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undermined and reviled, according to 
the old practice; but the conspirators 
were seized andimprisoned. Borrelli 
had been elected deputy to the Parlia- 
ment, and appointed its president 
in the second month of the session; 
yet he had to sustain loud complaints, 
both in and out of that assembly, for 
the seizure of the conspirators, per- 
haps the only action he ever did for the 
liberty of his country; so opposite 
sometimes is the requital to the merits 
of the action in political affairs. 
It is impossible to deny that his 
parliamentary conduct was from the 
beginning very objectionable, and 
ended in avowed infidelity to his 
country. His greatest public faults 
have been chiefly ascribed to a want 
of resolution ; but he who does not feel 
within himself a mind superior to the 
menaces of fortune, ought not ambi- 
tiously to interfere with the common- 
wealth. Borrelli had scarcely taken 
his seat, when he was violently attack- 
ed by Mazziotta, (a member of very 
independent character, but of coarse 
manners,) for still retaining the direc- 
tion of the Police, whilst he sat in the 
legislative assembly. So that he was 
compelled to resign that office during 
the session of the Parliament. But 
the resignation was only nominal, and 
he continued to direct the Police to 
the last of the revolution. By this 
circumstance his name became well 
known in upper Italy, and the Italian 
patriots addressed themselves to him, 
especially from Romagna. Borrelli, by 
carrying on such practices, raised his 
credit very much with the Parliament, 
and subsequentiy with the Regent 
himself, whom he flattered with the 
scheme of making his younger sons 
so many [Italian princes, on the 
southern side of the Po. Whilst he 
ve the Parliament to understand 
hae more than he himself be- 
lieved,) that he had ready in upper 
ftaly numerous partizans of the Italian 
cause, who were entirely dependant 
on him. Hence an opinion prevailed 
with the majority, that Borelli could 
bring the affairs of Italy to a happy 
conclusion, and save the state. Nay 
some, in a kind of foolish rapture, call- 
ed him the statesman of Europe. 
Borrelli had hoped to save himself 
from the wreck of bis country, and even 
perhaps to be rewarded; but he was 
disappointed, together with many mcre 
like him. He had been promised to 
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be sheltered inthe very palace, were it 
found necessary ; but no longer was he 
of use to power, than he was forbidden 
admittance at court, and left to his 
own resources. And, being in some 
measure invidious to the Austrian go- 
vernment, for the practices he had 
carried on in upper Italy, he was soon 
seized and confined within the walls 
of Prague, where, it is said, he now 
lives upon a pension paid him by the 
Neapolitan government. 
Were we to attend only to the ta- 
Jents of Borrelli, and to the good he 
could have done his country, he would 
appear worthy of a better lot. Buthe 
who is only anxious to float down the 
stream of fortune, cannot excite nor 
deserve the sympathy of mankind for 
his disappointments. 
ROSARIO MACCHIAROLI. 
Rosario Maccuiarou is only to 
be remembered for his death. He 
was born of an honest family in the 
district of Campagna, and in his youth 
he betook himself to the bar, but soon 
abandoned that profession. Having 
retired to live in his province, he ob- 
tained under the French government 
a captainship in the militia, and after- 
wards was transferred to the army. 
At the restoration of 1818, having left 
the service, he was appointed a coun- 
sellor of Intendenza at Salerno, a spe- 
cies of an administrative magistrate, 
brought to Naples by the French. 
This man was a zealous follower of 
Carboneria, of that political sect so 
much reviled by the bireling writers 
of tyranny ; who, not daring openly to 
blame its real object, affect to mistake 
it. But let it not displease the aulic 
chancellary, nor the procureur-general 
at La Rochelle affair, the last revolu- 
tion at Naples has demonstrated that 
Carboneria does not aim at the destruc- 
tion of any governments, but at the 
reform of the bad ones. Macchiaroli 
was a successful promoter of this se- 
cret association; and, having thereby. 
incurred the suspicion of the govern- 
ment, he was nearly arrested in Sa- 
lerno, with a prospect of the horrible 
dungeons of Sicily, which several of 
his buoni cugini (good cousins,) had 
seen, when the revolution broke out 
at Foggia and Avellino. It is beyond 
doubt that Carboneria contributed not 
alittle to this revolution; but, had the 
Carbonaris alone wished for a reform 
in the state, it is equally evident they 
could 
