there ' being no doubt that a duel has taken place , ' and that one of _thejjqmbatants was | seriously or mortally injured . 7 The _particular _connected as far as . we have been enabled to glean ,, are as follow : — - ' - ' ¦ _¦; " ' -: — -.. / . _- _. _, j . ¦ _<•;'; ' > .. ; , ¦ _-. >
It appears that , between the hours of _onOiandtwo _onTFriday evening , the keepers , or watchers , in the service of the Earl ofDarnley _. i on , duty in the preserves of the park , heard the report of fire-arms in the direction : of the main road , near the Blue _^ gatc ,, and , suspecting that itproceededfrom some . poachers , they were induced ; 'to .-keep : a more than ordinary look out , but no one was seen . _- One of the keepers , however , shortly after daylight , _ingoing off duty , and passing through that part _. of the park . where ; . the unfortunate Mr . Dadd was -murdered by his son , a few years since , discovered , probably not more than thirty _yardB from the spot wheve that _d-readful _^ fiivir happened ; a brace of pistols lyingon- the grass _land in the immediate vicinity were found the _^ caseiorthe
pistols , a ipocket handkerchief _j-= and a . ginger-beer bottle . On examining : the . _pistols .. he ibund ; pne of them loaded with ball , and cocked , lhe other , was unloaded , and _apparently had : been , _recontly _, discharged . The handkerchief , a white cambric one , was saturated with blood ; one part in particular appeared to have-been pressed _againstawound , and was stained with blood . Near where it was picked up was a large pool of blood , fully , showing that the unfortunate individual had bled profusely , and , from foot-marks and clots of bloodwhich were traced some distance , it is evident that . he must have been carried away . ; On the ginger-beer , : bottle being drained , it was found te contain a small portion , of brandy . _..-ji •• ¦ ;•' .-. •¦ : .. .- _..:-, _.-.. _-.-.,,
• The " gamekeeper , on making _. the discovery , immediately hastened to the park-lodge , and obtained further assistance , so as > to scour -the domain . The ground was strictly examined , and after the spots of blood had been traced some distance , the track was lost ; it was , however , in the direction ofthe main road . J Information having been forwavded to Daws , theconstable of Cobham , he took charge of the ; pistols and the other articles found on the ground , and since has been most actively engaged in endeavouring to ascertain what has really occurred ; but up to the nrescntneriod all _efforts have failed to solve the
mysterious affair . During the whole of yesterday arid to-day the park , preserve , and adjacent land , have been strictly searched with no better success ... The authorities of Cobham have directed the numerous pools of water in the vicinity to be dragged ; , and nothing has been lost sight of that will tend in any way to unravel this perfect mystery .- At the principal inns in Rochester ,. Chatham _* Maidstone , and Gravesend , inquiries have been made as to whether any post-chaise _had'beenhiredin tkeeourse of Thursday night , but not the least clue has been obtained . It should be observed that the pistol . which appeared to have been fired was besmeared with blood .
THE nEKOUEMENT . Among the passengers on board tlie Waterman steamer No . S , which'lcf ' t the _Bellwater-gatei ; Woolwich , imSiitTirdayevening , atfiveo ' clock , _wasatiill , portly , well-dressed man , about forty _yearis-of age , who , soon . after tlie vessel left the pier , _seated himself aft , behind the man at the wheel , with one leg over the taffrail 7 This position attracted the notice ' of Mr . _Phillijps , _tfie mate , who was steering ; and who told the passenger that he was acting -very foolishly , and that he had better keep his . leg inrboard . The passenger replied that he would take-care of himself , and that he always assumed _theisame . position on board steamers , "because it was so much like riding on horseback . Be then called for a glass of hot
einand-water and a cigar , which were supplied to him , arid thc mate again requested him toalter his position and take a seat upon deck . He refused to , do so , and said he was very comfortable . Directly afterwards the mate heard a splash _, in the water behind him , and , looking round , missed the passenger . He immediately called out there was a man overboard , and Mr . Smith , the master , gave the order to stop the vessel . The engines were reversed as soon as possible , ropes were thrown out , and a life buoy-was also flung overboard . The man ; floated upon his back on the surface of : the water , : and made no effort to save himself , or to-lay hold _efany of the ropes thrown towards hira .: > Two collier brigs were drifting down with the tide , and werehailedby thecrewof thefltearaer . A
