d not
discover among them any of my acquaintance. The wounded person, whom I
understood to be an Englishman, signified to me his gratitude for the
assistance I had afforded him, but said little, as he spoke only in
his own language to his brother, who started off from us immediately in
order to look at the officer, who had inflicted the wound, so as to
be able to recognise him, and then came back directly. He overtook
the officer at the Piazza del Duomo, because the detachment was going
towards the Piazza del Gran Duca. I and the brother of the wounded man
then conveyed him to the first doctor's shop, which is on the Piazza
del Duomo, at the corner of the Via Martelli; but, finding that the
apothecary could not treat him, we went off forthwith to the hospital
of Santa Maria Nuova, where the wounded man, having lost much blood,
fainted away, and after having been brought to, was put into bed....
From the wounded man himself, as well as from the medical men who were
attending in the room, I heard that if the Englishman had not had on his
head a rather stout hat, he might have been killed on the spot; but I do
not know how deep the wound was."*

* Page 51 of Official Papers.

Francis Catani, a priest, also gave evidence, to a certain extent, to
the same effect, and added, "that he had heard that if the Englishman
had not had his hat on his head he would have been killed on the spot,
for it was that which alone protected him."

And the Senator Giuseppe Vai states that "the young Englishman went
aside quickly towards the end of my house, the Casa Marchesini, or
perhaps rather under it, and at the same time I heard that a few words
were rapidly exchanged between them, which I did not understand, because
I was too high up to be able to distinguish them (he was at an upper
window of his house), and also because the band was making a noise, and
at the same moment I saw that the said officer, raising his sabre, gave
the young man a blow on the forehead with it, using the cutting edge,
by which the latter fell down upon the step by the wall of' the Casa
Marchesini, but with almost the rapidity of lightning he got up again,
and when he was standing I saw the blood was flowing from the place
where he was struck.... Because this act produced upon me a disagreeable
impression I withdrew from the window."

These extracts of evidence demonstrate the guilty nature of the outrage,
and the careful and truthful statement of the you