Excerpt from The North British Review, Vol. 28: February and May, 1858 When Mr. Gladstone published, in 1851, his celebrated Letters to Lord Aberdeen on the state of Naples, a thrill of horror ran through Europe. The testimony of one, by charac ter shove suspicion, as by means of informa tion and the well-known bias of his political sentiments above easy credulity, spoke with the earnest tone of indignant conviction to the truth of habitual atrocities, in the whis pered rumours of whose possible existence the world had hitherto refused to put faith. Six years elapsed - years of mighty events, when public attention was openly drawn towards the same unfortunate country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.