boat was lowered from one of them , arid _itwo seamen entered it audipulled towards the man who floated like a cork on the water , and ; never disappeared from the moment he fell overboard . He was again taken on board the Waterman , and appeaved to _suffw" * little inconvenience , from his immersion . The captain , however , told the man i to keep a sharp look out after him . He was taken into the fore cabin , / and as he had complained of being cold , lie was supplied ; at his own request with a glass ol rum-and-water . Just before the waterman reached the Blackwall Railway , terminus hc , put a sovereign on the cabin table , and said thafc . _wasfortheiu-en who had saved his life , but soon afterwards picked it up , and : put it in , his pocket . On the arrival of the vessel at the terminus , Mr , Smith gave his passenger iri _charse to a policeman on -the . wharf , who said he
would not detain him unless the ; caprain proceeded to the Poplar station-house , and signed the police-sheet . Mr . Smith declined lea % _* ing thc paddle-box , as he had a . - -Teat many passencevs on board ,., who were proceeding to the Adelphi _, Pier , and said if the policeman thoug ht proper to release him , he would do ' so on his own responsibility . . The vessel proceeded on her voyage , and about half-past nine o ' clock : the same evening , Mr . Smith had occasion to , go . aft to inspect some trifling damage , when he found # Iarge pocketbook behind the steerage wheel . ; Curiosity induced him . to open it , andthe first thing "he saw _., was a sealed , letter , with the following address upon it : " To the captain on board the steam-boat . I . go in —I believe it will be one of the Waterman ' s boats , but whether five or hall-past five I . cannot say . " The captain , not-doubting _thatthe letter was intended for him , and that it was written by the passenger who threw liimself overheard , opened it , and found the contents to be as follows : — ,
" Woolwich , Nov . 15 . 1845 , Two o'Clock . " Sir—I , whom may the great God forgive , expect to be no more before you receive this . This is my second at . tempt at suicide . I am no w suffering with a black eye , and part of face blown away through a pistol shot . 1 was not , it appears , to die with my own hands , with a pis . tbl . I am now going to try water . Inclosed is a half _-, sovereign to defray any expenses you may be at in sending the inclosed letter to my house , and lotting my unhappiy wife know her husband ' s untimely end . " I am , sir , ycurs obediently , "J . P . _Pa-lmeb . . "P . S . I say the inclosed letter , I mean , another letter in my pocket-book , addressed to niy wife !' ' !" ' *¦• J . P . P . "
Inthe same pocket-book were many papers arid memorandums , and three sealed letters of considerable thickness , all addressed " Mrs . Talmer , 3 , Beauvoir-terrace , ¦ ' - _Kingsland-road , ' London , " arid upon each tlie following direction whicli was written above the address— " lo the Captain , deliver this with the other two . " .. On the back of one of the letters there were tliree spots of red sealing-wax , and below tliem the following words were written : — .. _;• "My dear wife , kiss thb three wax spots , and you will know uiy lips have been there . I am in death , yours truly , f . " , '¦ ¦' ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ < - _' ¦ - ¦ ¦ ' - - '
- Jir . Smith had no sooner read the letter addressed to himself and the address upon _thaotliev , than he proceeded with all possible expedition to the Kiiigslaud-road , with great misgivings as to the ' fate of his passehger whom he never expected to see alive again , supposing that he _^ had , been liberated bythe policeman , arid that he had . sought his death some other way . On reaching tlie house No , 3 , Beaivoiiterrace , he made known his errand as delicately as possible to Mrs . Palmer , who at first Uehied that
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' ¦ _' ¦ il } _1- _* . ' _-j \ 1 ' i . _yi'f _* . ' < . al- ' - iff . her _husbafld'hf _^ _'reaehed - home , ' _-and- 'delivcred to her the letters aud thepocket-book ... She . was much agitated on hearing tliat her husband had attempted to commit suicide . in the rivor , and then admitted that he had been broughthome _^ in the course ofthe evening by one of the police of the K division , and a porter belonging to the railway station , and that he had informed ner he had fallen into the water by accident . ' 'After ' _sbme ' delay Mr . Smith' was introduced ; at the patient ' s own request , to Mr . Palmer , whbin he'found in _bebV arid labouring under deHrimn trenieni . Mr . Pahuei' _iniihediatbly recognised the captain of the steamer , thanked him for his kindness , arid said that he had left Eritli " 'in the afternoon in a giig ,, arid that ' on his ' Svay to Woolwich the hoi * se
had . taken fright ' and the vehicle was dashed to pieces . ' Mr . Smith asked him if it was true he had shot himself with a pistol , arid he said tliat he had received a wound iii a duel in Cobham Park on Friday / morning . On being asked ' how - the affair originated he said he was dining with a party at an inn "the other sideof Rochester , " and that a gentleman gave him the lie , and he called him out . That he received his adversary ' s ball in the mouth , and that Mr . Coward , a surgeon in Beaiivpir-square , had extracted a bullet since he came home . He also stated that he was a little excited when he wrote the letter addressed to tlio captain , ' and that hc never had any intention of shooting or drowning hiriiself . Both Mr . and Mrs .
