“I most earnestly hope you will see the Neapolitan answer to me while you are in Italy, and, if possible, on the spot, for you will have facilities there, to verify or expose, such as cannot easily be attained.
The Neapolitan Government have written to ask Lord Palmerston whether he sanctioned my publication, to which he has replied by referring to my statement that I was alone responsible....
Yours, &c., &c.,
W. E. Gladstone.”
We shall, in our next chapter, follow Panizzi on his important mission, and give an abstract, as faithful and accurate as possible, of his doings whilst at Naples.
To the many who followed the course and knew the issue of the exertions then made, even this may appear unnecessary; but unless the name of the chief actor is to be passed over in the annals of humanity, our imperfect record will not be useless.
