Italy. June 29, 1848
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Italy.
Naples, June 14. In Catanzaro a Committee of Public Safety is in power. In Cosenza the deputies Valentini, Ricciardi, Mauro, de Riso and Musolino had long since called upon all deputies, in a proclamation, to assemble in Cosenza on June 15 and to commence the sessions which had been prevented in Naples by brute force. In that very city the deputies are deliberating on the proposal to form a permanent Committee of Public Safety forthwith on June 15, and to call upon the most respected citizens of the country to join it. They then appointed a tax commission; organised a mobile column, which occupied the heights of Paola, and established contact with all the other insurgent areas. Immense efforts and war preparations are being made to deliver the coup de grâce, at last, to that Ferdinand, that “infamissimo bombardatore”. Almost everywhere the royal insignia have been torn down; the bridge between him and the people is completely broken off. In a proclamation to the Sicilians, the Calabrians say:
“We lack neither arms nor courage; you know what blood courses in Calabrian veins. We shall soon have assembled a force of 40,000 men from Reggio to Salerno. The reason we turn to you is the lack of sufficient artillery, etc.”
– A decree of the Sicilian parliament commends all Sicilians who fought against the brutal Bourbon in Naples on May 15.
Modena, June 18. A dispatch received at the local general command here reports that the Austrians have evacuated Padua and left the guarding of the city to the civic guard, together with 2 cannon.