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of the difficili ti es, at present existing, between the Pope and the Emperor, unless the warni blood of the Italiana should betray them into the commission of some rash step, which. might cali for the imniediate action of the Imperiai troops.
Alniost the whole of Southern Europe appears now to be involved in the utmost disquietude. Besides the disturbances in Italy above related, an insur-rection has recently broken out simultaneously in various parts of Sicily, in Messina the people having arisen, seized on the principal guardhouses and then attacked the citadeL In this however they were repulsed, and after a loss on both sides of about 30 killed and 100 wounded, the insurgents were compelled to retreat to the neighbouring mountains. At Catana and Syracuse the fermenta-tìon is reported to have reached a great height, the town of Reggio to bave fallen into the power of the insurgents. The object of this outbreak is supposed to have been an attempi to carry into effect the long contemplated project of the independance of Sicily.10) A rebelli on too has just taken place in Greece [sicO in the Turkish province of Albania. The insurgents numbering 7000 men made an attack on the district of Berat, devastating the fields and seizing 400 head of cattle. Their ravages were stopt by Sallyk Pacha,n) who with 3000 troops, dispersed put them to flight. The apparent cause of this revolt is said to be the conscription, and the attempt by the government to disami the Mountain-eers.I2) The difficilities which occurred last spring between Greece and Turkey, and which by the intervention of Austria was supposed would have been amicably arranged, especially after the apology which it recently appears that the king of Greece had been induced to make the Sultan, seems now to have burst out again, and to present perhaps a more threatening aspect than ver, since I perceive that the Sultan has just refused Exequaturs13) to the Greek consuls in Turkey, has recalled bis own consuls froin Greece, and taken steps to interrupt the trade between the two countries.14)
10) Ignaro degli stretti legami esistenti tra il moto di Calabria e quello di Messina, Stiles ebbe torto di presumere che le due insurrezioni si fossero sviluppate del tutto indi­pendentemente Tuna dall'altra; cfr. C. SPELLÀNZON, op. cit., voi. Ili, pp. 226-230, e G. F. e J. BERKELEY, op. cit., voi. II, p. 284.
") Non si è potuto identificare l'ufficiale che Stiles nomina. Eppure nella Wiener ZeUung del 20 agosto 1847 si accenna a un certo Sadik Pascha che fu al comando delle truppe ottomane in Albania; la rivolta infine fu dominata dal supremo comandante militare in Rumelia, Mehmet Emir Pascià.
'2) Circa la rivolta albanese vedi THEODOR TPPEN, Beitràge zar inneren Geschichte Albaniena irti XIX. Jahrhundert, in Illyrìsch-albanische Forachungen a cura di LUDWIG VON THALLÓCZY, Munchen-Leipzig, 1916, voi. I, pp. 360-362; e ALBERT GHICÀ, L'Albanie et la queslion d'Orient, Paris, 1908, pp. 67-69.
13) Un documento ufficiale rilasciato da un governo straniero ad un console, che gli permetta l'esercizio delle sue funzioni.
14) LV affaire Mas un in era il risultato del rifiuto della legazione ottomana in Gre­cia di rilasciare un passaporto a certo Colonnello Karatasso nel 1847. Cfr. GEORGE FINLEY, A Hutory of Greece front ita Conquat by the Romana to the Preaent Time, edizione rivi­sta, Oxford, 1877, voi. VH, pp. 201-202; e ÉDOUARO DRIAULT, Hiatoire diplomatique de la Grece de 1820 à noa joura, Paris, 1925-1926, voi. II, Le rbgne d'Othon. La Grande Idée (1830-1862), pp. 304-312.