parliament. We extract a portion of the letter:--

"Now, my lord, you will do me the favour to remember, that a British
subject, my son, was attacked in Florence by two armed Austrian
officers, receiving the most 'unmerited and brutal treatment,' as your
lordship has expressed it; that he was cut down by one of them, left in
his own blood, his life in danger for a length of time, and his health
perhaps for ever injured; and all this without any provocation, any
offence, as it has been proved by evidence not to be controverted, of
the most respectable witnesses,--people the subjects of the state
whose officers had so acted,--yet for all this no real redress has been
obtained; that officer is still at large, and remains unpunished....

"Whatever personal reparation you might deem proper to demand, which I
conceded with regret, to your lordship's express commands (as I foresaw
a probable misapplication of such concession), was, as you know, to give
place to public honour.

"You now inform me that Prince Schwarzenberg, the late prime-minister
of Austria, 'prior to his death had addressed a note to her majesty's
government expressing his great regret at the occurrence, and at the act
of the Austrian officers.' The extent of such regret may be estimated by
this:--the Austrian officer, who stained the honour of the Austrian army
by his bloodthirsty and cowardly act, has been allowed to go free and
unpunished, and his conduct has been approved, at least defended, by
Prince Schwarzenberg's lieutenant, the Austrian commander-in-chief in
Tuscany, Prince Lichtenstein. This man I frequently saw, in all the
pride of military array and overbearing insolence, in the streets of
Florence, a public example to his brother officers, and the world,
of the impunity with which British subjects may be treated, and the
evidence of the low estimation of his superiors for British honour,
and British power. This all the while that British statesmen and
diplomatists were making urgent demands for redress, your lordship among
the number.... Has it been obtained?...

"The patriotic manner in which I have repeatedly expressed myself in
this unfortunate affair, as you are pleased to observe, has originated
in feelings that induce me now to express the pain which I feel that
this crime is sought to be compromised, and the indignation, as far as
I am concerned, with which I reject the offer of the Tuscan government,
and any participation in such proc