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A NOBLE CONVICT
OF NAPLES
Castromediano's Faith And Courage
Before The Triumphs
Of Garibaldi "
T
By the Very Rev. C. A. ALINGTON,
D.D. Dean of Durham
In days when English affection for Italy is sometimes put to a severe strain, it is worth while to remind ourselves of the great men who won our sympathy for her
less than a century ago: and make no apology for telling the story of the Duke of Castromedi- ano, a man whose character was
as noble as his name.
Lord of seven baronies, with titles going back for nearly o thousand years, he was arrested on this day in 1848, having been foolish enough to believe that the word of the King of Naples could be trusted when he said that he meant his subjects to be free.
When, after being carried from prison to prison, he was at last brought to trial: he fell asleep while the judges were deliberating whether to Impose the death sentence or not, On awaking he noticed that the young soldier on guard had been weeping: "Be calm," he said, if to morrow I am to mount the scaffold, you can tell the world that to-day you were present at the sleep of a good conscience."
The sentence was not for death.. but, with many other patriots, he led through the streets of Naples. chained
wis
to
a common to the Island of Procida. It is character- istic of him that while starting in chains to serve a sentence of 30 years he still had eyes for the beauty of the glorious bay. "There still remains in my soul," he wrote. "the grateful memory of that sum- mer night, delicious and fugitive."
criminal, and banished
RETIRED FROM THE WORLD
Strange Community
NEW KIND OF SOCIAL LIFE
22, 1937.
to make the cities the flower of the countryside."
Louis Davidson, twenty-five- and year-old public schoolboy Buchelor of Arts in modern langu- ages, told me of the life of the community.
In a forty-four acre feld near the woods of this little ancient hamlet four families of English and women, rejecting all men modern civilisation and its me thods, are attempting to build up a new kind of social life and a
"We have our own goats, our new way of making a living, which
We work "We have our own land. they hope will spread throughout geese and our poultry," he said. We alone. each family separate. have recently set aside two days, wheu
join together in we can doing work that will benefit us all, such as digging ditches.
the country.
Recently they were all thrown into the limelight they have tried to avoid by fighting with the other the to preserve of Laxton men ancient elm trees on the village green from destruction, writes a Home correspondent.
I
went to see these people, writes Sydney Morrell, to talk to them, and to find out how they are getting on whether they miss any of the comforts of modern life, or whether they liked to miss them.
Their little settlement, which they hope in time will be a new kind of village, with its houses and church, consists solely of the great fields, unploughed, at the four corners of which they have their homes-Army huts which they have brought from Woolwich and erected themselves.
In the first hut lives Mr. Dun- stan Davison, a twenty-four-year-.. old Londoner, his wife and their ave-month-old baby daughter.
BOARING FIRE
Round their great wide fireplace, with its pot hanging over a roaring log fire, I sat with Mr. Davison und the other men of this com- munity while they told me of the new life they hope to build up.
Mr.
not
"Whatever you do," said Davison, "don't let people think
We are as faddists, of us nudists, we are not trying to turn We are trying to back history.
On Procida conditions were ap- palling. The common criminals were set to act as spies on the patriots: murder W15. common, go forward.
sometimes because a
man grew
"All of us were sick and tired of
"Our wives weave our wool which we have bought from the shearers. They knit shawls and stockings. This pair of stockings I am wearing cost about 4d. for us to make. In time we will have our own sheep and therefore our own wool,
"In time, too, we shall build our- selves stone houses and a church. "At present we have to buy our butter and meal, but it costs us only
to live. Our homes cost us at about 12 a wek for every couple
built our own replaces. together about £40 to build. We
NO SORE THROATS "We let our beards grow not be- cause we were too lazy to shave, but because we believed it was
those devoted to a celibate Bre natural Formerly only monks and were clean-sharer. No man has had a sore throat since he came here,"
John Haweswell, the eldest of the men pointed to the baby in Mrs. Davison's arms.
"So far." he said. "Ave bables have been born since we came here. In about a forthright there When they grow up they will be taught to will be another ont. regard this as the normal life. and life in the outside world as warped and insane.
tired of the companion to whom he modern cities and modern villages.such things as the radio, gas ar
was everlastingly chained, some- times because murderers were, on
least
We believe that communal life to- day is decadent, because people the whole, better treated and at are dying of lethargy. We know
free were
from chains. now many people in this country Castromedrano found only hap-feel as we do from letters which piness in looking through a slit they write to us. in the
prison wall at the seagulls and the fishermen and the
in aunshine, and remem bering that happiness and freedom still existed, though he might not share them.
we
"More than anything else" wanted as thousands of people want-stability. We rejected en- tirely all the underlying ideas of industrial civilization. We wanted to get away from the idea of just making things for pront.
"FORGOT HIS UNJUST JUDGES
"We wanted to get back to the that we One day they were told of an idea of making things amnesty, but this only resulted in really want. but for use, not for their being removed to a prison pront.
in the mountains on the mainland, "We are religious men, and we closed seven years before as unât want to live our religion, and our for babitation. They spent 38 hours religion shows us that there is a In a dark cellar filled with rats in spiritual side as well as a material mid-winter. and their courage side to man. We wanted to be nearly failed, for, as the the Duke good men and women, says, "there are no born heroes". Another of his prison was the famous place where the guarda shot the nightingale because they discovered that its singing gave pleasure to the prisoners.
At last, after 11 years, sentence for such as still survived was com- muted to exile for life. Castrorhe- turned diano, whose hair had white, WILS to be shipped to America, but by a thrilling plece of piracy they captured the ship, and landed safe in Ireland. After Garibald's triumphs he returned
"We believe that moderni civil- sation has destroyed the art of living happily and has destroyed all cultures Where will you and architecture to equal that of the old cathedrals in Britain and on the Continent?
THEIR AIM
"Where will you find men who can stain glass as they used to do, who can compose music or sculpt? Nowadays the importance of the elties has been exaggerated so that the countryside is striving to be
to Italy: his property had been the flower of the cities. Our alm ruined during his captivity and he lived on in his great castle for 35 years, a poor man. When, in the hour of triumph, Garibaldi asked him for the names "of his unjust judges, he replied "I have forgotten them."
When he died they placed on
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"People who come to visit us are amazed that we do not miss
electric light and motor-cars.
minds are more at peace." B are far happier as we are. Our
We
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slave, and the red jacket worn by Isaac Pitman gave a weekly pay-CHOOSE YOUr turkey noW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT. Neapolitau convicts, the only de-envelope to many of them." corations which he prized. He left This statement was made in a behind him a record of his suffer- breadcast speech by Mr. I. J. Pit- Sir Isaac, ings. "These pages," he wrote, "will
man, grandson of hardly be read, if read at all: the founder of the shorthand system," wind will scatter them like dry at Wotton under Edge, Gloucester- leaves: but from them the young shire. may learn, if they will, how a man ought to love his country." It was on such men as Castromediano that Italian greatness was built. "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
LORD ADDISON MARRIED
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Mr. Pitman mentioned that the publisher refused the first system of Sir Isaac, based on that already existing, and advised him to pro- duce his own.
Lord Addison of Stallingborough, Britain's first Minister of Health and Minister of Agriculture in the
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