"_August ----, 1860._

"SIR,

"In reply to your letter of the--inst., I beg to forward you the
following particulars:--

"1. You will be provided with a free passage, uniform, accoutrements,
and rations, and your pay to commence from the day you land.

"2. You can leave the English Excursionists at any moment; but should
you do so before their return to England, you will forfeit all claim to
pensions, medals, etc., which you may obtain.

"3. A personal interview is imperative, when you can learn all further
particulars.

"The Excursionists expect to leave within a fortnight from this date.
Three days' notice will be given to those going.

"Yours faithfully,
"EDWARD S----,
"Captain Garibaldi's Staff."

NOTE B (p. ix., Preface).

The following is from a Leading Article of the _Daily Telegraph_, March
10th, 1884:--

"Another suicide, occasioned by losses at the gaming-table, is reported
from Monte Carlo, and, commenting upon the sad occurrence, a local
newspaper makes the alarming statement that since the 1st of January
nineteen similar cases of self-destruction have taken place upon the
same spot, the victims having, without exception, been ruined by play.
It will be remembered that on the 15th of last month Lord Edmund
Fitzmaurice was asked, in the House of Commons, whether the attention of
her Majesty's Government had been drawn to the frequent suicides of
which the Principality of Monaco had recently been the scene, and
whether any remonstrances had been addressed by the Foreign Office to
France and Italy, urging those Powers to suppress the last public
gaming-tables existing in Europe. The Under-Secretary for Foreign
Affairs gave the stereotyped answer that no representations had been
made by Lord Granville to foreign Powers upon this subject, and there
the matter ended. Since the middle of last month the catalogue of
suicides at Monaco has been swollen by the addition of five or six
further victims to the Moloch of play; nor can it be wondered at if
under these circumstances a loud demand that the Casino at Monte Carlo
should be forcibly closed has been made, not only by many public writers
in France and Italy, but still more by permanent residents upon the
Mediterranean Riviera. Thus we read in a powerful article contributed
by M.