Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CARLO FELICE AND THE REPRESSION. THE SUCCESSION OF CARLO ALBERTO AND THE REVIVAL. The insurrection having been suppressed by the Austrian forces, Count La Tour entered Turin on the loth of April, 1821, and instituted tribunals for the punishment of the insurgents. A military commission judged and condemned five hundred and twenty-three of the insurgents, of whom ninety- one were condemned to death, fifty-three to perpetual imprisonment, while four hundred and twenty-one officers and soldiers were reprimanded. The university was closed, the students deprived of their privileges, and the regiments that had taken part in the revolt were dissolved. On the 3oth of September Carlo Felice published from Modena a general amnesty, from which, however, various categories of persons were excepted, including the authors or promoters of the conspiracies or agitations to obtain a change of government; those in whose houses meetings were held for revolutionary purposes; those who had corrupted, or attempted to corrupt, the fidelity of the troops; those who, presiding over educational institutions, had misled the young; and those who in writings, published or not, had advocated the institution of the new form of government. The private soldiers who had takenpart in the movement were pardoned; the non-commissioned officers and guards were obliged to justify their conduct; the officers were all declared guilty of felony. The character of Carlo Felice, the new King, has been variously judged accord1ng as his judges were liberal or conservative. )He was simply a determined despot, kindly and even generous when no question of his authority was involved, inflexible when it was a question of royal authority. He detested etiquette and ceremonial, was devoted to Austria and Jthe chu...