Italy. 13 June 1848
Italy.
* The Milan Bulletin of 3 June estimates the losses of the Austrians in the engagement of the 30th at 1,500 men, those of the Italians at 600 men.
Bulletin from Bergamo, 2 June, 9 o’clock in the morning. At this moment news arrives from the camp that, according to an official5 letter from Prince Eugene of Savoy and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Pareto, it is certain that the Bourbon of Naples and his first-born son have been solemnly beheaded. It appears that the Piedmontese have decisively broken the left wing of the Austrian10 army at Villa Capella; there is talk of a frightful number of dead. The engagement is said to have taken place the day before yesterday from noon until evening.
A rumour is circulating in Brescia that yesterday morning the Austrians, in a new attempt on Goito, suffered a fresh defeat, and that General Schwarzenberg and his adjutant were torn in two by a cannonball. The Luccheser Riforma reports that on15 2 June the news reached Leghorn that there had been a new uprising in Naples, and that the king is said to be in the hands of the people.
On 1 June Charles Albert himself arrived in Peschiera, where altogether 127 pieces of artillery were found (the war matériel within the fortress was, according to the capitulation, handed over to the Piedmontese20). In Milan arrests are continuing; named among those arrested is a Herr von Philippsberg, who had just come from Vienna, and who is accused of having been intended to appear as the Austrian commander for Milan25 if the uprising in Milan on 29 May (which the Milanese officially attribute to Austrian gold) had succeeded. The Italian National Association, of which Giuseppe Mazzini is president, is loudly protesting against the allegation that it took part in the disturbances of the 29th. It is a law for it, its basic--