Palmer appeared very anxious to obtain possession of the captain ' s letter , but he declined parting with it . After along interview with Mr 7 Palmer , ' who assumed an air of iridiffe ' rerice arid jocularity- aud said his adversary was too high tb get a shot at , Mr . Smith proceeded to the residence of Mr . Coward , in _Beauvoir-square , and'learnt from that gentleman that he had been called upon about ' eight o ' clock the same everiirig to _' attbnd upon Mr . Palmer , arid found him in a hi g hly excited state , arid very cold from his immersion in the water , ' and that Mr . Palmer informed him he had' fought : a duel , and that a pistol shot ' was lodged in his mouth . Mr . ' Coward added that he discovered by the light ofthe candle a bullet fixed in Mr . Palmer ' _sburner law . and succeeded
in extracting it . ' In "doing " so , he was coinpelled to remove asmall portion bf the jaw . The ball entered MK Palmer ' s mouth' in ah oblique direction , carried away a part of the upper lip and two of his front teeth , . and then entered the upper jaw . The ball , when extracted , was riearly flattened . Mr . Smith handed the letter he had retained to Mr . Coward , who perused it with great ' attention , and said it Was liis firm conviction that . Mr . Palmer was labouring under temporary insanity , and that he had given directions he sliould bekept very quiet , and not allowed tb receive any visiters . The mystery in which this extraordinary affair was involved at Chatham and . Gravesend , is thus partially cleared up by the _subseoucht conduct of Mr .
Palmer . No doubt is entertained thathe shot himself in Cobham-park , arid after hehad discharged the pi 8 tolthrew it oh the ground , where itwas found with a loaded one beside it . What favours this supbositibri is that hisieft eye was blackened ; and his face slightly burnt with the powder . This could not have happened . if he had' been shot in a duel by another man a few baces distant . Mr _/ Palnier is . a leather factor , and has offices in Colenian-street . He left home on Thursday evening , and proceeded to Rochester , _^ Gravesend , where he is supposed to have slept on Thursday night , and to have strayed towards Cobham-park on Friday mornin _" , " when he committed'"the rash act . " Further _Pamicuwrs , —There now remains not
the shadow of a doubt that Mr . Palmer shot himself in Cobham-park , and threw the pistol , away , with another which was loaded , after lie had made the attempt . " It is somewhat remarkable that he did not obtain any medical aid till Saturday night , when Mr . . Coward , of Beauvoir-square , Kingsland-road , extracted a pistol ball from his upper jaw . There is no question that'he bled profusely , for foot marks and clots of blood were traced some distance on the grass , in Cobham . , It was quite dark when the report of a pistol was heard in Cobham-park , * and ifc seems that he went to the park at a very unseasonable hour , to prevent observation ; ' Itis riot known' how he ' spent his time after he wounded himself , untilhc embarked on board the Wateiman steamer , at Woolwich , at
five o ' clock on Saturday evening , but a gentleman , exactly answering his description , breakfasted at Erith the same morning . ' He made great preparations for making his wife acquainted with hi _' s attempts to commit suicide , for he wrote three _lettei-s to her enclosing others addressed to his friends and connection ' s , stating that he had shot himself in Cobham-park , and . that he intended , as his . first attempt on his life had failed , to , drown himself . He also embarked after sunset , when there would be less chance of his being picked up after he had thrown himself overboard . Here again his intentions ivere frustrated , for he floated oa his ba . ck like a cork , and although' he was in the rivor a * quarter of an hour he never disappeared once , and he is no swimmer . He appears to have repented of his attempt on his life , for when he was landed at Blackwall he begged ofa voliceconstable and a railway porter to see him home to' his
residence , No . 3 , Beaiivbir-terrace , which hehad no sooner reached than he sent for Mr . Coward , his surgeon , to extract the bullet lodged in his mouth . He persisted in his original statement 7 thiit he had been' shot in a duel , and fell from the Waterman steamer b j accident , until he left home on Sunday morning . His own letter , addressed to the ' * Captain on board the steam-boat T go in , " now in the possession of Mr . ' Smith , of Waterman No . 3 , in which he states that lie had shot liimself , and as the _piptoT failed he intended to try water , gives a flat contradiction to his assertions . His motives for making the attempts on his life remain involved in mystery . His surgeon , who had occasionally attended him , and Mrs . Palnier , describe hini as a very cheerful , intelligent gentleman , and that he never observed any symptoms of insanity about him .
