240 Song, by L, S. C. [March, 



Carbonari, aided by a portion of the troops which had deserted, and the 

 armed rabble, had overturned the government ; a faction ruled the 

 country ; the king and prince were prisoners in their palace, and 

 the tri-coloured flag waved over the fortresses and palaces of Naples, 

 and the flag of each vendita or club was displayed in the streets. 

 Our boat entered the mole with the king's colours flying: it was 

 soon boarded by officers of the port and of the navy, and the king's 

 colours struck by them ; it was then taken possession of by various 

 armed boats. An immense mob was collected on the mole, exceedingly 

 attentive to every thing going on in the port, and apparently directing 

 all the movements there ; an awning over the boat (the sun being 

 exceedingly powerful) kept the persons in her from being easily seen by 

 those on the mole, which was a fortunate circumstance. In an hour 

 Major Staiti, aide-de-camp, as he styled himself, to the commander-in- 

 chief (General Pepe), came with orders to confine me in the Castello 

 deirOvo, to which place I was immediately conveyed by water, accom- 

 panied by my aides-de-camp, one of whom, on landing in the castle, 

 was taken from me ; but the other refused to leave me. No charge was 

 preferred against me. In this vile prison I remained a month, when 

 my liberty was offered me on my parole of honour, in writing, to appear 

 before a commission of the government tvhenever I tvas called upon. 

 Such liberty I spurned, and accompanied my refusal with expressions of. 

 my indignation against the authors of such a disgraceful proceeding; 

 and this at a moment when the country was said to be governed con- 

 stitutionally, and when, according to that constitution (the constitution 

 of Spain) no individual, not even a lazzaroni, could be kept four and 

 twenty hours in confinement without being made acquainted officially 

 with the accusation preferred against him ; yet a lieutenant-general who 

 had acted as commander-in-chief, was imprisoned for a length of time 

 without being made acquainted with the reasons for his confinement, 

 and then, as a matter of favour, and not of right and justice, the soi- 

 disant constitutional government, or rather the Carbonari, offered me 

 liberty on conditions which no man, who had nothing to reproach him- 

 self with, could have accepted. R. C. 



SONG. 



Yes, sing— yes, speak, and show me more, 



How faultless and how pure thou art. 

 And teach me — what I feared before — 



I cannot tear thee from my heart. 



Yes ; this one glance, this one last hour. 



And we shall never meet again, — 

 This joy at least is in my power, 



Though it may cost an age of pain : 



Though these blest moments cannot last, 



And add but to mj' weight of care. 

 And, when for ever they are past, 



The future can but bring despair ! 



L. S. C. 



