The news of the fall of Messina is confirmed: the
place was taken after five days' bombardment. The English Admiral and French Minister have interfered to prevent further hostilities. The occupation of the Neapolitans will be confined to Messing.
Theaccounts from Rome have been growing more and more untoward, but the advices through the French papers suddenly take every gloomy turn. "On the 1st and 2d September, 'the time of proscription 'commenced. Several obnoxious individuals, including the Advocate Fontana, were marked out for assassination, and either severely wounded, or slain by the dagger or the pistol. The number of the victims on the 1st included seven killed and four wounded, and the list of proscription included about eighty individuals. On the 2d all government was at an end; and how it will terminate,' concludes the writer, God only knows.'"
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