Horrible Murder In Staffordshire , And M...
HORRIBLE MURDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE , AND MUTILATION OF THE BODY . _Staeforo , Saturoay Mornixg . —A most horrible murder was perpetrated on Wednesday last , nt a place called Alsager _' s Bank , in the parish of Audley , in this county , which from-the shocking _circumstances connected with it , has produced the greatest excitement throughout the county . The name of the murdered man was Adolphiis Fielding , forty-nine years'Ol ' age , respectably connected , living in Stockroad , Newcastle . He was a potter by trade , but his sight -declining , became a hawker in Bmall wares . The murderer is a stone-mason ofthe name of James Dean , he is a married man , separated from his wile , and lived with another female . It sppears that about noon , on Wednesday , Fielding went into thc cottage where Dean lived , who had been ill during the week , and had not been at work . It does
not appear that there was any one else in the house at the time-, excepting Dean ' s son , a little boy five years of age . Shortly afterwards , the woman who cohabited with ' him was met in the road by the child , who told her that his lather was beating the old man ; On her hastening to the cottage , to her great horror , she saw through the opened door the headless body of the unfortunate man oin the ffoor , deluged with blood , and Dean striking at the head Ot ihe murdered man with an axe . The alarm brought numbers to the spot , but , from the ferocious appearance of Dean , they were afraid to enter the cottage . Seeing the crowd , Dean took up a portion of the brains of his unhappy victim , and threw them at the bystanders . A collier , named Scott , more resolute than the rest , then attempted to secure him ,
and received several wounds about the neck and face , Dean having armed himself with a pair of scissors and a knife . -The infuriated man then bolted the door , and having placed the head of his victim on the fire , commenced blowing it with the bellows . It appearing to be the intention of the murderer to consume the body , several people got on to the roof of the cottage , and , by pouring water down the chimney , extinguished the five . They then stopped the chimney up , and the force ofthe steam and smoke drove him to one of the upper rooms . The street doOr was then forced by the villagers , and the extent of the frightful tragedy was immediatel _y apparent . The body still remained on the floor , atjd the head , when taken off the fire , was so burnt that it scarcely presented a human aspect _.
: During this time Dean stood at the top of the stairs , armed with another axe , of a larger size than that he had just used , and repelled his assailants b y brandishing it about , and throwing bottics and other things that he could lay hands on at them . Eventually , some policemen broke through the roof , and rushed upon him as he was crouched in one corner of the room . What with his blackened features from dust and smoke , and his clothes saturated inthe blood of his unhappy victim , he _presenteda spectacle perfectly appalling . After very great resistance he was hand-cuffed , and then conveyed to the "lock up" at Audley . At the inquest held on the body of poor Fielding , on Thursday last , before Mr . Harding , the county coroner the following evidence was adduced : —¦ ¦
. Frances Maycock said she cohabited with Dean . Between the hours " of eleven and twelve o ' clock on Wedfiesday last she left Dean , and his little boy in the cottage . Had hot been gone more than live iniinuteS ) when she met her son , who cried out that his father was beating tlie old man . She ran to the liouse , and on opening the door saw Dean on the floor with thc body of the old man , whose head was off .- He did not appear to notice her , arid she ran into the main road and gave the alarm . The razor produced belonged to a widow who owned thc cottage inwhicb they lived . Iri the early part of the week she had noticed that his conduct was -very strange , he appeared not to know what he was about .
William Scott , the collier , stated that he was passing the cottage when his attention was drawn to aloud screaming . The door being open he went in , and saw Dean cutting away at the head of the deceased . ' He held the hair in his left hand and was cutting at it with an axe-hamnierwitk liis right hand . The next moment the head was severed from the body . When Dean saw him , he dropped the axe , arid took up a knife from a bench which was near hira , and pointed it to witness with a Jiissing noise .
