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in a position to pay some return for hospitality 

 received. Nor were they backward. Our Consul 

 (the same who had the benefit of correction from 

 Fleeming) carried the Intendente on board the 

 Vengeance, escorting him through the streets, 

 getting along with him on board a shore boat, and 

 when the insurgents levelled their muskets, standing 

 up and naming himself, ' Console Inglese,^ A friend 

 of the Jenkins, Captain Glynne, had a more painful, 

 if a less dramatic part. One Colonel Nosozzo had 

 been killed (I read) while trying to prevent his own 

 artillery from firing on the mob ; but in that hell's 

 cauldron of a distracted city, there were no dis- 

 tinctions made, and the Colonel's widow was hunted 

 for her life. In her grief and peril, the Glynnes 

 received and hid her ; Captain Glynne sought and 

 found her husband's body among the slain, saved it 

 for two days, brought the widow a lock of the dead 

 man's hair; but at last, the mob still strictly 

 searching, seems to have abandoned the body, and 

 conveyed his guest on board the Vengeance. The 

 Jenkins also had their refugees, the family of an 

 employs threatened by a decree. ' You should have 

 seen me making a Union Jack to nail over our door,' 

 writes Mrs. Jenkin. ' I never worked so fast in 

 my life. Monday and Tuesday,' she continues, 

 ' were tolerably quiet, our hearts beating fast in 

 the hope of La Marmora's approach, the streets 

 barricaded, and none but foreigners and women 



