• Later accounts from Malta show further embarrassments arising out
of the course taken by the Governor in relation to the Italian refugees. The Malta correspondent of the Dailg News writes, on the 2d instant-
' "It has transpired that his Majesty of Naples wrote to the British Ambas- sador there, telling him that if the Government of Malta did not refuse to receive any more refugees, especially Roman ones, he would close the ports of Sicily against all arrivals from Malta. This he did immediately, without waiting to see the determination of the Malta Government; who immediately gave the Ma- rine Police and Pratique Master orders not to give pmtique to any vessel enter- ing with refugees on board.
"The French steamer of the 15th brought a great number from Civita Vec- chia; all furnished with regular passports, some even vised by the English Con- sul there, Mr. Freeborn, but all useless—they were not allowed to land, or to hold intercourse with the shore. A subscription got up for them on shore was for- warded to them with great difficulty. Some of these went on to Athens; others left in the same steamer on the 235 to go to Marseilles, trusting there to find more hospitality than they experienced under the boasted flag of Britain." "On the 26th, the Maltese bark Mattalina came in from Civita Vecchia, with about 200 refugees. The vessel was ordered away. The owner, a Maltese, re- fused to go: he was, he said, a British subject, the vessel a British vessel, and Malta a British port. He then anchored the vessel at the mouth of the harbour by Government orders, protested against the act of the Governor, and published a notice in the papers that he would not be answerable for any debts contracted by her crew. As she has no provisions on board, and nobody any means of purchasing any, they will all starve, unless the Government supply them with provisions."
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