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Having _uiriV _niii * _tfouefui-J niniseif ; , . ne _returueu , _whon he found IXaii had aimod liimself with a pair of scissors and a knife . Dean theu came up anu stabbed him in the face and neck . In the struggle they tell , and having recovered , he ran out of the house . Hethen assisted the police in breaking tlirough the root and taking Dean into custody . ¦ ¦ . . ¦' . _- , - A police inspector havingproved the finding « a shovel and a pair of tongs with blood upon them , which showed that those weapons had been used in the deadl y affray ., , ¦ _-.-. . .. ' - Mr . C . _' Tait , surgeon , of Audley , said the head of the deceased , was taken , off near the shoulder . The primary cause , of death was no doubt a fracture on the temple , which was apparent . A ll the witnesses having been examined . The jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of wilful lnurddr against the prisoner James Dean . . _--...
The prisoner , who was in the court during the whole proceedings , and appeared quite unconcerned , was asked by the coroner if he wished to say anything ; he replied , with a vacant stare , "Iwasnot taking any notice . " , On the coroner telling him the verdict thejury had returned , he said , "I have a good deal to say , but I have forgot it ; I did not want to kill him : I did not kill any man ; did I ?" He was then removed in custody of the police to Stafford gaol , to await his trial at the ensuing assizes . Furtukr Particulars . — -No one can peruse the account ofthis atrocious murder without arriving at the conclusion that it was the act of a maniac , and thepresent state of the prisoner strengthens that supposition . Dean is by trade a stone-mason , and
was for some time employed in the alterations and improvements in Trcntham-hall ; he has lately been similarly engaged at _Apedale-. the mansion of R . E . Heathcote , Esq . He had lodged at the widow Colclough ' s , _Alsager ' s-bank , for the last _. _twenty-tbreewceks , arid bore the character of a quiet and inoffensive roan . It is said that about fourteen years since Dean was married to a woman named Sarah Plant , at 'Dane-en-Shaw , near Congleton ; he lived but seven weeks with his wife , and then left her , it is said , through feelings of jealousy . From that time up to about six years since he passed as a single man . Atthe latter period , while employed at _Trenthamhall , he became _acquainted with Frances Mycock : from the birth of a little boy , the result ofthis illicit intercourse , they lived as man and wife , and it was tboudit by the neighbours that they were legally
married . > _.-. ' , . On Saturday night last , Dean arose in the middle of the night and disturbed the inmates ofthe cottage by calling out " Glory be to God ; I ' ve found pardon , " and - other similar expressions . He showed evident signs of insanity , for when Mrs . _Colclough offered to protect the child , who she thought was ra danger from the half frantic gesticulations of Dean , he resented the interference . Dean continuing in that disturbed state of mind , Mrs . Colclough , fearing the consequence , went for her son . The night passed away without anything worth y of further remark taking place . On being questioned by a nei g hbour on Sunday niorning , as to the cause of the disturbance during the night , Dean said , "It was the power
of God that was upon me . " He - desired Mrs . Colclough to get his razor from his razor-case , but she refused to doso ; he got it himself , and appeared to be playing with it , without any object .. She desired him to put it back , but he refused , answering , " Can't I do as I like with my own ? " _, During the day Dean and Mycock , accompanied-by the little boy , went to Newcastle . Mycock observed that on starting Dean put the razor in his trowsers' pocket , and on the way kept taking out the _instrument-and making stealth y glances at it , several times she re . monstrated with Sim . When they had arrived opposite the Almshouses , Dean took the razor and a knife out of his pocket , and put them down on the stones ; then with a large stone he broke them into pieces , saying to Mycock , " There ; now are you satisfied ?" In the evening , for the first time during tho five years of tlieir cohabitation , Dean went to the Wesleyan Chapel at Alsager ' s-bank , where he conducted himself in a very indecorous mariner , requesting Mycoek , who was with him , to nud g e him if he acted wrong . On Monday Dean went to his work as usual at
Apedale , but was sent away in consequence of not performing it in a proper manner . Instead of chiselling a stone , he applied the hammer to break it to pieces . He then carried a razor with him , and holding it open in one hand , he solicited a maid at the hall to go into a shed with him , saying he would show her now " pigs were killed . " On Tuesday , Dean , Mycoek , and theboy visited some relations of Mycock ' s at Stone . They returned in the evening as far as Hanford , where they slept at the cottage of a relation , and arrived back at Alsager about eleven o ' clock on the Wednesday morning . Mrs . Colclough having occasion to go * to . Newcastle , had left the cottage , and Mycock wishing to execute an errand at tlie village shop , left Dean and the little boy alone inthe liouse . Within a few minutes after this , poor Fielding was murdered , Dean was yesterday removed to Stafford . The general impression is that he is decidedly insane .
