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tier of Murat, commanded about twelve thousand of thelawless rabble “army of the faith” par excellence , whichwas covered with the best blood of Naples , and gorged withthe spoils of the starving families of the best of its citi-zens.

I will take this prettily composed “ army ” at once toAlbano and Frascati , places well known to amateur travel-lers, where it took up positions. Gamier, with his warlikeband of not more than two thousand men, part French , andpart Roman republican patriots, sallied forth from Rome ,attacked the Bourbonians, and totally routed them—so thatthey fled in utter confusion within their frontiers. Butshortly after, Gamier being hemmed in at Rome by someAustrian forces that had advanced to Oivita Castellana, bythe English at Civitavecchia , and a fresh Neapolitan army,commanded by a French emigrant officer named Bourcard,found it necessary to capitulate. Terms were granted withdelight by the Bourbons, giving to the French all thehonours of war, and to the politically compromised Romanssecurity if they remained at home, or the liberty of follow-ing the French forces.

My readers will not be surprised when they read, thatnotwithstanding this solemn compact and the confirmatoryproclamations of General Bourcard, this capitulation was aslittle attended to as that of Naples had just been, or the sub-sequent ones of Paris and of Naples in 1815. The prisons ofRome were soon filled with victims, so that scarcely anhonest man was left at liberty. Count Torriglioni di Fano,Professors Zaccaleoni and Mateis, together with otherthirty-five of the men most distinguished for worth, talent,and station, were paraded about the streets naked uponasses, exposed to the insults and violence of the rabble,before being cast into the most loathsome dungeons. Theproperty of all those who, availing themselves of the solemn