678 3Ir. Walter Frewen Lord on 'Marked Unexplored." [Marcli 11, 



every raembor had been decorated by his own hands, condemned 

 and shot. 



"As an act of justice or an act of policy his punishment is equally 

 to be justified," wrote Bentinck's successor, as a comment on the 

 tragedy. Perhaps : only when one remembers 1848 and 1859, 1866 

 and 1870, wl en one remembers the long agony through which Italy 

 had to pass before she attained that measure of unity that Murat was 

 endeavouring to win for her in 1815, our only consolation for Murat's 

 death must be the reflection that the Red Cross of Savoy now waves 

 over the Peninsula from end to end.* 



The discourse was illustrated by four maps. 



[W. F .L.] 