The body of the murdered man was removed from Alsager ' s Bank to . Stoke-road _, last evening , for interment . Tlie uncle ( William Ratdiiic ) with whom the deceased lodged , and by whom he had been brought up and adopted , is a veiy aged man , upwards of seventy ; Fielding was something over forty years of age . William Ratcliffe is a bachelor , in possession ofa small competency , which it was understood he had devised by will to deceased , with remainder to the children of his brother Humphrey . The family are much respected for their probity and industry . A series of domestic amotions seem lately to have fallen upon the Ratcliffes . About three months since , a daughter of Humphrey ' s married to Dr . Whitehead , now practising as a barrister at New York , died under painfui circumstances ; another daughter lies at the point of death in the house of her parents ; and their cousin , the deceased , was cruelly butchered in the manner described in the preceding account .
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Joint Stock . Factories . —On this subject , Mr . W . Howitt , the celebrated author , writes to the Leeds Times : — " What reason is there , that railways , and steam-packets , and ga 3-works , and joint stock banks _, and all sorts of trade and money incorporations should thrive , and that joint stock factories should not ? There is none . Thc million may have their shares in such companies , which shall be regularly managed by paid agents as these other investments are , and thus receive their fair share of profit over and above lhe mere price of their . labour . If this principle could be brought to bear , and worked into practice , it would confer on this countiy , and on the world , the greatest possible blessing . " Nfw _Oisanob Movement , —The Orange confederacy , so recently established at the " Orange Institution , " under the advice of its counsel , Mr . Napier , has adopted the new designation of " the Protestant Alliance . "
Death op a _CsLEBRATEn DANE . —In Copenhagen , the healing art has sustained a loss b y the death , in his T 2 ndyear , oftlie celebrated surgeon , Christian Fenger , Director of the Royal Academy of Surgery in that city , chief surgeon tothe king , and aut hor of a great variety of professional works—the most important of which have , it is said , been translated into English , French , and German . Nkw Work by Thomas Carltle . —A new book , in two vols , octavo , is announced , from the pen of Thomas Carlyle , entitled Oliver Cromwell ' s Letters and Speeches , with elucidations and connecting narrative . " Honour to Art in Bbigium . —The King of the Belgians has created M . Wappers , the most eminent of living Flemish . artists , a baron ; and conferred the order of the Legion of HonouronM . Hubert , the promoter of the Wilhelm S ystem of Musical Education among thepeople .
Supposed Shipwreck . —Copenhagen , Nov . 8 . —To the many losses in the late storm we fear we may add that of the Victoria steamer , purchnsed in Englan d of Mr . Lundt , for a week ago a piece of the side of a steamer was driven on shore to the north ofthe Agger Canal , which isthought tobe a piece ofthe Victoria , as nothing has been heard of her since she left England on the 18 th of last month . Railways . —Nearly 270 railway schemes , exclusive of tliose in Ireland and Scotland , are already * announced for next session . Potatoes asd _Provisions . —There has been a very visible improvement in the quality of the potatoes introduced into the London market during the last few weeks . At Spitalfields , however , the great emporium for the supply ofthe Eastern districts , tlie quality is still inferior .
Determined Act of Suicide Art a Pohcemax . - — On Friday evening police constable Thomas Peters committed a most determined act of suicide by cutting his throat at his lodgings'in Lbck ' s-Fields , Bermondsey . Upon his landlady going to call him to go on duty , she iound him with a razor in his hand , and a dreadful wound in his throat ; he was not quite doad at the time , but breathed his last at two o ' clock on Saturday morning . -WonwiY of Support —A subscription is in progress for tlw widow and young family of Mr .
Aueustme wane , tne late son g writer and composer , who Hied prematurely in very indigent circumstances . Life _PnusEnvERs . —A few days ago , a large concourse ot persons assembled on the _clifis , at Brighton _, to witness a trial of some life preservers . : The novel Ieature oHhe trial was to see two men smoking their pipes and waving their hats on the water , although the sea was running tolerabl v high . The life-preserver kept the men above water admirably . TnE Sandwich _Isiam-s . —It _appears that the Sandwich Islands have a _kiii _?* , an independent ' government , arid a local legislature .
Commutation of Sentence . —The government have commuted the sentence of death passed on Martin Maher ( Tierney ) at last Tipperary assizes , for the murder of Timothy Clcary , the bailiff of John Cai ° den , of Bamene , Esq ., and havo directed that he ba transported tor the period of his natural life .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_22111845/page/7/
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