The history of Italy, from the abdication of Napoleon i, Volumen1

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Página 273 - ... and 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, * Pomp6e, Excellent, Athenienne, Intrepid.
Página 315 - Naples Bay : 25 June 1799. Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson, KB, commander of his Britannic majesty's fleet in the Bay of Naples, acquaints the rebellious subjects of his Sicilian majesty in the Castles of Uovo and Nuovo that he will not permit them to embark or quit those places. They must surrender themselves to his majesty's royal mercy.
Página 312 - 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 shame.
Página 315 - 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.
Página 320 - 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.
Página 312 - ... 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...
Página 312 - ... troops on board, and the prince royal of Naples in the admiral's ship. A flag of truce was flying on the castles, and on board the Seahorse. Nelson made a signal to annul the treaty ; declaring that he would grant rebels no other terms than those of unconditional submission. The cardinal objected to this : nor could all the arguments of Nelson, sir W.
Página 315 - We have now been lying twenty-four days in this road," they say, " bereft of 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 plundered, and we can receive no assistance from thence, and the greater part of our relations have been either imprisoned or murdered. On board this transport there are five persons sick of an infectious fever. We...
Página 315 - 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...
Página 315 - 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.

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