1822.] 
part composed of substitutes, badly 
armed, worse trained, and unaccus- 
tomed to military hardships, easily 
yielded to the suggestions of emissaries, 
who spread among them the menacing 
proclamations of the king. Both the 
battalions unexpectedly disbanded the 
day previous to the affair of Nicti. 
Pisa, having spent the whole day in 
useless efforts to rally them, rejoined 
Pepe’s main body at the moment 
when, after a. brisk engagement of 
seven hours with all the enemy’s 
forces, it was caught by a panic in 
retreat, and disperseditself. Pisathen 
retired to Capua, where he was most 
perfidiously stopped by superior or- 
ders, together with many more oflicers 
who were to rejoin Pepe at Salerno. 
In this place it had been apparently 
resolved by the executive government, 
that the second corps should be re- 
organized in a second line. Butsoon 
after, the first ‘corps having been 
disbanded with the assistance of the 
royal guards, Pisa was left at liberty 
to come to Naples. There he found 
every thing in confusion and dismay. 
Whilst many a murderer was here and 
there loosed upon the most deter- 
mined among the patriots, to prevent 
them from any attempt towards a re- 
establishment of popular courage and 
public affairs; Pisa, scarcely escaping 
such snares, remained in the capital 
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331 
until it was occupied by the Austrians 
onthe 24th of March, 1821. Then 
disguised like a Spanish soldicr, he 
sheltered on-board a Spanish squadron 
just moored in the bay of Naples. 
Often from the deck of his ship did he 
look with tears upon those delightful 
shores, which were about to be deso- 
lated by the fury of re-established 
tyranny! Often blinded with despair, 
he atfempted to come ashore, there to 
make anend of-hislife! Having landed 
again, be was soon warned that the 
police had been to his house a little 
before to arest him. All was fatally, 
shamefully, lost at Naples, chiefly by 
the fault of an executive government, 
which never intended to defend the 
state from an enemy itself had invited. 
Pisa was obliged to re-embark, to 
escape from the satellites of the police 
who hunted him in every direction; 
and, the squadron sailing some days 
after, he abandoned his country and 
went to Spain. Thence he came over 
to Englaud with General Pepe. Lately, 
having returned to Madrid, on the 7th 
of July last he made a party, with a few 
of his countrymen; and they gallantly 
fought against the mutinous guards 
and took several prisoners. 'The field 
has no braver soldier than Pisa, and 
the cause of liberty no more zealous 
Supporter. : 
STEPHENSIANA. 
No. XIII. 
The late ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Esq. of Park House, Chelsea, devoted an uctive and 
well-spint life in the collection of Anecdotes of his contemporaries, and generally entered in a 
book the collections of the passing day ;—these collections we have purchased, und propose to 
present a selection from them to our readers, As Editor of the Annual Obituary, and many 
other biographical works, the Author may probably have incorporated many of these scraps; 
but the greater part are unpublished, and all stand alone as cabinet pictures of men and 
manners, worthy of a place in a liferary miscellany. 
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LORD PELHAM. 
ORD Pelham, while a commoner, 
represented the county of Sussex, 
asthe Hon. Thomas Pelham. In 1785 
we find him taking an active part re- 
lative to the Irish propositions ; but he 
did not vote, in 1783, on Mr. Tox’s 
India Bill, being included among: the 
absentees. In 1788 he sided with the 
opposition, on the grand question rela- 
tive tothe Regency. On the impeach- 
ment of Mr. Hastings, this gentleman 
Was nominated one of the managers, 
Dec. 5, 1787; and on Wednesday, 
April 16, 1788, he opened the second 
charge. In 1791 he spoke on the 
4 
Corn-bill, and signified a wish that the 
price in the table might be raised to 
fifty-two shillings. In 1803 his lord- 
ship moved the Bank Restriction Bill, 
the consideration of his Majesty’s 
message relative to the. establishment 
of the Prinee of Wales, the Bank Re- 
striction. Bill, &c. as Secretary of 
State, 
LAMPS PERPETUAL. 
Lamps, fed by means of inflamma- 
ble air, were invented by M, l’ursten- 
bergen, a citizen of Basle, in Switzer- 
land. ‘They were greatly improved 
upon, and, among others, by Dr. In- 
genhousz. But the detonating and 
explosive 
