Italy. 2 September 1848.
Italy.
* The news given the day before yesterday by some Italian journals of the outbreak of an insurrection in Rome has so far been neither confirmed nor refuted. We receive today journals from Rome; they are, however, of an earlier date than that alleged outbreak, which at most might turn out to be a resultless émeute. Since Austrian “order” has again prevailed in Milan etc., a disorder has occurred in the dispatch of the Roman, Florentine etc. newspapers which is most intimately connected with that fine “order”. Lombardy, rich as it is in natural resources, must shortly be ruined under the system followed by Radetzky and his henchmen. What the Sardinian and his constitutional adherents have failed to accomplish, the Austro-Galician school completes. Just as the hordes of Louis XIV once devastated the Palatinate and for a long time inflicted incurable wounds on that part of Germany, so do Radetzky’s landsknechts now proceed in Lombardy. The towns are abandoned by the majority of the inhabitants; without the Croats, Bohemians, Styrians, Tyrolese, etc. they would be as dead as the grave. Numerous were the refugees who at various times left their native Poland; incomparably more numerous are the crowds of Lombards who seek safety in neighbouring countries from Radetzky’s “paternal” government.
* Finally, Charles Albert has been compelled by public opinion to place his accomplices in betrayal, Lieutenant-General Salasco, Chief of the General Staff, and Federici, lately commander of Peschiera, on half-pay, and to dismiss Count Bricherasio, commander in Piacenza – who concluded the notoriously shameful capitulation with the Austrians – as well as the Cavalier Ferrere.